We are going to open up an amazing subject today. We're going to look at the Hebrew word

Chesed. Say it with me. Chah, chesed. We're going to open this word up and you're going to get

some incredible insights into God's love. Let's take a minute and just ask God to make this time

valuable, to open our hearts, open our minds, so that we're going to be able to make this time valuable, to open our hearts, open our minds,

so that we can gain access into who he is, the character of God, an essential trait,

an essential characteristic of our Heavenly Father, understanding this, can be absolutely

life-changing.

So I've been familiar with the word Chesed for many decades.

It's a word you learn fairly early on as you're learning Hebrew vocabulary from the Bible. So again, many decades

now familiar with the word and whole books have been written on chasid to try to understand

the exact significance of it. And it's very difficult to translate it with just one English word.

Sometimes you see steadfast love. Some modern translations have said

loyal love. Sometimes you see loving kindness. When the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew

Bible translated it, it translated it with Elias, mercy, but it's really not the primary word for mercy.

And in the last few years, I had taken numbers of scriptures from the Hebrew Bible and from the New Testament, taking them and just put them

all in one file. And sometimes in my daily daily prayers just meditate on these verses and look at

these verses and try to understand who God is more and what he requires of us and how he wants

us to live and what he's promised us you know pages of key verses just to go over on a regular basis

and and the more I meditated on them the more I looked at the same verses I'd known,

many I'd memorized years earlier, things started to open up. So I think it's going to happen

for you as well as we open up the scriptures that something about the character and nature

of God is going to open up for you. So my friend Pastor David Harwood has written a lot about God's love, God's true love, David Harwood.

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