Methodology

Key Concepts

  • Noûs (νοῦς): New Creational Life opened up to us through Jesus in the Holy Spirit vs The Vanity of the Disintegrated, Fallen Mind

  • Double-Mindedness (Dípsychos): The unstable state of double-mindedness that arises when there are in us two (di) spirits (psyches) vying in a never-ending battle for control

By Theme

Reconciliation

  • Part 1: The external “change” engineered by fallen man failing in its ultimate ends while working to effect glorious transformation

  • Part II: The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: The “change” effected in the fallen mind: Hell itself internalized making us, in the end, “foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless”

  • Part III: The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: The “change” effected not by fallen man but by God in Christ (as we pass from suppression to confrontation and victorious union)

Flourishing

  • Part I: The Dual Nature of Flourishing: Four Hebrew words in a single Psalm— composed “For the Sabbath Day”: Pārakh (פָּרַח); Tsûts (צוּץ); Ra’ănān (רַעֲנָן); and Nûb (נוּב). Introduction

The Lord’s Prayer

“Hallowed (Hagiázō [ἁγιάζω]) be Your name”

  • Part I: “In the Heavens”: The Lord’s Prayer & Psalm 120-124

  • Part II: The OT Background: קָדַשׁ (kä·dash)

“Give us this day our epioúsios (ἐπιούσιος) bread”

  • Part I: Matthew 6 & The Living Bread of the Future Kingdom

  • Part II: Lk 10-11, “Joy in the Holy Spirit”-> The Good Samaritan-> The “One Thing Needful”-> The Lord’s Prayer

  • Part III: John 6 & The Church Fathers: The Living Bread of New Creation

Lead us not into Temptation/Testing (Peirasmós [πειρασμός])

  • Part I: Synthesis of the first six petitions as God’s eternal Kingdom breaking into This Age (1-3), in Christ (4th) through the sacrifice of love (5th), leading…to…a clash (6th)

  • Part II: The Gospels—Prayer, The Parable of the Sower and The Garden

  • Part III: The OT Roots in Nasah (נָסָה), Bachan (בָּחַן) and Tsaraph (נָסָה)

  • Part IV: Acts to Hebrews

  • Part V: James to Revelation

  • Ekpeirázō (ἐκπειράζω): The infernal counterpart to peirázo and peirasmós—Hypertesting, an attribute of false communities which seeks not to reveal and refine but to destroy

Self-Emptying (Kenosis)

  • Kénōsis (κένωσις), Phil 2 and the paradox of true glory in Love’s self-emptying vs the false glory (kenodoxía) of self-love

Into a Bound Slave (Désmios)

Désmios (δέσμιος), Part I: Christ & Barabbas; Paul & the Pýthōn Spirit: “Bound prisoners” Whose binding brings freedom, binding the spirit of deception and transforming captors into disciples

By Theme (cont.)

Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves

  • Part I. Phrónimos: Operating with a purified mind/heart/soul/ spirit/nous such that we live “according to Christ” and “by the Spirit”

  • Part II: Akéraios: The “unmixed” purity of the Holy Spirit overcoming the world and its passions of the flesh

    The Scandal of the Gospel

    Skandalizó (σκανδαλίζω): NT Synthesis and OT Background in Mikshôl (מִכְשׁוֹל): The four dimensions of stumbling in the Christian life centered on our response to the Messianic King

    ὀνειδίζω (on-i-did'-zo): The unjust rebukes of the world together with the penetrating rebuke of Christ which, if received, can become for us a final Beatitude

Works of the Flesh

Stenochōría (στενοχωρία): Distress in the straits of life—confronted, processed & transformed

Fasting

  • Part I: Introduction: The context of the Sermon on the Mount

  • Part II: DFK on the context of Lk 5 (audio)

  • Part III: DFK, a biographical background to a living exposition

  • Part IV: A Seven-Fold Synthesis, The Text

By Scripture

Exodus

The Plagues

  • Arbêh (אַרְבֶּה): The Dual Nature of the Plagues: The all-consuming plague of locusts upon Egypt transformed through the rejection of God’s Holiness into the Covenantal Curses upon the people of God

The Psalms

Ecclesiastes

  • Eccl 7:7: Raving Madness or Shining Light? T.F. Torrance and the approach to our word studies revisited

Isaiah

  • Is 53:5a: Part I: “He was pierced (מְחֹלָ֣ל; chalal) for our transgressions (מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּ; pesha)”— Genesis - Leviticus: Opening a Pathway to Reconciliation

  • Is 53:5a: Part II: “He was pierced (מְחֹלָ֣ל; chalal) for our transgressions (מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּ; pesha)”— The Book of Numbers: The pathway through the defiling plague of sin by propitiation

By Parable

The Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Sower

  • “Lead us not into testing,” Part II: The Gospels—Prayer, The Parable of the Sower and The Garden

    The Pharisee & Tax collector

  • The Prayer of the Publican, The Jesus Prayer, Merkabah (“chariot”) Mysticism and Modern Hymnody

    The Rich Man & Lazarus

  • Part II: The Flaming Eyes of the Risen Christ: Part II. Preface to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: The 18-fold pathway of the love of self, love of money (philárgyros) and the flame of God’s Holiness

  • Part III: The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “Flame (phlóx) of Fire”: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, I: The paradoxes of the false holy spirit of wealth

  • Part IV: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, II: The paradoxes actualized

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    The Rich Young Ruler

  • From the Rich Man & Lazarus to the Rich Young Ruler: Religious Activism and the “The Holy Church of Christ without Christ”

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part I: An Introduction to “The Paradox of Suffering” in Seeking Riches (Ktēma & Chrēma) vs Treasure (Thēsaurós)

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part II: From the earthly Law of More money = More divinely blessed to the eternal treasures given and received in the spiritual Law of Love

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part III: Who is guarding (phylássō) whom? Or, do the things we own end up owning us?

    Holiness

  • Baw-dal (בָּדַל): Part I: The Division of Light from Darkness, Heaven from Earth, God’s Covenant People from the Nations and the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit: Part I. The Pentateuch: Gen-Lev

  • Baw-dal (בָּדַל): Part II: The Division of the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit, True Justice from Vengeance and Eternal Blessing from the Self Delusions of False Shalom: Part II. The Pentateuch: Num-Deut

  • Perílypos (περίλυπος): The Hell-encompassing suffering of redeeming Love or the inner torment in its rejection

The Holiness of Christ

Humility

Tapeinós & Tapeínosis

  • Part I: Lowliness and the Paradoxical Power of “not rising far from the ground”— The Gospels

  • Part II: Acts—From the false techniques of religious syncretism to the transformative reception of the mystery of the voluntary humiliation of Christ

Leaven (zýmē)

  • Part I: Leaven in the Gospels: The operations of the Holy Spirit to bring God’s Kingdom; Or the workings of religious hypocrisy and fallen human power to establish a false kingdom Now

  • Part II: Leaven in the Epistles: From the leaven of spiritual conceit, malice and wickedness to the unleavened Passover bread of sincerity and truth—a life in Christ walking by the Spirit

  • Chileab (כִּלְאָב): The second son of David by Abigail—after Amnon & before Absalom—lost to historical account yet one who from his change of name became the “image” of his Messianic “father”