“The Prodigal Daughter”
Caleb Silflow
May 28, 2017
Highlights:
1.God loves to displayHis goodness and kindness through the lives and love of those whom He has transformed.
2. God has embedded His goodness and kindness into the very rules and laws of His kingdom.
3. Sometimes God accomplishes His plan, by thwarting our own attempts to accomplish that plan.
4. The fulness that God gives doesn’t always take away the pain of loss.
Discussion Questions:
1. If your name was a reflection of your character like it is in today’s bible passage, what would your name mean? What is your character?
2. How has God “thwarted” your efforts to accomplish Hisplan and used those efforts to accomplish His plan on His terms?
3. Caleb said, “God’s plan in the life of Naomi is far bigger than she could ever know.” What ways have you seen the grand design of God in ways totaly unexpected? How has He gone far and above expectation andfulilled His promise to be the sovereign Lord of all things?
Key Scriptures:
-In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. The mans name was Elimelek, his wifes name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. Now Elimelek, Naomis husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Ruth 1:1-5 NIV
-But Ruth replied, Dont urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.
Ruth 1:16-17 NIV
-Her mother-in-law asked her, Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you! Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz, she said.
Ruth 2:19 NIV
-If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husbands brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:5-6 NIV
-Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning. So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor. He also said, Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out. When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he went back to town. When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, How did it go, my daughter? Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her and added, He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, Dont go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.
Ruth 3:13-17 NIV