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Book Of Ruth Chapter 22 Analysis
An Allegorical Re-interpretataion of the Book of Ruth in light of the Present Day Inattentivesness of the Church to the Great Commission.
C. Kwame Sarpey.

GoodLife Network. August 2012

Definition of Terms. * Allegory – a story in which a meaning is conveyed other than that of the words themselves; a story to illustrate truth in which one thing is said and something else is meant. * Bethlehem – fruitfulness, place of revelation, house of bread, the place where wheat is grown, new things are created, the place where the Messiah will come from, where the Judgement of God will begin. * Judah – praise. * Elimelech – my God is king. * Naomi – my pleasant one. * Mahlon – sick. * Chilion – pining (to suffer strong longing/yearning, to wither or waste away from longing and grief). * Ruth – beauty. * Orpah – hind or fawn (to seek favor supporting slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior, back). * Judge – a person who makes decisions on legal matters. * Israel – prince with God. * Moab – son of
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It has long been recognised by Evangelicals that God does the work of God and man does the work of man. God will not do the work of man and man can not do the work of God. Evangelism is an activity of the Church. Conviction of sin is the activity of the Holy Spirit. If we so much believed that we are saved only be faith, and the faith that saves us is through the grace of God and that this saving faith comes through the Word of God – if we Evangelicals or Orthodox really, really believed, we will be out of our comfortable Churches reaching out to a dying world with the Word that produces saving …show more content…
It carries with it the inherent mandate to pass the information on to others. If someone has told us, then we have to tell someone

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