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This is WB-7 in the X-ray control for the West Coast Fire and Study Order. Um, invite anyone who would like to check into the West Coast Fire and Study Order, please come down to your comfort. I'm Scott, in front of the key, WB-7 in the X. Hey, Max. Just a signal check. Wanted to make sure I was getting out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just a rough man this morning. He changed about, oh, about five minutes after five. Okay, copy that. All right, I just wasn't hearing anybody, and I wanted to make sure I was getting out. Okay, well, good, Scott. Thanks for the signal check. All right, WB-70, Max continues to request check-ins for the West Coast Bible Study. We'll be starting the Bible Study in about four minutes or so, so please come down to your comfort. That is Kevin KP7ZX. Good morning Kevin, how are you doing? Thank you. Yeah. so Yeah, that was not someone in our group. I am struggling with recalling that particular prayer request. There was a request this morning about a person who was in a bad accident. Can anyone help Kevin out with a prayer request we had yesterday regarding someone in a bad auto accident? Please come down to call 7-8. . The only one that comes to mind is the one that came over from the Midwest study today, and that was of Luca. But that wouldn't be the one that Jim's referring to. Yeah, I have the one from the day we mentioned Bob, and I just don't have anything on that list, so I'm not sure what you're referring to there. So I'm sorry, Kevin, I can't answer your question. Over. Yeah, copy that, Kevin. No worries, and thanks for asking. So, uh, what's a Jerry-87ER? What Kevin KP7X was talking about just now is a prayer request we have on Sundays for Harvey. Harvey is W-A-3-E-I-B. That's Whiskey Alpha 3 Echo India Bravo W-A-3-E-I-B. His wife Karen. has both AFib in her heart and early onset Alzheimer's. And Harvey's really struggling to find proper medical care for Karen. Karen has an appointment this coming Tuesday morning, which is tomorrow. And so we need to pray for Harvey and Karen that they will get proper medical care for those two conditions for her heart and her Alzheimer's. QSL, Jerry? QSL. Okay, and we got that right, Kevin. Is that correct? Yes. Alright, real good. Okay, we are looking for check-ins. The West Coast Bible Study and you asked for the check-ins. Please come out. WB7B Dale. Okay, we've got Roger, WB7B Dale. Good morning, Roger. How are you? Good morning and thank you for the prayer for our, our, our get-together. and it was met with a lot of blessings, and so we're able to go forward. So thank you very much. All right, real good. Glad the meeting, the family meeting went well yesterday, and you're able to move forward with some mutual understanding. That's good. Thank you. And thank the Lord for that answer to prayer. Okay, any other questions? Come now. Q-07 Sierra, Gulf Sierra. Okay, I got Q-07 Sierra, Gulf Sierra. That is Stacy in Corvallis. Good morning, Stacy. Any further requests? Nope, not for the good. We'll get you on the others. Appreciate ya. Alright, sorry. Stacy, really appreciate you too, and it's always good to hear your calls, right? Alright, there's another station on top of Stacy. Other station, come now. K-K-K-K-K-K-7, there it is. George, K-2-K-J-X. George, forgot to check in. Any prayer requests? Uh, I thought it was my phone. Stand-by. Alright, no prayer requests. Stand-by. Any other stations, come now. CM5F, that is Will, QM5F, good morning Will, how you doing, any per requests? Right, you're doing okay, no new per requests, copy, other stations, come out. Any relays? All right, we are going to get started with the West Coast Bible Study. And we'll do like five o'clock shot. I'm going to ask you to open up your hair when the time comes, which we momentarily. So hang by the mic there. This is WB7MX. We are the West Coast Bible Study. We are in Romans chapter 16 today. We are looking at verses 1 to 5. Paul has basically finished his letter to the Romans. He is done. And what he is doing here in these final, the last half of Romans 15 and all of chapter 16, is he's just closing out his letter. He's extending greetings to various individuals. He will have one short section of teaching in verses 17 through 19. But other than that, he's just extending greetings and encouragements. and blessings to those to whom he is writing. All right, so we're going to get started with our reading, but before we do, we want to open in prayer. So, Will, can you like five oxtrots? Could you please open in prayer for us this morning? Thank you. ... Hey man, okay, I think Steve's probably got our best signal this morning, at least on my end of the stick. So Steve, W6YSI, if you could read for us please Romans chapter 16 verses 1 to 5. That's Romans 16:1 to 5. Romans 16:1 to 5 is in the New American Standard Version. I commend to our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church, which is at Eshria, that you receive her in the Lord in the manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need to of you, for she herself has also been a helper of many and of myself as well. Great Prescott and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who for my life risk their own necks, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches, for the Gentiles. Also great the church that is in their house, great Epaphroditus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia. I stop there at verse 6. Alright, Steve Rue, good reading, thank you for that. And I would like to acknowledge Brian, KJ7PWM, and also Peter, KJ7BA. Got you guys checked in, thank you for being there. Alright, any comments on... They're gone, AC7KW. They're all chaotic here, it's fine. and we're the poor band, so we got Don also, AC7KW. I'll be checking my FDRs if I've missed you. We still love you, and I'll try to pick you up. All right, any comments here, please, on Steve's reading here on Romans 16, 1 to 5. Please come out with your call sign. That was a B7BZL. WB7BZL, Roger, please go ahead. So I got this in my hand. Steve, thank you Steve. I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a poet and a translator on the margin is "beakiness" and it gives a couple of other texts that I haven't referred to, but they're interesting words and maybe you can talk about that a little bit. Yeah, the Greek word "diakonos" has a general meaning and it has a technical meaning. And it's just like the word "ekklesia" has a general meaning and a technical meaning. So "ekklesia" just means "a call-out assembly." The riot there in Acts chapter 20 was an "ekklesia." But then it adopted, through Christian theology, a technical meaning of being the church, the ones who are called out of the world into Christ. Well, diakonos has the same meaning. There is a general meaning, which just means servant. In Mark 10, 45, it says, Even the Son of Man came not to be... Deacon, but a deacon, and to give his life a ransom for many. It says in the King James, even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. So just because we run across the word diakonos does not mean it's referring to the office of a deacon. And so, the word diakonos did come to have a technical meaning in Christian theology, and that was, it did refer to the office of a deacon we see in 1 Timothy chapter 3, for example. So, it's my belief, Roger, this is not referring to an office in the church, this is just referring to an individual who is serving the church. And of course there's huge places for service for women in the church. I do not believe that women are to be office bearers in the church, either elders or deacons. So that's a summary of the usage of the word there. Roger, back to you. Yeah, thank you very much. All right, very good. Okay, I know some churches have deaconesses. I'm not here to fight over that. In our church, we did not have deaconesses, and we did not use this passage as a way to support that doctrine because of the general usage of the word. All right, other comments on this passage? Please come down. Okay, I heard a call sign out there. Call sign, please come again. Please come again. It's K4VC out, Brad. K4, K4VC out. I'm picking up real good on the Utah SGR. Go ahead. Yeah, this, uh, this, uh, this first person is Mr. We need to pick up that she is actually delivering the letter. That is exactly correct, and thank you for bringing that out. And that is Bruce K4VCL. Bruce, we got you checked in. And Bruce made the comment that Haby is the one who is actually delivering the letter to the Romans, this letter that we're reading. We have the book of Romans that Paul wrote. And so, Bruce, thank you for bringing that out. And, you know, oftentimes when we do things, we don't think much of it. You know, here's a lady delivering the mail. And yet, this letter has been a blessing to literally billions of Christians over thousands of years because this one woman was faithful in the ministry that she was called to engage in, the ministry of service. to Paul. Meeting his needs in whatever way he needed it, in particular, in carrying this letter. Bruce, thank you for pointing that out. Other comments, please come down. All right, it's quiet out there. Am I getting any relays? Any relays? All right. out for us to eat at a potluck, and they have a coachman, they say, you know, we need some tables and chairs set up here. Then I grab a couple of guys, we set up the tables and chairs in service of these women. They need us to help carry stuff out. We carry it out, we put it on the table. Maybe they need some help with decoration. We do that. And I look back over the church families that I've been with, you know, my mother and my grandmother and my aunt, you know, a lot of them were just helpers of many. You know, she is a helper of many. And there's many women that are inside the church families, Max, that are helpers of many. And that's how I see a baby. Over. Yeah, well said. Well said, Scott. And I so appreciate that. I appreciate having children in the church service. We never sent them out for junior church. We had them sit with their parents and learn to worship the Lord alongside their parents. and without being asked, she got up and met the need. And that is the nature of a servant. And you know, all of us can do that. You look around, you see what a need is, and you go over, you offer to help, or you just meet the need without even being asked. And that's what this woman was doing, and she was a helper of many. And because she was a helper of many, It has a tremendous role to carry out in assisting and serving, and those who do so are just as important as the leadership. And so it's not a matter of am I a leader or am I not? It's a matter of am I a servant of Jesus Christ or am I not in whatever position I'm in? All right, other comments, please come out. DJ, do that again, please go ahead. Thank you. of the last commendation tree, and he just pushed out and sent it out to deliver the word of God that the prophet of this most beautiful tree is on the gospel. And the word of God is putting trust in the hand of Jesus. And she said, well, She was quite an important woman in the life of the early churches. She was part of a church of, you know, by the internet, not from the forest there. But it is interesting, you can see some of the words, "the agenocs," as you pointed out, and it is a general term, it's a kind of a neutral term. It's because they have a gender associated with it. So we see that these are out for the term, and it's not until 1 Timothy, But three years ago, I think, J.D.T. had noted that as a position, as an official position. And one could make the argument, and based on verse 11, first in the D.C. and then they did have a woman deacon. Now, the churches, the apologists, the churches that I've always been a part of, we did not have. women, but, uh, they may have, um, anyway, I think Josh said something, but the point is, the relationships here are quite similar. He was interested with probably the most sacred, you know, of all the other sacred, uh, movies. And this letter is part of commendation for the saints to open up their houses. To hold her with her faith as she will. But so I think because, you know, the chaps back then were probably nothing more than a brothel. And not safe and probably mooting going on. So, again, we see the relationship with believers. ♪♪ ♪♪ respect and provide assistance to those who are in the center of serving the Lord. You know, all of us can do something to help those who are serving God. And if it's a woman, well, let's just help her in her service of God. So good comments, Kevin. Thank you for that. And now I'd like to acknowledge Dan in 6P and I. Good morning, Dan. Good to have you. And also JRK6LBP. We also had a new check-in that I mentioned earlier in the net, and that is Joe. KF7UOQ, that's Keeva Foxtrot 7 Uniform, Oscar Quebec, from Richfield, Washington. And Joe, once again, welcome to the net. All right, any other comments on this section? We haven't talked about Priscilla and Aquila there in Versus 3 to 5. Any comments? Please come out. Keeva, Keeva, 7, Papa, South, A, and U. Okay, I heard a voice out there. Can somebody give me a relay? Yes, David P.I. Okay, David KK7PDI, gotcha, on the SDR, go ahead. I gotcha. Okay, yeah, I'd like to just comment on the fact that when you look at the transition that's taking place on the Jewry Street and going into the first Christian, the first 3,000 that are part of the church, and you have to look at the role of the woman that previously existed under the Jewry faith, They were considered second-class citizens. They didn't have people sharing the faith. But what Paul is presenting here, it is bringing very clear. This "bebe" is our sister. She takes equal care of the faith in Christ Jesus. And that elevates that to show that there's an equality in Christ of both male and female when it comes to our faith. In the Jewish religion back then, and you can study the history, that was not the case. It was the man that had all of it, and the women were, again, treated, and you can read up the accounts. More like second-class citizens, but in Jesus Christ. Women are treated as second class or third class citizens or just child property to be used. And Christianity elevates women to be in an equal plane with men. They have equal value, they have equal worth, they have equal significance. And while they do have different roles, Roles do not define value or worth. And so you look at that in the Trinity. Okay, the Father doesn't do the work that the Son does. And the Son doesn't do the work that the Holy Spirit does. They each have distinct roles and distinct jobs, but they're all co-equal. And in the same way, men and women have distinct roles and distinct jobs in the Church, but they're all co-equal in terms of their significant worth and value. K4VCL. K4VCL, Bruce, go ahead. Yes, this is K4VCL. I would like to say that the Bible tells us to love one another, love each other, and the love that is in the original language is the word agape. H-E-A-D-E which means to meet the needs of which we are told throughout the Bible to love each other or to meet the needs of each other so when we gather or whenever we work together to see where we are meeting the needs of each other It's not a real job here on Earth. It's the needs of each other, so that we glorify God. And that's what puts you, is to glorify Him. Yeah, great, Bruce, thank you for that. When you're done with your comment, just say, "K4VCL," so I'll know where to start talking. I don't want to cut you off. Okay, so... Bruce was saying that love means to meet the needs of each other, and he referred to agape love. And, you know, that's how we show love to each other, is by meeting each other's needs. And of course, that's what God did for us, didn't He? God so loved the world that He met our need for forgiveness, for redemption, for reconciliation, for eternal life, for deliverance from Satan, for victory over the grave and over death, and for being delivered out of this present evil world. God met all of those needs, and that's how he loved us. And so you're exactly right there, Bruce. Thank you for that comment. And so if we're going to love each other, the way we show that, among other ways, is by meeting the needs of another, and that's what this gal Phoebe was doing. She was a servant to the needs of others, and she showed that agape love that Bruce was talking about. Bruce K4VCO, great comment. All right, other comments, please come down. . I'm feeding them like Priscilla and Nicole up there a little bit. But one of the things to the implication is, and the Greek has put that in, is that, you know, the rule of the benefactor, she was one, apparently, with which. in Thacker. So, you know, she played an important role in the relationships we have there in these, you know, not quite deep but it's essential. I think to the point of the copy love, we see the fulfillment of that in these deep relationships that Paul has. Yeah, thank you for that, Kevin. Good comment, and I completely agree. Okay, we're running out of time, and I just want us to focus a little bit on Priscilla and Aquila. We've done a great job of analyzing this woman, Phoebe, her significance and the application of that to our own lives. But in verse 3 it says, "Greet Priscilla and Aquila, mine helpers in Christ Jesus, for my life have laid down their own necks." Well, that's significant and worthy of comment, unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles likewise greet the church that is in their house. Alright, any comments on this section? Please come out. is a Hebrew name and so he was likely a Jew and Priscilla being a Greek so they were a mixed couple in that regard but talk about it and it's mentioned I think six other times in the New Testament in different capacities and roles there but they have been integral in the ministry of Paul in supporting the growth of the horse churches and willing to serve whatever needed the implication is that they were an ischial for a period of time the members of the church at Rome. And then when Claudius kicked all the Jews out, you know, they had to leave. And so it looks like they're back in Rome now. But they have played such an important role in the ministry of... and faithfulness serving the Lord's churches and wherever Paul and wherever it led to. And I was opening their home up to as a church, as a place to meet. So in many capacities, we've breathed, that they have been faithful servants. And as pointed out, even put their life on the line, put their neck out there for Paul in some capacity. We don't know the whole story of that. But they're willing to put their life on the line in his behalf. KB 7.6. Yeah, Kevin, great comments there. We read about these folks in many places in the book of Acts, but especially in Acts chapter 18. where Paul dwelt with them, because they were tent makers and Paul was a tent maker, and he was there with them for like 18 months, living in their home, doing their craft, and also ministering the gospel. So, these people had an intense relationship with Paul. And as you said there in verse 4, they laid down their life for him. Now, as you said, we don't know what that circumstance was. It may have been in Acts 20 when there was the big riot, but nevertheless, You know, Jesus laid down his life for us, didn't he? And so no greater love has a man than this, that a man lay down his life for his brother. And so that's what we do, is we sacrifice ourselves before we allow others to be sacrificed. And it's that spirit of selfless giving to the benefit of another. And so that's what the Bruce K. Forbisio was talking about, is that if we really love each other, then we're going to sacrifice for each other up to and including the late. Our lives as a substitute so someone else's life can be saved. Also, there's something here about a whole church. It says in verse 5, likewise, greet the church that is in their house. And so the idea of showing hospitality, opening your home, inviting believers in for a Bible study, in this case a church, these folks did have church buildings like we do. And so what they would do is open their homes and maybe have 10, 15, 20, 30 people in their home or out in the courtyard or wherever. And so their whole lives were just forfeit to the service of Jesus Christ, laying down their lives for each other, opening their homes to each other, serving each other. assisting one another in ministry. And you just see this wonderful, loving, self-sacrificing, self-denying, thinking of the other's first mentality in Phoebe and in Priscilla and in Aquila. And what an example this is of Christian love and of imitation of Jesus Christ. All right, other comments come out. PDI? I think I heard PDI. David, go ahead. When you look at Priscilla and Aquila, what I consider here many times is, in the church, when you look at God's people, we are truly, even today, we are truly a remnant of God's people. With that being said, the evil in this world waxes worse and worse. And you bringing the gospel message of love and peace is not what the world really wants to hear. They want to continue to do what they've always done, be God's army themselves. And so that in itself will bring attacks against who you are and what you represent. I think that's a mission deal. And I think of all these times that I have seen when I was there, that really, literally risked their lives so that we could preach God's Word to their people in areas where we would be taken hostage, where we would be used as barter, and if that barter was not made, then we would be killed. If these people put their lives on the line knowing full well if they got caught, they would themselves die, and some did. So with that, Paul's addressing that, And those are the kind of things that still happen to this day. It is not an easy thing sometimes when you stand up for the faith and you're dealing with people who serve Satan, that they're going to attack you and they will try to take your life. Kegel Kegel 7, Papa Delta India. Back to you, Max. Thank you David for that comment and well said. David was talking about on the mission field that many go out and literally lay down their lives for one another in hostile countries and hostile environments. And some actually did lose their lives to preach the gospel or to protect those. who were preaching the gospel. So David was telling us about real-life examples of those who have laid down their lives for the gospel. Thank you for that, David. All right, other comments, please come down. Is that a claim? Is that a claim? Go ahead. You know, it's just not part of God's plan. God's going to lead you if you're following the Spirit of God to connection with other believers through local church. And we see that fulfilled here in love and sacrifice here. Just one quick point, too. I'll just point out, it's interesting, I heard some commentary for Solemn and Clohe. They may have met, you know, Paul always goes to the synagogues first. and there's no one helping them, get in there and help them. Because it's a lot easier to do ministry when there's some cooperation and there's some assistance. All right, we are out of time. Great comments this morning. These two people, or these three people, Phoebe and Priscilla and Aquila, just a wonderful example for us of our response to the gospel. These three people are exemplary of Romans 12:1, who have presented their bodies a living sacrifice to God, which is their reasonable service given, the service that God has given to them in sending His Son to lay down His life for them, Now they're laying down their lives for Him. And Jesus says, if you've done it to the least of these, my brethren, you've done it to me. And the way you lay down your life for Jesus is you lay it down for the members of the body of Christ. And Jesus takes that as being done to Him. All right. Well, this is great. Now, tomorrow, we're going to be reading verses 6 to 16. And we're going to talk about all these folks. And I've done a lot of research on this, so I will help you out on this. Your toys are... You let him overcome the contraction and he will. Hi, Ted's 17 years old. That's since 14 years old. Ted's been a great protector in his final court. Twice before restoration of new functions with your body, he couldn't live without using his computer skills. Good. 8887-A8, tendonitis and insomnia. Take this as a sign for relief. Now, KJ7228, time for healing for some John, ah, some cancer. But also, maybe Lucas, he's totally lost his hearing. Perhaps to a stroke? KJ, for diagnosis. Time for healing for cancer for Mark Lamb. I got a little hit. You okay? Well, very good. Well, we'll keep him in our prayers, and hope all is well there. But yeah, just so you stay here, and at least after the net, if not before. So thank you for that, Max, and thank you for a good net today. Give me seven, seven, seven. All right, real good. So, Kevin, good talking to you. Appreciate you being here and all your contributions to the net. All right, hopefully you and Boze will have a great day today. By the way, how's she doing with her ears? Has that ever resolved itself? Yeah, copy that. So, Kevin, I'm a certified scuba diver and a free diver. I've been diving all my life. And one of the things that we divers learn about is ear canal hygiene. And what we do is we take a 50-50 mixture of isopropyl rubbing alcohol. That's the 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol you have in your bathroom. And then white vinegar. white vinegar. So 50% isopropyl rubbing alcohol and 50% vinegar, you mix it half and half. And you just take that as a drop and you put it in your outer ear after you've gone diving. And what that does is the vinegar is acidic and it kills any bacteria that wants to get in your ear. And the alcohol is hydroscopic and it absorbs any water that's in the ear, because water is where mold and bacteria and whatnot grow. And so every time I went diving, I would put drops in each of my ears. I just turned my head sideways with an eye dropper and put that 50/50 solution of isopropyl alcohol and white vinegar in that outer ear. And I never got any ear infections, and I kept those canals open. So just a home remedy that you might think about using that might be helpful for her if that's her problem. Over. Oh, very good, Max. Now, it's not like a good combination of ingredients. They're actually different. The proposed combinations is nitroperoxide and hydroxide and distilled water and what have you. I know she's been using the Dubrox, which seems to work pretty good. It kind of matches the acidity of the air and things. I know in the UK, Europe, they use them. They don't use the acidity. It's kind of a bicarbonate combination. But the risk of that is the-- Well, I appreciate that Max, yeah very good. And uh, so when you're diving, you know, where's one of your most memorable, favorite places that you've got, you know, made a dive there and uh, there's just some neat places around, I've seen around the world. Well, you know, there is, I've dove in Hawaii, I dove in the Caribbean, and I also dived off the west coast here of Oregon in the ocean. And believe it or not, my favorite place is off the west coast of Oregon. You know, Hawaii has all the colorful tropical fish in the clear water. And the Caribbean has some coral, which is kind of cool. But, you know, you can't beat the cold, nutrient-rich waters. because there's not a lot of nutrients in the water. So when there's not a lot of nutrients in the water, you just don't have the intensity of life that you do. Also, the game fish are a lot better off the Oregon coast than they are either in the Caribbean or in Hawaii. And so I really enjoy spearfishing for lingcod. I just wonder, it must be fantastic to scuba dive and see because as you point out there is such a rich inhabitants of sea life there under water. And you know when you're above water you get glimpses of it. But yeah what a blast to be able to do some spear fishing under the water with cod and some of those fish that are really good for the fish. I was standing right over and yeah that makes a lot of sense. My brother did a little bit of it in different places in the world. But I haven't had the opportunity to do it in other places, but that sounds great. Appreciate the insights and yeah, the Northwest is just hard to beat. When I was a kid, we moved to...... I was born in Idaho and the imprinted on mountains around me, so I just love the coast as well. So I appreciate those insights, Max. You have a blessed day and appreciate all you do on behalf of the man in service to God there, KB7 Zedix. All right, Kelly, God bless and thanks. And you have a great day. I couldn't agree more. I traveled around the world a little bit, and I'm always glad to come back home. There's no place I'd rather be than right here. All right, KB7 Zedix, and seven point to you and Jose. Have a great day. WB7 in the X. I'll be quick. I'm gonna go in and make a key right now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.