Notes: Before you were born again you were a gentile, after you became a Christian you are now a saint. Ruth and Rahab - did Ruth come into the nation as a Moabite or an Israelite? What about Rahab?  They have been grafted in  to nation of Israel.  They left behind their pagan traditions and culture and chose to come under God's way as He had instructed Israel. Ruth and Rahab took steps of faith.  Ruth took steps of faith and she never saw then end of the picture, if she had not been faithful to God were would never have known salvation, because Jesus Christ came through the line of David, of which both Ruth and Rahab are a part of. Ruth said to Naomi, where you I will go,your God will be my Go;, she surrendered herself to God. Israel at the centre of the world where God called this people to witness to the world.  Israel was and is a peculiar people; so too is the Church. The Word of God -  we read the Word because its part of Gods order Public Bible reading should b