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And glad that she got that behind her because that's a lot of indecisiveness that goes on there for sure. All right, that's Scott in 7NPA, got you checked in. All right, any other check-ins, please come now. Now I would like to acknowledge Keith, WB7RKR. Good morning, Keith, good to have you with us. So we got both our Keiths here today. We got Keith, K7NEB, and we got Keith, WB7RKR. All right, who else we got here? Just looking over the SDRs. I think I am caught up. All right, any other check-ins? Please come down. KM5F. There's Will, KM5F. Good morning, Will. Good morning. How's everybody doing there? All right, real good, Will. We heard you and appreciate you being there, and we got you checked in. That's Will, KM5F. Okay, any other check-ins this morning? Please come down. . All right, this is WV7MX looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bravo Study. And listening for any call signs from anywhere, please come down to call sign. Alright, this is WB7 in May, XMAT Control for the West Coast, follow up study, we've got about 2 minutes to go before we get started. See any check-ins from anywhere, please come out with your call sign. Okay, we are going to be looking at 1 Corinthians 13 verses 4 through 7. That's 1 Corinthians 13 verses 4 through 7 today. So you might be looking at that in your Bible and be ready to talk about that list. of descriptors of what love looks like and acts like in the way which it deals with other people. All right, WB7MAX, we'll come back. Check-ins, please come down. Thank you. Thank you. Alright, we've got about 30 seconds to go before we get started with the barlow study. Any check-ins this morning before we get started? Please come down to your call site. Alright, I don't hear any more check-ins, so we are going to get All right, we are in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 13. We're looking at verses 4 through 7. The section we're dealing with here in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, 13, and 14 deal with the subject of spiritual gifts. And a spiritual gift is a God-given ability for service. And as we have seen in our previous studies, Chapter 12 deals with the distribution of spiritual gifts in the assembly. And we saw there that the Spirit sovereignly bestows a spiritual gift, at least one, on every person. However, no one has all the gifts, so that creates an interdependency and unity as each one shares their gift. and their God-given ability for service with others, and there's this mutual ministry that goes back and forth. Chapter 13, which we're in right now, deals with the limitations of spiritual gifts in the assembly. They are limited in value. Love is more important. They're also limited in duration. Gifts will cease, but love goes on forever. So this is the section we're dealing with. Now, yesterday we dealt with verses 1 to 3. And we saw in verses 1 to 3 that eloquence without love was worthless. We had every linguistic tool and talent at our disposal, but we didn't have love. We were nothing. The greatest truth said in the greatest way falls short. if it's not spoken in love. And then we saw that understanding without love is useless. Though we can know it all and understand every point of theology and every truth in the scriptures, if we don't have love, it's tinkling brass and sounding simple. It just is of no value. And then, of course, we saw that self-sacrifice without love is also valueless. Love is always self-sacrificing, but not all self-sacrifice proceeds out of the motive of love. And so if we are doing things for selfish motives, even though they involve great sacrifice, they accomplish nothing. So eloquence, understanding self-sacrifice, as great and wonderful as those things are, Without love, those things accomplish nothing in the cause of the kingdom of God, nor are they rewarded or blessed by God. So, having seen the necessity of love in verses 1 to 3, we're now looking at the nature of love in verses 4 to 7. If love is so important, well, what is it? What does it look like, and how does it behave? And so, that's what we're going to be looking at in verses 4 to 7 today. And this list of the characteristics of love is not an exhaustive list. Other descriptive terms could be added, but they were selected by Paul to combat and contrast with the unloving behavior that the Corinthians were engaging in toward each other, as we have seen in previous chapters. And so it's important to note that these words all describe actions. Love does. A lot of people equate love with a feeling. Love is a pattern of behavior towards other people. And these words here all describe that pattern of love. And then the other thing we want to note before we get started on this list is love is characterized as much by what it does not do as by what it does do. Fifteen qualities of love are mentioned here. Seven are positive statements, but eight are negative statements. So love not only does do some things, it abstains from doing other things because those things are unloving. So we have to not only cultivate the positive virtue, we have to avoid the negative destructive things that would undermine the love that we have with each other. So that's what we're dealing with here in this passage. We are going to go through these 15 items, hopefully in order. And when we're done, understand what it is that love does in the way in which it treats other people. So this is not so much a definition of love as it is a description of love. And that's what we're going to be looking at. So we've got to test our own behavior and the way we treat other people by this list. and challenge ourselves with where we need to improve and encourage ourselves with where we are doing well. All right, that's our little introduction. We want to get started now with our Bible study. But before we do that, we want to open in prayer. And so, Ed, N6XOH there in Prineville, Oregon. Ed, could you open in prayer for us today, please? Thank you. Sure. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you this morning. We ask that you bless our Bible study. And we ask that you bless each person here that's listening and participating in our study today. Just help each person get the blessing from this. this study, this important study here. Watch over Pastor Max as he brings us the bread of life as he leads out. Help us all to be able to hear you speak through these words to each one of us, Lord, and help us all to be ready when you come to take us home. I pray in Jesus' name. N-6-X-O-H. All right, real good, Ed. Thank you for that. Appreciate that prayer a lot. Okay, I'm going to ask Beck, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, if you would read for us. Beck, 1 Corinthians 13, verses 4 through 7. That's 4 through 7 there, Beck. Go ahead. Roger. I'll be reading from the New King James Version. Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself. Love is not puffed up. does not believe or behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Back to you, Pastor Matt, South Alpha 580. All right, real good, Beck. Great reading, and boy, this is like condensed dried food, isn't it? We've got to add the water of meditation to each of these terms, figure out what they mean, and then how they apply to us. All right, let's just go through this list. Love suffers long. Any comments on the long suffering of love? Please come down to your call center. PDI? Uh, PDI, Dave, go ahead. Yeah, Max, I love these passages, obviously. They're just overwhelming, but at the same time, when you look at God's Word, there's some things in God's Word, obviously, that are easy to understand. I'm going to turn it over to you, Mark. Yeah. and they're easy to do. There are other things in God's Word that are easy to understand and are difficult to do. And then there are things in God's Word that are hard to understand and they're hard to do. And that's what we're getting into here somewhat because I think of Matthew 5, verse 44. But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you. That is a hard verse to understand for many, and it's hard to do. It's hard to love somebody who hates you or is trying to persecute you. But what Paul is saying here in these messages to the Corinthians is that you need to suffer long because it's for love's sake that you do it. And it's kind, it loves, and it's not envy, and it does not berate itself. It's not fucked up. And so you've got to love those in the world that hates you. By the spiritual effect that you claim to be a child of God and be a Christian, the world hates that, and faith hates it. But we have to love our enemies, and we have to pray for them. And God will provide that opportunity and open those doors need to do our part in showing that love. Fiddle, fiddle, seven, pop the belt into the back of your mask. Yeah, really well said, David. And, you know, one of the things that we have to do with those enemies and one of the ways in which we love them is by being patient. As it says here, love suffers long. That is, it's willing to suffer abuse for a long time without retaliation. And so it's our response when people do things that irritate us or wrong us instead of retaliating, we wait. We exercise patience for a person's behavior to change and to mature. So we have to give people time to progress, to change. And even though we may be injured by them in the short run, you know, in the long run, we wait for God to work in their hearts. So that's one of the ways we can be loving to our enemies. is by being patient, waiting on God to work in their hearts, to change them, and to open their eyes and turn them around. And we see that happening with Saul of Tarsus, right? He was an enemy of the church. Imagine how the people were patient, waiting for God to work in Saul of Tarsus' heart, and eventually he did. All right, great comment there, David, KK7 PDI. Other comments, please, come now. Okay, I'm tied up. I will. Go ahead. Well, for the love suffers long, you can kind of summarize it by stating that love never gives up. Yeah, well said. That's a positive way to say it. Love never gives up. And, you know, as long as people are breathing on this earth, there is hope. And so we can continue to pray. and wait and have patience and not give up. You know, it's really easy, Will, when you've been praying for somebody for 20 years to say, oh, well, God's never going to save them, and they just give up. And I really appreciate you bringing out that term, because it's so important for us not to give up on anyone or their salvation until there's nothing else that can be done. Thank you, Will, for that comment. All right, other comments, please come down. Okay, Mark, KJ7PVT, go ahead. I think that what you just said is just a wonderful admonition. It kind of prompted me to get for a different picture. I'll just make sure that in terms of waiting on God and waiting to see what he does. Many times I know I want to jump out and I've got all the ideas for me about what I should do. So I'm going to. decide this is the course of action and when we don't wait sometimes we can get ourselves in trouble and I've done that a number of times and the scripture story actually that I want to bring up that kind of shows this is when remember when the ark was coming back and it was sent back into Jerusalem into Israel, into Jerusalem and it was on a cart and somebody decided that they needed to reach up and steady that ox cart. And we saw what happened there. It was something that he did on his own. And in that point, the thing that I kind of get from that story is that sometimes we don't believe that God can take care of himself. He knows it. He knows what's going on. He sees what's going on. We also see that. And yet, sometimes we can jump out into our own agenda and decide what needs to happen. And there's a little bit of an example there in that story with the Ark and the OX-KART KB-7TDT that you met. Yeah, Mark, thank you for that illustration from Uza reaching out to touch the Ark. You know, you're right. We do want to have things happen faster than God wants them to happen, and so we can jump out ahead of Him and not exercise that patience. And patience is willingness to wait for God to work and accomplish His work in His way. and for us to have a good attitude while we're waiting for Him to accomplish His purposes and His way. So, knowing when to act, knowing when to wait, that requires a lot of wisdom. And so we need to pray and ask God for that, and recognize that they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. And oftentimes it's harder to wait than it is to jump out there and try to do something, but unless... We're sure that it's something we need to be doing, that we have a calling to do, that we have some command to do in the scriptures, and oftentimes it's good to wait. And we don't need to help out God with this program. He's perfectly able to manage it himself. And while we serve in and in harmony with that program, There needs to be a sensitivity on our part as to when to go forward and when to exercise patience. All right, let's move on to this next virtue because our time is unfolding. Love is kind. Any comments on love being kind, please come down to your call sign. KM5F. KM5F, Will, go ahead. Yeah, what I did the other day is I read through several different versions, so I'm reading some of these out of the message, which is a little different. So for this one, love cares more for others than for self. Okay, I'm fine with that. Yeah, kindness is caring more for others than you care for yourself. I think that's certainly a dimension of kindness. And I think there's also the attitude of gentleness in dealing with those that we are reaching out and ministering to. And so kindness is the idea here of seeing the need and meeting it with gentleness and compassion. And so kindness will give good to others without restraint, and it will do so in the gentlest and most compassionate possible way. We see that in the story of the Good Samaritan, don't we? Where the Good Samaritan, he saw this man that was injured alongside the road. And he was kind to him. He was gentle, he was compassionate, he met his needs, and he provided for his healing. And so when you look around you and you see people that are hurting, you don't go out there and say, "Well, you know, if you weren't so stupid and you didn't make such bad decisions, you wouldn't have all these problems in your life." Well, kindness is the opposite of that. Kindness comes along and says, "Oh, man, I'm so sorry you're hurting. What can I do to relieve your pain?" And then do that in a way of understanding and of gentleness and that's, I think, what kindness looks like. All right, any other comments on kindness? Come now. Bye, Si. Okay, Steve, that'd be six. Bye, Si, go ahead. Yeah, comment. But when I read these words, I'm convicted because I know that I'm not patient when I should be, and I'm not loving many times when I should be loving. And it's just a reminder that we can love because Christ first loved us. and gave himself for us. And I realized that I think the word here for love is the word agape, and it's God's love that he has for us. Yeah, I'm just overwhelmed, and it just, it really shocks me into reality when I read these words. I fall short a lot, many, many times. That'd be a six YSI. Yeah, Steve, we all do. And you're right. The word agape is used consistently in this passage, and it's the idea of love without expectation of return. The idea of giving without looking to receive any reciprocation. So that's the nature of God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son. So he gave his son for our salvation. So, yeah, Steve, you're right. It is hard. And so we need to say to ourselves, okay, am I being patient with this person? Am I being kind in the way in which I'm speaking to this person and ministering to this person and dealing with this person? All right, real good. Let's move on to our next one. Love does not envy. What does that look like? Somebody help me understand this. Okay, we had a double there. First we'll go with Will. Love doesn't warrant what it doesn't have. Yeah, it doesn't resent what it doesn't have, that's for sure. Jealousy is being unhappy when others receive good. And so envy says, well, he's got a blessing, and I don't have that blessing, and so therefore I'm going to harm him or wreck his blessing just because I don't have it. So it's this attitude of I want what they have. And so it's really a horrible attitude of resentment of the blessings that others have in their lives. All right, there was another station there on top of Will. Other station, come now. PDI. PDI, David, go ahead. Well, I wanted to mention "on kind" just real quick, and then I'll hit "empty" real quick. But "on kind," again, it comes back to this compassion that's there, and that is, people really, again, don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. And we have to, we have to, there has to be time. But as far as "empty," when I look at the word "empty," I think of Philippians again: "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep." I'm not happy when other people have something that maybe I don't have. And wow, if I have that, no, you can rejoice with them. God is blessing them, whatever they have, because they understand that God has provided it, and I should be happy for them and not envy what they have. God will take care of me and my kind. He knows what I can handle. So envy is a terrible sin that can really destroy a Christian's life when they're always looking at others and what they have rather than considering all the blessings. And if they truly sat down and counted them one by one, they would be there all day, seeing how God has blessed them. He looks at it from a healthy angle. Amen, David. Well said. And, you know, God distributes His blessings unevenly. He doesn't distribute His blessings exactly the same across the whole spectrum of His people. And so if somebody has greater blessings than you do, That's the sovereignty of God. And when we are envious or jealous of what somebody else has, what we're really doing is resenting the blessings that God brought into their life, and we're resenting God for giving them more than He gave to us. But what we need to realize, as you said, David, we don't deserve anything. What we deserve is a place in hell. The wages of sin is death. That's what we've earned. And if we have anything more than that, we are tremendously blessed. And so when we see God blessing others above ourselves, we need to say, praise the Lord. Good for them. I'm glad for them. I'm also glad for the blessing I have because however little it may be in comparison to someone else, It's still way more than I deserve. It's what God recognizes as sovereignty that is best for me. And he's blessed me as much as I can endure blessing in the situation I am in and for the ministry that I have. Because if he gave me more than that, I would wind up becoming fouled. I would wind up misusing what he did. So we just have to trust God with the apportionment of the uneven distribution of his blessings. All right, any other comments? No. Pop Alpha. Pop Alpha, go ahead. What it looks like to me, Max, in my world today, backslash word picture is God is love. And this love comes through the Holy Spirit down from the heavens. And how this works looks like to me on the worldly side is I have a spring. And if water was love, this spring boils up out of the ground, just like it comes down from the heavens. But this water I tap into, and when it boils out of the ground, up on the ridge here behind the house, I've tapped into it, and so it comes down in a pipe. And I'm able to drink this water. I'm able to drink this love that comes from the heavens. The excess of love in the same picture is a This excess water develops channels, and there will be dry channels, and that dry channel is the channel of pride. And the other channel is the channel of humility, and the water runs down the channel of humility. Does this make sense, Max? It makes perfect sense to me. It's so impudent. Yes, God. I think it's a good visual illustration. God resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble. And His love flows to the humble. And it's withheld from the proud. And so love is certainly a gift of grace. He doesn't owe that to any of us. And so if we have it, we have it as a gift of His grace. And so you're right. There are things we can do to resist the blessings that God has brought into our lives, and one of those, the chief of them, is pride. And if we have humility, then those blessings flow in that channel. Scott, thanks for the illustration. All right, other comments come now. Good morning, KB7ZXN. Just enjoying all the commentary. Very good observations, I think, of the text. And I would just also include, you know, the love that he describes here, it's not just a passive characteristic. It is just by nature. Agape love is one of commitment, one of service, and we see that certainly fulfilled in Christ. And, you know, love is kind. It's not just a passive patience here either. It's an active willingness and an... willingness to serve one another. And, you know, this is in contrast to some of the things that he was dealing with with the Corinthian church. And as he goes through these lists, we can see some of the things that he was dealing with with the church. But he's pointing out to them, you know, instead of condemning others for maybe not knowing what you know or having gifts that you might have, but for opportunities to serve. and build up one another, edify. And so the kindness of love is, you know, I always look back to me, the Lord, one of the most profound things to me that he did before the cross was in the upper room when he washed the disciples' feet. Here, many will task, that was usually left for a slave or someone that was just basically pretty low on the social ladder. Certainly not the Lord, certainly not a rabbi, certainly not our Lord. But yet he makes a point here. You know, when you see a need, you serve that need. And no one, no service is beneath us. If the Lord can humble himself to wash the feet of his disciples, what task could be beneath us to serve one another? And, of course, the other end of the spectrum, all the way to giving himself a ransom for us on the cross as well. So what an example we have to follow on kindness. KB7, is that acceptable? Yeah, Kevin, thank you for pointing out that the great and perfect example of love is the Lord Jesus. And his love was not passive. His love was active. And, you know, he was one who laid down his life. No greater love as a man than this, that he laid down his life for his friends. And so love serves. And as you said, whatever the need is, if it's foot washing, he did that. And if it was multiplying loaves to feed the disciples, he did that. If it was calming a storm, he did that. And so I appreciate you pointing out, Kevin, that love is not passive, that Jesus is a grand example of love, and that we can look at how he dealt in various situations and see him loving even his enemies. Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, while they were harming him. So he was very patient. He was very kind. and he certainly was not envious. Jesus dealt with some very wealthy men, and yet he never wanted their stuff. He wanted them to come into a saving relationship with God, and that's what his concern was. It wasn't like, oh, this person's a multimillionaire, I'll cycle up to them because they can do stuff for me. No, it was like, this person's on their way to hell, and they need the gospel. And as far as material things... What shall a prophet demand if he gain the whole world or lose his own soul? So love is not jealous. Love is not envious. Okay, so we've talked about the first three in this list of 15. I think we're going to have to revisit this list tomorrow. So love does not vaunt itself. That's the next one, number four. It does not brag. All right, any comments on this one? Please come now. Okay, I'm by that. Will, 2-5-5, go ahead. I think it's, I think number 4, it would be "Love Doesn't Strut." Yeah, "Love Doesn't Strut," and the idea is a proud showing off, drawing attention to oneself, arrogance, self-importance, demanding attention, all those things are wrapped up in this concept well, so well said. You know, and this is kind of the opposite of envy, right? If we're envious or jealous of what others have, you know, we try to pull them down and destroy their blessings. And then, of course, the opposite side of that is we try to build ourselves up and set ourselves up as being like the super important folks. And so love doesn't seek to win admiration. Love is not seeking applause. Love does not try to make others jealous of us. What we have to recognize is that we need to lift others up. You know, one of the things John the Baptist said there, well, if he must increase and I must decrease, well, you know, this person who is vaunting himself or strutting, as you say, is someone who is saying, "I must increase and others must decrease." So here the Corinthians were, they were bragging about their gift, "I have this spiritual gift, I have that gift, aren't I special?" And basically, Paul was saying, "That's not loving." All right, other comments? Come now. Is that XN? Is that XN? Go ahead. Yeah, you're exactly right. And, you know, the context here, too, the Corinthians had created a competition and trying to create envy in one another, you know, a covetousness, if you will, because of the spiritual gift. And that's not love. Love doesn't do that. We don't condemn other people's blessings. We don't put down or compete against other people's blessings. We celebrate other people's blessings. and other people's successes. And we don't envy them. We don't condemn them. We don't compete against them. We celebrate the fact that God has chosen to bless them with that, and there should never, ever be a competition to try to one-up somebody on anything like that. KB7 set example. Yeah, Kevin, well said. And, you know, these two kind of go together. You know, the fourth thing that's said here is love the vaunted self. And then the fifth thing says love is not puffed up. And so vaunting oneself has to do with what we say about ourselves. You know, we brag on ourselves. And then being puffed up has to do with what we think about ourselves. Aren't I special? And, you know, this whole business of self-esteem. while there's a legitimate dimension to recognizing who God has made us to be and the gifts and abilities God has given to us, and praise the Lord for all of that, nevertheless, you know, "Let not a man think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but let him think soberly." We read about that in Romans chapter 12. And so, Kevin, well said. And it's important for us to not only not brag on ourselves, but then not think too highly of ourselves And that's the fifth thing here. And the third negative virtue is not only do we not want ourselves, we don't puff ourselves up. All right, other comments, come now. PDI. David, KK7 PDI, go ahead. Yeah, you know, when I think of the -- it was discussed a little bit with regard to that Adafi. When you look at a friend, a true friend is going to tell you the things that you don't want to hear. Because they love you, they care about you, and they know that if you're cuffed up, if you're acting this way, they're going to point that out. That's copy love. It's going to act in the best interest of others. and it's going to do what's necessary in order to accomplish that end. And it's important that we do that. It's important to point that out. If you truly love someone, you're not going to let them continue down that road. You're going to be a person to show that agape love. I'm going to act in your best interest. It may not be pleasant that I tell you this, but because I love you, I want you to know that this that you're doing or whatever It's not appropriate. It's wrong. And it's because I love you. I'm telling you that. That's the kind of person I want around me that is going to tell me if I do something wrong, to point it out so that I can make the proper direction to be right with my Lord. He looks at me, Papa, don't be in the abacus. Yeah, well said. You know, the Scripture says in Proverbs, Faith for the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. And, you know, when we receive legitimate... fact-based, reality-founded reproof. We need to listen to them. Now, all of us get flandered from time to time with false accusations, and we have to have discernment to tell which of those are true and which are not. But David, if you've got somebody who loves you enough to help you do better in your walk with the Lord and help you to do better in representing the Lord and be more like Him. What a blessing that is to have friends like that. We see Jesus doing that with His disciples fairly often. He'll say to them, Oh, you have little faith. And then He'll offer some correction of some kind. And sometimes His reproofs are very gentle and kind. Sometimes they're a little sharper because they didn't listen the first time or two. So you're right. You know, Scott was talking about the rivers of blessing flow in the channels of humility. And, you know, when we have that kind of humility, people feel, you know, comfortable talking to us, knowing we're not going to bite their head off. when they offer some kind of a correction that, you know, our own conscience says, yeah, you know, he's right about that, and I need to get that fixed. So what a blessing it is. So, you know, this idea of vaunting oneself or puffing oneself up is something that we've got to guard ourselves against. You know, arrogance has the big head. Love has the big heart. And I think that that's what we've got to think about is, you know, am I trying to lift myself up or am I trying to lift others up? Because if you see yourself as better than others, you're never going to be able to be a servant to them or minister to them. or have that kind of humility. All right, any other comments on these twin concepts here of love does not vault itself and love is not puffed up? Please come down with your call sign. Zedek's in. Zedek's in. Go ahead. Well, and, you know, excellent comments. I appreciate everybody's input that's shared. And you're exactly right. You know, it is very unbecoming. Someone that's just constantly bragging about themselves. And as many of the things I'm appreciative of our president, we certainly see. That being one of his maybe shortcomings, but especially in a believer, we don't need to be trying to just point out it's not about us. It's about God. And if we're always pointing to ourselves and our achievements and our accomplishments, that's not expressing love at all. And that's not, you know, one of the things, too, is I think David, you made a good point on a good friend, a true friend, but also... you know, hold the light of this text up to you and be honest with you about things. But also I think we all can look here, and we all have the blessing of this text, and as we hold it up to ourselves, and it's a good opportunity for self-reflection. Am I expressing love in a way that is honorable and pleasing to God? Are these attributes that maybe some of these characteristics do I need? work on maybe in some of these areas. So it's a really wonderful opportunity not only to understand how Paul was teaching the disciples there, the brethren of the Church of Corinth, but it's also an opportunity for us to do some self-reflection in these areas, I think, too. KV7, Zedek Center. Yeah, Kevin, that's right. We need to apply the Scripture to ourselves first and foremost and primarily before we even think about applying it to others. So thanks for pointing that out. You know, it reminds me of this passage, Kevin, in 1 Corinthians chapter 4, which we read earlier as we've been going through this book. in verse 7 where Paul says, "Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? And so there needs to be that fundamental humility, which is the opposite of vaunting ourselves or puffing ourselves up, because we realize, "Okay, so maybe I do have better abilities or more resources, or greater privilege or larger ministry or fill in the blank than other people do around me, well, who gets the credit for that? And the answer is God does. He's the one who makes us to differ. In Mark of Del, we differ from one another. As I said earlier, blessings are unevenly distributed. But rather than that being a cause of jealousy or vaunting ourselves or puffing ourselves up, we need to be thankful that others are better than we And we also need to be thankful for what we are and have, and we need to give God the glory for that. And, you know, there's a wonderful verse in Proverbs 27, verse 2. It says, Let another man praise thee, and not thine own lips. And so this person who is not manifesting love is busy praising himself, putting others down, lifting himself up in a spirit of competition as though he deserves the glory for what he has achieved. And so, you know, when you compliment a godly person, they'll always say, well, you know, thank the Lord. To God be the glory. Great things he has done. I'm just the instrument that he uses. But the credit goes to the one who wields the instrument and not to the instrument itself. All right. We are clear out of time. We're going to have to stop here. I will take up this passage again tomorrow, and we'll proceed to this list. We've only gotten about a third of the way through it. And so we'll start out tomorrow with love does not behave itself unseemly. That is the sixth of these 15 statements about how love behaves. in its treatment of other people. So we'll go from there. All right, are there any final prayer requests before George leads us in prayer? Any prayer requests, please come down. AK6, okay. I'm going to leave this one. Okay, just a second. We had a double there, so I got Jeff. AK6, okay. Jeff, saw you there on the SDR. Thanks for checking in. Any prayer requests there, Jeff? Go ahead. We can take off. My blood pressure is way back to normal. Thank you guys for going through that stuff. Well, real good. I'm so pleased to hear that. So, George, K2KJX, this is a praise and an answer to prayer. Jeff, AK6OK had really high blood pressure there for a while. We've been praying that God would bring it down, and it's back down to normal now. And so that's a praise to the Lord for Jeff, AK6OK, that his blood pressure has been normalized. Okay, KK7PDI had a prayer request. Go ahead, David. Yeah, I just wanted to pray for justice in this great state of Oregon. I read yesterday, and it was a little disturbing, but the legal system here in our state has dropped the ball and 1,500 convicted people that were arrested were heinous crimes. Because they weren't processed, time fees are all going to be released into our state. And so there'll be many more crimes committed as a result of that, unfortunately. So I pray for the right... and justice that needs to happen amongst our political leaders to ensure that the people which they represent are protected. That's all I pray for. And I know our God is in control and He will deal with it, but at the same time I pray for that. People, people seven, Mama Delphi in the air. All right, David, real good. Thank you for that request. David, ask us to pray. We're going to pray. We're going to pray. We're going to pray. for our civil authorities to restrain criminals and criminal behavior and not release criminals into our midst that should not be released. And we can certainly see that across the nation. California has 33,000 illegal aliens in its jail. And the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency said, "Don't release those guys. Let us have them. We'll get them deported." And I'm afraid Gavin Newsom is just going to release them all. Same thing happened here in Oregon. So let's just pray for our civil authorities that they will not protect criminals, but they will protect the innocent citizens. Good prayer request there, David. Thank you for that. All right, other prayer requests, come out. WB7VZO. Roger, WB7VZO, go ahead. We're doing a post-surgery visit 50 miles away in Richland today. So thank you for your prayers that have brought her to this point. regarding her future treatment, if any, regarding her breast cancer. So that's Roger, WP7VZL, and his wife, Darlene. All right, any other prayer requests? Come ahead. Sorry, George, K2KGX, please go ahead and close in prayer for us. Roger, K2KGX, please pray with me. Our Heavenly Father, thank you for your love and kindness and mercy. Thank you for the Lord Jesus who paid our sin debt, and you claim us with your spirit, Lord, and I thank you for that. I pray for Steve, W6YSY, for traveling with his son John, that they have a safe trip, enjoying time together, and that they grow closer in their relationship. And I also pray for Whiskey 7 T.W.O. Mike, that Randy would get into some permanent housing, and that he would have a nice place to live. W6RLJ.com. The medical mission, we prayed about it before in the South Pacific area. in February, and I pray that they find some people that are interested in knowing you, Lord Jesus. And I also pray for his wife, Marlis, that her wife, her health issue, that whatever it is, you know and that I pray that she would be cured of whatever that is. AK6OK Jeff, we praise you for his blood pressure coming back to normal. Thank you for that, Lord. KK7 PDI, David. Yeah, justice and accountability in Oregon, and it seems like all over the nation that we are not upholding our own national laws, and we seem to release criminals, multiple for crimes that they commit and the justices are the ones that we lift up to you and ask that you change their heart the civil authorities also but the change these judges hearts and that they would realize that criminals belong in in prison and they don't belong out in open civilization. Also for Roger, the WB7B that I was, for his post-surgery wife, Darlene, they're going to an appointment today, and you give them the wisdom and direction that they need to do their follow-up. Also, I continue to pray for Scott, M7 MPA, for his prostate cancer surgery. I pray, Lord, that you heal him, give him a peace of mind that only you can give. And also, Darrell, WB7AOT, healing from his urology issues. As we all get old, Lord... Seems like men have these issues, including getting up many times at night. Cody, KI7, TRF, this is me, Zoe. I think it's a good thing that she left her boyfriend and she's living with her grandparents. I pray for her salvation, that she comes to know you, Lord Jesus, and receive you as her Lord and Savior. Jeff, AK6OK, Rob Durkee, he's recovering from tongue cancer surgery. And that's, I pray, Lord, that you just heal him. and that they got all the cancer out and that he will recover quickly. Charles, N7, VEN, I'm not sure who Trevor is, but he's struggling with his faith regarding his cancer, having doubts that God cares for him. And I pray, Lord, that you would strengthen him, give him the knowledge that... that his faith in you will be strong regardless of the outcome of his treatment, and that he has successful surgery on December 11th, and I pray for his ongoing chemo treatment. Chief WB7RKR, healing from his damaged bicep, I pray, Lord, you heal him. and I can only imagine that that's a little bit of a struggle. And his wife, Ronnie, has Alzheimer's, and I pray that it does not progress and they would have strength and wisdom for Keith in caring for her. Bert, W7RKD, insomnia and health issues. I get to talk to Bert sometimes in the morning. And Danny, Bert. wife for remission of her multiple sclerosis uh that's a tongue twister and mike w7 pwo mike's lower back pain uh as somebody who has crushed a vertebrae i know what lower back pain is and i pray that he would have peace and healing of his lower back and also a temporal um I think that arthritis has returned, and I pray for healing and for wisdom and the proper medication to be used to treat it. Doug passed into heaven October 4th. I pray for his wife, Betty, and their family. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your goodness and mercy and grace and for you being our gift to us. We put our faith and trust in you, and I pray in your name. Amen. Amen, George. Thank you so much for that wonderful prayer. I really appreciate you bringing us to the throne of grace and articulating all of our hearts towards the Lord and towards these needs. And as you think of it throughout the day, continue to lift up these needs and these people, and just beseech God to have mercy on each need that's in your life. represented there. All right, this is WB7MX, 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 pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we have learned and for God 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 WB7MX. I'll be clear and standing by. 5 Yankee with this morning's joke. 5 Yankee, go ahead. We're waiting. What do you get when you cross a parrot with a caterpillar? Thank you. What do you get when you cross a kitten with a caterpillar? Is that it? No, a parrot. P-A-R-R-O-T. A parrot with a caterpillar. Okay, what do you get when you cross a parrot with a caterpillar? It's got to have something to do with Polly want a cracker, but I can't hook it together. go ahead there back you get a little walkie-talkie thank you for that back my pleasure I'll pop for five Yankees anybody all right real good okay anybody else want to out of here go ahead yeah thank you mark Appreciate you being here and your comments and everybody's comments. You know, this is kind of like a potluck, right, where everybody brings something to the table and we all eat spiritual food. And so, you know, praise the Lord. And I'm so glad for, you know, the peace, the unity, and the love. We're studying love right now that we have toward each other. So a real good mark. Appreciate you and thank you for. your encouragement. I just pray that God's good hand will be on you and Margie today and God will bless your ministry and your work for Him. Over. Thanks, Matt. I wanted to let you know that I'm making some headway towards getting an amplifier. Even though they didn't pick up a roller manual Yeah, good. I'm glad you're making some headway towards getting an amplifier. That'll be wonderful. You know, it's interesting, Mark. When the net starts, the only way I can hear you is on Half Moon Bay SDR, but now I'm hearing you directly on my radio. So it's interesting As the sun comes up and the band progresses, communication improves. Of course, once it gets way up, it goes back down again. But this gray line is a wonderful section of the day to be in. Over. Yeah, I've been able to, in the last few days, I've been able to talk to Southern California. I got to talk to some folks. Thank you. raised in my same hometown and uh it was just really a lot of fun i ended up bumping into about five guys there but we all had prepared notes and that's everything that you need so it was just like talking on the phone uh the thing i was able to pick up is a cool legal limit tuner a manual tuner as a roller style and uh that's gonna give me some additional I'm glad you got a tuner that's that rugged. I have a 1500 watt tuner and a 1500 watt amp. But having a robust tuner is worth a lot. So I have a roller tuner. It's a PALSTAR HF Auto. And so it has all the manual capacitors and resistors and all that stuff in it. I guess it's inductors and capacitors. And so anyway, you can hear the motors running in. there and moving those capacitors and those inductors around. So that's real robust. It's high current, and so I don't have to worry about burning anything out. And duty cycle is at 100% when I'm operating at these low wattages of about 500 watts. And really, that's where the sweet spot is. You don't need 1,500 watts. It's nice to have a 1,500-watt amp. Because then, you know, you can run it at lower wattages without worrying about burning it up or running into a duty cycle. Over. Yeah, right. I've been having conversations with Beck about that. He gave me some really good advice as well. So I'm trying to follow a number of people's advice. It turns out that if you get on the radio and ask people questions, I'll give you some pretty good advice. and they will moderate each other and you can, you know, at the same time you'll get a for it. It's really good advice that you probably won't find anywhere else and these are people who actually use their apps and talk on them and know what the good points and the bad points are. So that was the first one. One of these days, you're hearing a lot of e-mails coming in on my way in. KK7 PDP, thanks. Comment? Okay, Mark, real good. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. Yeah, the depth of knowledge that's represented in the ham radio community is phenomenal. Yeah. helpfulness is also phenomenal. I just love this community. I love all the people in it and just the way that they'll help you with anything if they possibly can. And, you know, my knowledge base is very small and limited. Anything I know, I've learned from others and I just kind of pass along what I know if I know something. But I stand in awe of these electrical engineers and all those folks. that are part of the ham community and then of course guys maybe aren't engineers but they have that kind of knowledge and i understand electricity you know i wired my own house but when it comes to electronics i'm baffled but i'm glad i've got people out there i can lean on all right mark kj7 pvt7 3d you have a great day and we'll talk to you tomorrow wb7 index is clear and standing by KJ7PVT, AA5Y. Yeah, I can pick you up. Yeah, go ahead. Good morning. I just wanted to let you know I still have not heard from Yaesu. So as far as that Yaesu amplifier goes, it's a good amplifier, but I don't think they're going to do any repairs on it if it needs repair, right? Yeah, I got you there. I'm going to put this thing up to my radio. I won't be running an amplifier, but I will be learning how to use it because it is a manual tuner. So it will get me working with you. Thank you. Roger, no problem. What tuner did you wind up getting? It's the MSA 989 or something like that. It's a roller tuner. Full limit, full legal limit roller tuner. MSA. I opened it up. It was used one. . That's what I got. Now, Roger, well, you've got something designed for 1,500 watts, and you're only going to be pushing 500 watts through it. It's going to last you for the rest of your life, Roger. Yeah, that was my intent. Yeah, that's one of the things that you pointed out to me. I'm going to find things right now. This is it. Thank you. a good amplifier and uh i look forward to hearing a little stronger signal from you yeah uh you're coming through great and i know that you're running some power i'm still on 100 watts and so thanks for playing up with me Thank you. Roger, well that 7300, the other radio you had was a good radio, but that 7300 has some really nice audio to it. It's a little bassy, but it sounds good. You can tell it's got some modulation to it, Roger. Yeah, I mean, I'm just listening to the audio on, and the bass right now is mostly my voice, but I'm going to play it. Okay. I could probably, uh, we could play around with the area a little bit further through. I, it's a little more high. So, um, I just haven't gotten to that point yet. So I'll, I'll, I'll be looking into myself on FDR from here. There you go. Okay, Mark, well, you have yourself a wonderful day. I, uh, just want to... give you an update there on that uh the acu amplifier that the acu is definitely not going to do anything for it 73s take care god bless South Alpha 5E, keep standing by. Hey, Pastor Beck. Yeah, go ahead, Beck. How long ago did you get your, uh, your tuner, your PALSTAR tuner? It was probably before I ever got on this net, so several years ago, probably about four-years ago now, I guess. OK. That will do it. OK. Good, good. All right, WB7 to Max, standing by. All right, Blackbird 5 Yankee. OK. All right, WB7 to Max, standing by. All right, Blackberry 5 Yankee. All right, Blackberry 5 Yankee. Thank you. I'll see you all tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.