Finding Success in Your Struggle Against Sin (Ruth 1:1-5) | Pastor Mike Elliott

Name: Finding Success in Your Struggle Against Sin (Ruth 1:1-5) | Pastor Mike Elliott
Uploaded: 2025-09-07T21:10:03.000Z
Duration: 58 min 24 s
Description: Until believers develop a genuine disgust for sin as a direct affront to God's kingship, they will not find real delight in Christ; the opening details of Ruth 1 (famine, sojourn in Moab, ten years, deaths) are not incidental but reveal sin's deceptive, downward-pulling scheme and point forward to repentance and the coming King.

Until believers develop a genuine disgust for sin as a direct affront to God's kingship, they will not find real delight in Christ; the opening details of Ruth 1 (famine, sojourn in Moab, ten years, deaths) are not incidental but reveal sin's deceptive, downward-pulling scheme and point forward to repentance and the coming King.

Stories told

elimelech and naomi flee to moab the fall of adam and eve john the baptist's preaching of repentance

Scripture referenced

Ruth 1 Psalm 95 Ruth 1:1–5 Ruth 1:22 Matthew 3 Hebrews 3 Genesis 3:1–8 Hebrews 3:7 Judges 21:25 Leviticus 26:21–28 Psalm 95:1–8 Psalm 119:1–5

23 further passing references are in the index and searchable.