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Good day, good ducks, good shooting, good camaraderie, so it was a great day. I appreciate you guys letting me off the hook to go duck hunting. It's something I do once a year for a few times during the season and I always enjoy that, so thanks for that. I think I got five teal, I got a pintail, I got a ringneck, and my buddy got a couple of pintails and some teal, and I think he got a ringneck as well. So, anyway, good shooting, good day, and good experience. Appreciate Scott N7NP handling the net yesterday. Did a fantastic job. Appreciate you, Scott, stepping in for me for the few times that I'm not here. All right, WB7MAX here looking for check-ins. Please come down with your call sign. KJ7, PWM. Okay, I've got Brian, KJ7, PWM. Good morning, Brian. How are you doing? Doing good this morning. Sounds like the band is in my favor. Happy to be here. No new prayer requests. All right, copy. No new prayer requests. Glad to have you here. Appreciate you being here, Brian. Got you all checked in. All right, any other check-ins, please come now. Bye, man. And there's Will, QM8-5 Foxtrot. Good morning, Will. How are you doing? Sir, I'm trying to wake up and no new prayer requests. Copy that. Trying to wake up and no new prayer requests. Okay, Will. Just pound down a couple of cups of coffee, do some jumping jacks and some push-ups, and you'll be ready to go. All right. We've got about three minutes before we get started here. WB7MX, please come down. ATC, this is DBT's Jack Hand. Yeah, that's for sure. That would. Okay, did I hear another comment in there come forward? I said, "Did PVT check in, Mark?" Yeah, Mark, KJ7PVT checked in much earlier, so he's there. Beck, go ahead. Okay, I just wanted to make sure because I saw him on the Stevens little SDR. Yeah, copy that. Yep, he's checked in. Okay, let's see. Who else do we have here? I don't see anybody on the SDRs that we haven't already checked in. Um, ba dum ba dum. Yeah, I think we've got everybody. I'll check again in a minute. Alright, uh, taking voice check-ins. Please come down. Okay, uh, let's see. Can you come down with your call sign? I heard most of it. Please try again. OK, Keith, got a good copy that time. That's Keith, Keyless 7, November Echo Bravo in Sam Point, Idaho. Keith, K7, any B, we got you checked in. Any prayer requests there, brother? Okay, negative on the prayer request. All right, we got you checked in. Appreciate you being there, Keith. All right, any other check-ins, please come now. KA7ZIP. Okay, I got KA7ZIP. Brian, good morning. Good morning, Max. It sounds like you were successful yesterday. Yeah, we had a good day yesterday and I appreciate you guys filling in for me while I was gone and God was good, so I'm grateful. Brian, any prayer requests? No, just have a great gathering today and that the Lord speaks to us through His will. Amen, amen. All right, we are getting close to the starting time of 6:00. Any more check-ins? Come out. WB7VZL, good morning. And there is Roger, WB7VZL. Good morning, Roger. How are you doing? Any prayer requests? Yeah, well, I met a homeless guy at church. He had a wonderful encounter with the speaker, and I happen to be sitting near him. His name is Alexander, and it's going to be, of course, living by faith with him. So we just want the Lord's will to be done in his life. Copy that. So does Alexander profess to be a believer in Christ? Haven't gotten that far yet. I think he's got some dominant... I sense that the alcohol is kind of gone in his life, over. Copy that. Okay, Al, KJ7QQH. Roger, WB7VZL asks us to pray for a man named Alexander. He's homeless. He showed up at church yesterday and we need to pray for his salvation and for his deliverance from alcoholism. Copy? Good copy, thanks. Alright, good copy. Thank you. Appreciate that. Alright, got a text message here. Let's see who this is. It's Keith WB7RKR. Okay, just a personal comment to me. Okay, real good Keith, thank you for that, appreciate the comment. Okay, let's see, any other check-ins this morning, please come down with your call sign. Alright, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We are going to get started with our Bible study. We are in 1 Corinthians chapter 4, and we're going to start reading at verse 8. So what I want to do is just give a little recap for those who are new to the net, and as to where we are and where we have been. Now, in these first four chapters of this letter, Paul has been educating the Corinthian Christians as to the proper view they should have of their ministers of the gospel. And it was their wrong view of their pastors that had led to divisions and strife in the church, where one was saying, I'm of Paul, and I'm of Apollos, and I'm of Peter. And Paul rebukes them for their worldly wisdom that they had followed that led them to glory in men. And he also educates them as to the proper perspective they should have on their pastors. And he does this through the use of analogies, figures of speech, three of which we've already considered. He used the analogy of the farmer in his field. He used the analogy of the builder in his building. And then yesterday we saw he used the analogy of the steward in his stewardship. Okay. Now, notice what Paul has to say in 1 Corinthians 4 and verse 6. He says, These things, brethren, have I in a figure, that is, in a figure of speech, transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes, that you might learn. So he wants them to learn something. And he used these figures of speech to do so. And what he's saying is, by these figurative analogies, there are lessons to be learned, and the lesson I want you to learn is this. You need to see yourselves as lowly people also and not be puffed up with pride, which has been the source of all this strife among you. So the humility of the ministers of the gospel is to be a lesson in humility to the members of the church. And so Paul says you need to learn from us with an understanding and then transforming our hearts to be more like Jesus in our behavior, our conduct, and our speech. Father, we pray that your good hand of blessing would be upon each of us, that the word of God would be engrafted into our souls, and that it would form and shape us into the image of our Savior, the Lord Jesus, whom we trust and whom we love. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, we're going to get started with our reading today, and And we toil working with our hands. When we are reviled, we bless. When we are persecuted, we endure. When we are slandered, we try to conciliate. We have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things. I exhort you, therefore, be imitators of me. That brings us to 17. Back to you, Max. All right, Roger. Real good reading. Thank you for that. Well, Paul gets pretty personal with these folks here and issues some pretty stern rebukes by way of the use of sarcasm. Any comments on this section? Please come down with your call sign. If we take the position of the audience, we need to take note of ourselves constantly to make sure that we're not acting in that way. Yeah, good comment there, Brian. He said if we take the position of the audience, we need to be careful that we're not behaving in this fashion. And so you're exactly right, Brian. I mean, what we see here is these... You know, we need to be humble. And really, that's what Paul is calling them to do here, to be humble and to recognize that these are apostles. These are trained ministers of the gospel who have had years, decades of salvation, have had formal training, who have studied the scriptures for a lifetime, who have decades of experience. And here we've got these brand new carnal Corinthian believers who think they're smarter than the apostles. And so you're right, Brian, we need to not have these attitudes. All right. No. AK-6, okay. Checking in and no comment yet because I'm late. Thank you. towards the last so the very last group of those people comes that were captured would be brought into town in a long long procession and very very end of them they knew that those people were convinced to die so he's uh given himself he's putting himself in this picture sarcastically If you were cold or hot, for them, because you are lukewarm, you need a cold more hot, and I will respond to that now. Because you say, I am rich, I have a good tomorrow, and I have a good tomorrow. You don't know if you are rich if you hold four lines, you're naked. These people that he's speaking about think they're all that in a bag of chips, and they're really not. And I'll leave it right there for now. KJ7PDT. Okay, I'm going to do my best to repeat what Mark said, because I know that many are not able to hear. Mark was saying when Paul says here that we are set forth, as it were, appointed to death, and we are last in line. These type of sessions in Rome, where the prisoners that were condemned to death would be taking up the rear. And Paul puts himself and the apostles in that position by way of a figure of speech. And so... you know, Paul is saying that we are, apostles are treated as though we are condemned prisoners, and as those who are to be despised and looked down on, and cast out and cast away. And then he brought out Revelation chapter 3 and verse 15 about the Laodicean church, and how lukewarm they were, and how they thought that they were really had their act together because they thought that they were rich and increased in good and had need of nothing when in fact they were wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked and so you know the self perception that you may have of yourself may be completely wrong. And so we need to stop and think about that. Paul was saying to the Corinthians, their self-perception was wrong. Paul was saying to the church at Laodicea, their self-perception was wrong. And so we read in our previous study in Romans chapter 12, that let not a man think more highly of himself than he ought to think. And so we need to be humble people. We need to think of ourselves, as it says in Philippians 2, let each esteem other better than themselves. And the problem with the Corinthians is they were esteeming themselves better than others. And so we look at our brothers and sisters in Christ and we say to ourselves, that person has something to teach me. I have something to learn from them. And so we humble ourselves, we lower ourselves in our own self-esteem and And we take the position of being learners and being those who respect and honor our brethren. And, of course, we put everything they say to the test of Scripture. But at the same time, we have that humility that Mark was talking about that is so important. All right, Mark, thank you for the comment. Appreciate that. All right, other comments, please, from now. FedExN. FedExN, Kevin, we got you checked in. You got a comment? Yeah, Max. I think you're spot on there. I was just looking at Revelation 317, Luke 24 through 26. And then that is exactly the point to irony that he's using here. the Corinthians are acting as if they've already arrived in the kingdom and they're just they're set you know they've arrived they don't need anything else really they've achieved what they set out for the apostles irony is yeah we're just trash you know we're garbage you know the apostles but you've really arrived there guys you know What are we, the top layer of it? Yeah, you hear a common folk line, don't you? Uh, uh, you know, a person these days, but it's exactly what it is in this ironing here. And because the fact of the matter is, one of the major things we've been here, I think you touched on it, is we need to beware of it's spiritual pride. It is something that we always need to be humbled. And the fact that we know anything at all is basically from the faithfulness and labor of those before us. And Paul and the other apostles themselves who laid down the foundation by the inspiration of God for the disciples. And of course, the baby then thinks they're more important than the mom and dad who begot them. We've seen children, you know, rebel against their parents. In the same way, you know, we have our spiritual parents who led us to Christ. We need to always honor them, respect them, esteem them, listen to them, learn from them. And so Paul says here in verse 16, "Wherefore I beseech you, be followers of me." That is my example. And what was Paul's example? Paul's example is he was just an under rower. KJ7PVT. KJ7PVT, go ahead, Mark. You know, this part of the river is just an amazing resource. We have the Gospels where we learn about Christ, and that's all beautiful. And it seems like every time I read through this, there's always something that just pops out. And when I get this one passage, Yeah, amen. Mark Paul is indeed our Father in the faith. He gave us half the New Testament. And of course, it was given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, so it is the Word of God. But nevertheless, Paul was the instrument. And so in that sense, he's all And without him, we wouldn't have so much of what we do. And so we see Paul's humility, but we also look up to him as the one who is our teacher and our guide. Good comment there, Mark. Thank you for that. All right, other comments, please come now. Papa Alpha. Papa Alpha, Scott, go ahead. Well, to me, Max, the cherry on top of what we're talking comes out of the Scriptures. And I've watched that play out in potlucks, whether it's community potlucks, large family potlucks, or even church potlucks. You know, there are those that will run to the front of the line and grab a plate and self-aware and just heap their plate over. And then those... I've always took this scripture, and this is what Paul's saying. I write it on my heart, and I just encourage everybody to fly this scripture banner today and ponder on it. And save it into you. You know, we all have fathers of the faith, if you will, those who kind of discipled us maybe early on in our faith. And that's such an important period of time. But Paul certainly is still discipling all of us. And that's a great observation. KV7 is that example. You know, esteem them highly in love and for whatever God is doing in them and through them and with them. And so love always serves, and humility always serves. I'd like to point out in our passage here some of the things Paul went through. You know, Mark pointed out verse 9. that God has set forth us apostles as last, as it were, appointed to death. We were made a spectacle to the world and angels and men. And he was talking about the custom there of the day that they would have this parade through town of those that they had conquered and those that were last in line were those who were going to be put to death in the Colosseum or wherever. laid down his life for the brethren. And that dovetails right into what Scott in 7NPA was saying about Philippians 2 and verse 3, that we esteem others better than ourselves. We get down, we wash those feet, and we serve those needs, and we do it all for the name of Jesus. We do it all without any self-importance. for the one who laid down his life for us. All right, we are out of time. We need to allow time for prayer because we have the Vintage Military Radio Network following us at 6.50. Are there any final prayer requests that anybody wants to bring to our attention? Please come now with your call sign.