Sermon Outline: Ruth 1:1-5 “You Can’t Run Away from Problems”

1) The Time. Ruth 1:1a

• Judges 17:6

2) The Place. Ruth 1:1b

• Deuteronomy 28:15, 23-24

3) The Decision. Ruth 1:1c

a) He walked by sight and not by faith.

• Isaiah 40:30-31

• James 3:13-18

b) He majored on the physical and not the spiritual.

• Matthew 4:1-4

• Psalm 37:25

c) He honored the enemy and not the Lord.

· Deuteronomy 23:3-6

· Nehemiah 13:23-25

4) The Consequences. Ruth 1:2-5