Hey, this is John at Bible Project and today is our last episode in what's turned out to

be a really long series discussing the character of God.

We've been looking at five attributes that God actually gives himself in a verse in

Exodus 34, Yahweh Yahweh, a God compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loyal

love and faithfulness.

Today, Chris and Tim and I are going to look at that fifth and final attribute of God,

his faithfulness, or in Hebrew, in Met.

So a Met means trust, trust worthy, faith, belief, so it encompasses all of those ideas,

but it's rooted around this idea of trust or trust worthyness.

God is faithful and trust worthy.

This is an important, really important word for the Christian faith, if we think about

what it means to trust in God.

That's usually how we define what it means to be a Christian.

Right, if you ask most people what it means to be a Christian, they'd likely say to

have faith in God or more specifically to have faith in Jesus.

And sometimes this begins to feel like a cliche, just have faith, just believe.

Something I noticed when looking at this word throughout Scripture is that trust is not

blind trust.

So I think a lot of times our modern notions of trust or faith involve trusting in something

despite the evidence, belief despite evidence, but in the biblical story, trust or belief

relies on evidence of that trustworthiness.

So today, our final episode on the character of God, God is faithful.

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