Daily Devotional

    Sermon from September 29 Morning Worship service "On to Obed...On to David...On to Christ" - Ruth 4:13-22 First Baptist Church, Carney, OK Bro. Dan Calkins Here's the link:  September 29, 2024 Sermon Link

   Sermon from September 22 Morning Worship service "Glorious Unfolding" - Ruth 4:1-12 First Baptist Church, Carney, OK Bro. Dan Calkins Here's the link:  September 22, 2024 Sermon Link

    Sermon from September 15 Morning Worship service "Matchmaker, Matchmaker!" - Ruth 3:1-18 First Baptist Church, Carney, OK Bro. Dan Calkins Here's the link:  September 15, 2024 Sermon Link

   Sermon from September 8 Morning Worship service "The Great Redeemer" - Ruth 2:17-23 First Baptist Church, Carney, OK Bro. Dan Calkins Here's the link:  September 8, 2024 Sermon Link

  The Blessings, Curses, and Oaths in Ruth using the ESV Bible The story of Ruth can be seen in these blessings, perceived curses, and oaths. In these statements, we can see Naomi's desperation and change of heart, a love story between Boaz and Ruth, and God's work of redemption and continuing the family line toward King David and Jesus Christ. Here's a list of the verses containing blessings, curses, and oaths in the book of Ruth. Chapter 1 v. 8-9 (Naomi to daughters-in-law, after Naomi chooses to return to Israel) “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The LORD grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” v. 11-13 (Naomi to daughters-in-law, after they yearn to go with Naomi) “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a h...

  What is a Goel – a Hebrew participle often found in the Old Testament, referring to the act of redeeming. It can also mean “to act as a kinsman,” or “to do the part of the next of kin.” These close relatives are called kinsman redeemers, and one of the major duties of these redeemers is to purchase the property of poor relatives or redeem the property from the person who purchased or placed a lien on the property. There is a process of figuring out how to calculate the value, recorded in Leviticus 25:23-34, dealing with the number of years before the year of Jubilee (which happens every 50 years on Israel’s calendar, Leviticus 25:8-22). One of the great illustrations in the Bible of this is in Ruth. Boaz acts as the kinsman redeemer to Naomi and Ruth, but in a special circumstance. To understand this would take some explanation and perhaps a reading of Ruth (it only takes 15 minutes to listen to it here ). Naomi, her husband, Elimelech, and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, ...

   Sermon from September 1 Morning Worship service "In the Fields of a Worthy One" - Ruth 2:1-16 First Baptist Church, Carney, OK Bro. Dan Calkins Here's the link:  September 1, 2024 Sermon Link