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No audio this week so that I might walk at liberty over the 4th. But I’m not exactly sitting on my thumbs. Alleluia! Audio updates, the War Against Hecate and more in due season.
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📜 “Firstborn of many brothers.” —Romans 8:29.
The crucified Son is not ashamed to call you brother. He is not ashamed of your leg, your tears, your long delay. He knows what the fall costs. He knows what it takes to rise. And He chose to go first. Not so you could admire Him. But so you could follow Him. As kin. As brother. As blood of His blood. 🔥 This is not philosophy. Not ideology. Not positive thinking. 🕊️ Thanks be to God. You are not outside the story. You are inside the scroll. You have been written in. And He will not erase you.
📜 THE FINAL SERMON OF SOLOMON
“Incline Your Ear…” — The Liturgical Field Homily of the Righteous King
The Sermon of Solomon—Proverbs 22:17–24:34—is not a mere collection, but a crafted homiletic insertion between the Solomonic Field Scroll (10:1–22:16) and the Hezekian Scroll (25–29). Though traditionally called the “Sayings of the Wise,” it is best understood as Solomon’s own Wisdom Sermon, encoded as a liturgical scrolllet, addressed to the listening son, and spoken from the throne of internal war.
What you’ve rightly seen is this:
Solomon’s sermon was skipped, but it belongs—as the interpretive hinge—between scroll application and scroll restoration.
Let us now decode it accordingly.
🧭 STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW
Section Verses Title: Section Verses Structural Mode Primary Logic
I 22:17–21 Sermon Preface: Call to Listening: Triad + Quatrain Memory, Tongue, Trust
II 22:22–23:11 Fatherhood: Triadic Spirals, Justice, and the Land
III 23:12–28 Triad: Discipline, Pleasure, the heart of the Strange Woman
IV 23:29–35 Triad: The Drunken Soul, Idolatry and “Vision”
V 24:1–22 The Wicked: The Enemy, Love and Apocalypse
VI 24:23–34 Appendix Gate: Final Sayings of the Wise (the Sloth Cycle)
🕯️ “Incline Your Ear…” — The Homiletic Invitation
“Apply your heart… keep them within you… let them be ready on your lips.”
Triadic Logic:
• Incline your ear
• Hear the words
• Apply your heart
→ Followed by a quaternary promise in v.19–21:
• YHWH is your trust
• I’ve written 30 sayings
• To make you know what is right and true
• So that you may return a word of truth
🧠 This section opens as a covenantal lecture—in temple style—with memory, heart, tongue, and truth all brought to alignment.
⚖️ SECTION II — 22:22–23:11
Justice, Landmarks, and Orphans
“Do not rob the poor…”
“Do not move the ancient boundary…”
“Do not enter the field of the fatherless…”
This section is a covenantal ethics spiral in triads:
• Oppression → court → YHWH defends
• Land → boundary → inheritance
• Friend → neighbor → loyalty
Embedded triads cluster around property, fatherhood, and divine justice.
This is Mosaic wisdom re-spoken by the son of David.
🍞 SECTION III — 23:12–28
Pleasure, Correction, and the Strange Woman
This is a mirror of chapters 5–7, condensed into homiletic application:
• “Apply your heart to instruction…”
• “Do not withhold discipline from a child…”
• “My son, give me your heart…”
Strange woman reappears (v.27–28):
“A deep pit is a prostitute…”
“She increases the traitors among mankind…”
This section is triadic structure overlaid with grief—it is Solomon’s own midlife sorrow recast into pastoral form.
🍷 SECTION IV — 23:29–35
The Drunken Soul — A Prophetic Vision
“Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?”
This is a seven-question triad roll, ending in a visionary warning:
• “Your eyes will see strange things…”
• “You will lie like one on the sea…”
• “I will seek it again…”
This is Solomon preaching against his own fall—drunkenness as metaphor for idolatrous delusion.
💀 SECTION V — 24:1–22
Do Not Envy the Wicked — The Ethical Apocalypse
This is the most eschatological portion:
• “Do not be envious of evil men…”
• “By wisdom a house is built…”
• “The righteous fall seven times but rise again…”
• “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls…”
Here Solomon prepares the son for the day of shaking:
• “Calamity will rise suddenly…”
• “Who knows the ruin the LORD will bring?”
→ This section is a gate of judgment, echoing the Day of YHWH.
📜 SECTION VI — 24:23–34
Final Sayings of the Wise — Sluggard Close
This is an appendix-gate section:
• “These also are sayings of the wise…”
• “Partiality in judging is not good…”
Ends with:
• “A little sleep, a little slumber… poverty comes like a robber…”
This is the same formula from Proverbs 6—Solomon now closes the sermon where the moral began.
✨ THEOLOGICAL FUNCTION
This is not a random “saying of the wise.” It is:
• Solomon preaching his own scroll
• A king warning his son with temple-echo memory
• A mirror of 1–9, now set in field wisdom and covenantal review
He ends where he began:
“Give me your heart, my son…”
This sermon is temple court, confession, and commission. It is a wisdom homily in the mouth of a king—repenting, remembering, and reaching toward the Son yet to come. He who has ears, let him incline them. He who would speak, let him listen first.
📜 Colossians 3:18–25 — Word-by-Word Analysis
These words press the new man to trust Christ’s Lordship in every station of life. The verbs and nouns are not circumstantial or cultural; they are the eschatological grammar of a Kingdom that replaces Rome and outlasts Babylon. Each word is a covenantal command with divine geometry.
🕊️ 1. Submit – ὑποτάσσεσθε (hypotassesthe)
Root: hypo = “under” + tassō = “to arrange”
Sound: hoo-po-TASS-esth-eh — layered, subdued, dignified
Force:
• Voluntary alignment under ordered headship
• Not about inferiority, but orderly covenant placement
Embodiment:
• For wives: a liturgy of honor, not a muzzle
• The bride of Christ posture
✅ 2. Fitting – ἀνῆκεν (anēken)
Root: anēkō = “to pertain to,” “to be appropriate”
Sound: AN-ay-ken — clipped, final, clean
Force:
• That which belongs to the structure—natural, lawful, divine
Embodiment:
• Submission is not random—it fits in the Lord’s design
❤️ 3. Love – ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate)
Root: agapē — divine, covenantal love
Sound: ah-GAH-pah-teh — warm, expansive, strong
Force:
• Not eros or philia, but willed, sacrificial devotion
Embodiment:
• Husbands love as Christ crucified—not passive, not harsh
⚠️ 4. Bitter – πικραίνεσθε (pikrainesthe)
Root: pikros = “sharp, piercing, sour”
Sound: pik-RAI-nes-the — acidic, stinging
Force:
• Refers to resentful harshness, not just emotional irritation
Embodiment:
• Bitterness corrupts love; husbands must guard their tone
👣 5. Obey – ὑπακούετε (hypakouete)
Root: hypo = “under” + akouō = “to hear”
Sound: hoo-pa-KOO-eh-teh — clear, direct, descending
Force:
• “Obey” here is attentive listening that leads to action
Embodiment:
• Children hear with the intention to align, not to delay
🎁 6. Pleasing – εὐάρεστόν (euareston)
Root: eu = “good” + arestos = “agreeable”
Sound: yoo-AH-res-ton — soft, harmonizing
Force:
• Not people-pleasing, but pleasing to the Lord—in spirit and act
Embodiment:
• Obedience here is liturgical delight, not law-bound drudgery
💢 7. Provoke – ἐρεθίζετε (erethizete)
Root: erethizō = “to stir up,” “irritate,” “agitate”
Sound: eh-reth-IZ-eh-teh — disruptive, sharp
Force:
• Implies needling, nitpicking, or spiritual taunting
Embodiment:
• Fathers must shepherd without inflaming
• Discipline without derision
💧 8. Discouraged – ἀθυμῶσιν (athymōsin)
Root: a- (negation) + thymos = “heart, passion, fire”
Sound: a-thoo-MO-sin — fading, breathless, sighing
Force:
• To be “disheartened,” spirit deflated, hope extinguished
Embodiment:
• Parental cruelty kills courage
• The goal is sons with fire, not sons with fear
👑 9. Master – κύριοι (kurioi)
Root: kyrios = “lord, master, possessor”
Sound: KOO-ree-oy — regal, final, commanding
Force:
• Refers to earthly masters—but evokes Christ
Embodiment:
• Their lordship must mirror the heavenly Master, not Caesar
🧹 10. Eye-Service – ὀφθαλμοδουλίᾳ (ophthalmodoulia)
Root: ophthalmos = “eye” + doulos = “slave”
Sound: of-thal-mo-doo-LEE-ah — slippery, watching, two-faced
Force:
• Performance obedience—only when watched
Embodiment:
• Bondservants must serve as if always seen by God, not men
🧑⚖️ 11. Men-Pleasers – ἀνθρωπάρεσκοι (anthrōpareskoi)
Root: anthrōpos = “man” + areskō = “to please”
Sound: an-thro-PAH-res-koi — flattering, artificial
Force:
• People-pleasing = idolatry of reputation
Embodiment:
• Christian labor is God-ward, not audience-driven
🪨 12. Sincerity – ἁπλότης (haplotēs)
Root: haplous = “simple, whole, single-hearted”
Sound: ha-PLO-tace — clean, direct, undivided
Force:
• Singleness of heart, without mixture or mask
Embodiment:
• The servant who works with one Lord only
🫀 13. Heart – καρδία (kardia)
Root: Indo-European kerd = “heart”
Sound: KAR-dee-ah — thudding, central
Force:
• Not emotions only, but center of will, love, and choice
Embodiment:
• All service must begin in the heart, not just hands
🔥 14. Heartily – ἐκ ψυχῆς (ek psychēs)
Root: psyche = “soul, life-breath”
Sound: ek PSOO-khace — exhaling, full-body
Force:
• “From the soul”—not half-hearted, not transactional
Embodiment:
• You serve with the breath of your inner man
🏆 15. Reward – ἀνταπόδοσιν (antapodosin)
Root: anti = “in return” + apodidōmi = “to give back”
Sound: an-ta-PO-do-sin — balanced, measured
Force:
• The just return—God is no debtor
• What man overlooks, God repays
Embodiment:
• Hope rooted in divine justice, not human thanks
👑 16. Inheritance – κληρονομίας (klēronomias)
Root: klēros = “lot” + nomos = “law” → “legal portion”
Sound: klay-ro-NO-mee-as — covenantal, destined
Force:
• What is assigned by grace, not earned by labor
Embodiment:
• Slaves receive a king’s inheritance
🙌 17. Serve – δουλεύετε (douleuete)
Root: doulos = “slave, bondservant”
Sound: doo-LEH-veh-teh — humble, submitted, rhythmic
Force:
• Willing slavery to Christ—total allegiance
Embodiment:
• Bondservants become sons of the Master
⚖️ 18. Wrong – ἀδικέω (adikēsei)
Root: a- = not + dike = justice → “to do injustice”
Sound: a-dee-KAY-oh — sharp, judicial
Force:
• No wrong escapes God’s final court
Embodiment:
• Injustice is seen and will be addressed
💰 19. Repaid – κομίσεται (komisetai)
Root: komizō = “to carry back,” “to return”
Sound: ko-MEE-se-tai — slow, echoing
Force:
• Whether good or evil—harvest is certain
Embodiment:
• Your labor will not be lost—judgment is reward
🧑⚖️ 20. Partiality – προσωπολημψία (prosōpolēmpsia)
Root: prosōpon = “face” + lambanō = “receive” → “face-taking”
Sound: pro-SO-po-laym-SEE-a — awkward, imbalanced, clunky
Force:
• Literally: “receiving face” → making judgments by appearance
Embodiment:
• Christ is no respecter of persons
• All stand equally before Him—slave or free, master or child
🔥 THE LAW OF THE HOUSE OF CHRIST
These words reconstitute all roles under one Lord, one judgment, one inheritance:
• Wives submit, as the Church submits to Christ.
• Husbands love, as Christ loves the Church.
• Children obey, in holy delight.
• Fathers shepherd, not provoke.
• Bondservants serve, not to impress, but to bless.
• Masters rule, as judged men—without partiality.
This is patriarchy, slavery and Sonship redeemed in the Kingdom of God’s Houses, where every soul is seen for who he is, every act measured by what ti does, and Christ is all and in all from “greatest” to “least.”
