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RIDE OR DIE

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RIDE OR DIE

Relationships 2.0, Part 1 | February 9, 2025

Gabe Kolstad | @gabekolstad

3 Then Elimelech died, and Naomi was left with her two sons. 4 The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her two sons or her husband.    -Ruth 1:3-5 (NLT)

A True Friend Says…


1. ME TOO 

8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. 9 May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud   -Ruth 1:8-9 (NIV)



2. I’M WITH YOU 

14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. 15 “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.” 16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”    -Ruth 1:14-17 (NLT)

3. WE’LL GET THROUGH 

So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.    -Ruth 1:22 (NLT)

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.    -Proverbs 18:24 (ESV)


Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.    -John 15:13 (ESV)

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