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May I have a WORD with you?
Ep 108 (S6E15) Six Seven: Not the Random Incoherence Kind
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John
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Season 6
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Episode 15
References:
- What’s all this about six seven?
- CBS News online reported that dictionary.com chose 6-7 as the 2025 word of the year
- “a ‘nonsensical and playfully absurd’ slang term”
- The evolution and cultural impact
- Not “knowing” makes some people anxious
- 6-7 has been irritating teachers
- I’ve seen reports of 6-7 being banned from schools, etc. Can you imagine how trying to ban kids from saying “groovy” in the 60s would have gone over?
- CBS News online reported that dictionary.com chose 6-7 as the 2025 word of the year
- Do I want to stop worrying?
- Philippians 4:6-7 (haha) is about stopping with the worrying (μεριμνάω - merimnaō verb from…)
- μέριμνα - (mer'-im-nah): care, anxiety (all 3 synoptic gospels parable of the sower, the seed that fell among thorns was choked out by the μέριμνα of this world
- From μερίζω - (merizō): to divide, be split into factions (Mark 3:24-25 a house divided, a kingdom divided; 1 Cor 1:13 is Christ divided; Rom 12:3 the portion God has given)
- From μέρος - (mer'-os): a part due or assigned to one, lot, destiny (John 13:8 - if you don’t let me wash you, you will have no part with me [no share, won’t belong to me]
- 6-7 is a way Gen Alpha feel a part of something others don’t understand
- But ALL who are in Christ have a part in the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12)
- Pray (προσευχή) with supplications (δέησις) and thanksgivings (εὐχαριστία)
- μέριμνα - (mer'-im-nah): care, anxiety (all 3 synoptic gospels parable of the sower, the seed that fell among thorns was choked out by the μέριμνα of this world
- Where will I find peace? Through vs 6 comes vs 7
- The peace beyond understanding will keep
- φρουρέω (froo-reh'-o)
- to guard, protect by a military guard, either to prevent hostile invasion, or to keep the inhabitants of a besieged city from flight
- to protect by guarding, to keep by watching and guarding to preserve one for the attainment of something
- φρουρέω (froo-reh'-o)
- The peace beyond understanding will keep
- Philippians 4:6-7 (haha) is about stopping with the worrying (μεριμνάω - merimnaō verb from…)
- SO, a final thing, fix your thoughts on…
- λογίζομαι (logizomai) middle voice verb from λόγος the noun
- to consider, take into account, weigh, meditate on
- λέγω (legō)
- to say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct, to point out with words, intend, mean
- λογίζομαι (logizomai) middle voice verb from λόγος the noun
- Living out what my thoughts are fixed upon
- A 4 part series on the 6 adjectives and the 7th (2 nouns) upon which we should meditate