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

  • Abundance (Perísseuma): Part 1. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”: The Mind-heart connection, inner healing and the dimension-shaping reality of quantum processing

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

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)

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 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?

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part IV: “Jesus beholding him loved him”: Love’s call to a poor rich man in Jerusalem taken up by a rich poor Apostle in Kerala

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part V: What Spirit Fills Up Our Community: From 1st century Judea to the Gulags and the Khmer Rouge. Or where performance Christianity takes 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”

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

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

Quantum Healing

  • Perísseuma (περίσσευμα): Part 1. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”: The Mind-heart connection, inner healing and the dimension-shaping reality of quantum processing

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