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Okay, Alaska Station, Alaska Station, please come back to me. Okay, I got King Salmon Airport Base, I got Alpha Zulu Delta, give me the first part of your call sign again please. Alright, I've got KA2 zero Sierra Delta Okay, good copy. KA2ZSD, that's Kilo Alpha 2 Zulu Sierra Delta from Alaska. Thank you for checking in. This is the West Coast Bible Study. We've got poor bank conditions today, but we meet here seven days a week. We start taking check-ins at 540. We start the Bible Study at 6 a.m., seven days a week. ...on 3975. Appreciate you being there. The conditions are poor today, but we are proceeding with our Bible study. Thank you for that. What is your name? Over. All right, Joe. We have you checked in. And appreciate you being here from Alaska, Joe. and a good copy on the half moon bay SDR unable to hear you direct on the radio but a good copy Joe anything you want us to pray about over yeah copy that we will pray for the country the Bible tells us to pray for A king's in all order and authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life. So, Joe, K-A-2-Z-S-D, we will be praying for our country on our prayer list today. Thank you for being there, brother. We got you checked in. All right, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We continue to look for check-ins. Please come down to your call sign. Thank you. I got Brian, KJ7 PWM, good morning Brian, come ahead. Okay, Brian, I'm picking you up on the Half Moon Bay SDR. And, yeah, I can hear you just fine. So, understand no prayer requests. Glad that the pig had her babies. That was a great photo you sent me. And, anyway, Brian was not able to be with us yesterday because his pig was having babies. And I think there was nine of them or something like that. So anyway, Brian, good to have you with us. Appreciate you being here and hope everybody on the forum is healthy. Hello, welcome to the hospital. Alright, real good. Good report there, Brian. Okay, any other check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study, please come out with your call sign. Okay, I heard Will, Keelbike 5 Foxtrot. Will, come ahead. I was just checking in and trying to untangle a bunch of wires. Okay, no, no, no, no, no. All right, good copy, Will. Thank you for that. Good station and good clear voice. All right, so that is Will, KM-5 Foxtrot. Okay, any other prairie quests, please come now. Any check-ins? Scott, N7NPA, I have not heard from Jerry, AE7ER, have you heard from him this morning? No, I have it. I'll give him a call on the repeater, over. Scott, say again, please. Yeah, I'll give him a call on the repeater. I'll get back to you here in a moment. 7 MPA. Thank you, Scott. Appreciate that. All right, WB7MAX here. It's time for us to get started with our Bible study. Are there any more check-ins before we get started with our Bible study? Please come now with your call sign. WB7MAX at L. Alright, there's Roger, WV7VZL. Good morning, Roger. How are you and Dailene doing? Quite good, thank you. Appreciate, uh, yeah. Thank you very much. Blessings on the study today. Alright, have you found new housing for Autumn yet, over? Oh, that's, that's, we're learning to love in spite of the hormonal changes. So I think we had a good visit last night. So who knows what God wants to do. Over. All right. We'll pray for wisdom and direction regarding that situation. Appreciate that. Roger, WB7VZL, we'll continue to pray. All right. Any last-minute check-ins come now. Papa Alpha. Papa Alpha, come back to me. Yeah, Jerry's there, but he can't hear, he can hear George, he heard George, that's the only one he's heard. Max, over. Okay, copy that. So we got Jerry checked in by way of relay from Scott N7 NPA via 2 meters, so appreciate that. Tell Jerry we got him checked in over there, Scott. Yep, yep. He's going to listen and hope that the band shortens up where he can hear. Alright, copy that. So he's going to listen and see if the band shortens up. Alright, just give me a second here. I've got to make a note or two to myself. Alright, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We're going to get started with the West Coast Bible Study. I'm going to ask Scott in 7NPA if he will open in prayer for us, and then we will get into our section of Scripture for today. All right, WB7MAX here, Scott in 7NPA, could you please open in prayer for us today? Hi, you bet, Max. Let's go to Lord in prayer. Father, as we gather around this round table, this virtual round table amongst brothers and sisters, Father, we invite you into our heart this morning. We invite you into our minds. Father, as it was... as it was read in the Midwest study this morning, coming out of Psalms, that each and every one of us around this table can taste and see that you are good. Father, we know that those around the table, what is going to be read today, what is going to be dissected, the little nuggets that come up out of Scripture as we furrow... through the pages with our intellect. Father, I just pray that those little nuggets can come up on top of, come up and shine to us and that we can take these little nuggets, put them in our hearts and put them on our minds. Allow us to carry them today, Father. We pray this through your son, Jesus, and all of us together we say amen. Back there to you, Max, WB7MAX and 7MPA. All right, Scott, real good. N7NPA, thank you so much for that prayer. Really appreciate that. Okay, we are in 1 Corinthians chapter 9, and we're going to start reading today back up at verse 11. I know we covered part of this yesterday, but we need to read it to get the context. And... What Paul is doing here in 1 Corinthians chapter 8 and chapter 9 and chapter 10 is he's talking about how we manage our Christian liberties and how we need to never manage our Christian liberties in such a way that they cause our Christian brother to stumble or to sin. And so we saw him talking about that in chapter 8 in relationship to meat offered to idols. And now Paul is going to talk about how he restrains his own Christian liberties for the sake of the gospel. Paul, like any good pastor, never asks people to do what he himself is unwilling to do. And so Paul is telling them in chapter 8, here's how you behave. And in chapter 9, he's saying, here's how I have behaved in relationship to Christian liberty. And what we saw yesterday is that he established the fact that Jesus, ministers of the gospel have a right to be financially supported by those that they minister to. And so ordinarily we give money in the offering to support our pastor and to pay his salary so he can have food and clothing and shelter and provide for his wife and his children. Now Paul is going to talk to us about how even though he has this right to receive financial compensation for the work of the ministry, He does not accept it. He does not receive it. He bypasses that liberty that he has to receive financial income so that he doesn't provide any grounds for his enemies to accuse him of mercenary self-serving motives. in doing the work of the ministry. You know the accusation that can arise, oh, he's just in it for the money. And Paul was making it very clear that not only was he not in it for the money, he was willing to work and support himself to completely... diffuse that false accusation and that slander that would be brought against the Gospel. And indeed, he restricted his Christian liberties in various ways. When he was around the Jews, he behaved as they would expect him to behave. When he was around the Gentiles, He behaved the way they would expect him to behave, though he never violated the truth of God, and he never violated the law of God when he was around these folks. But where he could accommodate their prejudices and their desires, he did that. So that's the section we're dealing with, and I want to read this section. I'll be reading out of the King James Version, but I'm going to go back up to verse 12. and I'm going to read all the way down to verse 23. So 12 through 23, 1 Corinthians 9, 12 through 23. Now notice verse 12. He says, If others be partakers of this authority over you, this power over you, are not we rather, nevertheless... We have not used this power or this authority, but we suffer all things. Now here it is, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that they which minister about the holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers of the altar. Now, here was the conclusion from yesterday. Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. But, here's Paul's behavior in contrast, but I have used none of these things, neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me. Verse 2. that I abuse not my power in the gospel. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To them that are under the law is under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law. To them that are without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker thereof with you. All right, that concludes our reading for today. Any comments on this section, please come now with your call sign. Papa Alpha. Papa Alpha, go ahead. What I see throughout this whole reading this morning, Max, is the thread that is woven through the scriptures here that pours out being humble and takes out any... any hint of pride and I think that's so important because each those of us that struggle with pride you know we have to guard against that And Paul is all in for Christ crucified. Nothing of what he's saying here is for personal gain. And I think that's what I see in the overlayment of the Scripture reading this morning. And 7 and 5. Yeah, Scott, really well said. Thank you for showing that connection between pride and willingness to be a servant to the needs of others. You know, when people are proud, they will not bend and serve others and deny themselves and set aside their own pride. for the sake of ministering to other people. And so you're right. This is a preaching against pride and self-importance and self-centeredness and selfishness. And the whole thrust of this passage is thinking of others. And, you know, it's really summarized in this final verse where it says in chapter 9 that And then in verse 23, he says, this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker thereof with you. So his main concern isn't what do I get to do? His main concern is how effectively is the gospel going forth? So this connection between humility and selflessness is such an important connection, and pride, of course, destroys that. Instead of thinking of others, it only thinks of self. So, Scott, that's the chief virtue that's being cultivated here, is humility as opposed to pride, thinking of others as opposed to thinking to self. Good comment there, Scott. Thank you for that. Other comments, please come now. KJ7PVP KJ7PV2 go ahead Yeah I'd like to read 20 and let's see down to 21 In the New Living Testament, it's got an interesting way of putting it. And it talks about Paul making his life fit in with those that he's working with. And it says here in the New Living Testament that when I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was those who follow the Jewish law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to that law, I did this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law. When I am with the Gentiles who do not follow Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God. I obey the law of Christ. I think that's interesting that he is doing whatever it takes to get the law into the hands of those who don't. I mean, to get... salvation to get the gospel into the hands of those who don't have it. KJ7, PBC. Yeah, Mark, good copy. Appreciate that reading from the New Living Testament. And I think it captures exactly what Paul was saying there. And there was a cultural sensitivity. And, you know, if you're going to labor among the Spanish community, for example, they have certain cultural sensitivities that, you know, are not matters of biblical principle one way or the other. And so you accommodate yourself to them. If you're working among a Muslim population, they have certain cultural practices that are neither here nor there in terms of biblical obedience. And so what we do is we try to remove all unnecessary offense. to those that we're ministering the gospel to. The gospel by itself is offensive enough without adding unnecessary offense to it by being culturally insensitive to things that matter to the people to whom we are ministering but really don't matter at all one way or the other to God. So, for example, if I go to a home as a pastor to minister the gospel and everybody takes off their shoes and don't walk on the carpet with their shoes, I take off my shoes when I go into their home. And so it's just a matter of courtesy. so that they're not offended by my behavior, so that they can hear my words. So, Mark, good reading, good comment. Thank you for that. All right, other comments, please come down. Mark, AJ7PVT, please go ahead again. Yeah, I stopped a little too soon there. There's one other woman. I can't see you, Mom. I can't see you, Mom. I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save them. I do everything to spread the good news. In the future, I have to realize that, you know, sometimes we as Christians are... We just watch a brand new person come get into the starting blocks in the race. ♪ ♪ That version is going to be running the race just like the rest of the race. He's going to work on clay all kinds of things. And my job is to get him in the starting block and in the race and run with him. KJ7PBT. Yeah, Mark, great illustration. Thank you for that. Yeah, you know, we have to recognize that not everybody's going to do everything perfectly right out of the gate. And so people learn, people grow, people make progress. And in the meantime, we love them, we point them to the truth, but at the same time we provide them with encouragement and support because they're going toward Christ and not away from Christ. They're going toward the truth. stewardship, a dispensation of the Gospel is committed to me." So this glorying is not bragging on himself. He didn't... he gloried in preaching the Gospel without charge, not to glorify himself, but to shut the mouths of his critics and and to remove any reproach from his ministry and message. His refusal to receive money was an unassailable defense to the accusations of all of his critics, and he gloried in the power and the effectiveness of that defense. And so he would neither use nor abuse his authority in the gospel to receive pay, so as to weaken the credibility of either the message or the messenger, to shut the mouths of my critics who falsely accuse me of being in the work of the ministry for the sake of the money. So he gloried in the argument that he had, the unassailable argument that he had against his critics, He's not glorying in himself like, look at me, I am so wonderful because I don't take any money. No, he's saying I have this glorious argument that I can use against my critics to defend myself against their false accusations. And the way I obtain this powerful argument against my critics is by denying my Christian liberty to receive income as the minister of the gospel. All right, any further comments? Please come down with your call sign. All right, Joe, KA2ZSD in Alaska. I hear you're enjoying the chat. Appreciate you being there, brother. Appreciate you keying up the mic. Able to pick you up on the Half Moon Bay SDR. Go ahead there, Joe, if you have a comment. Jerry, we have a lot more participation from the people on the net, but band conditions are poor, so we're just doing the best we can. All right, WB7MAX here, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. Any more comments, please come down with your call sign. Yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. Now when he said here he's free from all men, what he means by that is he doesn't answer to people. He answers to God. God is his Lord. God is his master. And God is the one who tells him what he should and shouldn't do. And God's the one who evaluates his behavior. And so he's not a servant to others. what people want him to do. He's a servant to what God wants him to do. So in that sense, he's free from what men think of him. Nevertheless, he does have a concern about what people think of him in terms of whether he is offending them or not. You know, when you behave in a way that is contrary to the culture of the people to whom you're ministering, it makes it a lot harder for them to hear your message. And so he says, I've made myself a servant to all that I might gain the more. I do this for the gospel's sake. And so Paul's great concern was not my Christian liberty and what I'm able to do. His great concern was how is the gospel going forth and how are people receiving it? And is the gospel penetrating into the Jewish culture? Is it penetrating into the Gentile culture? Is it penetrating into the minds and the hearts of those who have We know that he was stoned. We know that he was thrown into prison. We know that he was slandered. We know that he suffered many, many hardships for the preaching of the gospel. Why did he do all of that? Why did he engage in all this self-denial that our passage in 1 Corinthians 9 is talking about? It's because he had a heart for souls. He had a love for souls. Jesus Christ himself denied his liberty to remain in heaven. All right. Any other comments on this passage? Please come down with your call site. Zedixin. Kevin, KB7 Zedixin, we got you checked in. You got a comment for us, brother. Go ahead. KB7 Zedixin, thank you, Max. Sorry for being a little late this morning. But, no, you've done an excellent job, I think, of articulating it here. God had his hand on me, and I lived downstairs from a couple that were on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. And it really put a big impression on me that somebody would share the gospel with me, and I've taken that with me my whole life. opportunities here at the Greenhouse Nursery. But I just wanted to say that I think that's my calling, is just share the gospel with those who are lost. Amen, George. And what a wonderful calling to share the gospel with the lost. And, you know, we all have that calling. Some of us as a full-time job, as evangelists, but all of us as witnesses for Jesus and as those who publicly confess His name before the world. And so, George, I'm glad that you have clarity about what your calling is, and I appreciate you pursuing that calling as the main purpose. and central organizing principle of your life. That's wonderful. Okay, any final prayer requests or comments before we go to prayer? Please come down with your call, sir. Zedek Sin. Zedek Sin, go ahead. Yeah, just a brief comment and prayer request. And I really appreciate both comments there, both Mark and I think that was it, David. The... You know, there's one thing we talked about yesterday, the role as a bivocational pastor, and as challenging as that was at times, I was always appreciative of the fact that I was never of any, you know, things I had to do. to deal with. Never did I have to deal with that I was in it for just the money, because, you know, it was quite the other. You know, I certainly questioned even beforehand, God, are you sure this is the calling you have for me right now? And because I was much more comfortable being in the background and serving from, you know, from the, um, the congregation's perspective there, you know, not having a leadership position. But this was one thing I was always kind of grateful for, although I really felt blessed to be able to do it full time and have a salary. But I never had the come up that I was, you know, ministering for the money. So there is a certain freedom in that, you know, for those of us that were bifocational pastors. And then I love the comment, too, to share the gospel whenever possible, too. Just think about it. you know how many times did someone actually come to you and share the gospel sat down with you personally and shared the gospel I'm guessing probably not too many times I know for me probably counted on one hand maybe you know a couple three times and so you know So if you just keep Whitney in your purse for a few days for the loss of her husband, he was probably really not all that old. I think he was probably in his 50s, maybe early 60s there. And Whitney, I believe, is the same. So that's on one and a half KB7s that I sent. All right, Kevin, I copied a prayer request for Wendy. Certainly we'll pray for her. I also got a comment here from Doc W6RLJ. Let me just read that to you. I lost it here for a second. Here it is. Doc W6RLJ says, "I'm sorry. The way I understand Paul's statement is, as I serve others, it keeps me from going off the path, and it also provides me with a reward of being with Jesus in spirit as a team member. And, you know, Doc, you're exactly right. When we engage in this kind of selfless behavior, it keeps us... report we got from Darrell, WB7AOT. And we know that he went for some diagnostic tests yesterday. And he said, "The testing went well yesterday. They looked up inside my urethra and into and through the prostate and into the bladder with a camera probe, also used an ultrasound probe. to view my prostate and bladder as well. My prostate is about double the size of normal for my age, and there is a median lobe of my prostate that extends up into my bladder. The urologist recommends a robotic aqua ablation treatment, which removes some lining of the urethra through the prostate to allow for increased urine flow. Also, I will need some surgery to remove an enlarged median lobe. It's protruding up into my bladder. The doctors think this could be the greater cause of my obstruction of urine flow. The lobe can act as a ball valve by laying across the outlet of the bladder, which prevents urine flow. The harder the bladder muscle pushes, the more it closes off the flow. I don't know why I currently have good flow, but I've been doing some stair climbing exercises which may help keep the obstruction from occurring. The problem is that at any time I can have obstruction, and that is scary. I have requested the treatment plan that he has recommended. I'm waiting now to hear back as to when this can be scheduled. So Darrell asked us to share that with Annette. And so Darrell has these urology issues, and we're going to be praying about those as well. All right, we're going to go to prayer now, and we're going to ask the Lord to meet our needs. I haven't heard from Jerry, AE7ER. So I'm going to go ahead and close in prayer today, and we'll have him close in prayer tomorrow. All right, this is WB7MX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. Our kind and gracious Father, we thank you for Paul's example in teaching in this area of Christian liberty. And Father, we thank you that his grand concerns... was for the credibility of his character and also for the effectiveness of the gospel in the lives of others. Help us, Father, to walk blameless before the eyes of others. And help us, Lord, to remove any unnecessary offense to the gospel as we share that gospel with others. Father, we just pray that you would make it so that the gospel would have free course in the lives of those with whom we share it, both because they respect our testimony and our walk, and also because they recognize our willingness to not create unnecessary offense, to have some social grace. in the way in which we deal with others. And now, Father, we have these requests that lie before us today. Father, we just want to pray today that you would provide Autumn with a new place to live. Roger and Daylene are going through some real medical issues with Daylene's breast cancer surgery. And Lord, I just pray that this third person who's living in their house We'd be able to find other housing so that they could focus on Daly's healing and, Father, her need for the privacy and all the issues that flow out of healing up from that. Father, we just want to pray today for Dale. Father, it sounds like he's not doing too well. There's something wrong with his bone marrow. He needs a blood transfusion every day. Lord, it's not looking good. But, Lord, we thank you that he's trusting you as his Lord and Savior. And Father, if it be your will, we'd ask you to heal him and raise him up so that he could have many more years of sharing the gospel with his mother, Barbara, and also of being a testimony to your saving grace. Lord, just have mercy on Dale. Turn this thing around. And Lord, I pray that you would heal him. Father, we thank you for Joe, K-A-2-Z-S-D, being with us from Alaska. Lord, he asked us to pray for the country. And Lord, our country is badly divided between good and evil. And Lord, we pray that the good would prevail and the evil would be defeated. Lord, we pray that our nation would rally around the Constitution and around the Lord Jesus Christ and his word and will and ways and gospel. Father, bring a revival to our nation. And, Father, bring peace and respect for law enforcement across our country. And, Father, those that are fomenting all of this strife and division and destruction and hindrance of law enforcement, Father, may you restrain them and defeat them. Father, we just want to pray today for Wendy. Her husband died, Father, and we just pray that you would bring the peace and comfort of the gospel to Wendy. Lord, she just needs your felt presence and your felt peace to be ministered to her heart. And, Lord, we just ask that you would be pleased to provide that. Lord, we just want to pray for the churches who need pastors. Father, Kevin's church needs a pastor, and Al's church needs a pastor. And Father, Walla Walla University needs a new pastor for the students. And Lord, we just pray for these needs. And Father, many other churches that you would raise up good and godly pastors. And Father, the pastors that are in those churches that are laboring, Father, give them strength, give them grace, give them mercy, give them words and wisdom to be able to lead the sheep of God into green pastures and by the still waters. and into the paths of righteousness for your name's sake. Father, we just continue to pray for a negative pathology report on Darlene's breast cancer surgery. Lord, may that cancer not be in any of the lymph nodes. Father, we just pray that she would have clear margins in that lump that was taken out, Father, and that no further treatment would be necessary. Father, I just want to also pray for Jacob, the homeless man Roger gave a Bible to yesterday. Lord, we pray for Roger's salvation, that he would be able to get off the street. get into housing, get a job, and return, Father, back to regular, normal life. But most of all, Father, save him from his sins. Father, we pray for the silent multitude who listen to the West Coast Bible Study, that God would meet their needs. Father, we just ask that you'd be pleased to save those that are not yet saved, and those who are saved, Father, encourage them in their walk with you, and in their witness for you. Father, we want to pray for Brian, KJ7PWM, his friend Chris, who had a shattered elbow and needs that to be healed up so he can work with that arm. But Father, more than that, Chris needs salvation. Father, we pray that you'd be open to Brian's ministry. Father, we thank you for... regarding that future and how it unfolds. Father, we continue to pray for Jeff, AK6OK, and his ongoing Bible distribution to soldiers, and installation of chapels and Navy ships. Father, I just pray that you'd be pleased to greatly bless that ministry, provide the funds for the printing of Bibles, and for all the equipment that's needed to equip these chapels. And Lord, I just pray that you would raise up helpers for Jeff. so that that work could go forward without any hindrance or intermission. Father, we just want to pray for Scott N7NPA's ministry to the Fellowship of Christian Loggers. Lord, right now he needs healing in his body. Lord, for his prostate surgery, Lord, heal him up so that he can minister freely among those men. Father, we want to pray today for Mark at W7UAR and his ministry to Tyler, who's struggling with drug addiction. And we want to pray for Mark's mom, Fran. who has health issues. Father, give Mark wisdom in ministering to Tyler and Fran. And Lord, may you meet the needs in their lives. Father, we just want to pray for the unsaved and the unchurched in our communities to hear and believe the gospel. Kevin was talking about how few times people have brought the gospel to him through the years. And Lord, we just pray that we would see every person out there as an object of evangelism and just pass out tracts or Bibles or just say a word in season to those who are weary. And now, Lord, we just thank you for your goodness and your mercy and your grace to each one of us and for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen. All right, this is WB7MAX. We want to thank all the stations who checked in. We want to acknowledge Dave, KE7WKI, and also Al, the KJ7QQH, both of whom checked in on the FDRs. Appreciate you guys being there. All right. We also want to thank the stations 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 to our lives, and then to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out the lessons that we learn, and for God also to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency now to regular amateur use. This is WB7MAX, and I will be clear and standing by. KM5F Will, kill my ex by Foxtrot, go ahead What was Joe from Alaska's callsign? OK, Joe from Alaska, his callsign is Kilo Alpha Two Zulu Sierra Delta that's KA2ZSD, copy? Copy, I left out the Z and the F KM5F, thank you, bye Bye KM5F you bet, and appreciate Joe being here Alright, any other comments, questions, observations or communications, I am standing by How about a joke? Uh, Alpha Alpha Phi V8K, come forward with your joke. Alright, this is gonna require a little mathematics. How many apples grow on an apple tree? Alright, how many apples grow on an apple tree? Ha ha ha ha! We're supposed to figure this math problem out. Beck, that's way above my pay grade. Give us the answer. Sandy got it. All of them. Ha ha ha ha! How many apples grow on an apple tree? Answer all of them. Yep, we've never had an apple that didn't grow on an apple tree, that's for sure. You know, Beck, isn't it amazing? that an apple tree could take dirt and water and sunshine and manufacture an apple out of that. I consider that a miracle. I do too, but what I don't understand is why do you have to... You know, God created it all, and he started it all. So there had to have been an origination of the one tree that was... was fruitful all on its own. But why do you have to graft them? That's what I don't get. Yeah, well, you know, in that original apple tree, there was a lot of genetic variation encoded into the DNA of that apple tree's genome. And over time, what happened is through natural selection and also through humanly directed selection, different aspects of the fruit were emphasized. There was some selection for size. There was some selection for flavor. There was some selection for disease resistance. There was some selection for fruitfulness in various climates. And so the reason why you have to graft is if you want that variety to grow, on that stalk. And so all of my apple trees are grafted, and the reason why is because the root stalk has been selected for robustness in terms of strength and spread and ability to absorb nutrients and provide stability for the tree. And the graft was selected for the particular variety of apple that we wanted to produce. And so grafting is not necessary unless you want a particular variety on a particular rootstock. And that's the reason why that's done. Back to you there, Beck. Okay. I've got a couple of questions for you. Do you have a Fuji apple tree and maybe a Chinese pear tree? I do have a Fuji apple. I do not have a Chinese pear. I've got other varieties. I actually have 30 fruit trees in my orchard. And I have an orchard map which tells the name of each variety. And I don't have that in front of me, so I can't tell you exactly the particular varieties of pears, plums, apricots, cherries, and apples that I have. But there's quite a spread there. Over. Roger. Okay. I was just wondering, because Fuji apples are my favorite, and I hate pears, but Chinese pears are just delicious. Yeah, I copy that. And that's the beauty of genetic selection is that we can cultivate different fruits for different characteristics. And certainly among the varieties of pears that are out there, they taste significantly different, they have significantly different texture. The pears we have are quite hard when they're ripe. A pear like a Bartlett would be quite soft when it was ripe. We like our pears for canning, so we selected the harder varieties in order to be able to can them effectively. Back to you, Burke. Yeah, Roger. It's something about pears. The feeling it leaves in my mouth, it's hard to describe. Yeah, copy that. Well, we all like different foods. We're trying to do the same thing. It would be hard to have enough food to satisfy everybody if everybody wanted exactly the same food. So I'm glad you're picking different stuff out of the store that I'm picking. In fact, that leaves some for me, over. Roger that. Well, hey, I've got to give myself my insulin, so I'm going to let you go. Alright, back off Alpha 5 Yankee 7-3, do you have a good day? And we'll talk to you tomorrow, God bless. WB7MX is clear and standing by. Roger that, God bless you and Kathy and everybody else on the net. WB7MX, Alpha 5 Yankee, standing by. Okay, I heard a station, but I wasn't able to pick out a voice. Station, please try again. I'll tell you another one that he told the other day before you were on. He asked us a question. He said, if you're in a house with no heat, where is the warmest place to stand? If you're in a house with no heat, where is the warmest place to stand? And the answer is in the corner. It's always 90 degrees there. Alright Joe, K-2ZFB732, we'll talk to you tomorrow and I'll send you an email. God bless. Thanks for being here, Joe. WB7MAX, Clear and standing by. WB7MAX, Clear to the next area of the fleet. We have a little boat in the Reefside. Down in our area we have a lot of water. And the Reefside is developed in various areas as part of a disease detection device that can keep the volumes in the air a little bit longer. and you have others that start to feed with waterings and all, we don't want that to happen. But you know what it has to do with the winemakers in time, what they think is going to make a desirable a wine table or whatever. Yeah, I copy that. Yeah, you know the way a vine interacts with the particular soil it's in and the conditions it's grown under produces a wide