HESED: God's Love – Christ The Word

To watch the video Pastor Mike references in this week's message: https://www.rightnow.org/Content/VideoElement/164591

Throughout the record of the Old Testament, God demonstrates, displays, and describes His loving nature but there is the sense that it is like looking at a photo of the Grand Canyon. You see it and catch glimpses of its majesty but don't fully comprehend it. So God sends Jesus. He is known as the "word" (a concept with multiple applications). He is full of 'grace and truth', a phrase to draw us back to God's self-declaration. Jesus described His relationship to God in unprecedented terms of intimacy. He claimed His words were God's words, His actions were God's actions. He personifies the love of God. If words could not describe it, then the life of this unique man would. Jesus is God's love painted in action, released in words, felt through tender touch. All we need to know about God's love is in Christ.