There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help day long today.

So congratulations for being in on the first step of our little journey through this book of the Bible.

Let's open the word together this morning to the book of Ruth, if you will, in the Old

Testament. I love the book of Ruth. I don't know that I have preached at all from the book

of Ruth in the last couple of years during the COVID season when we were all on lockdown. Everybody

remember that wonderful, glorious time that we had. We were having meetings online and I preached

through the book of Ruth. And I enjoyed that very much. That's been a few years back. But recently, I was reading through Ruth again,

just devotionally reading my way through the book. And I came across some things that I know or not

knew. They, nothing news in the Bible. It's all the eternal word of God. But it is fresh. And I know

that I've seen it before, read it before, but you ever read through

a portion of the Bible and things just start jumping off the page at you? I love that. And sometimes

you've got to really work, you know, and just meditate in a passage and that kind of thing, but

sometimes you read through, and the Holy Spirit just almost lifts the text right off the page,

and you begin to see things.

And that happened for me.

And so God used this book to encourage me, and I'm praying God to use it to encourage you today.

You know, this emphasis on the promises of God your church has on this Lord's Day.

If you take the book of Ruth, just glance through.

Would you just turn a page of it?

It's short, just four chapters long.

But if you take the book of Ruth, it's a narrative account.

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