Ruth

MOTHERS AND FATHERS, DAUGHTERS AND SONS

Pastor Hope Flask

May 10, 2026

Main Scriptures: Ruth 1:8-17, 4:13-17

Additional Scriptures: Ruth 1:20-21, Luke 6:32-36, Romans 8:28, Lamentations 3:22-23

POINTS:

• The Hesed love of God = “steadfast love” or “loyal love” that goes beyond mere legal obligation.

• Kinsman Redeemer = someone who has the right to buy back the land of a family that has lost it and restore the lineage.

• It is sacrificial love that converts Ruth.

• It is the Hesed love of Christians that demonstrates the power of God.

• We build a Hesed relationship with time and commitment.

• Humanity’s lack of time and commitment is why many people have socially and relationally atrophied.

• Signs of shallow relationships:

  • Lack of emotional intimacy

  • Surface-level communication

  • Focus on appearances

  • Convenience-based connection

  • One-sidedness

  • On-again, off-again dynamic

  • No personal growth

• We must grab hold of the signs of hope and new mercies that God has for us in the mundane and the Mondays of life.

• The good that God works on our behalf is less noticeable in the mundane.

• The reason that we don’t pick new mercies is that we have an agenda.

• It is in the mundane things that miracles manifest.

• God comes through mangers, not thrones.

• No one can hold on to that hope all the time.