Our culture has a distorted picture of what it means to love someone.

The focus is often on my desires, needs, and happiness.

But gratefully, this kind of love is nothing like the love of the Lord for his people.

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When this message from Ruth Chapter 3, David Platt highlights the indescribable love of God,

this is a self-giving love that protects and provides for those in need, much like Boaz showed toward Ruth.

Ultimately, though, God's love was manifested fully and perfectly in the death of Christ,

who gave his life in order to shelter us from the judgment we deserve.

Here's David Platt with a sermon titled The Risk of Love from Ruth Chapter 3.

All right, if you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Ruth Chapter 3.

Part 3 of the love story known as the book of Ruth and tonight things are going to get a little

dicey. Ruth 3 is the climactic turning point in this story and it is the height of tension drama,

suspense and the reality is just kind of hold on your seats because Ruth is about to turn up the temperature on the romance in this chapter right here

in ways that are going to shock us and here's the deal. I'm praying that tonight, I'm praying that tonight you will see, maybe in a new,

maybe altogether fresh way, the depth of the love of God for you.

If you are here tonight and you are not a Christian,

and I hope I'm praying that tonight in this room for the first time your heart will be opened wide to the great love of God.

And if you are a Christian,

that tonight your mind will be renewed

and your heart rekindled

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