PROVIDENCE OF GOD

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PROVIDENCE OF GOD

• And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon
  us and establish thou the work of our hands upon
  us yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
• Psalm 9017
• September 26, 2010
• Rev. David B. Hanson
• Deaf Liberty Baptist Church
• Overland Park, Kansas

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Sweet and Bitter Providence

• The Work of God in the Darkest of Times
• Ruth 13-5
• 3And Elimelech Naomi's husband died and she was
  left, and her two sons.
•  4And they took them wives of the women of Moab
  the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of
  the other Ruth and they dwelled there about ten
  years.
•  5And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them
  and the woman was left of her two sons and her
  husband.
• Ruth's Faithfulness
• Ruth 116
• And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or
  to return from following after thee for whither
  thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest, I
  will lodge thy people shall be my people, and
  thy God my God

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Under the Guidance of God

• The Sweet Providence of God
• Ruth 21
• And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a
  mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech
  and his name was Boaz.
• Ruths Care for Naomi, Humility and Industry
• Ruth 22
• And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me
  now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after
  him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she
  said unto her, Go, my daughter.
• Boaz A God-Saturated Man
• Ruth 24
• And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said
  unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they
  answered him, The LORD bless thee.
• God's Merciful Providence
• Ruth 220
• And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed
  be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his
  kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi
  said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us,
  one of our next kinsmen.

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Seek the Righteousness of God

• Matthew 633-34
• 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
  righteousness and all these things shall be
  added unto you.
•  34Take therefore no thought for the morrow for
  the morrow shall take thought for the things of
  itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
  thereof.
• Ruth A God-dependent young woman
• Naomi A God-exalting older woman
• The Lord The Goodness of God

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The Best Is Yet to Come

• Gods Blessings for Boaz and Ruth and Naomi
• Ruth 413-15
• 13So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife and
  when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her
  conception, and she bare a son.
•  14And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the
  LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a
  kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
•  15And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy
  life, and a nourisher of thine old age for thy
  daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is
  better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

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The Christians Blessings

• Ephesians 13
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
  blessings in heavenly places in Christ
• Ephesians 118
• The eyes of your understanding being enlightened
  that ye may know what is the hope of his calling,
  and what the riches of the glory of his
  inheritance in the saints,