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The Hagem declaration is that God will give us his love, strength, and power to accomplish all things because we have faith in Jesus Christ. We have faith in God's word and believe that Jesus did all that was needed to fulfill the law, and he paid the price for our sins. By accepting Jesus as our savior, he put us back into God's family, as his children through Jesus. We believe that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law so that the blessings of Abraham might come on us through, and because of, Jesus. We are in the Kingdom of Heaven. We may be in the world but we are not part of it. We open our hearts to receive God's wisdom and blessings in our life. We raise our eyes to heaven and expect, in praise and worship, that God will pour down upon us wonderful things so those that seek God will not lack any good thing. We do what Adam did not do. We believe and confess God's word as true. If God said it, then it is true.

Where does the name Hagem come from?

A person may question, isn’t the Hebrew word hesed and the Greek word Agape the same thing?  Although they both mean love, they are not the same word.  Here is why.  Hebrew and Greek are more specific languages. The English language has one word for love. However, the Hebrew and Greek languages have more than one word for love, denoting the type of love. 

Hesed is the Hebrew word for the love within a contract agreement, like marriage or an arrangement of governments or families, through a covenant. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t a strong love but it is a love that has boundaries and a “because of” existence that comes from an agreement to be in a relationship.  I sign this agreement and therefore there is love.  However, if you go outside the agreement then the love doesn’t exist, or has to stop, and there is punishment.    Man fell from God’s life in the garden of Eden, and because of that a covenant had to be pledged that rejoined man and God again.  The covenant was agreement between God and man to be as one.  Within the agreement there existed Hesed. If a person went outside this agreement then there would be punishment. However, if a person stayed within the agreement, then that person has the right to expect God to give him great rewards and blessings.  The great rewards and blessings had to be there. The rewards and blessings are God's way of showing his love.  

Agape is unconditional Love.  God so love (agape) the world that he gave his only begotten son.  Here we see the true nature of God. He loves everyone. However, to rejoin man and God, he had to restrict their relationship to exist inside an agreement. Man and woman marry to become one person. The agreement is on paper but they are one. The old covenant allowed a way for man and God to be a family again. Hesed, or agreement love, has not gone away just because God sent the Jesus into the whole world. He loved the world with Agape, or unconditional love, but in order to become part of his family a person must enter into Hesed, or love based on agreement where there is punishment for not staying within the agreement and great rewards if you do. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the light and no one can enter heaven except through me. Wide is the way that leads to destruction but narrow is the way to life. 

To join God’s family, a person must first enter into the agreement to love, or have hesed, with God,.  When a person makes Jesus lord of his life, he accepts Jesus as his savior. Jesus not only obeyed the law, or the agreement to love, perfectly, he also took on the punishment for not doing so.  When a person accepts Jesus as lord of his life, then he enters into, or falls under, the hesed Jesus had toward God and God’s Hesed toward him, there is nothing any one else can do.  Agape has no boundaries. Jesus already fulfilled every part of the agreement to love.  The saved man is free to experience Agape, unconditional love, from the father. Agape is God's true nature. 

Jesus is the door by which we enter into Hesed with God. Once we are in Gods family God shows us agape, or unconditional love. Jesus already paid the price so there can be no chance for God to remove agape. He becomes our father in agape.

Also, God goes one step further and gives us his Grace. Many define God’s Grace as his unconditional favor but it’s more than that.  We have faith in God and our faith reaches out and touches God. We can’t please God without faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.  A good way to think about grace is as God’s version of faith that he sends back to us.  Grace makes us able to accomplish all things. Grace is Gods way of touching us with favor and blessing. By Grace we see the working of our God in our life. We are saved by the grace of God and not our works. He reaches out and grabs us in unconditional love. Grace is the lifeline that joins man and God as one. It’s not that we know him but that he knows us. Grace is Gods arm that grabs us, but, like faith, it can’t be seen, or at least can't be seen by us.  We have faith in God, but he gives us Grace.

With such great love upon us, one, hesed, being a contract agreement where God agrees to give great reward, and the other, Agape, as God beyond all desire to do wonderful things for us, and shining down his Grace upon us, we always have the truth that God is always empowering us to do his will and fulfill his word. Therefore, we can say with confidence as our personal statement, "Hesed Agape Grace empowers me", or as an anagram, hagem.

HA GEM is: Hesed Agape Grace Empowers me! Ha gem represents our relationship with  God that gives us unmerited favor.  He gave it to us when he sent Christ to the Cross for us, that whosoever believes on him will be saved. Salvation is a gift, and it is free to all those who want it, and have faith in Jesus and His word. That is why I say,  “Jesus is my Lord and savior!” The hagem confession is that I have a personal relationship with God and he is part of my daily life. I am saved by The Grace of Jesus Christ. By accepting Jesus as my personal savior, I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.

A hero’s song:

By Ronnie J. Miller.

In love I give all,

Paying the price,

I take the fall,

Even to my death,

I gift thee liberty in

Freedom’s last breath

RJM

ODE TO HEROES

by Ronnie J. Miller

In liberty we stand

For hope and peace

In all the land.

Our freedom is a gift

From fallen heroes

Who gave us a lift.

And let this be a must

To pass along to all others

What heroes did for us.

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