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Alright, so that's from George and Beck. Thank you guys for that research and that communication. Much appreciated. Alright, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We continue to receive check-ins for the West Coast Bible Study. Please come down with your call sign. Papa Alpha. Yeah, Carol's in there. If you want to give Carol a hug, Max, now's your chance. Carol, KK7TPO, please come forward. She responded to you there, Max. Scott in 7-8PA, I heard a voice but I couldn't tell any words. Is she still talking? Yeah, Carol, KK7TPO, do you have any prayer requests for us this morning, Carol? Over. Oh, you're quite welcome. No prayer requests. We'll continue to lift up her back, though, Max. for Carol. So there you go. And 7 MPA. Scott, good copy on your transmission. We're continuing to pray for Carol and for the healing of her back. She is on our big list, so we will be praying for her as well. So thank you, Scott. And Carol, KK7TPO, we do have you checked in. All right, any other check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study, please come now. Yeah, go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, it just went south about 10 minutes ago. Max, Kevin's in there. And 7MPA. Okay. Copy, Kevin, KB7 Zedeksen is checked in by way of relay from Scott N7 NPA. Kevin, I did hear your voice. Kevin, come back to me. Let me see if I can hear you on Utah. Come back, Kevin. Go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, Kevin, KB7ZX and WB7MX here, barely picking you up on the Half Moon Bay SDR, can't hear you on Utah at all, the band seems to have just gone to pieces in the last few minutes. Okay, I've got a check-in here from Brian, KJ7PWM, Brian, can't change the power while I'm transmitting. So anyway, that's fine. All right, we are in 1 Corinthians 7, verses 10 through 16. That's 1 Corinthians 7, verses 10 through 16. Steve, W6YSI, I'm going to ask you to read, since it seems like pretty much everybody can hear your station. So Steve, W6YSI, be prepared to read 1 Corinthians 7, verses 10 through 16 when I get to you. If you could do that, please. Okay, now Paul in this chapter, 1 Corinthians 7, Now, in our previous study on this chapter yesterday, we considered what Paul had to say about the subject of singleness in marriage. Now, he's going to deal with it more later on in the chapter, but we opened that subject up, and we looked at when and under what conditions one should remain single. and we looked at when and under what conditions one should get married. And in our study together yesterday, we saw that the answers to those questions revolved around whether one had the gift of celibacy or not, whether one was under severe extended persecution or not, and whether one's ministry required highly focused and undistracted service in the work of God or not. So those are kind of the three criteria. Do you have the gift of celibacy? Are you under severe and extended persecution? And does your ministry require such highly focused and undistracted attention that you wouldn't have time for a wife and kids? If that's the case, and you meet at least two of those criteria, the first one for sure, and then one of the two second ones, it's best to stay single. But if you don't, then it's good to get married. Now, today, we want to consider what Paul had to say about the subject of divorce, and by extension, of course, the subject of remarriage. The Corinthians had asked about this subject, and Paul addresses it in this chapter, and in particular, what is supposed to happen when you have a marriage between a saved person and an unsaved person. And so there's some interesting background material regarding this subject matter, which we will talk about as we go through this process. But... What we want to do is open our time together in prayer, and then we'll be reading the scriptures together. Now, Will, K-5 Foxtrot, could you please open in prayer for us today? Okay, I'm not sure if you can hear me. I can hear you. Go ahead. and he consents to have with him, or to stay with him, let him not send her away. And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not send her husband away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. For otherwise your children are unclean. Now they are holy. And if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave. Brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases, God has called us to peace. For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your life? And that's what I understand. I stopped here at the beginning of next verse 17, W6YSI, over. Steve, good reading, and that's exactly the spot you're supposed to stop. Thank you for that. We're able to hear you on both SDRs, both Utah and Half Moon Bay. So I think everybody heard you read. So, Steve, that's real good. Everybody's able to pick you up. Okay, this is WB7MAX, Net Control. The net would like to acknowledge Gene, K7GWR on the Utah SDR. Good morning, Gene. Good to have you with us. Appreciate you being there. Okay, well, interesting passage here. Paul goes from advice and suggestions. Notice verse 6. Any relation? All right, well I know band conditions are terrible, so I'll just plunge in here and I'll get started and maybe some of you will chime in here as time goes on. So I think it's important for us to understand the contrast between verses 10 and 11 and the following. And so that's what verse 10 is saying, let not the wife depart from her husband. But if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife. And so that's what Christ taught in Mark chapter 10, verses 2 to 12, and in Luke chapter 16 and verse 18. So we have very clear teaching from the Lord Jesus in the Gospels on this matter of two believers being married, the only ground upon which they can divorce. Other than that, it's a lifelong commitment, and you're not to divorce for any other reason. If you do, you're not allowed to remarry, and you really need to go back to your husband or your wife, if at all possible. So that is the teaching of the Lord. Now, the Corinthians had written Paul a letter, and they're asking, well, what about an unequally yoked marriage? I'll be back. I'll be back. And so this is what's happening here, is the apostles, not only Paul, but Peter and James and John, are taking the teachings of Jesus and expanding them under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and they have just as much authority as anything Jesus himself said. This is one reason why I don't like red-letter Bibles, because it implies that the teachings of Jesus are more important than the other teachings in the Bible, and they are not. So anyway, that's my little thought on red-letter Bibles. You look at Ezra chapter 10 verses 1 to 5, you see the command that when the Jews intermarried with non-covenant community members, they were required to divorce their spouses and only marry within the covenant community. However, under the new covenant, the question then arose, should we divorce our husbands and wives who are unsaved, if it already existed before one of the parties got saved. Now, later on in the passage, Paul is going to say that if you're single, you're only supposed to marry a believer. But if you have two unbelievers and one of them gets saved, you're supposed to stay in the marriage, provided that person wants to stay and provided that there's no fornication. Now, the question arises, what happens if that person wants to leave? Yeah, Brian, great question. They are exactly the same Greek word. They are exactly the same meaning. The idea means to be set apart. Now, the question is set apart in what way, and what does that mean? It just means that this person is in a unique position of privilege to be able to hear the gospel and possibly get saved. And that's what he's saying here in verse 16, Brian. For what knowest thou, O wife, when thou shalt save thy husband? and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Now, here's the passage that Doc, W6RLJ, brought out, verse 31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. I was able to hear you well on Utah. Go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, likewise, Max. And you're doing a fine job, good job of unpacking this text here. And that makes the point, I think, very well. All right, I'm going to talk a little bit more here, because I think there's a really important point that needs to be made. And you'll notice in verse 15 it says, But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister is not under bondage in sex cases. So he's talking about here the marriage bond, the marriage covenant. And we need to understand what marriage is. Marriage is a conditional covenant. And there are two conditions. One condition is cohabitation. I will stay with you for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, so death do us part. That's the promise of cohabitation. And then there's secondly the promise of sexual fidelity. Okay. If the conditions of the covenant are violated, the covenant is broken. So if somebody commits adultery, Matthew 5, Matthew 19, there is grounds for divorce and subsequently remarriage. And if someone deserts you, 1 Corinthians 7 and verse 15, they refuse to cohabit with you, then there is grounds for divorce and remarriage. So the only grounds for divorce and remarriage is desertion and fornication. couple minutes on unpacking this text very well. And this is very true. Now, one subject that comes up a lot in justification to divorce is spousal abuse and cases of extreme spousal abuse. And oftentimes, you'll see that connected to one of these. Okay? And so if someone is physically abusing you, that is and can turn very quickly into murder. And you have a right to self-defense. And part of that self-defense is separating from the threat. So, Kevin, while physical abuse is not mentioned in relationship to marriage, it is mentioned in relationship to personal self-defense and the right to protection of one's life. And so I have counseled women in particular, although it can go both ways. Women can pull triggers on guns too. If there's a threat of that, that there needs to be physical separation for the sake of self-defense, and if that matter is unresolvable, then you have a de facto desertion, and then it falls into the paradigm of the desertion. So, Kevin, that's my best answer. Back to you, Kevin. Thank you. Well, I appreciate that, Max, and I have addressed that in the past right along those lines as well. My perception is the same, you know, because it is a matter of self-protection and self-preservation. And a person does have a right to defend themselves, as you point out, from potential death and severe or extreme bodily harm. And so, yeah, I've addressed that the same way, but I know that comes up quite frequently more than care to see. And most oftentimes in marriages where one is saved and one is not, but sadly not even necessarily there. But I appreciate that response. That's exactly how I've dealt with it right along those lines in the past too. I think that is the biblical approach and on solid ground as well. KB7 is that example. Yeah, Kevin, thank you for that affirmation. Appreciate that. Okay, we are out of time. AL-KJ7QQH is going to close in prayer for us. Are there any final prayer requests before we go to prayer? Please come down with your call sign. Okay, AL-KJ7QQH, I hear nothing. So go ahead and close in prayer for us, please. Thank you for this time. and thank you for your work. We come together with one voice to break above the noise of the world and to focus our thoughts and prayers to you and also our praises. Today we have Beck and Sandy who are going to be heading to A doctor appointed us where Sandy said to get into blood tests. We pray to those who have the results to be positive and to get back in a good way and favorable. We also lift up that to this lake, our situation. And that there will be some measure of relief on that. We also have Roger and Dailene who are going to have surgery today. Dailene had surgery on Creston, Missouri. We pray that that goes well. through the meeting, but that's a situation. I'm hearing a voice. I think it's the prayer for the son, John, is going to be free. And he's having with us. Winter's gone right now. He's going to get through the process of treatment. He's going to have to have an hour's time to go and he's going to be free. to prove that he was a good person. We also looked at our neighbor Lucas, who was at some of the wrong materials that was not as close to my kind of a deer as the other in that situation. We've not been needed the diagnosis to put a cause in a plant or that. The concern would be which resource we pray for healing or have the cancer of our plant. And we looked at the president's whole team We're going to leave her in. We're going to pull in the car over. Now we're keeping the funeral car up here. We've been letting these dogs fight the genders. These dogs are struggling to walk to that site. We need to keep them consistent. We've raised our buyers up for a good time. We're going to let them talk. We also list all those We also thank you for all the time and your goodness and courage in your training for each one of us. We appreciate your support through this crisis. We want to pray all these things through. Amen. Good day, good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Thank you so much for that prayer. Good copy on the Utah SDR. Appreciate you being there. Also could copy you fairly well on Half Moon Bay. Anyway, Al, thank you for the prayer. Appreciate that. All right, this is WB7MAX, Net 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 learned and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. This is WB7MAX. I'll be returning this frequency to general amateur use. And I will be clear and standing by WB-70 Max. This is WB7MX, I'll be clear in QRT. *train noise* ♪♪ ♪♪. Thank you. *train noise* *Rain* Thank you. Thank you. . 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