May I have a WORD with you?

Ep 108 (S6E15) Six Seven: Not the Random Incoherence Kind

John Season 6 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?
  • 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)
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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