A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the meaning of the new name and the new identity that believing ones have in Christ.  The old name and the old identity have perished.  We now walk in newness of life because of the finished work of the Son of God upon the ancient Roman gibbet.  Jesus gave his life that we may have eternal life.  The new life is a life of power that has been granted to all...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the consequences of judging others.  The act of passing sentence upon others is not consistent with God's ethos of love.  In fact, it is the antithesis of love.  However, pseudo-judges do not seem to know or care  that there is only one Judge, and that is God Almighty. Pseudo-judges are only concerned with their subjective interests which is ruining the liv...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the role of projection and transference in judging others.  There is something very satisfying in judging others.  It is a sacred holiday for self and pride when a victim is placed upon the altar of our wit, treachery, mockery, and scorn.  There at the altar the nightmarish figure of slander with expert skill delivers the fatal puncture to the helpless soul...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the doctrine of the comfort of Christ for those who suffer according to the will of a faithful Creator,  The believing ones who have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts have finished with the spiritual ravages of sin. They no longer walk in darkness,but in the light (phos) of Jesus as he is in the light.  Such individuals are comforted in the...

This episode of Pneumatikos will focus upon the our co-suffering with Jesus.  We share in his sufferings as those who are recipients of Grace.  God builds up our souls through divinely permitted trials.  We learn that we have in Jesus all things that pertain to life and godliness.  The intensity of the Christ event is present tense for the the believing ones.  Suffering for the sake of Jesus teach...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of the practice of sanctification for the constantly believing ones. Our salvation is complete. It lacks not one vital reality. Necessity is laid upon us practice sanctification in our daily lives.  It is not a mere religious duty.  Nowhere does the biblical materials condone bland religious formalism.  There is no inherent prosperity in being...

The flesh is the life-lie that is in radical opposition to the way of the cross.  The flesh way of being is all about "me."  The me-centered life is rarely satisfying contrary to popular belief.  Selfishness is a spiritual disease that may be terminal.  We are beings that were made to glorify God and enjoy him forever, but that reality seems to have been forgotten.  I have never seen or read a pub...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the what happens to us spirituall when we are living under the power of a life-controlling sin.  Living under the power of sin is not the normal way of being for believing ones.  God has giving us the resurrection of Jesus whereby we may live in spiritual freedom.  However, when we allow sin to control our lives we are not abiding in Jesus. Unconfessed sin...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the Servant theme in the biblical documents, and their relevance for believing ones today.  Biblical servanthood is not an option for believers.  We must be devoted and helpful followers of God.  A true servant cannot serve two masters for he will either love one or hate the other.  A servant of God must be of singular mind and heart, and know that in the k...

This episode of Pneumatkos explores the rule of God in the world (cosmos).  God will rule the world after he has completed his judgement of the final evil kingdom.  The finale evil kingdom will feature the rule of the an individual who is in radical opposition to the things of God.  This individual will rule for a short time, and he will harass the saints of God, but Jesus will come with power and...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the highly destructive spiritual disease of pride.  Pride may be the original sin. It seems that pride may be intrinsic to human DNA, and therefore encoded in the nervous system.  Pride is a serious human disease and its victims, it seeems, are oblivious to its presence in their lives.  Pride creates spiritual blindness and renders its victims insensitive t...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore resurrection power.  Resurrection power is the creative power of God that brought back Jesus from thanatos (death).  Resurrection power is available to every believer who abides within the sphere of Jesus.  In other words we must stay or remain within the sphere of Jesus in order to experience resurrection power. The old way of being must be stripped off if...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the normative imperative of the Spirit-filled life for believing ones.  It is the mandate of God that those who are identified in Jesus live in a unique manner.  Believing ones are a community of persons who have been called out of darkness (skotia) into the light (phos) of Jesus.  Antithetical living is the new way of being for those who have been made par...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the substantive doctrine of the crucifixion of the "flesh" ego so that the believing one may no longer live the flesh-life.  The flesh-life hinders an effective spiritual life.  Those who live in the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, and those who live in the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life and peace.  This doctrinal reality does not change and i...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the call of believing ones to walk in newness of life.  The call to walk in newness of life sets the believing one in a completely radical way of being.  The call to walk in newness of life is one of the many results of the "in Christ" phenomenon.  The old existence is gone forever when one is born anew or regenerated by the Spirit of God.  God's ideal anth...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of Jesus to heal the self-rejecting heart.  There are those persons who have been twisted by others and consequently rejected by oneself.  This terrible situation can create a lifetime of fragmentation and personal ill-will.  Life will be filled or controlled by the all-too-muchness of the past and the forlorn mischief that creates havoc in the pr...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the living Jesus as healer of lives deformed by sin.  Sin is antithetical to life.  Sin is the existential ruin of human life.  Sin is ontic despair.  The wages or salt(wages paid to Roman soldiers) of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.  Jesus is the Healer of the ultimate ruination of life.  He is the great Physician who knows...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the mandate of the biblical documents to be filled with the Spirit.  It is the Spirit filled life that creates the Fruit of the Spirit in the lives of believing ones.  Our singular focus is to in amanner that is well-pleasing to God.  This has noting to do with middle-class beliefs, but it everything to do with living by divine viewpoint.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the biblical documents for an optimal behavioral model.  The biblical documents mandate that all believing ones are to surrender their volition to the will of God.  The believing one can only walk by means of the Spirit when he or she has come to know that God's will can only be realized when the ego knows that God's will is best.  It is the humble walk tha...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore our eschatological (end time) mandate to live as those who are not out of this age (aion) as a source.  The reality of the new birth by the Spirit of God issues in a new ontology.  The old ontology has passed away-all things have become qualitatively new and ever to remain in that state.  The believing one has also been given a new young mind that never gro...

This episode of Pneumatikos is about the Second Coming of our Lord.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the causes and cure for the Babylonian Captivity of the post-modern church.  It is only as we keep our eyes on Jesus that we are whole.  It is when we look at the events of the cosmos that we compromise our practical sanctification in Jesus.  The prophets and apostles of the biblical documents did not spent their time in critique of the cosmos, but in teach...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of returning to the biblical documents in order to overcome the Babylonian Captivity of the Church.  The Babylonian Capitivity of the Old Testament lasted for seventy years, and it healed Yahweh's people of arrogance and unrestrained pride.  Yahweh's people never stopped going to the temple, but they did stop real worship and devotion.  Relig...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of being doers of the Word, and not merely hearing it. To merely hear the Word and not practice it is spiritual self-deception.  Anyone can say that he or she follows the Christ,but taking up the cross daily is another matter.  It is in the arena of life where one is tested as to the reality of faith.  Love one another is not an option,it is a...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of allowing the Spirit of God to take away bitterness and resentment in the hear (soul). Someone noted that all problems of living are human, therefore they can all be solved by human insight.  That is a fine idea, but it lacks credibility because it is limited by a school or particular perceptual framework,whereas the Spirit of God is not.  B...