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Hello Oak Ridge family. This is David here with

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Julie and Savannah from Acord and Acres and they're

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gonna read some scripture to us today. But before

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they do, I'd like to have them tell us a little

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bit about what helps them to look forward to

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Christ in this season. So my favorite family

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tradition is to make sugar cookies every year.

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My mom did it with us when we were little. And

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we also do them for Valentine's Day and different

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little holidays. And I have now continued on

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making them with my children and then hopefully

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one day grandchildren. I'd say every year I like

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to make Christmas cards for everyone and really

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tell everyone how I appreciate them and how they

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show up in my life throughout the year. I'm going

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to be reading from Ruth, chapter one, six through

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18. Naomi received news from Judas that the Lord

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had helped his people. There was now enough food

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in Judah again. So Naomi decided to leave Moab

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and return to Judah with Ruth and Orphah. Naomi

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and her son's wives left their home in Moab.

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They began to travel together on the way back

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to Judah. On the way, Naomi said to Ruth and

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Orphah, listen, you should return to your mother's

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homes in Moab and stay there. Your husbands are

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dead now. You have been kind to them and to me.

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I pray that the Lord will be as kind to you.

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I also pray that God will give to each of you

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another husband and a new home. Naomi kissed

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them goodbye. Ruth and Orpha began to weep loudly.

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They said to Naomi, no, we will go with you to

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live with your people. But Naomi said, my daughters,

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you should return to your own country. You should

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not choose to come back to Judah with me. I will

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not give birth to any more sons for you to marry

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them. Return to your own country, my daughters.

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I am too old to marry another husband. Even if

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I did marry a man immediately, when might I give

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birth to sons? I am sure that you do not want

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to wait until they're old enough for you to marry

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them. Would you wait for all this time and not

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marry anyone else? So my daughters, you must

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not return to Judah with me. You should not have

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to share my pain. The Lord has turned against

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me." Ruth and Orphah wept loudly again. Orphah

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kissed Naomi and said goodbye, but Ruth would

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not leave Naomi. She held on to her. Naomi said

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to Ruth, look, Orphah has returned to her family.

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She has returned to serve the gods of Moab. Go

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back home with her. Ruth said to say that I must

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leave you. I will go with you wherever you will

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go. I will live wherever you will live. You belong

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to Israel's people. I will belong to them too.

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Your God will be my God. I will die in the same

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place that you die. That is where people will

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bury me. I will stay behind you until death makes

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us separate. If I ever leave you, the Lord should

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punish me. then Naomi understood that Ruth would

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not agree to return to her own country. So she

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stopped saying that Ruth should leave her. I'm

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going to be reading 2 Peter chapter 3 verses

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1 through 10 in the NIV version. Dear friends,

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now this is my second letter to you. I have written

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both of them as reminders to stimulate you to

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the wholesome thinking. I want you to recall

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the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets

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and the commands given to you by our Lord and

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Savior through the apostles. Above all, you must

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understand that this is the last days scoffers

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will come scoffing and following their own evil

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desires. They will say, where is this coming?

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He has promised. Even since our ancestors died,

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everything goes as it is since the beginning

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of creation. But they deliberately forget that

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long ago by God's word, the heavens came into

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beginning and the earth was formed out of water

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and by water. by these waters also the world

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was of time and was destroyed by the same word

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the present heavens and earth reserved for fire

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being kept for the day of judgment and destruction

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of the ungodly but do not forget this one thing

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dear friends with the lord a day is like a thousand

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years and a thousand years are like a day the

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lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some

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understand slowness instead he is patient with

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you not wanting anyone to perish but everyone

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to come to repentance but the day of the Lord

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will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear

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with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by

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fire, and the earth and everything done in it

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will be laid bare.