Thank you Deacon Ezra I learn and grow closer to God when I hear your teaching!!!!

May his memory be eternal

Thank you for continuing to stream after the pandemic 🙏

Liturgy was fire ngl

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6:52 Deacon Ezra prepares for Inquirer Class 7 of this time, Fall 2024. 9:07 Chatting with students before the class. + Where we went to school for University. + Where our family is from + Churches around Texas + Nice to meet you, Nice to meet you too Taking Attendance for Inquirers Class 7 14:35 Taking Attendance. 17:37 Welcome Welcome Where We are in The Class so far... 17:58 Freedom, Lunch in The Garden, The Consequences of that, 18:45 The trouble we find ourselves in: Trying to create a world without God. 19:23 The Journey to Bethlehem. *Pascha, The Passover* 19:43 The Pascha Story, The Passover Feast. 20:46 Martin Luther invented the word Easter and stuck it in his Bible in about 1531 AD. 21:05 God's Trilogy. - Adam and Eve lost the ability to see, to hear, to live in The Kingdom of God. 21:47 Paradise drained away, Adam and Eve were left to live outside of Life, in death. 22:19 This World of Death. They became refugees wandering in this strange new land of death. _The Kingdom of God Still Existed, but Adam and Eve could no longer see or hear Heaven_ 22:58 What they once saw they no longer could see. *Mankind's Purpose* 24:03 Mankind's Purpose is and always is to Become Like God. 24:42 What Adam Failed To Achieve, what each of us has failed to achieve, God achieved on our behalf. 25:12 God became Man so that Man could become like God. *Behavior Agreeing with Who They Are* 25:36 To Unite Our Behavior with Our Identity. 26:16 We are the only one's in creation that don't behave like our identity. 26:28 "Our instrument's out of tune." *Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection.* 26:55 Theosis or Deification. God Restores Mankind To Paradise. 27:28 _St Gregory of Nyssa_ 28:23 When Adam and Eve willed themselves into Sin and Death, into a state of Non-Being Non-Existence, God had to break through The Triple Barrier of Sin, Death, and Nature. *What Jesus Christ is doing for us.* 30:00 30:27 God's Plan became Unfulfilled because Adam and Eve followed a different path, a path that ends in death. *The Triple Barrier of Nature, Sin, and Death* 31:24 Death, Sin, and Nature, is broken through by God. 31:54 God breaks through. 32:26 Nature by Incarnation, Sin by God's Death, and Death by God's Resurrection. 32:52 Nature, Sin, and finally, Death. Sin = Missing The Mark, Missing The Goal, Missing The Purpose _Western Christendom's Understanding of Sin is A Divine Victim taking the place of us_ 33:48 In The West, "Here comes the victim, who takes our place." *For Orthodox Christianity, we see all 3* 34:51 Organic Unity, Nature Sin and Death. *The Incarnation, Fully God and Fully Man, Uniting The Divine and The Human, The 2nd Adam* 35:08 The Incarnation, God takes on a Human body. Jesus Christ is Fully God and Fully Man. 35:48 Joining Human Behavior to The Mind of Christ. 36:01 _St Maximos The Confessor_ 36:32 Man is raised towards Divine Fullness. 36:52 This Union of The 2 Natures, Divine and Human Nature, into 1 Man. Jesus Christ. 37:18 God Became The 2nd Adam to remind us and to show us what we are to become, *Christ is Fully God and Fully Man* 37:26 Christ was Fully God and Fully Man. 37:41 Our Goal is to become like God, uniting The divine and human within ourselves. *Theosis is not ticky tacky, we are unique, unrepeatable, personal human beings* 38:06 This Theosis is not a generic concept, it's very personal. 38:20 Everyone has your own name. Unrepeatable, Unique, not made out of ticky tacky. 38:43 The West defines Spirituality at the expense of the human. 39:04 Theosis is NOT a Negation of Being Human. *We have lost something* 39:20 We live in a world of death. 39:24 Our Humanity today is less than the humanity Adam and Eve had in Paradise. 39:33 We have lost our eyesight and our hearing. We have lost the life of God coursing through our lives. 39:46 The Incarnation points us to our humanity we have lost. 40:11 Growing in our humanity. *Jesus Christ was Fully God and Fully Man* 40:22 Christ was Fully God and Fully Man 40:49 "Those with ears to hear, let them hear." Those with eyes to see, see. *The Crucifixion* ☦ 41:27 42:26 Amartia, Missing The Mark, Failing at one's purpose, missing the point of one's life. *Chrystmation* 42:51 Chrystmation of Ezra. 43:32 I had somethin in me that drew me to the name, but I did not know who I am. 43:43 I was over 40 years old and lived missing the mark. 44:08 It was by discovering who I am in my humanity that I discovered who I would be in my person. 44:36 We live in a world of sin. I was blind to my own identity vocationally. Mankind is blind to the point of mankind's creation. 45:20 Walking with God in the cool of the evening and becoming like Him in our lives. *God Names Life* 45:59 Light and There was Light. 46:22 The Good I want to do I fail to do, The Stupid Stuff I don't want to do I still do. 46:57 My Will Is So Weak I can't even do what I wanted to do. 47:31 The Only Cure for Sin, for missing the mark with a weak will, is Death. *Recalling Protestant Days, The Deaths of brother and sister, 7-year old Tracy and young Tony* 47:50 Infants and Children being struck and diagnosed with Neuroblastoma Cancer. 48:06 The Death of 7-Year Old Tracy, her father walked in seconds after she died. 48:34 Tony, the parents tried to save him. 49:01 But the cancer grew. Regular cancer treatments were suffered and endured. 49:21 But the cancer grew. 49:32 Everything had failed. 49:42 The Transfusions were now feeding the cancer. 50:06 The Brave Parents took Tony home, they did not want him to die in the hospital like his sister Tracy. 50:36 Tony had died. 50:48 The Only Way to Kill The Cancer was for Tony to Die. 51:06 Christ Died On The Cross to Show Us The Death of Sin. *The Resurrection* 51:25 52:36 Moses constructs The Mercy Seat. 53:00 "And There, I will meet with you, Above The Mercy Seat, between the wings of the 2 cherubim which are upon The Ark of The Covenant." 53:31 God meets us outside the box, between the cherubim, at The Seat of Mercy. *Mary Wept At The Tomb of Her Son, Jesus Christ* 53:51 This is The Salvation of Our World. *Dismas, The Penitent Thief* 55:08 Dismas *Death Kills Sin, Christ Defeated Death* 56:50 Jesus Christ's Resurrection, God Delivered Man out of The Realm of Hades. *The Response of Thomas* 58:42 Some believed, others didn't know what to believe. 59:34 he fell on his knees in worship, "My Lord and My God." 1:00:02 God is unlike any other moral man. 1:00:48 Thomas is The Saint of This Age. 1:01:19 Christ Is Risen From The Death, Trampling Down Death By Death, and Upon Those In The Tombs Bestowing Life. 1:02:08 Glory To Thy Resurrection O Christ! 1:03:08 Let The Heavens Rejoice! 1:03:36 Death Has Been Despoiled! 1:04:21 O Lord, Glory To Thee. *We stand in awe in The Presence of The Resurrection* 1:05:37 What God Has Done, we respond to, we worship, O Lord Glory To Thee. 1:06:35 The Only acceptable response to Revelation is Worship. [about a 20 minute break] *The Dead are Not Completely Dead* 1:29:09 1:30:27 "But like The Thief will I confess Thee, Remember Me O Lord In Thy Kingdom." 1:31:58 Sacramental Death, out of Baptism, we are Resurrected to The New Life. Walking With God. *Mary and Lazarus, The Specific Resurrection* 1:32:40 We each receive a Specifically Applied Resurrection at Baptism. 1:33:53 My Death will kill my Wishy-Washy Will. 1:34:23 This is our worship. The Dead Aren't Dead. 1:35:43 God has Reopened Paradise to The Thief and To All Who Believe in God. 1:36:16 The Blessing Hymn "Blessed Art Thou O Lord, Teach Me Thy Statues...Why do you mingle the ointments, with your tears full of pity... 1:38:04 Repent! Repent! For Paradise Is At Hand! To The Living and To Those In The Tombs. 1:38:53 The Choir of The Saints have found The Fountain of Life. 1:39:45 "I will not give Thee a kiss as did Judas, but like the thief will I confess Thee, remember me O Lord In Thy Kingdom." _Indiana Jones, Searching For Religious Artifacts_ 1:40:27 Archeology. 1:41:37 The audience left where we started, Spectators. 1:42:03 "Religious Realities are dangerous and to be avoided, while caring for your close circle of friends is crucial." _The Last Crusade_ 1:42:28 1:43:34 The Skepticism towards Judaeo-Christian Religion in America. 1:44:20 However, our life is not a Hollywood Movie. 1:44:53 We are playing ourselves, so we get to decide what we want to do. 1:45:31 Icons, Incense, Prayer Ropes. *This is Real. You are Real.* 1:46:11 Participating in The Journey, desiring to see what's inside. 1:47:06 Turning aside and seeing what is burning inside The Burning Bush. 1:47:42 God Bless You for being part of our journey.

They don't make three ring binders big enough😊

3:12 We Can Begin Living In The Kingdom of God. 3:45 God Created us from nothing. 4:22 Paradise of God. Paradise of Eden. Where the Visible and Invisible interacted.

2:50 "We really only know what we're willing to live...." 7:29 Philosophical Foundations that have created how we in The West think. 12:37 Don't give up. 13:13 2 Sections: 1st Section: How to even become aware that reality is more than what meets the eye. 13:52 Making a academic philosophical climb. 14:20 2nd Section: The Divine Liturgy. 15:01 It's like getting into an elevator, our goal is to get to the top. 16:48 Ascending. 17:08 Christ Appeared To The Apostles in The Upper Room. 17:58 Lets begin climbing together. 18:25 God Bless You. Godspeed. Thank you for being here.

Will you be posting the earlier sessions? Thank you so much for these!

1:16:40 back from break.

I'm excited for this. I just discovered the old series and watched it a few weeks ago, and I will watch this one, too. Bless you and thank you, Father Deacon Ezra! You are a truly gifted teacher.

Looking forward to this Inquires Class. btw: Series on St. John was a watermark in my studies on John. Blessings upon you and St. Elijah community.

What a teacher!

Agreed! Local Orthodox class begins a weekly session on Aug 15 explaining all the feast/fasts and reasons for them. Not sure if it’s similar to this inquirers class but would like to follow and learn. Peace and blessings to all

We watch these all the way from the UK - thanks so much!

Bless you father Ezra !

Always enjoy your classes. Thank you!

God Bless our brothers and Sisters in OKC, from your brothers and sisters in Wichita at St. George.

fascinating

fascinating

fascinating

Were the leaders of each of the seven churches ever named other then by title

fascinating

Hearing 2:51:31 in person was so beautiful!

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3:30 Chapter 10 of The Gospel of John 4:18 The Man Born Blind 7:54 Enter By The Narrow Gate 8:25 The Worshipping Church

very interesting that karahan tepe (recent archeological site) is very close to Harran where Abraham traveled. Wonder if it was covered at that point or not

what a legend for making all these videos

Thank you. May God Bless you for pouring your self out.

I am grateful for you all. If Deacon Ezra didn't have his attendees there would be no video for us to watch and learn for years to come. Along with all those behind the scenes who help to post these online. May God bless you all. Many Years!

0:00 0:15 Welcome, thanks for braving the weather to be here. 0:34 *The Transforming Power of God* 1:03 Healing ❤️‍🩹 Transforming Humanity. 1:36 Sin. Judgement. 2:38 Western Catholic Christian Legal Approach. 3:33 St. Paul sought a transformative remedy. Something to change his weakened will. 4:28 Orthodox Christianity is Theraputic; Divinization by God’s Grace. Deliverance from Death 💀 ☦️ 5:33 The Incarnation ☦️❤️ 6:27 Adam and Eve chose Death, not hell. 6:57 God Himself Sets Us Free From Death ☦️❤️ 7:39 “Who will set me free from this body of death?” St Paul knew who. He did not have the power in himself to transform himself. 8:42 Paul knew what it was to Walk with God, personally. 9:25 Transforming Power of The Presence of God. ☦️❤️ 10:00 Evangelion, Gospel. Power of God to transform our lives now. 11:00 2 Children Playing In a Mud Puddle. 12:09 Getting Out of the mud puddle is His Choice. It’s what he believes with his feet. With his choice to live, to do something. 13:18 The Kites 🪁 🪁 • Flying on a string • Cutting itself off ✂️ makes itself a god to itself • Disaster happens, the kite is not meant to be cut from it’s string. We have a planet filled with kites without strings, people crashing, failing. It never gets through to us. 17:43 At some point we have to admit we are a Creation created by a Creator. Meant to be in relationship with the one who Created Us. 18:54 Baptism, learning how to fly again 🪁 19:23 An Existential Ascent. My Life is designed to be Connected With God. ☦️❤️ 20:23 My Words, My Behavior begin to be in agreement. 😄 21:00 Likeness, Image, Recognition of Looking Like God. Trinity. Distinct Persons. In Relationship. 22:17 We Gain Our Personhood, Personal. The You you were called to be. Who We Are, A Unique Unrepeatable Person. 23:50 Where are you? God is Calling. Yes No Adam chose to unplug himself from life 💀 26:02 God Interrupts Our Lives ☦️❤️ 26:46 On the periphery, has us turn aside ❤️‍🔥 27:56 Theosis, it is + Personal + Becoming The Unique, Unrepeatable, Person, we were called to be. 29:14 To become who we don’t even know we are meant to be. We are Judged by our futures. We are Judged by what we become. 30:45 Transforms, Changes Peoples Lives, Undeniable Truth. 32:08 Become who God called us to be Become like God 33:03 We’ve only reached the end of a beginning 34:15 For those who don’t believe anything; for those still looking for something/someone to believe in. 35:00 Deacon Ezra received a thankful email 📧 from a lady who attended these seminars. 37:03 “I have seen a gradual change in myself that I have never experienced.” “Never have I felt this way.” 38:17 “It seems so foreign, but feels so right.” “I just want more, and more of God.” 39:27 1 More Seminar left • Similar to a Church Tour • The 8th Seminar

It may be "heavy stuff" but thank you for making it easier to understand. The paradigm explanation and description of it in society has been such an eye opener for me living in America. I remember as a cradle Orthodox my parents saying that those who go to college leave their faith. For many it was true

Thank You Fr Ezra

0:00 February cold weather 1:07 It has been a Lifelong Journey 1:36 How does one become a member of an Orthodox Church? ☦️⛪️? 2:04 The Church is like Our Mother, forming us, shaping us. 2:34 Coffee Hour 😄☕️ 3:12 Come to Church ⛪️☦️ 3:52 Takes about 9 months to be formed into a member of the Orthodox Church ☦️⛪️ *Meeting a Priest* 4:32 Meeting a Priest 4:56 Baptism 1. Baptism in Water and then 2. Baptism in The Holy Spirit 5:42 Holy Chrism, Holy Oil. 6:17 Never been Baptized? • Water & Christmation 7:05 Choosing a Patron Saint ❤️☦️ 😇 7:42 Choosing Sponsers or Godparents for children being baptized 8:08 The Church is Perfect but The Congregation is not. People will eventually disappoint you, because we are _becoming_ saved. 9:53 Knock ✊🏼 🚪 ⛪️ 10:27 Home 🏡 *The Chapel* 💒 11:12 The Chapel 11:47 Ikonostasis, Icons. 12:30 Icons on a computer 🖥️ 13:14 Windows 🪟 To Heaven. 17:20 The Icon of The Patron Saint. 18:18 The Founders of This Oklahoma Orthodox Parish ☦️❤️🙏🏼⛪️ 22:55 *The Outer Narthex* 23:28 30:52 The Icon of Pentecost 31:40 The Miracle of Pentecost 33:04 United In The Chalice of Christ *The Narthex* 33:45 Outer and Inner Narthex 35:03 Private Prayer 🙏🏼 And Corporate Prayer 🙏🏼 36:07 Prayer and words. Prayer and The 🪔Heart. 🙏🏼❤🕯️ 38:47 The Sign of The Cross ☦️ *The Nave/The Main Church* ☦️⛪️ 40:35 Inside An Orthodox Church 42:05 Iconostasis, The Resurrection of Christ. ☦️ *The Dome* 43:45 The Dome ☦️ *Iconostasis, Wall of Icons* 45:12 The Iconostasis 48:30 Theophany

3:08 Jesus Is The Christ, The Son of The Living God. 8:03 Eternal Existence 9:00 God has always been Trinity. 9:34 The Theotokos The Mother of The Light. 10:29 With God, all things are possible. 14:00 Light of Light, Very God of Very God.

0:00 Title card 0:15 Follow along 0:35 10 to 11 sessions *The Hermenute* 1:10 The god Hermes 1:38 Translator of The gods, Communicator to Mankind. 2:50 Translating what I have experienced. 3:47 Participating in Common Reality. 4:22 Faith turns the hearer into a participant. 4:52 God found Adam naked in a garden. 6:47 Adam lived in a World with Two Trees. 7:11 We have Personal Stories. 7:54 The Story of All Mankind is a HUGE Story. 8:39 We don’t tend to think in terms of 10,000 year old culture. 9:13 Baby steps. 1 step at a time. 9:37 The Forward 9:59 Naked In a Graveyard 🪦 *Chapter 1* 11:03 Reading between the lines 11:25 St Luke Ch 8 Verse 6-39 14:44 Turn Aside. Consider the matter further. 15:30 A Demon-Possessed Man/A Demoniac is healed. 16:48 Calming The Chaotic Nature shows Jesus’ Power. ☦️ 17:36 Literal and Allegorical are not contradictory. Both can be correct. 18:02 Mystagogic Understanding. 20:34 Illumination. 21:10 Cognitive Awareness. *Page 23* 21:43 Visible & Invisible, Interpenetrated, Simultaneously existing world. 23:48 Sensible and Noetic Knowledge. 24:22 Ex. Staring at your hand ✋🏻 26:15 Cognitive Awareness. 27:54 Let Us Be Attentive. 28:21 Seeing what one had not seen. *Training Practice* 28:55 29:44 Western Cultural Values 30:08 Cultures cover large realities, large geographical areas. 30:30 Cultures define values of a people. 31:30 Cultures give us a worldview. 32:20 Ex. Botanical Culture • Old World Order overthrown by New World Order 33:53 Man and Woman, Life was circular, earthly, cyclic. 35:29 The Earth was feminine, Mother Nature. Women are to be tended to. Women bring forth life. Farmer and Husband was the same word. Moon 🌕was female. *The Greek gods* 39:20 The New Patriarchal World Order ⛰️ 41:23 Zeus’ illegitimate children. 🔥 45:14 The Patriarchal Culture. 47:08 We in The Orthodox Church pray 🙏🏼 for All Mankind. _Why are we discussing secular sources?_ 48:00 Good Communicators know their audience. 49:10 We have to learn what culture is to share The Gospel in our own culture. 51:29 The teacher has to think about (1) the students (2) the wider world of people outside the classroom. *The Patriarchal Greek World 500-400 BC* 🎭 53:23 The Greek Theatre. 55:02 The 3 Greek Dramatists ✍🏻 *In Our Neighborhood* 🏘️ 58:40 Our neighborhood 1:01:36 This is not dead history. It is important to watch cultural changes and figure out our way to experience these changes. 1:04:30 Knowing how to think in cultural terms. Let us learn how to think in such large ways. 1:05:55 (1) being prepared (2) being able to read between the lines, finding what is hidden 1:06:54 Training to read between the lines. If we learn this, we can move forward. 1:07:44 Credits

Paradise Has Two Trees Week 12 Talk Uploaded: February 4th, 2020 0:00 Where we are 0:27 Pilgrims together 0:46 Acknowledging The Viewers on the internet 🛜 2:48 Ezra at StElijah OKC 3:27 Paper 📄 Handout into a Book 📖 Page 240 to begin Week 12. 4:21 Music 🎶 4:45 Checking where we are heading. *Icon/Ikon* 5:13 God Created Man in God’s Image. Man’s Purpose is to Become Like The Image of God within us. 6:12 Image seeking to achieve Likeness of The Image. 7:32 What is an Ikon? What is Likeness to something we don’t know? 8:21 Jesus Christ Is called The Ikon of The Trinity. 8:57 The Incarnation + Visible + Representing Invisible 9:50 Jesus Christ is both (1) Fully God and (2) Fully Man. 10:52 *The Iconic/Ikonic Christ* 11:02 The Author of Creation Itself. 13:00 The Invisible Created The Visible 14:50 Ikonic 16:35 The Holy Spirit 17:14 17:49 Christ is Ikonic 20:15 A Window 🪟 21:31 Reflecting 25:30 Western Rational Story 34:30 “Nothing” 35:24 Trinity. Without Revelation, we are trapped inside. It’s a big room. 36:47 Revelation from the invisible.

*Introduction before The Proper Talk begins* 0:00 Week 8, The Conclusion of Part 1. 0:35 Figuring out as we go. 1:35 Thank you Richard Yeager! And Charlie Ward! 3:07 Videos online from Jerry Tolin. 3:50 Thanks to the viewers in October 2019 and November 2019. 5:13 Welcome to all of you finding St Elijah from The Internet! 🛜 6:00 Thank You! *The Tree We Chose* 🌳 7:50 8:26 Concluding discussion begins. 8:37 This is the world We • Have chosen to create • The World We Know 10:28 The Only World We Know is Created By The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 12:14 Variety of versions of Good and Evil. 12:58 Ancient Greece and Rome, The Middle Ages… 13:40 The One Who Is reveals His Absence To Us. 14:30 “No Girls Allowed.” Sticking the head in the sand. 14:56 Closing yourself off doesn’t make everything else disappear from actual reality. 16:00 Life is Absent In The Serpent’s Tree

Paradise Has Two Trees Week 13 0:00 Thank you to each of you who decided to be here to attend. 2:17 Icons ☦️ 3:35 “We forgot how to see the invisible.” 🫥 8:18 See and Know, without words. 9:57 Knowing what you know without words to describe it. 11:34 Objects 12:17 Learning Verbs by Doing. 14:40 Knew by Sight 15:40 Names, Knowing with words. 18:26 Linguistics Prison 20:31 Memory of a Memory 23:00 Hear what they “don’t” say. Don Dyer, Psychologist. 26::40 Invisible Pain we don’t know other people have. 28:55 Experience 30:04 Reality 31:40 Disconnect 34:49 Step Into The Whole 38:32 Language Speaks 40:45 Think… without words? 41:35 Wisdom, Let Us Attend. 44:30 Peace be To All. ☦️🙏🏼 48:38 I am nobody. I am a fellow pilgrim you have met on the way. 52:52 God as Man, Revealing God to Mankind. ☦️ 59:33 Creation Reveals • Focus on the behavior of what the source is doing. 1:03:40 Seeing His Creation. 1:06:00 _Alone Does not imply feeling Lonely_ 1:07:00 Plato’s Designer God. 1:08:00 Christian Love ❤️ God. Absolute Freedom. 1:11:35 Ecstasis 1:14:55 God interacts NOT because He’s lonely. He wants to meet your need! 1:15:40 Good Bad and Ugly

0:00 September 2019 to August 2020. 1:20 The Book 📖 2:05 ☺️ Thank you Richard Yeager ❤️ 5:32 Ontological Rebirth 7:08 The Tree of Likeness and The Tree of Law 🌲🌳 9:08 Sin, Transgressing Law. 10:41 Freedom ☦️ 11:15 Considered Righteous 12:35 Jewish Terms, Gentile Terms. 14:07 Sola Scriptura 16:32 Not According To Man 18:20 Refusal to associate 20:07 Made Alive by Faith in Christ. 21:25 Paradise being lost is man’s fault. 25:16 O Foolish Galatians 26:27 Crucifixed With Christ ☦️ 27:05 Participation ,Now! 28:20 Habits 29:35 Looking at other people. 30:22 Forgiveness 33:00 “I cannot repay you. Please forgive me.” 34:45 Forgive others their trespasses. Measures to others will be measured to you. 36:30 Plank in the eye. They Know not what they do. Forgive. 38:40 Pray 🙏🏼 Work. To The Glory of God. 45:03 Forgiveness Is Real and Powerful. Deeper than The Surface. 47:30 Our pain is our opportunity to forgive. 50:43 Gratitude 🙏🏼 51:25 Forgiving someone else brings God’s forgiveness to you. 52:30 Paradise STILL Has Two Trees 🌲 🌳 58:30 Prosopon, Person, Face to Face. Personalized. 1:03:12 “I came not to destroy the law but fulfill it.” 1:05:40 Building The Habit of Forgiveness 1:06:50 Purity of Mind and Heart ♥️ 1:09:00 Forgiveness and Wholeness 1:11:30 Healing by Christ ❤️‍🩹 “Arise. Take up your bed, and go home.” 1:14:45 Forgiving cleans out the inner heart ❤️ making room for God’s Lifegiving to fill within us. 1:16:00 Tree of Life Tree of Death 1:18:52 _Sleepless In Seattle_ 1:21:13 The Prodigal Comes Home 🏡 1:22:04 “Clothed and In Right Mind we’ve never known before.” 1:22:57 Paradise has Always Been Here. We are surrounded in this world by blind people. 1:23:58 Living Icons of Christ, the hope of Christian People. 1:25:03 Hiding 😶‍🌫️ From God 1:26:59 God did not abandon Adam and Eve. 1:28:28 Paradise. Father’s Heart remained Unchanged. Sunshines on Good and Bad. God does not Destroy The Tree, he made a Plan to Save His Children. 1:30:34 He reminded Us of Who We Are. 1:31:17 Forgiveness is Given to The One Forgiving. 1:32:00 • Love God • Love Neighbor 1:32:40 Love As Christ Loves You. ❤️☦️ Open Arms Rejoice. 1:34:40 Having been forgiven, we now forgive.

*What You See Is Not All There Is To Get* 0:33 5 Senses -> Detected World 1:42 Quantum Leap 2:27 Quantum Entanglement 3:34 Light Waves, Sound Waves. 4:04 Neutrinos 4:28 5 Senses are a tiny portion of What Is. 6:34 The Kingdom of God is Here! 7:47 How do we learn to live in Paradise? Worship is the only appropriate response. • Divine Liturgy • Experiencing The Kingdom 9:36 The Orthodox Church ⛪️ Lives In The Kingdom of God ☦️ 11:00 “Blessed Is The….” 12:10 Liturgy Prayers • Prayer of The First Antiphon. 14:45 The Dome Ceiling. Looking Down Upon Us. 15:42 The Icon of Christ + Heaven and Earth + Invisible and Visible 16:36 We Changed - We Lost Sight - We Lost Hearing - We Live in a Claustrophobic Shrinking World of Death. 17:58 We changed. The Change is In Us. 19:09 Divine Liturgy + I am Remembering I am Living In The World of Life. To Transform Me. 20:57 The Prayer 🙏🏼 of The Little Entrance. 22:12 Divine Liturgy, Co-Celebration of Heaven and Earth. The Angelic Hosts. Come Let Us Worship and Fall Down Before Christ. 24:34 Prayer 🙏🏼 of The Thrice Holy Hymn.

0:57 Image - Icon 1:27 Ikon 1:57 Trinity, God, Father & Son & Holy Spirit. 3:17 Ecstasis - To stand outside oneself. 3:43 God is Love ❤️☦️ 4:08 Creation is an Ecstatic Act. 4:46 Trinity, Personal, For Benefit of The Other. Without seeking anything in return. Love ❤️ The Way, The Way You Be. For other. 6:17 1st John 4. 7:37 The Incarnation Love ❤️ 14:40 Acting on behalf of someone else. 16:22 Become like God. 19:20 Ecstatic, Self-Emptying. 20:00 Divine Relational Reality, Mystery. Beyond Comprehension. 21:20 How I should walk. 31:51 God as a Man… as a person. Both God and Man ☦️

0:00 Beautiful day. Get well ❤️‍🩹 0:54 Image and Likeness #2 1:19 Shoutout to those joining via The Internet 🛜 2:27 The Spirit blows where it will. 3:17 Person is not Individual. It means Face to Face. Husband and Wife. 4:39 Half of an Us. 6:06 Person *Adam is a Person. Half of an Us* 7:05 Face to Face and Eye to Eye. A Person. A Mutual Pair. 8:45 Need others 9:36 Relate to animals. But they did not share comperable personal interactive ability 11:05 Generic Us and Marital Us. The One Who Is. 12:50 Connection. Experience even briefly each other. 13:45 Half of an Us. 14:20 The moment of a whole. 15:35 Stranger in a hallway. Good morning ☀️ 😃 a whole experience. 16:20 Person to Person 16:48 Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 17:27 Personal without becoming irritating 18:18 The Gift of Marriage 👰🏼‍♀️🤵🏼‍♂️ 19:01 Learning through Marriage. 19:24 We need each other. 20:07 Be Like The Image of God within you. 21:22 The Incarnation 21:42 To behave in agreement with God. 22:21 Adam and Eve’s Choice. 23:03 _Paradise Lost_ 24:16 Mind can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. 25:12 Adam and Eve made Satan’s Choice. 26:07 Cosmos 🌠✨ 26:48 Man’s world. 28:02 World Order 29:17 Purpose 33:00 Creator of Mercy and Compassion 35:20 Mystery. Divine Human Union. Agreement. 37:00 A Duck is a Duck is a Duck. 🦆 37:42 Ontology. 38:23 We are messed up. Who we are How we are 40:12 Unexplainable 41:48 Retained Integrity 2 remain 2 while becoming 1 Become who one us in fullness 43:24 Without Violation 44:12 A Person 46:38 Incarnation unfulfilled 47:50 God’s Plan is untouched by any human rules. 49:51 50:03 51:13 52:25 Fulfillment. 53:22 Choosing Life 🌲 Living Personally.

1:16 Thanks to the watchers. 4:09 Chapter 9 5:04 Image and Likeness 7:30 Living Dirt. 9:46 Different from The Animals. 11:43 Breathe of Life Genesis 2:7 13:21 Nostrils vs Face 15:24 Mazaretic Text vs Septuagint 16:30 (1) Protestant vs Orthodox 19:22 The Israelite Bible = The Septuagint 28:30 The Jewish bible did not exist until 1521 AD 29:11 34:39 Prosopon

0:00 1:05 January 6th, 2020 1:18 Richard Yeager’s Birthday. Happy Birthday and God Bless You Richard! 4:52 A Prayer 🙏🏼 for us.

0:00 Filmed in November 7:00 Whole Person. 16:25 Pleasure and Pain. 20:00 In relation to something else. 21:40 Reciprocal Terms, (Undividable Relationship.) 25:17 The Mistake We Make. 29:27 The Serpent 🐍 30:37 We Chose To Become our own god. 33:00 Punctuation Matters! 53:35 1:03:24 Obey Good Authority. 1:05:58 Law Impresses Upon All, The Whole. 1:18:00 Naughty and Nice. 1:23:30 Judgementalism

Paradise Has Two Trees Week 5 0:00 Singing 0:17 Welcome back *Deacon Ezra’s Personal Orthodox Journey* 1:00 Deacon Ezra’s College Experience. - Unemployed - Seeking Christian Protestant Denominational employment 1:50 January 1980 3:20 Struggle to become a Minister. 4:15 Give a sermon at a small little church. 5:17 $5 6:03 🙏🏼 *Visiting a Man in The Hospital with Diabetes* 🏥 6:25 Meeting a couple in the Hospital ICU. 🏥 🙏🏼 *Buying a Book* 📖 7:33 Bookstore Book 📖 9:09 January 1991 *Finding what to believe in* ☦️❤️🙏🏼 9:55 Finding what to Believe in. 10:48 I’m just some guy on a journey. 11:18 2003 Jerry Tolen Lectures. 12:30 Cultural Collapse 12:43 There are Two Trees In Paradise 13:02 Two Trees In Paradise. 14:20 Apology to you. 14:43 We have to learn how to communicate. *The Seductive Tree* Seduction by Appealing to The Senses 15:55 Seductive Tree 🌲 17:07 The Seductive World War Women: A Bombshell. 18:23 Seduction. 19:15 Seduction. 20:41 The World is a jealous lover 21:05 Sensate World. 21:40 Seduced by the physical attractions to the world 22:23 Nonphysical. 24:00 We know what we give our attention to. 24:45 Attention. 26:52 Existing Simultaneously. 32:30 Pieces 🧩 are not like a puzzle. It’s more like fingers. 34:00 The Whole, presence of something more. 35:28 More than physical. 35:56 Some Presence. 37:28 Something beyond Sensation. 38:15 The Invisible Man 41:10 Getting Moses’ attention. 43:32 Seductive Physical distractions. 45:30 Knowing without knowing how you know. 47:30 Seduction to give all attention only to what is visible. A Jealous Lover. 48:28 _A little break_ 48:54 The Master and The Emissary. 55:38 _The Blank Slate_ by Steven Pinker. 58:35 The two Brain Hemispheres. 🧠 1:06:12 Two Worlds, Two Trees 1:09:30 Steven Pinker. 1:20:30 Information ℹ️ about Ezra Ham.

Paradise Has Two Trees Week 4 The Sensate Tree *Chapter 4: The Sensate Tree* 5:18 The Sensate Tree 7:00 Center 8:48 Appealed to Intensifying Delight. 10:55 Knower must posess Way to Know. 11:23 Know-Ability, Interaction between Knower and Known. 13:20 Recognitionability 13:55 Cognitio, to come together. 14:37 Recognition, the acknowledgment of someone or something. 14:57 “I know you.” 15:11 Recognition and Remembering, there is a difference between these 2 words. 17:15 Sensory Overload. Visible Overload. 18:52 Demanding Attention. Distraction. 19:38 We have forgotten any other world has existed. 20:00 The Sensate Tree gets our attention on it’s sensate, visible reality. 20:39 We have forgotten the invisible ever existed. 21:36 We live in the world Adam and Eve chose. A world created by The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil. 22:09 The Sensate Tree “The only knowledge that is real is sensate knowledge.” 23:50 The 5 Senses and The Invisible. *Clue* 🕵️‍♂️🕵️ 24:30 “Lets take a clue from the board game _Clue_ .” 25:30 About The Game _Clue_ 25:49 Object of The Game Clue • Who did the crime? • Where was the crime? • What weapon did the criminal use? 27:44 A Game of Clue 36:00 Know without Knowing. 36:32 *Knowing what I know without knowing how I know it.* 38:04 _Taking a break_ *Clue, Part 2* 39:14 How we know Clue. 39:45 The world of 27 Cards 🎴 9 Suspects 9 Weapons 9 Rooms And the world of our understanding of the world of Clue. 40:45 Mindset of How to successfully play the game of Clue. 41:41 Beyond The 5 Senses, figuring out how to Know beyond the sensate way. 43:40 Approaching Life. • Who did it? • With what? • Where? *4 Players, and Learning Information from All 4 Players* 45:14 Whole Experience. _What if we learn something on every person’s turn?_ 45:58 4 Players, sitting a table, playing the game of Clue. 46:28 4 Players, 6 Cards Per Player. 46:40 Us - Our Cards, The Information We Know. x Ms. Peacock x Ms. Peach x The Axe 47:52 x The Revolver x The Kitchen 48:05 x The Lounge *Page 83 How do We Know* 48:28 48:41 Finding information from players whose hands we cannot see. 49:02 For Ex. Mustard, Knife, Study. Mary cannot disprove the guess. We do not know Mary's Cards, but we know: Mary Does NOT Have Col Mustard, The Knife, and The Study. 49:41 "It is not seeable, but it is knowable." 51:53 Professor, Knife, Library 52:58 Tom has The Professor, Mary DOES NOT HAVE The Knife 53:43 Library Card 54:52 The Sensate way of Playing Clue. Using only what we can see. 55:46 We know (1) By Sight (2) By Without Having Seen It Apophatic Knowledge. 56:17 We combined (1) What We See (2) What We Don't See 57:28 How do we keep a record of the cards we do not see? 59:08 Knowing what we know about what we do not know. 59:35 Col. Mustard, The Knife, The Study. We need a memory device. 1:00:22 Recognize: Knowing what one does not have is a kind of knowledge. 1:00:30 Knowing what one does not have. 1:09:00 Knowledge seen and unseen/not seen. 1:13:57 How we know.

4:33 Lost and Found 7:36 The Septuagint ☦️ 9:35 Greek Texts 11:08 Paradise. 14:27 Paradise is there, we just don’t know it. We lost it. 17:28 *Paradisos* 24:00 Your Own Experience 25:14 The Paradise of Eden with two trees. 33:45 *Reality and Our Account of Reality.* 39:00 *Mystery* 42:28 *Symbiotic Relationships* 45:30 The Word points to Reality. 47:00 Depiction. Pictures. 49:00 (Experience comes before Words) 51:53 St. Maximos The Confessor books 📚 54:06 The experience of Paradise we want to experience. *Chapter 2: Mystery At The Center of Paradise* 56:25 Mystery At The Center of Paradise. 57:23 1 Paradise, 2 Trees. 58:40 A Tree of Life, A Tree of Death 59:33 One Center. ⭕️ 1:03:10 *A Choice as to What Will Be The Center of Our Life* 1:04:17 Experiencing The Experience. 1:04:55 Experience Trumps Academic Knowledge. 1:05:54 Experience of Honey 1:06:27 *We Are Not Spectators, We Are Participants.* *A Person With Experience is Never at the mercy of a person with an argument.* 1:06:50 Experience = True Possession of Treasure. 1:09:07 Let us not be in a hurry. Beseech God 🙏🏼☦️ 1:10:22 An “Aha” light went off. 1:11:12 Our journey together. 1:15:13 Living 1:16:13 Return to The Fathers. 1:18:21 2 Trees, 2 Contradictory Powers, Life and Death. Both are a Mystery. 1:19:12 The Experience of Mystery is never fully experienced. 1:19:39 His Non-Containableness. 1:19:57 Experience of The One Who Is Mystery. 1:20:01 Next time