Ruth 1:14-17Prepared by;

Rev. Juanito D. Samillano Jr.

How to get and keep God’s favor?

Text: Ruth 1:14-17• 14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

• 15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

• 16 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.

• 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.”

Theme: How to get and keep God’s favor?

• Here are the List of People who got and kept God’s Favor!

1Job

Ruth2

Joshua and Caleb

3

God’s

God Favor is not bounded by Distance!

1000 B.C 80-90 AD910

years

Matthew 1:5 (NKJV)

• 5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot

Jesse.

Psalm 105:8 (NKJV)

• 8 He remembers His covenant forever, The

word which He commanded, for a thousand generations.

God’s Favor

1: Spiritual Favor- Never lost- Salvation- Spiritual gifts2: Material Favor- Will lost

God gives us His Favor• 1: Directly- (God Himself talked to

Moses at the Burning Bush and in Mount Sinai)• 2: Indirectly- (He uses People,

things and Circumstances to give us His Favor)

How to get and keep God’s Favor?

• 1: Companion• Ruth 1:15-16• 15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law

has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

• But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.

• 2: Continue• 14 Then they lifted up their

voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.• 15 And she said, “Look, your

sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

• 3: Commitment• Ruth 1:17• 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.”

ConclusionRuth

• 1: Companion (Naomi, God and Jewish People)

• 2: Continue• 3: Committed• She enjoy God’s

Favor

Orpah• 1: Companion

(Moabites People and Foreign God)

• 2: Turn Back• 3: Un Committed• She lost God’s Favor