#18 (S3-E4) Episode 18 on the Well for Goodness Sake – THE 4:8 LIFE PODCAST is a real-life chat with author-podcaster, Jesus follower, wife, and mother, Jo Fuenzalida. On today’s episode, Part 2 of UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTER OF GOD. We dive even deeper into the key passage, Exodus 34:6-7, dissecting the tension of God’s mercy and justice. We take a closer look individually at the five attributes of God from the key passage: compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, loyal in love, and faithfulness. There is only one REALITY! The reality of God, His creation, Kingship, purpose, and plan for all of creation. Your eternity depends on the reality you are walking and living in.

Are you walking and living in the one reality of the living Lord and King of the heavens and earth, the God of the Bible?

Are you in union with the Holy God, and unashamedly His?

Welcome to the SAFE SPACE. Listen and be encouraged that you are not alone.

KEY VERSES

Exodus 34:6-7 “6The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed: The Lord  — the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding (overflowing) in faithful (loyal) love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. 7But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.”

KEY FOCAL POINTS

Compassionate God: God is “Yahweh” (Rakh-oom’), His character is “rakh-umim”. God’s character and this Hebrew word are analogous to the compassionate care of a mother and her newborn baby.

Gracious God: KHANUN is the HEBREW noun FOR GRACIOUS. Related is the verb KHEN (often translated as GRACE or FAVOR), and it gets interesting if you follow its use throughout the Bible.

Slow to Anger God: In Hebrew, “SLOW TO ANGER” is pronounced, “er’ik-uh-pie-em”. The common Hebrew biblical way of referring to an angry person was “hot nose”, or “their nose burned hot”.

Loyal Loving God: LOYAL LOVE translates into the Hebrew word “KHESED”. KHESED describes acts of loyalty that are motivated by deep personal care from someone.

Faithful God: The Hebrew word EMET means FAITHFULNESS or TRUTH. It’s also related to the word many of you have already heard in church – AMEN!

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REFERENCED

Bible Project (You Version Bible Plan “The Character of God”).

You Version Bible App.

“The Story of Reality” (Koukle, G., 2017).