Last we week we went through chapter 3, where the Shulamite recalls a dream she had about her shepherd that prompted her to go look for him in the night. When she finds her beloved, she embraces him and brings him to her mother’s house to meet her family. Solomon then returns to Jerusalem in a great royal parade and astonishes the crowd that is blown away by his majesty.
The beloved Shepherd has followed the court and comes to Jerusalem because the Shulamite is still somewhat captive in Solomon’s pavilions. They speak briefly to each other in this passage.

Here in the text, we read about a family from Bethlehem who during a famine went to sojourn in the land of Moab. These people were not leaving Israel because they wanted to leave God or they didn’t like the culture there anymore, they left because they thought that’s what they had to do to survive. They spent ten years in Moab and their sons married to Moabite sisters. Naomi’s husband died and so did her two sons leaving the three women widowed. Naomi hears that the Lord has visited his people in the land where she came from in giving them bread and is going back. Her two daughters-in-law at first are of a mind to go with her but after much urging, Orpah kisses her mother-in-law goodbye and turns back to Moab. Ruth on the hand, turns her back on her heritage, her people, and her gods to be with Noami and accept her God as her own.

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Last week we went through the first half of chapter 6. Paul wrote that children
should obey and honor their parents and that fathers shouldn’t provoke them to wrath (bring them to resentment). He also wrote that servants should serve their masters as
though they were serving Christ and masters should treat their servants with kindness and respect because they have a master that sees all. Paul then admonishes the readers to put on the whole armor of God. The armor of God is spiritual because the warfare is spiritual. He writes that our enemy is not flesh and blood, but that we wrestle with principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and with spiritual wickedness in high
places.

Last time we went through chapter 5 where Paul spells out the works of the flesh and contrasts it with the fruit of the Spirit. He then admonishes the Galatians to walk in the Spirit or they will fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The way of law works won’t produce the fruit of the Spirit but will cause divisions and strife. Walking with Christ is the only way that the Spirit produces His fruit through us.

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