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All right, well, we'll lift you up in prayer at the end of the session. Over. Yeah, I sure appreciate you, Carol. I hope that this Bible study is cultivating your spiritual walk. And we're just so thankful that you're here every day. So faithful, Carol. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate that. Nice signal down here this morning. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Acting net control today. Max went off duck hunting again, so you've got to put up with me. Please call in 7-8-8. Good morning, KB7, 7-8-7. All right. I had a double there, but Kevin, you won that one. You're the heap of the pile. Morning, Kevin. Any final requests this morning? Well, good morning, Scott. It's good to hear everyone this morning. And glad to be here. Thanks for stepping up and filling in there, Scott. KB7, is that accepted? Well, I'll hand this baton off to anybody that wants it. Got you on the paper there, Kevin. The other station, please, Kim. KB7, WKI. Okay, I got David out of that one. KE7WKI. Morning, David. Any prayer requests this morning? No prayer requests. Thank you for taking over this morning. Well, we'll give God the glory in that. I need all the help I can get. I'm no Pastor Max, trust me. I had another station in there. Please call. W-7A-O-T. W-7A-O-T. Okay, I got both of you that time. Brian, I got you. Any prayer requests, Brian? Yeah, yeah. And part of that, Brian, is just inviting, inviting the Lord into our hearts and minds and asking Him to articulate the study. That's key. So thanks for stopping by here this morning, Brian. My buddy, brother Darrell. Good morning, Darrell. Good to hear you on the Midwest this morning. Yeah, good morning, Scott. S7MPA and the West Coast Bible Study Net. Good morning to you all and have a good study. Y'all listen on the side here. This morning from here at McAdam Lake, Minnesota. SDR, this is WB7AOT. All right, you guys had such a good signal this morning, I didn't even use the SDR. I could hear you guys perfectly, but I know you're the great line to be catching you now. So I was fortunate to be able to just stop by and say hi. So I got you on the paper there. Darryl, we'll be lifting you up in prayer. Thanks, Mike. You bet. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Please call at 7 p.m. Kilo 7, November Echo Bravo, and I know your name, but I'm having a senior moment. My apologies. Yeah, yeah, from Sandpoint. Let's see. Keith, Keith. I got you on the paper, Keith. Good morning. Thank you for checking in from Sandpoint, Idaho. What a beautiful, beautiful area. I used to deliver hardware down to the hardware store there in Sandpoint, and I thought, you know what? This would be a place that I could live, in the summertime anyway. But you have any prayer requests this morning, Keith? Over. No prayer requests. That's one point. That's where we want to talk to you. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, thanks for being here, Keith. And have you down. Max is off duck hunting this morning, so everybody has to put up with me. And I apologize. But we're going to fly this plane all together. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast. Bible Study Group, please call in. Kevin MPA. We're glad to be here. This is KB7K2Y. Well, good morning, Kathy. I'll give you an audio hug. In fact, I'm sure that all of us around the table would like to give you an audio hug this morning. Mrs. Maxx. I'm feeling very loved. Thank you very much. Well, thank you for being here, Kathy. Any prayer requests? That Max will shoot straight, and God will send lots of ducks. There you go. And we'll keep Max safe. I have that down. All right, I have another station in there. Please call in 7NPA. Okay. It's so... it's so... did you ever take lessons? I mean, somebody like squeaky me, but not you. You just have... you just come booming in here. Well, we have to give praise to the Lord for that. We have had days where I'm not booming, over. Yeah, but we'll take this as a win this morning, Roger. Appreciate you being here. Any prayer requests, Roger? Okay. I didn't catch anybody there. The eye didn't. But if I missed you, I want you to know that you are welcome. We're glad everybody grabbed a chair coming around the roundtable this morning. And so I'm going to look across the way there. Turn your wrists, and let's paddle together. And so that's a little bit of the steward. You know, here we have Pastor Max, and he's our steward. And we grow and learn and row God's ship. And then in the same realm, We have a leader in Pastor Terry, and he's located in Southern Oregon, Sutherland, Oregon, just north of Cherry. And I converse with Terry quite often and share with him what I've got going on in the little part of the country that God assigned for me. And this is how it works. You know, I'm Roman, or Pastor Terry is calling the cadence. So that's a little bit of what we... learned in chapter 4. And so I want to pick up verse 17. And Roger, you have a nice signal. And so I'll tap Roger to read from verse 17 on to the end of the chapter there, Roger. Go ahead. WB7VZL, reading NASB translation, verse 17. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ. just as I teach everywhere in every church. Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you soon, if the Lord will, and I shall find out not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power. What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod or with love and a spirit of gentleness? Back to you. I appreciate that reading there, Roger. God has really given you a gift. All right. Well, let's... Let's look back over the ground that Roger just turned up with his arrow, and let's see if we can pull out some nuggets. And let's walk along this ground that Roger just laid out before us. and let's see if we can learn something here. So anybody, any of what Roger read kind of stuck to you? I thought, wow, God spoke to me on this, or God revealed to my ears, and I would like to share with the group. Please call in 7 MPH. Go ahead, Mark. Okay. There's a question that just kind of rang a bell for me. I wanted to know a little bit about that. In fact, I think it's a good subject for discussion with you, that I will come to you shortly. If the Lord wills and I will know, not the word of those who are in trouble. Please, we don't care much about the words of those people who are in trouble. But the power of the Lord is going to be looking for the power of his being. I hope he's going to be able to talk about that. Apparently, I don't know. And the thing is that later, that kingdom of God is not words to power. So they can be speaking big things and, and it's important, but where is the power of the gospel? And that's the thing that's getting in my memory right now and I'm going to be putting a link to it on that. All right, Mark. Thanks for sharing. Mark was drilling down, or what looked at him was the power that comes out of Scripture. And I'm sure we have heard some speakers that... try as they may. They try to use worldly wisdom in some of their messages, but it boils right down to the power that God lays out in Scripture. And that's where we need to align our eyes. is in scripture reading. I know I sat and listened to a message yesterday from the pastor that I'm studying under now, and what I like about him, it's all about the scriptures. It's all about the scriptures. He just pours right into the scriptures. And this isn't what Pastor Dave says. This is what God says. And there's power in those scriptures. And so thanks for pointing that out there, Mark. Anybody else would like to expand on what Mark revealed or something else? Please call at 7 a.m. WDB 730. Yeah, go ahead, Roger. Yeah, I had a request yesterday for Andrew, who is finding his way as a homeless fellow. And I just met him as I came into church. Apparently he had met the speaker who was a university theology student and they identified with each other because he also spent some time in a car before his student period as a homeless fellow. and had lost pretty much everything but what was in his car. And when he preached, it was on Matthew 24, 40. It was about Christ's command to love and to reach out to the least of these in that chapter and to the point of... to the point that the sermon was so geared for Andrew, who I was sitting next to, it brought him to a weeping state. It was a powerful message, especially for the timeliness and how God's timing was such. It was undeniable that the power of the Spirit was happening. Scott, over. Okay. Yeah, Roger, thanks for sharing. And sometimes life experiences can illuminate the power in Scripture. And perhaps, you know, Andrew having that experience and then the message being about God's love, it just really resonated with him. And sometimes that's all it takes there, Roger. And that's why it's in, I believe, it's of the utmost importance, those that are preparing this message, they seek God's face in what God wants delivered to those that are here, those that can hear. And God knew all about that. Andrew, God knew all about the pastor who was laying this on his heart, and this is God's hidden powers of how this works and moves there. Roger, do you have that? Yes, Roger, for sure. Excellent, excellent. All right, anybody else like to share anything, jump out at them. Please call N7MPA. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's look at this a little bit. uh in verse 17 uh we kind of covered that uh there's uh those that uh are they're gonna get my scripture out here you know uh my desk is a little bit small here uh So I get stuff covered up. It says, "I have sent you Timothy." Well, Timothy was a mentee of Paul, who was the mentor. And you back up there a little bit in 14 and 15 where, These Corinthians in this church in Corinth, remember Corinth is a seaport, and the leadership, the men's leadership had really buckled under the sin of the world. And they become arrogant. And they're looking at me, looking at me. They're wearing shirts that their wives were going to have to reattach their buttons because they got all puffed up. They popped their buttons off their shirt. And then with arrogance leads pridefulness, which is a pathway to sin. And that brought Paul with this letter to Corinth. Now, Timothy, he's inserting Timothy here to direct the men of Corinth to get back on track. And I look at that as a little bit as in the church today. You know, some of the big bailings is the lack of us men not stepping up and being spiritual leaders, not being spiritual leaders in our family, not being spiritual leaders in our congregations. And that's a little bit of what we're looking at. So Paul said Timothy there in chapter 17. We'll look at that. Anything else that jumps out at us? WB7, we'll be there. Yeah, go ahead, Roger. Yeah, Scott, I like your emphasis on the imitators of me, and as you have said, Timothy being a mentor of Paul, excuse me, a mentee, was the example. of his next statement of exhortation, exhortation, be imitators of me. Well, Timothy was an imitator of Paul, and certainly a different personality, an extremely different personality, to the point where Paul said, I pray that the Holy Spirit will light your fire. He says in Timothy, when he writes to Timothy directly, that Timothy was kind of a retiring guy, at least in the early years. We don't know how he was when he was older, but he certainly wasn't outspoken like Paul. But the attitude that I think Paul is highlighting that Timothy could bring to them was his finer pastoral qualities that Paul was so famous for as well. So Paul could be a whole spectrum depending on the situation. The Holy Spirit had really, really mentored him in big time ways. Huge. Yeah, that's right. I've got to give Paul multiple, multiple gifts. You know, it's kind of like coming up out of the hole with your log truck, Roger. There's times that you need to put your foot on the throttle, and then there's times you need to take your foot off the throttle. And it's all about torque and traction. And the same thing works in ministry. and Paul was just a master craftsman because he was engaged with the Lord that the Holy Spirit was the power behind Paul's ministry and this wasn't Paul doing this this was God working and moving Paul was the one that was rowing the ship in this regard so excellent point as we close off in chapter 4 we need to evaluate in our own homes and a lot of us are empty nesters I get that but we still are the patriarchs of our families and we can still encourage our children in our own homes as they raise our grandchildren and so on and so forth wherever you're at in life it all works we need to stop and evaluate our faithfulness and make sure that we're not popping buttons off our shirt that this isn't about us, this is about God and humbly seek his faith in encouraging those in our personal families. And that dovetails over into our congregational families, those who we meet with in our church families and worship with and exalt. All these apply off the spectrum. And be in God-seeking faith that what we are doing, how we're conducting, meets His approval. That we remove the cloak of self-seeking and take on the humbleness. There was one other thing I wanted to point out, and I'm saying if I can do it, see if I can find it here. I'll turn it back to you guys, and I'll search for this if there's any other things that we can do before we move on. Please call in 7MPX. Okay, go ahead, Joe. Yeah, go ahead, Joe. Yeah, verse 21, give me a reminder today. We're going to talk about leadership. We talked about sometimes it's a little more firm and sometimes it's a little more softer. I remember back in my time in the Army, the leaders that I remember that were very positive and influential, didn't get all upset and come screaming and everything like that. They just would evaluate and just, we had a particular county commander would have a lead and then just share his wisdom and just point out that we just had to go and do our plan. And then, you know, in a very gentle way. So that was a reflection for me. KSW, we'll see you back soon. I appreciate you jumping in there, Joe. And I think a lot of us can really relate to what you're sharing. As we go through life, we have different leaders with different leadership styles. And some are very worldly, very forceful, very loud, very boisterous. I remember one time I had a supervisor was that he was almost like, man, he was difficult. It was like he he was really difficult to me. He was he was changing my personality. He was so overbearing. And then I've had supervisors that, just like you say, Joe, just they come with a calmness. They come with a demeanor. They come with a direction that they want me to go in that direction. They give analogies. They give parables. They'll have kind words. It's kind of like watching sheepdogs move sheep. And that's exactly what God's doing here. You know, an untrained sheepdog will run right into a herd of sheep and just scatter them all over. A well-trained dog. will come up close and then sit down and then move a few feet and sit down and then others move in. And this is how God works and moves through the Holy Spirit. It's a lot like herding sheep. And that's who we are. You know, so natter natter, but it's a really good word picture there, Joe. Thanks for sharing. Anybody else on this topic, anything come to mind, please call us. 7-N-P-A. Well, I just, this is WB7VZO. I thought I would... kind of go with this, if the Lord wills, in verse 19, Scott, over here. Yeah, yeah. And that's the separation between the world and God there. Roger, go ahead. Yes, that reminded me of this rather famous passage in James. chapter 4 where it says, you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. And that's in verse 14. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we shall live. and also do this or that. So in verse 16, but as it is, you boast and you're arrogant. So all such boasting is evil. So apparently Paul wants to be an example here as well regarding his life plans. because he was talking to very arrogant people who were quite sure of themselves, and he, by using this phrase, demonstrates what the Apostle James highlights here in chapter 4. Yeah, thanks for pointing that out, Roger, and how I can relate. You know, in the ministry that God's tapped me into now, you know, out in the woods, you know, loggers, especially sometimes the young ones before they get baseball batted or brought back into line by an accident or whatnot, they think they're in peril. They think they're king. This is rough. rough work and extremely dangerous. And so it takes an athlete to survive. And I use, I'm really glad that you brought up the scripture in James there, Roger, where I use that scripture all the time. You know, scripture says, I didn't turn to James, but it says a vapor. Well, a vapor is a fog. And so I'll turn that into, you know what, guys, our life is short here. It's just like the fog in a canyon. And we're usually looking in a canyon, you know, and maybe in the morning where the fog's still laying in that canyon, or in the afternoon, you know, this morning. We were socked in in fog. You know, you couldn't see the tail block. But look at us now. This fog is dissipated. We can see all the way to the tail block. We can see the ridge on the other side. guys, is how our life is. This is how short it is. So let's think about what's going to happen when we cross this threshold and out of this world. And so I use that scripture that you're And I dovetail that into the ministry all the time. Thanks for sharing that, Roger. Over. Yes, I think that is a reminder that the Holy Spirit gives us. And to keep us from being like the people that we're looking at today in 1 Corinthians, in the Corinthian church. By using that phrase, It reminds us of our vulnerability and that keeps us humble, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Let's not forget that by doing this, we're walking in with step with what God wants us to do and conduct our ministry, that Christ died for us. Christ died for us, that we can have eternal life. And so if we take on a sense of arrogance, we are stepping against the ultimate sacrifice that Christ did for us. That's another thing that we can look at. All right, anything else? I was originally going to go into chapter 5, but I think I'll leave that for Pastor Max tomorrow. It would be a good time for him. So we'll wrap this up for today. But I do want to give anything else... that jumps out at us that different thoughts that we could look at as we bring Chapter 4 to a close. Please call in 7 MPA. QQH. Yeah, go ahead, Al. I just wanted to bring to light the contrast between words and power spoken of in verse 19 there. And it's pretty clear that he says he's going to find out the words of those of arrogance, whether it's their words or their power. And the kingdom of God is words, not power. So you're going to find out if they're just blowhards or if they're really speaking from the spirit. All of us? Yeah, that's true there, Alan. Thanks for pointing that out. We have two lanes, two lanes, and we need to be in the lanes. that we are connected to God through prayer and seeking his face, hearing how the Holy Spirit is guiding us, and not listen to the arrogance of the world that is a bullhorn coming out of Satan. So thanks for sharing that, Al. Over. Thank you. All right, just a little frosting on the cake, Harold. And there you go. All right, any other thoughts that jump out at us before we go to prayer? That would be some of it, Al. Yeah, go ahead, Roger. Yeah, good morning, Al. Nice to hear your signal. And I think verse 21, it brings up a question, and I'll throw it out as well. Do you think he is actually asking this question, or in the course of the conversation he feels it's necessary? What do you desire? What do you desire? In other words, what leadership style do you want me to show? And you were mentioning the bullhorn. Do you want me to be a bullhorn, kind of a military commander? Or do you want me to be more in the spirit of gentleness? So I sense that he's saying you have a choice, but I could be wrong. Yeah, I looked at that, Roger, and this could be Paul using the Holy Spirit to lay that out, using the Holy Spirit as a mechanism. Which way? And sometimes in my ministry, laughters have to hear. Yeah. you know you have to be firm with him it's all about he'll climb it on a motorcycle you gotta know when to gas on it you gotta know when to let off and uh And it kind of comes back to, yeah, what is. Roger, I need you to facilitate for a moment or two, and I'll be right back. But I can't hold it any longer there, Roger. And then I'll be back to closing prayer, Roger. So maybe you can facilitate here for a moment or two. 7 p.m. Oh yes, I understand. I can't believe what you've gone through with the removal of a prostate so recently. So yeah, you heard our friend Scott say... He'd like to hear, he'd like me to facilitate and anybody else or Al, do you have any opinions about this last phrase, "What do you desire?" As Paul asks. Over. Paul, you're sorry. Yeah, Steve. I think listening to all the comments and what not and thinking about what Paul is attempting to do here in his writings. to this church. And we're going to see what the issue is in the next chapter. They've got some problems. And I think Paul is kind of setting the stage for them, particularly Timothy, as to, you know, I can be one or I can be the other. I can come and I can be all loving and soft and whatnot, or I can be real tough. And I think that in the context of the whole, this first letter, we can see Paul doing that. If I'm making any sense, I hope that'd be a sex YSI. Okay, I'll respond. If we'd like to have others looking into the next chapter, it's like if I was a parent and I had to bring up an issue of morality and dealing with sex, and the conversation, the conversation, you would have a spirit, I would think, a spirit of prayer and hesitancy to know just how to bring this subject up. As you say, the next chapter is... to the point where he's saying their ethics are worse than the world. And that doesn't really speak, that's not really quite a compliment for this church. So he's, I think, as you say, setting the stage for... a very frank conversation on sexual morality and reminding them that they come from a foundation of Leviticus 18. And they probably didn't know that as Gentiles. You know, they didn't know the Older Testament, so He's going to let them know what the Old Testament is. are godly, what the character of sexual boundaries are. So they had to be trained as little kids, over. - Yeah, roger that. - Yeah, I can see where in the course of the flow of the letter. This is where it really, really becomes possibly one of the missions. We heard about this, the situation in the church that was very controversial, and there's nothing like something like this to create a mess of an organization over there. Absolutely. Yeah, I, I, Al, is that you over? Sounds like PBT. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm back. I'm back now, Mark. Go ahead. PBT. Child He is speaking to us, going into new directions. He is speaking about, you know, do you want me to come? Do you want this to be easy or hard? He can do both. But he is presenting himself to defend his church here. And at this point, there are two things that are coming at his church. One is, There's one there and the other is the rhetorical sins, really, or rhetorical skills being displayed and the person's sins being displayed by the person. at least influencing the church here at this time. So he has come against that person and he's also come in against his own choice. But this sounds to me like a parent getting ready to protect his child at school. It is what it's easy. - Yeah, thanks Mark. And thanks Roger for grabbing the mic in my moment of need. And I think all of us as parents have went down that path, you know, with our children. Do you want, this is up to you, do you want to make this easy or do you want to make this hard? Oh, man, have I ever heard my dad say that to me? So thanks for pointing that out, Mark. All right. Anything else before we go to prayer? All right. Do we have any last-minute prayer requests, something that the Lord has placed on your heart since we checked in this morning? Tell them now. Please call at 7 a.m. SQQH. Yeah, go ahead, Al. SQQH. Well, I've got to say that at church yesterday there was a lot of people who asked good about you and you came up in a number of times. Just wanted to say that there's a lot of people out here pulling for you too and your recovery. Over. Well, I appreciate that Al. I hope that you gave them a good report. Only what you say. And we're all wishing you the best and looking forward to you getting back into full power. All right. Appreciate that, Al. All right. Well, tomorrow, Max will be back, and we'll start right there at Chapter 5, Verse 1. So I encourage everyone to... Get familiar with that. If there's something that jumps out at you that you can share with those that are around the roundtable, that will be awesome. So with that, let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father, when our brother Ed opened this up, you know, he invited you into our hearts and our minds. And we just thank you for that. And you know what, Father, we just give a big shout out. that our brother Ed was able to open up in prayer this morning. You know, just a few days ago, he couldn't even hardly talk. And his head was pounding, and his sinus was just so bad, and he could not quit coughing. And Father, look at him go now, and we give you the glory for answering God's prayer. answering. Father, we all come together and it's just this warmness in our heart that we watch a copy love work and move as Roger had bumped into an old friend an old friend's wife, somebody that was helping Roger Stewart, the oarsman, and how he was able to engage and spend time uplifting. So, Father, we just... Thank you for that. Father, we thank you for Roger's experience yesterday studying with Andrew and how the message that you articulated on the pastor's heart to share to this church family, how it touched Andrew. And Father, we can see you working on Andrew's heart. Father, open doors for him. Give him a pathway of understanding, of understanding. removing himself from his living situation and putting him on a huge path of being a contributing servant to your family. Father, we are lifting up Sandy this morning. She's prepared to take her trek to Eugene up the Umpqua River. And we just ask that you put that guidance and protection around her automobile. Father, we lift up the doctors that are attending to her. We just pray for wisdom under this consultation about the possibilities. of removing the pain that's in her hip. Father, we rally around Kathy. I refer to her as Mrs. Max this morning. KJ7, KTY. And her concern, and we all are concerned. Father, duck hunting can be dangerous. You know, we're dealing with chest waders. We're dealing with water issues. We're dealing with small boats. We're dealing with outdoor conditions. Father, we just pray that you keep Matt safe. Also, Father, we just ask that he have a blessed time. This being the leader can be very grueling. The hours that he puts in away from the microphone. You know, the study is just an hour or so. But the hours that he puts in, in order to, as Stuart, this little ministry, Father, I just pray that he can have a breath of fresh air, this little 24-hour sabbatical, can ripen his fruit and put fire in his bones. Father, we looked up Max's partner in the Midwest study, Darrell, and he's going through, in some ways, an issue worse than mine. You know, mine, they just went in there and cut the thing out. Well, Darrell was having... some deep issues there in the urine tract. And so, Father, I just pray that the way it backs up, the way it doesn't flow, everything that's involved here, that develops into agonizing pain. Father, I just pray that this upcoming surgery can bring Daryl relief. And in the meantime, Father, that the pain that he is experiencing, that it dissipates. So we lift up Daryl to you and ask also for wisdom for the doctors. Father, all of us, we gather around our sister Carol this morning. She's been experiencing extreme lower back pain. and that she can lay down, but she can't hardly sit and can't walk. And so, Father, I just pray that if she goes to urgent care today, that there will be a pathway forward to take this pain away. Father, we want to lift up Don's KI7 PPC's nephew, Bodie, as he's went in the way of Zoe and bouncing between the guardrails and lost his way in life. So we lift Bodie up to you. Father, returning back to the fold, allow his eyes and ears to open and his heart to receive your wisdom and counsel. Father, we want to lift up Joe's son-in-law, Nathan. In these trying times in our nation, there's just not enough Nathan to go around in these correction facilities and the long, long hours that he has to work, which involves being verbally brutalized in a lot of respects. Father, I just pray for relief for Nathan. Father, just put in on Nathan's heart, this importance of the task that you have assigned to him. Father, we are lifting up Pete's Bible study leader, Bill, and he wasn't there yesterday, and he's really starting to lose traction in life. Father, you know, at 86 years old, Father, we just thank you for his service throughout his life and how he has guided Pete to knowing you deeper. Father, I want to thank the church family. uh, uh, that I had an opportunity to lead for years, for decades. As they continue to lift my situation up in prayer, Father, bless them, bless that little congregation as they are struggling to find their way. Father, I just pray that you will bring them a leader that can lead, and allow them to grow and be back to the cornerstone congregation of that community that they once were. Father, we want to thank all those in all our communities that are unsaved that don't know you. This should be our big banner every single day that there are many that are lost. Father, we just pray that doors will open and tools will be used, like Rogers Viola, and going amidst those in assisting and living situations, praising the gospel and building the kingdom and encouraging. Father, we pray for those that are unsaved. Father, we want to lift up... Braxton do um um um that Mike W7TWO lifts us up that that he had cancer surgery for cancer in his spinal cord father we um um We pray for a full restoration of this nerve function that's went this way because of his cancer. And, Father, we encourage these developing computer skills that he can get back to a life he can cope with but more importantly it's pleasing to you. Father Doug stopped by from Marion, Montana here a few weeks ago a long term member of the Midwest study and he joined us and was sharing that he had tendinitis in his hands and insomnia. We haven't heard Doug on the Midwest or here at the West Coast. I don't know if his station has been compromised or where he's at, but Father, you do. So Father, I just ask that you will give Doug the rest that he needs. And a lot of us share that. I give you praise that I had the best night's sleep I've had since before my surgery. last night, so I give you praise just as I'm passing and thinking. And also, I'll lift up the tendonitis that's in Doug's hand. Father, we heard about Al's son, and now his name escaped me, that he's on his way back from assisting John with his surgery. We want to lift up Lucas, who we heard a report from his dad a couple days ago with his mask and his ear. Father, I want to pray for my cousin Mark this morning. He's in the Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Texas, getting a checkup. Father, we pray that this checkup will be stellar. that we can take Mark from the healing, from cancer request to a praise. Father, we just lift up my cousin Mark this morning. Father, we lift up Max's dear friend Rick, and he's dealing with this malignant melanoma. and is now receiving this immune therapy treatment to stimulate his T-cells to fight this cancer. Father, we lift up Rick to you. We know that he's been struggling with a loss of appetite. He has stress of this business that he needs to sell. And we just pray that a buyer will come along and purchase Rick's business. Father, we lift up our Rick to you, and we pray for a miracle here. Father, we spoke of Carol earlier and her back pain, but she has a friend, Amy. who has breast cancer and going through that. Living in Alaska with five children, and the youngest being 12, so we know that they're able to assist Amy in her day-to-day needs. But, Father, we just pray. that this breast cancer that has attacked her can be resolved. I know there's those around the table this morning that know of those that have similar cancers of Amy or maybe experienced it themselves. So Father, I just pray that those folks will use Amy as a poster child today and lift Amy up to you. Father, we thank you for your goodness as we prepare to close. We thank you for your mercy and we thank you for your grace. Most importantly, we thank you for sending your son and your son Jesus going to the cross fulfilling the ultimate sacrifice which fulfills the new covenant where we are no longer bound by the law but we're saved by grace and it's through that shed blood and all of us together we say amen alright well that's the conclusion of today's session of the Midwest or the West Coast Bible today and I'd like to thank everybody that grabbed a chair and come up to the table I'd also like to thank those that are in the shadows you know, you're invited back. You're invited to come in here and grab a chair. And we know that there's things that God has put on your heart. You'll cultivate your walk. I hope what you heard today can be an encouragement. Tomorrow will be chapter 5, verse 1. Pastor Max will return, the Lord willing, and we'll take it off from there. So turn this frequency back to regular frequency. radio amateur youth. And everybody have a blessed day and look forward to hearing everybody tomorrow. This is 7MPA. 73. Thank you, Scott. You bet, Mark. You have a blessed day up there. You too, Al. 7MPA. Thank you, brother Scott. Good job. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you. See you tomorrow. Oh, Roger. Thank you. I appreciate you so much. Thanks a lot, Scott. W6NOX. You bet, Pete. I sure enjoy visiting with you in the morning. Look forward to it. Me too. Yeah, go ahead, Carol. Oh, are you asking what I'm running for a radio there, Carol? Over. No, I'm asking about your remote that you use. Oh, oh, yeah. You know, a lot of the modern radios, I don't know what you have, but a lot of the modern radios, they can be outfitted with a computer program. And then they're outfitted in the back of the radio with a, I don't know what you call it, but you can plug into the back of the radio and plug into the computer, and then you can use the computer as a server, and you can buy the program for the radio. So basically all you need is that. the program for the radio and the cord that goes from the radio to the computer, and you set it up that way, you use that computer as a server, and then you can take your laptop and connect to that computer via the Internet. It sounds complicated. It really isn't. I, particularly right here, I'm running an ICOM 7300. And you just go to any of the radio stores, facilities. You know, I think I bought this one out of HRO there in Tigard, which is outside of Portland. And I just had it shipped here. You know, it's free shipping. And I just... call them up and ship me one, and they shipped it down here. And there's a lot of YouTube videos, that sort of thing, Carol, to get you up and going. Over. Yeah, okay. I've got a 7300 as well, and I can use my digital, so I already have a port hooked to my computer, and I can just use the laptop to be able to talk to people. yeah you use the microphone like I use my microphone well I have a USB headset it goes into my laptop and so I take my laptop I use that microphone on the USB headset and then connect to the my server computer that way and in the program you just like push