Please pray for our service on Sunday as we complete our time in Ruth. We will be discussing the STORY of all stories. We as Christians need to embed ourselves in the midst of the redemptive-historical story and our text for Sunday plays a major factor in this story.
The average Christian sees himself/herself outside of the redemptive-historical story of the Old Testament. That is, he/she sees himself as living after the Bible. But actually they're still living in the midst of that story because of the person and work of Jesus, the fulfillment of all the Old Testament types, shadows, and promises (2 Cor 1:20). By virtue of what Jesus the true Israel has inaugurated through his doing and dying, rising and ruling, we need to know that we are true Israel by virtue of our union in Jesus, the covenant keeping Israel of God. Thus, we're beginning to fulfill the restoration promises. We're a new creation. We're resurrected beings. We're temples.
And the book of Ruth shows how this Moabite woman plays a major part in this glorious plan.
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