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K7, any beast at point IDO? QQH with an update QQH, great Our son John back in Farmington, Missouri just sent us a picture outside their house and they're looking at 14 inches of snow up to the hubcaps of their car. Hold it. Yeah, copy that. Your son John has 14 inches of snow up to the hubcaps of his car. Yeah, that is a lot of snow. I know they're getting clobbered there with the giant snowstorm. So hopefully he doesn't have to go to chemotherapy or anything like that, huh? Thank goodness, no. He's downed us, we hope. Yeah, copy that. Okay, well, we continue to pray for John and for his healing for sure. But yeah, that's a lot of snow. We're praying for the folks in the Midwest who are suffering under this tremendous snowstorm. Okay, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Problem Study. We're looking for check-ins. Please come down to your call sign. Okay, I heard PWM, that must be Brian, KJ7PWM, Brian, come back to me. ♪♪ All right, so now we'd like to acknowledge Joe, KF7UOQ. Good morning, Joe. Good to have you with us. Appreciate you being there. And he's in Richfield, Washington. So that's Joe, KF7UOQ. Joe, thank you for being with us.. SDR is here for the last time before we open the net this morning. All right, any last minute check-ins, please come down with your call sign. K-A-7-V-I-B Okay, station, I tend to need to check in, please come again. K87ZIP. Okay, that is Brian, K87ZIP. Good morning, Brian. Good to have you with us. The band is a little rough today, but I did pick up your call sign. So, Brian, K87ZIP. All right, any other check-ins this morning, please come now. WB7VZL. Alright, we've got Roger, WB7VZL. Good morning, Roger. Good to have you with us. Any prior requests, Roger? How's Candy doing? Did she make it? Yeah, we've, my wife tomorrow morning. is undergoing a breast cancer surgery and I'd sure like to have prayers for that and of course the follow up and without the hormones it looks like we're going to have to relocate Autumn and so prayers for Autumn too in that process. Over. Wow, Roger, I'm really sorry to hear that. I was unaware that she was having that issue. Yeah, my wife had breast cancer twice, had all the major surgeries, so really sympathize with that situation. And also the need to relocate Autumn, copy that. Those are huge prayer requests, Roger, and we will be praying for you for sure and for Daylene as well. So thank you for that. to talk further. And so, anyway, I may or may not be on that cadet this morning because of conditions being so marginal for me with my noise. This is WB7VZL. Thank you all for your prayers. Yeah, you bet, Roger. We got you covered before the throne of grace. That's... That's a difficult thing to go through. And I appreciate you being here, brother, and hope any conditions improve so that we can talk to you some more. All right, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Biola Study. Any more check-ins this morning, please come now. Absolutely. Let us bow our hearts in prayer. Our most gracious and loving Father, we thank you so very much for this opportunity to come together to look into your Word, to gain understanding and apply the principles and teaching therein in our lives. Lord, we thank you for the improved band and we thank you just for the—hearing our prayers and answering so many prayers amongst us here today. Be with us and guide us as we study here today and as many attend your services. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen, Kevin. Thank you for that prayer. May the Lord be pleased to grant all of those requests. All right, Scott, in 7 NPA, if you could please read for us 1 Corinthians 7, verses 1-9. That's 1 Corinthians 7, 1-9 there, Scott. All righty, and good morning, everyone. As I look around the table, there's north of 30 of us this morning. And when you're here, you're with family. And, Roger, my dear friend, be lifting you up in prayer. Let's pick up the reading here in chapter 7. I'll be reading out of the New American Standard Version this morning. And verse 1 and following. Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of moralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must. fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise, also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but But the wife does. Stop depriving one another except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. But this I say by a way of concession, not of command. Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this matter and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them for they remain even as I, but if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. And that brings us up to verse 10 there, Max. Back it comes in 7 MPH. Scott, thank you for that good reading. Really appreciate that. All right. Interesting passage here about whether folks should be married or not married and about how they should conduct themselves if they're married or if they're not married. Any comments on this section? Please come down with your call sign. All right, well, I'll go ahead and open things up here then. This can be kind of a sensitive topic. It shouldn't be. We shouldn't be embarrassed by the issues that are discussed here. I want to make a comment on verse 1. where Paul says it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And the idea there of touching in the context is that of sexual touching. It isn't about shaking hands with a woman that's not your wife. It's not about maybe patting her on the shoulder or giving her a hug of fellowship. That's not what it's talking about. It's talking about sexual touching, because as you recall, in the previous context, he's talking about fornication. He's talking about unlawful sexual activity in the last part of Chapter 6 there. So he is continuing to echo those concepts. when he's talking here in chapter 7 about our relationship with the opposite sex. So there's nothing wrong with a completely innocent touch of fellowship. What he's talking about here in terms of touching is having sexual interaction with another woman. And so what he's saying is it's good not to have sex with a woman. And so he's saying here singleness is a completely legitimate category to be in. There's nothing wrong with being single. It's a good thing to be single. He also goes on to say it's a good thing to be married. And it depends upon your situation. It depends upon your giftedness. It depends upon your drives as to which of those categories that you fall into. So anyway, let's have some comments on this section. Please come now. Is that X-N? Is that X-N? Please go ahead. I'll get things started here, I guess. Yeah, excellent points, Max. You're exactly right. You know, keep in mind in the culture of the times, you know, Women oftentimes are expected to have children and families, and even today it's good. You know, a lot of cultures still really emphasize the blessing of having a family and having several children, and that is good. but also like you said it's completely acceptable to be single as well and now some have carried this to the extreme and to monasticism and things like that but he's basically saying culturally it's okay. You know sometimes our culture kind of looks down now. Unfortunately in our culture today it seems like marriage is despised and and perversion is held up high. But Paul definitely put some proper context to this. But if you're gonna be single, not to be out there taking advantage or, you know, you need to have the self-control not to be touching women in a sexual fashion. And I think, too, as Christians, too, I'll just add, we need to be mindful, too, of the circumstances of appearances, too, putting ourselves in awkward situations or situations of temptation as well. KB7, Zedekson. Thank you. Kevin, great comments. Thank you for that. And, you know, you're exactly right. You know, I want us to look a little further down in the passage. I know we haven't read there yet, but I want us to look at verse 26, all right? If you look down in the passage to verse 26, Paul says... some of the advice that Paul is giving in this passage. There are two reasons to remain single. One is so that we can be more free to do ministry. And the other is because the times of persecution were so severe where people were having to flee and hide and some were being executed that that's not the kind of environment in which family formation is real successful because of the stress of external persecution by the civil authorities Because for many people, in fact, most people, their sexual drives are so powerful. And, of course, those drives were given to them by God. Those are good drives. Nothing wrong with those. Everything right about those. If you have strong sexual drives and you need to fulfill those, well, go get married. He says it's better to marry than to burn, even if it has some limitations on your flexibility for ministry. And even if you're living under difficult times. where it's a struggle to avoid persecution. So Paul is giving two options here. Option one, stay single. It will make you more flexible in ministry. It will help you move about more easily under persecution. Option number two: you have strong sexual drives, you do not want to commit fornication, as Kevin was saying, and so therefore, go ahead and get married, and fulfill those desires legitimately within the marriage covenant. You know, one reason why God gave us such incredibly powerful sexual desires is so that people would get married, and so that they would have kids, and so that the human race would be propagated and carried on. Just like He gave us a desire for air, Just hold your breath for a little while and see how bad you want air. And he gave us a desire for food. Just don't eat for a couple of days and see how bad you want food. Well, sex is the same way. We have this desire for this because it's essential for the propagation of the human race. And so if that's a powerful desire and one can't control it without falling into sin, well, go get married. And that's his advice. All right, other comments. Please come now. Papa Alpha. Papa Alpha, go ahead. What this looks like to me, Max, is if we, each one of us around the table, and there's over 30 of us this morning, if each and every one of us can separate our mind and our spiritual away from the world, what each and every one of us is called to do is deepen our spiritual walk daily and inhale God's presence and put it in the mind. And what that looks like to me, with that foundation, Max, what that looks like to me is like when I'm digging a post hole with a set of jabbers. I can dig this post hole, but if the ground is... It's more difficult to get the hole in the ground, to dig deeper into my spiritual walk, because I have to... My wife actually... acts in some ways as rocky ground or tough digging, because I have to take my full desire to walk in the Spirit, part of that I have to attend to her needs. And so I can get the whole dog, but it's more difficult. Or, if I was unmarried, I can go over and it's like digging a post hole in real soft, real soft, loamy ground. You can just dig and dig and dig because 100% of your full attention is going to be on the is all on Jesus Christ crucified. So there's two different types of post holes. Both post holes you can deepen your spiritual walk. Just one's a little bit slower than the other. And 7 p.m. Yeah, Scott, well spoken, and I completely embraced what you were saying, that, you know, when you have another person in your life, it can hinder some of the things that you might want to do, and it can keep you from doing them as effectively as you might. On the other hand, I think that many of us would say that our husband or our wife is has been a tremendous help to our walk because they keep us accountable. I know that for my wife and I, we say to each other, okay, it's time for us to read our Bibles now. And we make space for each other, and we provide accountability to each other for reading our Bibles. And so in that sense, having her around is good. If she wasn't there to remind me, hey, it's time for us to read our Bibles now, I might sit down and read a book or get on the Internet or go out and do something else. So... You know, when I was thinking about getting married, I had a Christian man ask me, "Why do you want to get married?" And I said, "Because I think that I can serve the Lord better as a married man than I can as a single man." And he said, "Well, that's true. If your wife is on board with you and she is supporting you and she provokes you to love and good works... by her godly walk, then that's going to be a force multiplier. So, Scott, your point is well taken. I completely agree with what you're saying. But I think there's also this other dimension that sometimes two is better than one. And And where this is going is we see Paul was a traveling missionary, right? So he traveled all around the country, and he's starting churches. Well, in his situation, where he's moving around all the time, and that's the nature of his ministry, it would be really tough to drag a woman and kids along with him. And he couldn't provide a very good life for them if he's doing that all the time. On the other hand, you know, if you're settled down like at Corinth or at Ephesus or Rome, and you've got a job, maybe you're a tit maker or something, well, then it's a lot better to have a family. So, you know, there's lots of different dimensions to this argument. What Paul is saying, Scott, is exactly what you're saying, is that sometimes a wife can slow you down. in certain types of ministry because you've got to take care of her. You've got to put a roof over her head and food on her plate and clothes on her back and you've got to try to meet her emotional needs and, well, that takes time away from going out knocking on doors and sharing the gospel if that's your calling. So I think what Paul is saying here is that We've got to take into consideration each individual circumstance. And in their circumstance, it might be better to be single. In other people's circumstance, it might be better to be married. So anyway, WB7MAX, looking for comments. Please come now. Pop Alpha, is it follow-up? Pop out and follow up. Go ahead. Yeah, Max, I couldn't agree with you more. And what we're seeing around the table this morning in real time is iron sharpening iron. And I couldn't agree with you more. So you have two analogies, and both of them are correct depending on the situation. So I really appreciate that. Appreciate your analogy and your comment there, Max. And 7MPA. Yeah, Scott, and yours likewise, because they're both legitimate aspects of the truth. All right. Thank you, Scott, for that. Other comments, please come now. Kevin, this is ZXN, KB7ZXN. Okay, I had a double there. I got Kevin, KB7ZXN, other station. I'll get to you in a moment. I didn't get your call sign. Kevin, you go first, and then we'll get to the other station. Go ahead, Kevin. Okay, I'm happy to wait, too. Yeah, I concur with you, Max. You know, I do understand your point, Scott, and I think I understand your intent there. I'd be careful maybe to call your spouse Rocky Ground. I don't know, but maybe I heard that wrong. But, you know, I kind of reflect back on that. you know, my life. I married later in life initially. I adopted two children while I was still single and really began serving the Lord, you know, while I was single. And but I did long for the right woman. And there was a time when I just resolved to God. I said, well, you know, God, if it's your will that I don't marry, then let me be OK with it. Um... And, of course, it's about that time that he brought my first dear wife into my life. And so we can certainly serve our Lord faithfully, single or married. Personally, I value the blessings that my first wife, which most of you probably know, passed away from COVID, and then my wife now that God brought into my life. Both are just tremendous blessings, both supportive, both very godly women. And I'll tell you, it's blessing upon blessing for me, both in ministry and out of ministry, to have them there. Their faithfulness are encouraging, inspiring. Their insights and perspectives that they bring in our study, in our understanding, and the prayer life that we have together is tremendous. Yeah, I think, you know, as Paul points out here, both can be a blessing. But the important thing is to be faithful and to be true to God. Don't be sexually immoral. And in your marriage, be there for each other. Don't play games with your marriage. Don't play games with the, you know, the desires within the marriage, you know, sexual desires. But be there and support one another in all ways. KB7 is that example. Yeah, Kevin, thank you for bringing out that concept that's contained in verses 3 and 4 and 5. And the idea there is that if the reason you're getting married, one of the reasons you're getting married is because you have strong sexual desires, you know, to have one partner or the other withhold sex is really destructive to a marriage relationship. I can tell you how many times as a pastor I've counseled married couples And they basically have a sexless marriage because of resentment, because of indifference, because of hostility, because of unresolved conflict. And that is a terrible state of affairs to be in because you get married in order to have sexual fulfillment. And when there is no sexual fulfillment, that creates a lot of bitterness and anger and ultimately results in divorces. and or infidelity. So I just want to say to the married couples out there, never say no to your partner unless there's an extraordinary circumstance. Like, you know, if there's an illness, fine. But, you know, it's really important that you accommodate the sexual needs of your partner, and that each partner feels completely fulfilled in regard to those issues. And Paul is very clear about this. Sex within marriage is nothing to be embarrassed about. It's something that needs to be celebrated. It's something that needs to be engaged in on a frequent, regular basis. And it's something that really helps knit two souls together into one flesh and creates a uniqueness and closeness that nothing else can replicate or duplicate. So Paul is encouraging husbands and wives to be regular and faithful and consistent in their sexual relationship with each other. Kevin, thank you for bringing that out. And that's something that really needs to be emphasized. No Christian marriage should be a sexless marriage. All right. No, listen to me. I'm going to go after the person that has a comment. Okay, other person that had a comment, please come now. K7VIP. Okay, that's Brian. K7VIP. Brian, go ahead. Yeah, I'm juggling between the radio and the FDR, so sorry if I talk over something else. To begin with, my five words that describe me versus Paul, I am not like Paul. the traditional family because at the beginning of the first chapter he speaks about if you're not married you know stay that way if you are um that's the same way um however in uh 28 speaking to the man he says not only is it good or bad but he says but if you do not give me yeah brian her good point there um You know, and you really see that, for example, in the Roman Catholic Church, where they forbid priests to get married, okay? Paul talks elsewhere about the forbidding to marriage is actually a doctrine of demons. In 1 Timothy chapter 4, it says, in verse 1, 1 Timothy 4:1, it says, "Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron." Now here it is, 1 Timothy 4:3, "Forbidding to marry." and commanding to abstain from meats, etc. So there are some who are saying it's more holy to be single than it is to be married, and that if you're single, you can dedicate yourself better to the Lord than if you're married. And so this idea is that marriage with second bests, And being single was best. Well, that's a complete perversion of Paul's teaching here in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. And as you said, there's this false spiritual notion that singleness is a spiritually superior state to be in, whereas being married is second to best. And so you're right, there was this legalistic, man-invented notion that somehow celibacy was an advantage. And of course we can see that when men especially are artificially prohibited from being married, there's vast immorality that takes place. among the unmarried men who should have been married. And so what Paul is saying here is that if you can't contain, get married. Well, when you've got people who are not allowed to be married for a lifetime because of foolish vows they took when they were young, that winds up being a moral disaster. And you can really see that, especially in churches that forbid their leadership to be married and all the sexual crimes that are committed as a result of that. and the need to run and hide and flee and all of those things, that's probably not the time to get married. But even under those circumstances, if you do get married, it is not a sin, and it is not a step downward. And that's the point Paul is making here. So he's saying, go ahead and be single. Go ahead and get married. Oh yeah, 5-8, sorry Beck, forgot about you. Got carried away there. Go ahead Beck. Yeah, Roger, thank you to the gentleman before me for mentioning Roman Catholics because that was part of what my comment was going to be and part of that is I think that we're supposed to have a mate and the reason why is because the end result when you don't turns it is not good for a man to be alone. And under ordinary circumstances, you know, 95% of men need to be married. I'm just pulling that number out of the air, but the vast majority of men need to be married because they can't contain. I couldn't contain, so I had to get married. I'm glad I got married at 19. And I've been married for 50 years now to the same woman, and what a blessing that has been. and what enjoyment we have had together with each other because of that marriage union. It's just been absolutely delightful. I can't imagine myself as a single man. It just wouldn't work. And so you're exactly right, Beck. It's not good for a man to be alone. God made a woman for a man. OK, once again, any prayer requests? I had a glitch here. Any prayer requests? Come now. And Father, those of us who are not married and desire a spouse, Father, I pray that you would supply godly spouses for them. And for those, Lord, who have settled on singleness, Father, may they know contentment and peace in that state. And Lord, may they be able to be free and flexible in dedicating all of their time, energy, and effort to serving you and your cause and your kingdom. Father, we just thank you so much that our parents were married and had us. And Lord, may we pass that blessing on to others given our various circumstances. Lord, we just want to pray today for our dear brother Brian, KJ7PWM. His son Bailey and his partner Joey have started a new construction business. And Brian asked that we would pray for these two young men. that they would have success in their work. Father, we pray that you bring them jobs. We pray that they would have wisdom in bidding those jobs appropriately so that they would make a good profit. And, Lord, may they do their work well so that they have repeat business. And, Lord, we pray that as they pursue this new construction business, Lord, that your good hand of blessing would be on them and that they would make a good living for their families. So, Father, be with Bailey, be with Joey, and, Father, give them success. Father, we want to pray for our brother Jeff, AT6OK, and his high blood pressure. Father, I pray that you bring that down. Lord, you know his cardiovascular challenges that he's struggled with for a long time now that are very serious. And so, Lord, have mercy on our brother Jeff. Father, he's serving you in distributing Bibles and installing chapels and preaching the gospel. And so, Lord, just bless Jeff with health and peace in his cardiovascular system. Father, we're going to pray today for our sister Carol and her back pain. Father, I just pray that that would resolve itself quickly. Lord, I pray that you would give her wisdom in knowing best how to deal with it. And Father, we just pray that you would give her mobility and freedom from pain. Father, I pray for our brother Beck, Alpha Phi Yankee, and the swelling in his leg, the lymphedema that he's got there. Father, I pray that that would clear up and that all those passageways that need to open up would do so, Father, and that swelling would go down. Give the doctors wisdom, Father, in helping Beck to figure out what needs to be done in solving that problem. Father, we want to pray for our brother James, K70AO, and his friend Judy. Judy had a stroke, Father, and it affected her speech center. And, Lord, she's having speech therapy now. I pray, Lord, that she would learn to speak clearly and effectively as she did before the stroke. Give her patience with the process. Give her speech therapist wisdom in knowing best how to deal with her circumstance. Father, we pray for Candy, N7DIT, who is in Kenya, ministering to the deaf kids. Father, give her grace. Give her health. Give her safety. Give her wisdom. Give her strength, Father, to be able to just power on and ministering to those kids. She's not a youngster anymore, Lord. And so give her supernatural strength. Father, we pray for our brother Darrell WB7AOT, who has urology issues. Father, I pray that he would find healing in his body. We think of our brother Scott in 7NPA who's also dealing with the aftermath of prostate surgery. Father, these two guys need your help, and they need your healing, Father, so their bodies will return to normal function. Father, we pray for our brother David, KK7PDI, who had a bad spider bite, which had a real negative reaction in his body. And, Lord, I pray for healing for him. Father, I just want to pray for the folks back east who are wrapped up in this terrible ice storm. Father, I pray, especially for John, LKJ7QQH's son, Lord, that he would just be free from stress and that you would be healing his body. Father, we want to pray for Brian K7ZIP. His friend Jay has prostate cancer. Lord, we pray for healing for Jay. Father, whatever his needs are at this stage in that process, Lord, heal Jay and give him patience and trust, deep in his faith and walk with you. Father, we want to pray for our brother Pete, W6NOX. His aunt, Marion, fell out of bed. She's, I think, 98, Pete said. Lord, I just pray for her healing. I pray for her recovery. Father, it sounds like she injured herself quite badly. So, Father, have mercy on her. Lord, we just want to pray for Dorcia, who is in ICU in Mexico, Missouri. Father, I pray for your healing hand to be upon her. Give the doctors wisdom, Lord. And I pray that whatever her medical needs are, you would meet those medical needs. Father, we just want to pray for Doc W6RLJ, his wife Marla. Father, she's having some health challenges. Lord, we please pay those health challenges. Father, whenever they are, give her healing, give her strength, raise her up. And Father, give her peace in her body. And then, Father, our hearts are tremendously burdened for our brother Roger, WB7VZL. His wife, Dailene, is having breast cancer surgery tomorrow. Lord, I just pray that that surgery would be successful in completely removing the cancer. I pray, Lord, that there would be complete healing there. Father, may you just cause them both to rejoice in redemption and in the fact that we're all going to die of something someday. And if this is your way of taking Darlene, well, Father, we commit her into your hands. And if this is your way of healing her and giving her another several decades, Father, we trust you for that. And now, Father, we just pray your good hand of blessing would be on Darlene for the Vintage Military Radio Network that's going to be following us. Father, bless those men and women that participate, and Father, may they draw near to you. Father, I ask all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. This is WB7 AMAX, Met Control for the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning and those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency. We meet here seven days a week at 6 a.m. in order to read the Scriptures. understand their meaning, message, and application, and then to pray for grace and mercy to live out what we learn and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency over to the Vintage Military Radio Network. This is WB7MAX. I will be clear and QRT. Y'all have a blessed Sunday. Amen. Thank you, Max. Thank you. *Suspenseful music* *Suspenseful music* *Suspenseful music* *Train noise* *whistling* Thank you. uh, different, um, I'm not sure if I appreciate the way you got the speakers, uh, two years. Uh, uh, two years, two years. 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