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important things you need to
know. First, you need to know exactly what has happened to you. Second,
you need to know God's provisions for your future growth and service to Him.
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The entire world today is seeking wisdom! Education is prevalent in every
city. Literally thousands of young and old alike are attending universities.
But how many of them really know the meaning of wisdom? Wisdom is seeing
things from God's point of view.
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The following testimony is that of a man by the name of Andre.
I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU CAME TO ME (Matthew 25:36c)
"My testimony to my Christian Brothers and believers in Jesus Christ our
Savior. I want to thank the Lord for saving me from the life I was once
leading. First of all, I was living in darkness and I thought that I truly
loved the way I was.
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1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of
the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
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Today's Bible Study
MARCH 19
MARCH 19
The events in the Book of Ruth take place during the days of
the judges, but what a difference we see! Instead of violence and
lawlessness, it is filled with tenderness, love, and sacrifice. The
book is placed between Judges and Samuel for a definite reason.
Judges shows the decline of the Jewish nation; while Samuel shows
the setting up of the Jewish kingdom. Ruth pictures Christ and His
bride, for during this present age Christ is calling for His bride
from among the Gentiles and the Jews.
Elimelech, Naomi, and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion, a
Bethlehem family, went to live in Moab because of famine in their
land. The Moabites were descendants of Lot; thus distantly related
to the Jews. However, the Moabites worshiped idols. The two sons
married Moabite women (Ruth and Orpah) while living there, and after
ten years the father and both sons had died. Ruth, with a burst of
devotion of superb beauty, returned to Bethlehem with Naomi.
Boaz was the son of Rahab, the Jericho Canaanitish harlot
(see our March 4 lesson). Thus David's great grandmother was a
Moabite and his great grandfather half Canaanite--outside blood to
form the chosen family within the chosen nation.
This book begins with a funeral and ends with a wedding! It
opens with famine and closes with fullness. Ruth's love for her
mother-in-law, and her willingness to obey the Word, brought her
into joy and blessing. The decision she made in chapter 1 to return
to Bethlehem with Naomi determined her future.
Certainly Boaz is a picture of Christ, our Kinsman-Redeemer.
Christ took upon Him our flesh (without sin, of course), that He
might redeem us. He paid the price, and He did it because He loved
us. Like Boaz, He is the Lord of the Harvest; He supplies our needs;
He redeems the inheritance for us; He gives us rest.