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Ruth: Chapter 4
Text: Ruth 4
Big Idea: The movement of God is to bring us from emptiness to fullness
Introduction
- Fullness? How?
- Recap
- How does the story end? And what does it say about how God works and about fullness?
The Story
- v.1-16
- Boaz is acting wisely, shrewdly
- Empty to Full
God
- v.17-22
- God has been working the whole time
- This is God's hesed to his people
- The movement of God is to bring us from emptiness to fullness
- Matt 1
- The promise of true fullness
- Phil 2:6-7
Takeaways
- God works our actions together with His
- True fullness is life with and from Jesus
- We are to act wisely and faithfully
Conclusion
- The movement of God is to bring us from emptiness to fullness
Life Group Questions
- Open your group in prayer. Talk through the step you chose to go after your last group time. How did it go? What did you learn from it?
- Read Ruth 4 out loud. What did you notice about the story this week?
- In this series, we’ve talked a lot about the movement from emptiness to fullness. Take a moment to assess: where are you on the scale of emptiness to fullness? If you feel more on the empty side, where do you currently feel the emptiness?
- The big idea of the message is, “the movement of God is to bring us from emptiness to fullness.” But Brian encouraged us to see beyond what we consider fullness, and to see life with Jesus as fullness. Are you looking for fullness elsewhere? If so, where?
- In the Book of Ruth, we see God working to bring fullness far beyond the “happy ending” we see for Ruth, Naomi and Boaz. Through them came the line of promise that ultimately led to Jesus! Consider again your answer to Question 3. How can this greater perspective of God’s overall movement still impact where you currently feel empty? In other words, what is the movement from emptiness to fullness you think God is doing in your life?
- Recognize your answer to Question 5 as an example of God’s hesed: His loyal and faithful love for His people. In contrast to Question 3, where are you experiencing God’s hesed in your life?
- How can you partner with God in this movement from emptiness to fullness, either in your own life or in the life of others?
- Close your time in prayer, lifting up the areas people named where they’re seeing God’s movement from empty to full at work in their life. Pray that this movement continues throughout our communities as God brings us towards fullness in Jesus.
