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Bravo from Sanborn, Idaho. Keith, grab the chair. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Please call at 7:00 PM. And I see JR. JR's with us this morning. Good morning, JR. N6. Lil Bo Peep, LBP. Good to have you on there this morning, JR. Thanks for being on the chair. Coming up to the table. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins. to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Acting at control this morning is November 7, November Alpha, in 7 NPA. K-E-7-W-K-I. Well, good morning, David. You have a nice signal over here. K-E-7-W-K-I, this is Dave. Good morning to everyone. No prayer requests. Alrighty, thank you Dave, thanks for being here, thanks for grabbing a chair, coming into the roundtable this morning. Appreciate you have a nice signal coming into the crow's nest this morning, over. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group, please call and sub it in PA. Looking for check-ins, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group, please call and 7-N-P-A. I see Brian on there. Brian on the radio this morning, KJ7PWM. CWM, I am here this morning, just walked into the shack as you called my name. Happy to be here. Glad you could come in, Scott. Thank you so much. No need for a request. Alright, Brian. Good timing, I guess. Yeah, thanks for being here, grabbing a chair. And so much appreciate what you do for the West Coast Bible Study. Looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study group, please call at 7 MPA. WB7V, the doctor. Hey, hello, Roger. I'll give you an audio hug. How you doing? I got a bunch of noise here on the frequency, but I can barely hear you, but I can hear you, praise the Lord. Yeah, yeah. The band isn't as nice as it was yesterday, but we'll blunder through it. I think as the net progresses, it will get better there, Roger. Over. Okay, I'll try to follow you, what I can hear. I think there's a... It sounds like we got a carrier nearby, over. Yeah, yeah, we got someone turning close. That's pretty normal for the weekend days. Weekends, the band gets a little bit more crowded, but we'll deal with it. And see, tomorrow's the big day, isn't it? The big birthday party tomorrow for, uh, for Daley. All right, looking for check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study Group. Please call in 7 NPA. Okay, well let's get started. Steve, W6189, could you open this up in transit for me? I should have gave you a heads up, but I forgot. Yeah, I'll be honest with you, Dad. Yeah. Turn down the volume control on this other outfit here. This power head's... Father, thank you for another day, and Lord, we thank you for the help that we have to deal with what's happening about, and the rest throughout the night. Lord, we look forward to our Bible study, that we gather each and every day to listen to you. We need to hear from you. There's a lot of needy people, especially now. Lord, we need your help with what we're doing overseas with Iran and Israel and Israel. all that's going on, oh God, it's frightening to us, unnerving, so we just ask for your grace, help us, oh God, to trust in you completely. Kathy reminded us of this morning, we trust you and wait upon you every moment throughout the day. So we thank you, oh God, that we have you as our Father. So bless us now and give us teachable hearts. Help us to hear from you and apply to our lives. What we learned today in Jesus name I pray. Amen. All right. We'll be opening up our reading. Steve, I'll tap you to read here in a moment. We'll open up our reading this morning. We're at 2 Corinthians 2:1. I also wanted to share with the group here that Pastor Max will be boarding his plane about 2.30 our time. And on his journey home, he'll be on Alaska Airlines Flight 290. I know many of you have air flight trackers. I know we have an aircraft tracker up at one of our repeater sites that receives all the data from the transponders, puts it into the internet, and then feeds it back to the appropriate sources. We can track planes all over the state of Oregon. It's kind of cool. I have that set up on one of my monitors here in the shaft, so if you go around 2:30 or You can type in Alaska Airlines Flight 290 and watch Pastor Max come home. So that's kind of cool. If we look back over our shoulder, in 1 Corinthians, leading up to today's reading, in 1 Corinthians, we learned that... Uh, uh, the church in Corinth was established. And almost from then on, it was the problem child. You know, a lot of us have raised kids. You know, each one of them have different personalities. Some of us have been blessed where, yeah, different personalities, but they've sought their parental guidance the best way they could, and they had hiccups along the way. And then some of us have seen grandchildren that... that's had different struggles, you know, all part of life's lesson. Well, the Church of Corinth was like that. I can remember back in my working days, I had 60 men underneath me, and those 60 men, some of them were just such a joy. to work with. You'd share with them your vision, what you needed to get accomplished that day, that week, that month, that quarter. They would catch that vision and just run with it. You had other personalities that... that would stand and question everything that you did. And then you had some that just refused to follow, you know, go wrong. So this is what Paul was dealing with as he was planting these churches. And Corinth was one of these churches. And Paul, if we look back at Acts 18, verse 11, We see that Paul spent about a year and a half getting this Corinth church up off the ground. And then he moved on to plant new churches. And only to hear shortly after they left that they were developing some immoralities. within the church. And we looked in 1 Corinthians 5, verse 9, when we were there, and seen that. And so he wrote him a letter in 1 Corinthians 7, verse 1, addressing these issues and wanting to get to the core of it. And then getting vibes back that he was not pleased about, he ended up sending Timothy, of course, to try to get him lined out. And he was at a full plate carrying on the mission. And then when... that failed Paul went back to Corinth briefly and by that time there was false apostles there you know kind of like foreign knock offs you know sometimes we can buy a item that uh serves us well and you go nowadays there's multiple items out there on the market I'm thinking of like a dual batteries you know you can purchase a dual battery for for a power tool and and then there's knockoffs out there if you go on the internet it really looks like it's a dual item but it's not dual at all it's a knockoff it's the components of this is you usually in and the tool itself is foreign. And so all we're dealing with are foreign apostles that were teaching false doctrine. And so we think about that, and everything that was the weight that was on his shoulders as he was doing God's work. And so he called that second... a visit back to Corinth, the painful visit. That's what it's labeled, the painful visit. And so we, he left after getting his nose, kind of throwing his hands up in the air and praying for him. We moved forward and we looked back as we picked up our reading in chapter two you know, it started out, I think, where we take off today in our reading. It started there in verses 1 through 11 as he's talking about affliction and comfort. I believe he's coming from the direction of this Corinth church going sideways. And so that's where it kind of brings us up today. So I'm going to ask Steve to read... 2 Corinthians 2, verse 1, up to verse 12. We did one yesterday. We'll go verse 12 to the end of the chapter there, Steve. Over. Okay, uh, verify I'm going to be reading after 2 versus 12 through 17? Yeah, that's correct. Okay. I'll be reading from the New American Standard. Did I, uh... I jumped off on the wrong page. Here we go. Now, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord, I had no rest for my spirit. Not finding Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia. The thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and makes us through us this clear aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. the one in aroma from death to death, and the other in aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? For we are not, like many, meddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, and as from God, speak in Christ, despite God. I messed up at chapter 3, 36YFI. Steve, I messed up. I messed up. I needed... I was right the first time. I got distracted and I gave you the wrong reading. Could you back up and read verse 1 to verse 11? Sure, no problem. Chapter 2, verse 1. "But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again." For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? And this is the very thing I wrote you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from these who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, Not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. But if any has caused sorrow, it's caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree, in order not to say too much, to all of you. "Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority, so that, on the contrary, we should rather forgive and comfort him, that somehow such a one be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. "To this end also I wrote that I might put you to the test. whether you are obedient and think. Whom you forgive anything, I forgive also. For indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. That takes care of the chapter. That'd be 6 YSI. Yeah, we ate the dessert first, didn't we, Steve? Alrighty. Well, we can see that, you know, in verses 1 to 4 that, you know, his second trip back to Corinth when he got his nose bloodied with the false apostles and the immorality within the Corinth church, that here he decided against a third visit, and instead he decides to write a letter. And sometimes when we have conflicts amongst us, even if it's in or outside the church, sometimes a card or a letter is a good way to start the mint, especially if it is handwritten. There's something about pen to paper where there is a connection of, of the individual's heart is transformed through the pen onto the paper and then shipped. And that's kind of the picture that we get from Paul, that this is very deep, very heartfelt, and tears. You know, this was very, very troubling for Paul to see what the courts the Ponce Church was doing. And so this was very difficult. So anything that kind of comes to mind with what Steve read there here in verses 1 through 11, please call and have an MPA. You're coming to B7E, is that all? Yeah, go ahead, Roger. Well, it's nice to have a California station. Steve, your longer skip was just about right. It reminds me of the old days when Harold was... was our leader. No longer Skip is quite nice in the wintertime from California. But now it's opened up between Scott and I and it's beautiful. So patience is the advice which I think by and large is good. Don't write to Scott. Don't write to Scott. Don't write emails or especially don't text emotional language. Paul had no choice. But now we have more choices and to the medium that we start to deal with the emotional difficulties. And it's best to do it face to face. And that's where Paul is up against the wall, so to speak. He really needs the body language that a presence does. have. Writing it, I like your idea of the Scott, the idea of writing it in a paper. I think he probably had a scribe to help him. He may have had shackles on a, well, at any rate. Yeah, we're opening up some almost like private mail, not having the questions or the previous letters or not in the context. So we're a third party. But through the Holy Spirit, even we third party people can gain quite a bit of hearing the letter for sure. It lets us know how big a heart our leader, so to speak, on earth is. the Apostle Paul was, how pastoral. Becky Scott, this is WP7V with Elton. Yeah, point well taken, Roger, and well said. You know, I know face-to-face is best, but in my years of pastoral ministry at the level that God had me at, there was times when I just felt like face-to-face was good, but sometimes face-to-face can also be overbearing if the person doesn't want to hear. I felt like I agree with you. Not the email, not the text, but with pen and paper, there is... There is a physical connection that the electronic devices cannot deliver. It's a little bit like working a station with CW, you know, with a hand key or a paddle. I have both here. I have a venture paddle and an old hand key. When I'm in a CW conversation, there is this connection. Now, you fast forward to the digital modes of today, FT8, for example, it's all there. And I do some of that. But there is, to me, there is a, there's not a connection. like there is with the panel. In the middle of the night with your headset and copying these bits and dashes coming off the ionosphere, there's a connection with the operator on the other end. It's kind of hard to describe, but if you know, you know. the and paper, same concept as the venture. So there's just a connection there. So I get where Paul was at, and he did the face-to-face once, and it was not a good experience. And so he's trying this tactic. And that and prayer, that and prayer with prayer being the frontrunner, good positive results can develop. All right. Thanks, Roger. Anybody else have anything that jumped out at them in verses 1 through 11 that they'd like to share on this topic? 7 a.m. Yeah, I got Mark and I got David. We'll go with Mark first. Go ahead, Mark. Yeah, thanks, Scott. I just opened up a map and just, for plenty of eagles. I put in Macedonia and Cora in question. I wonder how far these two places are apart from each other. I look at the map. They are a long ways from Jerusalem. They've gone clear out in the middle of the Mediterranean. Gorenc is clear at the bottom of the Ecosystem with Cretas down by Athens. And Macedonia, it says, is eight hour drive today on a road in a car Paul could jump in his car and say, you know, I'll be down there and I'll talk to these folks but imagine his emotional connection that he has with these people and the only way that they can talk is through a letter that is transferred up and back across no freeways for sure. And over a mountain, if you get in a distance that today, it would be eight hours to drive. If you're like me, I was raised on a ranch in Southern Oregon. If you're like me, walking from Seattle all the way to Edith, Oregon, that is a long trip. That's not something that you have to do. So there's that. KJ, send it to the BBC. Yeah, thank you, Mark. Mark was sharing about the distances between Macedonia, where Paul was as he was establishing that church, and Corinth, just briefly, an eight-hour drive by automobile today, and then the hardships of that journey. And I concur. And Mark used the analogy of where he was at up in Seattle all the way to Medford, where he was born and raised about eight hours. You know, here in the South Valley, by truck, we would run Sacramento is about eight hours. So, and then we back up and think about this. You know, this is walking. And Paul... He had to walk. It's the way God designed him. That's how they got around. But he was a short guy like me. And walking can be difficult over time. And then there was no Tylenol for the aches and pains for sleeping with the hard ground. So, yeah, we get it. A very good point. Thanks, Mark, for pointing out the geography between where the people were. is currently and the situation back in Corinth. It would have been a difficult trip. So thanks Mark. David, let's add to this discussion, KK7 PDI and 70 Viet. Thank you, Scott. Yeah, when you look at chapter 1 and chapter 2 of 1 Corinthians, I appreciate so much how Paul addresses the problems that arise within the church and then how he addresses it and how it needs to be remedied. And as you mentioned so well, it was a very painful visit that he had with them to find the sin that was in the church. But then you read in verse 3 here, and I love Paul's compassion because he shows that we must have the ability to forgive one another. And the point here is that people will let you down. People will let you down in the church. So we've got to focus on Him, Jesus Christ. And man will always let you down. And so these are the problems that arise in every church. From time to time they come up. And Paul says here, I wrote this very thing in verse 3. To you, lest when I come, I should have sorrow over those whom I ought to have joy. Having the confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. There's his heart going out to them. I love you. I care about you. And I want to have that joy about the good work that you're doing in Christ and the church. But he has his sorrow because of the sin that has entered the church. But the compassion and the ability to forgive is really being pointed out here. And we have to learn to do that, all of us. We once needed the forgiveness of our Lord, and we need it daily, many of us. But at the same time, we've got to learn to forgive one another. And then build each other up that their shame of what they've done might not be so severe that their faith is shipwrecked. And we need to lift one another up. That's how Paul's addressing those brethren in Corinth. He loves them and he wants them to do what's right by Christ. "Heal, heal, live in the Father, the Delta, and the Hymn of the Hymn of the Hymn." Scott, MPH. Yeah, thank you, David, and well said. And what this kind of looks like to me, if I can paint a word picture analogy, you know, David talked about affliction and comfort as Paul is addressing. through this letter, there's different ways to handle this. And David was really pointing out the gentleness that Paul was using through the vein of comfort in encouraging the membership of Corinth to seek the truth. And what this looks like to me in some ways, maybe some of you have rode dirt bikes and hill climbed. Maybe some of you have... have tried to get the tractor around a manure pile. I use the analogy as let's all for a brief moment. We got a load on our logging truck. We're down on this hog batch. It's, and we wrap a wrapper around the logs and around the front bunk so the logs won't slide off the bunk if we get in trouble as we go up this, steep, steep adverse as we're trying to get this load up out of this hole. And as we leave, we have to be very, very easy on the throttle. This is the comfort part. Because if we give too much fuel to the drive tires, we will spin. And then we're going backwards. And that's if we're too harsh with our letter or we're too harsh with the individuals at the church in Corinth. And so it's working the throttle, putting the right torque. at the right time so the tires don't spin but grab traction, and therefore we achieve our objective, and that is getting the load up on top of the ridge. Or in this case, we are using this pinned paper. to facilitate to the church membership there in Corinth the direction that they're needing to go to seek the truth and taking their eyes off the false prophets. The same principle applies. And the same principle applies if you've ever been on a dirt bike doing a hill climb. There's sometimes, if you just gas on it, that's all you do is open up the throttle and torque through the wheels. The wheels will just spin, and pretty soon, if the mud's not getting cleaned out, you have not met your objective. But working, like we learned yesterday, with affliction and comfort, using AC current going both ways, working the throttle, putting the right traction at the right time, to the drive tires, we can achieve our objective. So that's a little bit of the analogy that I see in how Paul is addressing this situation back in Corn. All right, any other thoughts on this passage that Steve read here, verses one through 11? Please call in, 7 MPX. - 7 MPX, 7 EZL. - Yeah, I got Steve and I got Roger. We'll call Steve first, go ahead, Steve. Yeah, I think about Roger mentioned something in his first comment, and I want to kind of build on that a little bit. We need to be careful about how we deal with folks, and sometimes it's better that we depending on the circumstances and that sort of thing, but many times it's best to deal with one-on-one, eyeballs to eyeball. If we limit ourselves to text and email thinking that's going to be adequate and whatnot, there's a lot of room for... the things that happen there. I like the words that Jay Adams used. He talks about halo data. Many times he's describing that if you're trying to help somebody work through a problem or help them to grow or help them to deal with sin in their life, whatever, that many times... you can determine, or at least it helps you to understand what's going on with this individual by the halo data. What do they look like when they're talking to you? And that sort of thing. That's what I wanted to talk about there in reference to what I believe Roger was. talking about. But getting to the context of this whole thing, I think, you know, in 1 Corinthians, in the 5th chapter, Paul started dealing with an issue that is a big deal. I mean, here's a guy in the church sleeping with his mother, or the wife, his father's wife sleeping with his mother. And so that's kind of pretty much out there. And he said, you know, we've got to do something with this. And he says, in verse 11 of that chapter, he says, but actually, he says, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother because you could be no person for covetous or idolater or brother. It has nothing to do with that man. You know, you've got to get rid of him. And that's basically what he saw. That's what the context is, I think, and Paul is further in the second letter. Okay, now, apparently this guy, he confessed his sin, and he asked for forgiveness in the church. And there's obviously, or maybe it's not so obvious, but I think that there's the... Here's where I have problems with words anymore. It's implied in the scripture that the people are not forgiving this man. They're having a hard time accepting this man back into the congregation. And there's a lot of sorrow over this whole thing, which is, you know, that's not unimaginable. There's no telling what kind of impact it had on the whole congregation. And in verse 8 and up too, where he says, "Earth, I urge you to reaffirm your love for him." And there's the key. that what's the goal in dealing with somebody's sin and whatnot, and the confrontation of it. You have to start somewhere to deal with it. But the goal is through love. get them reconciled back and into the congregation, back to their church life. That's what I see as the important thing that we don't want to do enough. That'd be a sixth YSI. Yeah, very well said there, Steve. And I concur. You know, the best is... is, you know, face-to-face. Then you see, you know, facial expressions matter. You can get a better read. But also sometimes we get a little bit past that. And I just kind of wonder if that's where Paul was I've done it both ways. I do the face-to-face first or try, and that's good. And then talking about that face-to-face and halo data, Steve talked about halo data, being able to read these expressions. Very, very well pointed. And you're right, Steve, you talked about in verse 8, reaffirm your love. What is the goal here? The goal is to bring everybody back to seeking the truth and building the kingdom and pulling the harness as one within the church family. Like I mentioned earlier, the goal is to take the load-a-logs off the landing and get it up on top of the ridge where the going is good and you can make headway. Same principle applies. So, appreciate what you bring to the table this morning, Steve. Over to you, Roger, WB7VZL, 7MPA. Yes, well, I certainly was impressed, Scott, when you talked about dealing with mud and I guess you were even highlighting motorcycles, all the nuances that it takes to accomplish the mission of moving forward. And it does require the nuances of the accelerator, the throttle, and know in split-second judgment what needs to be done in order to go forward. Otherwise, as you said, you ended up going backwards if you're not careful. And I think that's a great metaphor for what we have in this letter Instead of two documents, in a sense, we have one leaning in, leaning in, but leaning back at the same time, it seems. So it takes quite an understanding. If any of you have a map of what was referred to, I think, Scott, you referred to the map, it is a very challenging terrain to go to Macedonia. And when I, my wife and I were there, we were amazed why Corinth was so strategic and that why Paul, not only just for godly empathy, but Corinth was so strategic. If you have a map before you, there is a town called Sencria. And that town is right next door to Corinth. And the reason why, in Paul's day, there was a narrow, narrow bit of land, only a couple of miles. But they had to unload all their shipping, they would take their shipment to Corinth over land a couple of miles, headed to Sincreia and vice versa. But that place was a hub, a hub of activity because of the loading and unloading. And finally, the dream was finally achieved that was the dream of people involved with shipping to build a canal. Now there is a canal between Corinth, it's only a couple of miles long, and Seccrea, because it saves that unloading and loading. But Paul was determined by the Holy Spirit to make sure that the witness of Jesus was strong in this hub of international activity, frankly. If you look at the map, the alternative is absolutely huge. Hundreds of miles to work your way around southern Greece, around Sparta and Pylos. So it was a marvelous place to highlight. Over. Oh yeah, well thanks for pointing that out, Roger. You know, that Paul wasn't there by happenstance. You know, the mission was to plant churches, build the kingdom, and spread the gospel. And this was the perfect spot at that point to achieve just that. And we can think a little bit about that, you know, Mark lives up in Seattle. You know, we look back in the day, how important the waterways were for that area that Carol and Brian and Mark are coming from as they grab a chair and come around the table. Similar geographies apply, just how important that is. We look down to Portland. You know, we have Glenn and David and Max and I, as they brought boats up to William and come down to Portland, same things apply. We look at San Francisco Bay and Steve and J.R. and Phillip and... James, I also put Joe in there, KF7UOQ. Good morning, Joe. James is with us, K7080. And we are kind of tied, similar, if we stop and think about it, to these similar type waterways. Maybe not as profound as where Paul is, but then the same lessons apply. So thanks, Roger, for sharing that and the importance of this canal. And this is a hub of activity. And it's a lot like going out in the woods like I do with the ministry, the Fellowship of Christian Loggers. These are sailors. These are rough and tumble men and easily led astray. like a lot of us are. And this is the heart of the building of the church as Paul was working in the ministry at that time. All right, any other comments, please call on 7NPA. Thank you. BDI follow up. Okay, I got Mark and I got David. We'll go with you Mark first and then we'll follow up with David. Go ahead Mark. And I'm just enjoying this study there. We're looking now at where that all goes down. All of those churches down the corner. All of the things that we've been reading here word by word. We are all getting these insights as to how the Lord wants us to act. what he wants to do in different circumstances, and so why do we do this? And Paul did not say this, and this is what I think you should do. He is conveying what Mark has told him to do the things that you should do. And then right here, the very last, in 11, he brings it all around to the word we, and rather than five, and they're focusing on one person, because he basically says this is what we're doing and I have to give him or your state and then he brings it to us. He says that we should take advantage of time. We are not as good as his devices. That's where I kind of hang my hat today. He has to be treated as... The things that we do in the way that we treat each other after half a day in the back of the mind, we are not ignorant to people like that. So we are too sensitive to love each other as we do to encourage each other, to bring each other back, and because we think that what Satan should take advantage of us. And we are putting in that truth right now. With all that's going on and all of the fears that can be availing us from the global events that are on the horizon, but as the body of Christ holds together, we're all in the same army. We should take advantage of it. Yeah, thank you, Mark, for sharing that. and yeah it isn't us about against them we are all all together on this so I was reading yesterday in the Midwest study there in Ezekiel talked about the siege wall, you know, and so we need to build our siege wall and be together and move this forward. So thanks for sharing with that, Mark. David, put some ribbons on it as we prepare to close with your follow-up. Over. God, we thank you. Appreciate that, Scott. I just wanted to thank Steve for his comments, because I think he really nailed what Paul's trying to say here. And again, there's punishment to food at the church. Church discipline, that was given to this man who had obviously repented. I'm reminded of Romans 3 and verse 23. For all have sinned in foreshadowing the glory of God. Aren't we grateful that when we have sinned, that God blocks that sin out of this book of remembrance? Paul is trying to tell them here, since he's repented, our human nature is not to forget the sin. But in God's eyes, he blocks that out, and we're to turn around and give that comfort back to him. We're to love him and restore him, just like the prodigal. When the prodigal left and squandered all that he had in his inheritance, there was sin within the church. We need to restore them if they truly repent. We need to restore them and forget what happened and move on. Are we glad that God forgot our sin and put it away and that it is no longer brought to the forefront? 0-0-7, Papa Calvary, back to you. Oh wow, David, I can't say it any better. Thanks for articulating that and just... David laid that out just like creamy peanut butter on a toast. And perfect, David. All right, any other thoughts before Jerry closes his out of prayer? All right, do we have any prayer requests for Jerry before Jerry takes up the prayer time? All right, I'll turn it over there to you, Jerry. Thanks for carrying the prayer torch this morning. And I appreciate you so much. And I'll turn it over there to you, Jerry. A-E-7-E-R and 7-M-P-A. All right, thank you. And let us pray. Put God in heaven. We give you thanks for another day. And we ask that you touch all of our hearts. Keep you in mind throughout the day to live a life pleasing to you. To begin the day with a map, a wisdom he was teaching in the class, but mainly for his safe trip home tonight. Doc appears in Fiji Island on a mission trip, and Lord, may he be safe, and may he save lives or souls of others. Jalene, 75th birthday this weekend. Go bring in the family, and we wish Jalene a happy birthday. Joel, 10, 5S for a mission work in Louisiana. Kevin, 87, ZXN for his church, Malawala University. because both of them needed a new pastor. Oh, KJ7228, referring to the church, does anything can be tested? For the first Bible study listeners, for the family and relatives who listened, that God would meet their needs. Brian, KJ7, Cato Jones, for Christ's salvation and openness to Brian's ministry. Also for Brian and his wife, Anna, to have wisdom regarding her employment situation. Yes, 86, okay. For his ongoing work distributing Bibles to soldiers and installing chapels or Navy ships. Pastor, for wisdom and spiritual protection for all. Church Passions, God's Ministries, the Guide to the Youth, God's Ministries of the Fellowship of Christian Loving. We'll be sending you a heart for a child who is struggling with addiction, and for Mark's mother's friend regarding her health issues. God, in the name of Jesus, may I am saved and entered in your community to hear and believe the gospel. We thank the Lord for his goodness, his mercy, and grace, and for the gift of his Son, Jesus Christ. Dr. T. W. O. is a doctor in the Iran conflict. And J. Brian's friends who are probably seeking treatment. The doctors in El Paso, Florida. So if we go through this page, Dr. T. W. O. will focus on you. for the life pleasing to you. We ask that you keep us all safe and well. Stay with us and amen. Thank you for hearing. All right, I appreciate that closing prayer there, Jerry. Thank you so much. And that's the conclusion of today's session of the West Coast Bible Study. Tomorrow, if you want to jot down in your notes, we'll be looking at... 2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 12 to the closing of the chapter. Let's see, I turned the page here. That will be 12 through 17. 12 through 17. Pastor Mitch is presumably going to be here tomorrow. And so we'll look forward to welcoming him back. I look forward to hearing about his trip. and how God is working and moving in his life and how he is able to use his experience and knowledge coupled through a biblical truth and share the class time to those future church leaders. So I'll be looking forward to that. Everybody, I wish you a blessed day, and I would encourage you, about 2.30, 3 o'clock this afternoon, as Max takes off to a little arrow prayers throughout the evening until he lands just before 9 o'clock there in Portland. So with that, I'll turn this frequency back to radio, to regular. Radio, our regular editor radio. There I got it. Got my horses all mixed up in the string there. We had some visitors this morning. I want to reach out to you and thank you for participating this morning. If you'd care. Sure. You can type your name in the little list where you typed in visitor, and then we can acknowledge you that way as well. So with that, tomorrow we'll wish, as our brother Glenn says, fair winds and following seas, and look forward to having each and every one of us have a blessed day today. So 7-3 from 7-N-P-A. PDI? Go ahead there, big signal. Yeah, hey, hey, thanks so much again, Scott. I know the band is rough today, but thank you for being the net control and helping to lead us through this church discipline. It was really nice. I really, really appreciated Steve's comments, Mark's as well, everyone, and Roger back there. It's really good to hear all the comments today. And what a way to start our day. It's going to be a beautiful day today, in spite of all this chaos in the world. In Christ, we know that God's in control, and therefore we just continue to serve him and not allow the things in this world to set us down. So thank you so much, and you have a blessed day too. 73, and I'll be TRP. All righty. I'll be up in your neck of the woods this afternoon. So you take care. And 780. All right, Brian. Mark, you have a blessed day. Good to hear you in there. Go ahead, Brian. KA7ZIP at 7 MPA. Yeah, we're going to Buena Vista. There's a junior high, it's not OAA sanctioned, but there is a junior high state basketball tournament. These are schools. Both private Christian schools and public schools are in multiple gyms scattered around the city of Salem. Our granddaughter that attends San Diego Christian, they're in this tournament. They won the first game yesterday quite handily, and then they won the second game yesterday evening in overtime by one point. Each step gets, the competition gets more and more as you seek to win the state championship. So we'll see how it gets laid out. I know there's a lot bigger schools and a lot more schools, the talented schools. But we're enjoying watching all the kids, you know. That's perfect. No, we'll be at various different schools around the Salem area there, Brian. But I think we're going to stay the night in Buena Vista, yeah. And I'm going to try out my remote. after I changed it all up. So I'm hoping to be on in the morning via remote. Oh wow, oh wow, that is close. That is close. Now are you back down towards Albany from there? Yeah, well that's cool. Yeah, you turn, and you turn, and you hang right, and you head towards the ferry, you know, and you got the park. And then you cross the Lucky Mute, and then you go on up around some hairpin corners, and you long straight stretch at the top of the hill, and then you have Prather Road to the left. And that's where my daughter lives right there. It's got a big shop and a nice old place right there. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go directly up to Salem and we'll probably be ballgame until late tonight or something. And the first game is until 3 o'clock this afternoon, so. I have some rest time between now and then. Thank you, Doc. You have a great day. And thank you for leaving me and studying today. Appreciate it. And I appreciate you. And I appreciate you, I think. You bet, Brian. It sure was good to see you last Saturday. And so did I. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for watching! *Rain* Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching!