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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>NOV
3 - RUTH 2 - LOVE’S RESPONSE: MOABITESS GLEANER</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
2:1 (ESV) BOAZ: THE KINSMAN. <font size="3">“Now Naomi had a
relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech,
whose name was Boaz.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
marvelous are Your providential plannings, O Father! How Boaz
illustrates this! How he shows Your Sovereignty as it a</span><span style="font-weight:normal">p</span><span style="font-weight:normal">plies
to </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of us. We submit to Your benign rule. </span></span><b><i>H</i><i>a</i><i>llowed
be your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
2:3 (2:2-3) RUTH: THE GLEANER. <font size="3">“So she set out and
went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to
come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan
of Elimelech.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Happenstance?
Or Providential arrangement? We prefer to believe the latter, Father!
With </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
there are no second causes! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
2:5-6 (2:4-7) BOAZ: INQUIRES CONCERNING RUTH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, ‘Whose
young woman is this?’” </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the
young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of
Moab.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Provision
is at hand, arranged by You, Father! </span></span></font><b><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</span></i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
2:12 (2:8-14) RUTH: WINS FAVOR OF BOAZ. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you
by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to
take refuge!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Your graciousness Father, as realized through Boaz! May we ever
remember Your </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">faithfulness</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
as manifested to Naomi and Ruth! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
2:15-16. BOAZ: PROVIDES FOR RUTH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“When
Ruth rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, ‘Let her
glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">16
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to
glean, and do not rebuke her.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
are shamed when we find ourselves doubting You, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
2:18 (2:17-18) RUTH: SUPPORTS NAOMI. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she
had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left
over after being satisfied.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
we put You first Father, as did Ruth on Naomi’s behalf, You
providentially move heaven and earth to meet our needs! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
2:22 (2:19-23) NAOMI: GUIDES RUTH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, ‘It is good, my daughter,
that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be
assaulted.’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hope
is returning to Naomi’s heart, and wisdom is flowing as she guides
Ruth. Thank God, that He can magnify </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">us</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for our works! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">NOTE</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">:</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">
2:20 (2:19-23) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">NAOMI:
REVEALS TO RUTH GOD’S PROVIDENCE! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD,
whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also
said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our
redeemers.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Naomi
recognizes Your hand Father, and magnifies You!</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quote (1834-1892) - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“If
you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is
anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is
anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of
God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every
idol.”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 123:2 (123) OUR EYES LOOK TO THE LORD OUR GOD.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Behold, as
the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of
a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the
LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
the midst of persecution and contempt, we look upon </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
“A Song of Degrees.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
has been conjectured that this brief son</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">g</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
or rather sigh, may have first been heard in the days of Nehemiah or
under the persecutions of Antiochus. It may be so, but there is no
evidence of it; it seems to us quite as probable that afflicted ones
in all periods after David’s time found this Psalm ready to their
hand. If it appears to describe days remote from David, it is all the
more evident that the Psalmist was also a prophet and sang what he
saw in vision.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">123:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
A little contempt they could bear, but now they were satisfied with
it and weary of it. Do we wonder at the threefold mention of mercy
when this master evil was in the ascendant? Nothing is more wounding,
embittering, festering than disdain. When our companions make little
of us, we are far too apt to make little of ourselves and of the
consolations prepared for us. Oh, to be filled with communion, and
then contempt will run off from us and never be able to fill us with
its biting vinegar.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">124:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our soul is
exceeding filled with the scorning of those that are at ease. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">They
are in easy circumstances; they are easy in heart through a deadened
conscience, and so they easily come to mock at holiness; they are
easy from needing nothing, and from having no severe toil exacted
from them; they are easy as to any anxiety to improve, for their
conceit of themselves is boundless. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
with the contempt of the proud. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Pride
is both contemptible and contemptuous. The contempt of the great ones
of the earth is often peculiarly acrid: some of them, like a well
known statesman, are “masters of gibes and flouts and sneers,”
and never do they seem so much at home in their acrimony as when a
servant of the Lord is the victim of their venom. It is easy enough
to write upon this subject, but to be selected as the target of
contempt is quite another matter. Great hearts have been broken and
brave spirits have been withered beneath the accursed power of
falsehood, and the horrible blight of contempt. For our
comfort we may remember that our divine Lord was despised and
rejected of men, yet He ceased not from His perfect service till He
was exalted to dwell in the heavens. Let us bear our share of this
evil which still rages under the sun, and let us firmly believe that
the contempt of the ungodly shall turn to our honor in the world to
come: even now it serves as a certificate that we are not of the
world, for if we were of the world, the world would love us as its
own. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From “The
Treasury of David” by C.H. Schofield, abridged by D.O. Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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