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Okay, Gordon, G-O-R-D-O-N, over. Roger. Okay, so Gordon, yeah, okay, I remember Gordon now, yeah. He was, yeah, so he was in and out of the hospital. He's in the ICU now, that's all we know. So we're praying for Will, K-5 Foxtrot's friend Gordon, who's in ICU right now, not sure what the situation is. but we continue to pray for his healing. All right, real good. Thank you for that, Will. All right, other check-ins, please come down. I'm sorry, I had my volume come down. Turn it down. Try again, please. Okay, there's Bird, W7RKD. Good morning, Bird. How are you doing? - Doing fine, doing just fine over here. - Um, anyhow, glad you're back, and that thing against Scottie, he did great. And, uh, you know, it really, really, really went into the group really well. But glad you're back safely, and no prayer requests. W7RK80. - All right, copy that. Thank you for those, um, Greetings and appreciate Scott too and the job he did. And it's good to be back, Burt, and it's good to hear your voice. Thank you for being there, brother. Alright, other check-ins, please come down. C-Leg, 7-ZXN. Okay, I heard a double there, but I did get Kevin, KB-7-ZXN. Good morning, Kevin, how you doing? Well, good, Max. Welcome back home and back to God's beautiful country. And good to hear your voice again. Hope all went well. Hey, man, on the beautiful country thing, yeah, I'm parked right in the middle of an industrial section of North Bergen, and boy, is it ever bleak. This is God's country for sure. All right, Kevin, thank you for that. We got you checked in. All right, there was another station on top. Kevin, another station. Come now. Yeah, it's a relay. Come up, Max. There's a Kilo Mike 7 Alpha India Alpha trying to check in. Thank you for that. Kilo Mike 7 Alpha India Alpha, please come forward. Okay, Steve, 96 West, unable to hear anything. Can you give me a relay? I didn't hear him either, but... Whatever he did call, he was good signal, so I guess he just gave up. I don't know. Okay, QM Mike Southern Alpha India Alpha, QM 7AIA, please come to the microphone.. Okay, not hearing him. I'm going to just check him in by way of relay from you, Steve, but if he comes back, that'll be fine. So that's KM7AIA. All right, Steve, thank you for that. All right, other check-ins, come down. W7TW. Okay, there's Mike, W7TW. Good morning, Mike. How are you doing? Doing well. Good to hear that you're back and back safely. No new per request. And Daryl, AOT is trying to check in. Over. Copy that. Thank you for that. Daryl, WB7AOT, please come forward. Daryl, too. Okay, I didn't hear Daryl, but I did hear Carol. C-A-R-O-L, Carol, KK7TPO, come back to me again. I'm sorry, Captain. I forgot to give you a copy of the email. Welcome back, and we'll be hearing from you. Okay, Carol. Good copy. No worries. Carol sounds a lot like Darrell, for sure. Thank you for being glad to have me back. No new prayer requests. Copy all. Carol, KK7TPO, so good to hear your voice. I really appreciate you being there. Okay, Darrell, WB7AOT, are you on your radio? Alright, I'm not hearing anything from Darrell WB70OT. He stepped out of his house and waved at me as I flew over yesterday. My flight path goes right over his house. And so he was following me on flight tracker. And anyway, when our plane went over, he couldn't see it because of the clouds, but he could hear it. So he sent me a little screenshot of flight tracker and his house and where we were. So anyway, Darrell stepped out of the house and waved at me as I flew over, so that's real good. All right, WB7MX here looking for check-ins. Come on out. WB7V, welcome home, Max. Roger, WB7VCL, glad to be home. Any prayer requests, Roger? Well, just praising the Lord that you're back safely, and we have an appointment today for D'Aline's follow-through, which will be a revelation for her and for me. So that's at 2 o'clock or so, 2 to 3, somewhere in that area over. Copy that. So, Daylene has an appointment at the doctor's sometime around 2:00 today for a follow-up on her breast cancer surgery. So, thank you for that, Roger. And we'll be praying that God gives wisdom and direction regarding future treatment, if any. So, that's real good. That's Roger. WP7VZL's wife, Daylene. and a follow-up appointment today at 2:00 for a breast cancer surgery. Scott, N7NPA, go ahead. Yeah, just affirming that Darryl will come back to you, Roger, Roger, Roger, like he usually does, and also share a partner with Steve, Shane, KM7AIA, He tried three or four times to get in. He was light here, but I could hear him. So that's a little update. Also, we had a David Kilo Bravo 7 Delta Alpha from Fairfield, Montana, check in on Friday, and then the band blew up on Saturday and they happened to reach it. Yeah, copy that Scott, thank you. Okay, Shane, KM7AIA, we're happy to listen for you. We'll give you a little bit of air space here. Sorry we weren't able to pick you up. I wasn't able to pick you up. Other people did. So, Shane, we got you checked in. But if you want to key up that mic and talk to us, go ahead. There's Shane, KM7AIA. Alright, KB7DA, Tewa Brava 7DAL, are you there? Come in Call me, go ahead I doubt that he's there because he works Monday through Friday at a school, and he has to get ready to go to work, so probably only catch him on the weekends. Roger. Roger that, yeah. That's him with Brian K, 7ZIP. We get him on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and then he's gone the rest of the day. He does listen on SDR, though. Okay, other check-ins, please come down. Alright, I haven't even looked at my SDRs, give me a second here. Alright, I've got Peter, KJ7BA, good morning Peter. Last but not least Peter. Okay, we've got Peter, and Peter says good morning to everyone, alright. And we got, yeah, okay, those are all checked in. Oh, there's Brian K7ZIP, and he's listening in. There's Don AC7KW. Good morning, Don. Good to have you with us as well. And let's see who else we got. I see Jim in 7BKE there listening in. I haven't heard Jim's voice, but I'm going to check him in, by the way, of SDR. And there's Brian KJ7PWM. I haven't heard from Brian KJ7PWM. Brian, come back to me if you're there. Okay, didn't hear Brian, KJ7PWM, but I got it checked in by way of the SDR here. And this thing's all strung out. Hang on. All right, I think I got everybody on Utah. And over here on Half Moon Bay, there's Phillip K6HSV. My faithful Phillip on the Half Moon Bay. Phillip, good to have you. Thank you for that. And the W6RLJ, that's Doc. So Doc, W6RLJ, we got you checked in on Half Moon Bay. There's Peter again on Half Moon Bay. I've been getting a bunch of text messages here. Let me see who's on the... cell phone here. Five text messages. Okay. I got George. I will get back to that, George. And then we got Keith. WB7RKR. Keith says Ronnie is back in the ER for another migraine with high blood pressure. Okay. George, K2KJX. This is Keith, WB7RKR. That is WB7RKR. That's Keith. His wife, Ronnie. Her name is spelled R-O-N-I. Ronnie, his wife, is back in the emergency room for another migraine with high blood pressure. So she's been in and out of the emergency there for the last week or two. So let's pray for Ronnie, his wife, R-O-N-I, that she would have healing for her migraine and high blood pressure. Copy, George? Copy. Roger, copy. Okay, real good. So that's that, and let's see, we've got Doc? Yeah, okay, this is Doc, W6RLJ, good morning, Max, Boston Repair Center, on your behalf. I'm listening on the SDR, good to hear your voice this morning, currently have problems with my radio and have to do some repairs. Copy that, Doc, so we'll be patient and enjoy the bussing of SDR. Doc, we got you checked in, and thank you for that note. And George, I will get back to you. Dailene's husband is Roger, R-O-G-E-R, WB7BZL. Okay, I think we've caught up on our -- well, no, we didn't catch up on our text messages. Oh, here's Daryl, WB7AOT. Yep, says excellent. And here's David, KK7PDI. Okay, all right, I think those are texts from yesterday or something. In any event, I got my text messages cleared out now. And we got the SDRs caught up for now. We've got check-ins. Wow, we're way over time. Well, see, you get your inefficient neck control back, and look what happens. It's, what, seven minutes after this is ridiculous? Okay. Any last-minute check-ins, please come now. You're fired. Okay, I had a double there. One of you come ahead. IK6, okay, I just said you're fired. I'm fired, yeah. Copy that. Turn it back over to Scott. Alright, anything else? Nope. Alright, alright, okay. You guys can lower my wages, how about that, cut my pay. We are in Galatians, of all places. I have been kind of a little flat-footed here, but I'll just go from my memory. The book of Galatians combats legalism and libertinism. Legalism is, we're saved by our works. Libertinism is, you can live any way you want because you're saved by grace. So both of those extremes are combated in the book of Galatians. And so on the one hand you have folks who are saying, "You're saved by your good works." And on the other hand you have folks saying, "You can live any way you want because you're saved by grace." And both of those extremes are unbiblical. We are saved by grace, but we're saved in order to obey Christ, not to live any way we please. And then Galatians, of course, also deals with the purity of the Gospel. and what that's involved. And right out of the gate, he deals with people who are preaching a false gospel, and he says, let them be accursed. So one of the things we learn from Galatians is that the true gospel is always under attack, and it will try to swing the pendulum one way, towards legalism, the other way, towards libertinism, and so the gospel is always under the attack. So anyway, there is an interesting section in the middle of this book, in chapters 3 and 4, that deal with the progression of the covenants, and we'll talk about that as we transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. So those are some of the things Paul teaches on the Gospel in chapters 1 and 2. He teaches on the covenants in chapters 3 and 4, and he teaches on the Christian's walk in chapters 5 and 6. So a little bit of background there on the book of Galatians. I have no clue what section we're going to be reading here today, so I'll just try to pick one out as we go. But before we do, we want to open in prayer and ask the Lord's blessing on our gathering together today. So, Kevin, KB7ZXN, could you please open a prayer for us today? Okay. Alright, not hearing from Kevin. Steve, W6YSI, can you open in prayer for us today please? Sure, let's bow before the Lord. Father, thank you for this new day that you've given us. Lord, it truly is a day that you've made and help us to be glad in it and be thankful for your tremendous mercies and graces that you give us each and every day. Thank you for health, morning, and the rest that we had last night. Lord, we eagerly look now to hear word. Lord, we know that your word is manna from heaven. And that we, first of all, acknowledge that we need to hear from you. And we know that the strength and bias and courage, whatever we need, is by way of your words. So help us, oh God, give us ears to hear you. Father, help us to have teachable spirits this morning. And we'll just look forward to the study now. And thank you again for Pastor Max having this big trip home. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen, Steve. Thank you so much for that. All right, let's get started with our reading. I'm going to ask Roger WB7BZL to read for us. Roger, only five verses. So if you could read Galatians chapter 1, verses 1 through 5, that would be great. That will get us started. We'll see what God does with that. Roger, go ahead. This is WB7BZL reading from the New American Standard Bible, verse 1. of chapter 1. Paul, an apostle, not sent from men, nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches, to Galatia. "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen." WB7VZL, back to you, Max. All right, Roger. Real good reading. Boy, what a great introduction. Some grand themes here in these first five verses. All right. Anybody want to comment on verses one to five? Please go ahead. YSI. Steve, W6YSI. Go ahead. Yeah, I just... I don't know the reason why, but the last several days I've been thinking about how many times... Paul and other pithom writers include that comment there that we see at verse 3 grace to you and peace from God our Father just thinking about the peace that we get from God One of the things that I think about is that I have peace with God, the forgiveness of my sin because of this wicked heart that I have, but I have peace with Him, and I'm just so thankful for that. That would be 6 YSI. Amen, Steve. And, you know, those are grand themes. We see Paul using this phrase, grace and peace unto you, in I think every single one of his letters. I'd have to go back and look. But, boy, over and over and over again, every time Paul opens a letter, he says, grace and peace be unto you. And of course, grace is God's unmerited saving favor given to undeserving sinners. The grace of God, it says in Titus chapter 2, brings salvation. And so if you're saved, you're saved by grace. By grace are you saved through faith, it says in Ephesians 2:8. And that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not of works, but sin, and men should both. So God comes and He gives us this unmerited saving favor from His Son, Jesus Christ. And as a result, as you said, we have peace with God. And so Romans 5 and verse 1, Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So because of grace, that is God's unmerited saving favor given to undeserving sinners, we have peace with God, that is complete tranquility and reconciliation between us and Him. And what a wonderful state to be in. to live in a state of grace, knowing that God saves me, I don't save myself, and then to live in a state of peace, knowing that there's no condemnation for me anymore, because Jesus has taken away all grounds of condemnation when he took away my sins on the cross. What an incredible blessing that is. Steve, thanks for pointing that out. And where does this grace and peace come from? Well, God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. They conspire together, they plan together, to bring about the salvation of lost and unworthy and helpless sinners, and to reconcile them back to himself, and thus destroy the works of the devil that were done in the Garden of Eden. All right, great comment there, Steve. Thank you for verse 2. Any other comments? Go ahead. Pop alpha. Okay, I had a double there. I had a pop alpha and a PDI. So pop alpha, you go first, and then we'll get to it. Yeah, it might not really be a comment. I just, for the group, Max. I wanted to apologize. This got by me. You were at the airport yesterday. I should have texted you and let you know where we were at. And then you would have had six hours to prepare your coming to flight. And my apologies. I kind of threw you under the bus there. And I feel sorry about that. Also, I take a lot of notes. And you just did a quote here. It says, God's unmerited saving favor. So we have. And then I don't remember the rest. Yeah, thank you, Max. In the previous book that we read in Corinthians, false apostles had come into the church, and they were basically teaching false doctrine, and Paul had to correct the brethren there as well. But I like the way that he starts out the book of Galatians because he says to the church of Galatia that he's an apostle and he's not from them, that his apostleship is through Jesus Christ and God the Father. So he sets his authority very clearly. He's an apostle because he was chosen to be an apostle. He's not an apostle because he just wants to lead men astray as the false apostles did. So that authority is very important. And then, based on that authority, he gives this great introduction, with the grace that we have, obviously, that you mentioned, and the peace that we have that only God can supply. And the reason he's supplying it is because he gave himself for our sins. Without that, without Christ upon the cross, we would not have grace and we would not have that peace. So Paul is really setting up authority in the blessings we have in Christ, because now he has to address, again, false teachers that come into the churches of Galatia. And it's very worth it. Satan tries to destroy all the churches that are established, and he's doing that here as well. See what you do, Simon? Pop it down to India back here in a minute. Yeah, real good, David. Great comments. And yes, Paul's authority was always under attack by the false teachers. And what's interesting, David, is that we just got done with 2 Corinthians where Paul is defending himself against the false teachers, and then we move into Galatians where he's once again defending the gospel against false teachers. And that's a pervasive theme in the New Testament. And, of course, there's lots of that in the Old Testament, too. There were false prophets back in the day, you know, like Balaam, et cetera. Well, there's lots and lots of false teachers in the New Covenant era in which we're living. And we see it in all these letters. And, you know, polemics, that is fighting against false teaching, is something we have to do a lot of. And, you know, I had a guy come up to me in my church once, and he says, well, you know, you're always preaching against this and against that. And I said, well, that's because Paul is preaching against this and against that. And, you know, you hate to be negative, but you know what? There's a lot of negativity out there that needs to be dealt with because men who are cunning and crafty want to draw away disciples after them with false gospels or with teaching that you can engage in immoral behavior. And so you have to speak out against those things. And that's what he does right out of the gate here. And we're going to see that as we go to the next section. But you're exactly right, David. Paul has to establish his credentials every single time. And that is that he's an apostle. He's appointed by Jesus Christ and by God the Father. And that's where the source of his authority comes from. And so he is an appointed representative to convey divine revelations from God to men, and he does it in these letters. So because he's dealing with false teachers, he has to establish himself as a true teacher, and that's what he does in verse 1. And then, yeah, you mentioned the blessing of salvation in verse 4, which are great things. All right, other comments? Come now. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Go ahead. I don't think so. Okay. gave you seven excellent comments. And I just love Galatians. It's, well, first let me mention, great. I always liked the acronym, God riches at Christ's expense. And that's what Paul outlines here. But the book of Galatians really is a book of freedom. You know, and it's man in our hearts, the desire to be free. How many times can we think of political freedom? We love to have that political freedom And it's easy to kind of complain about, you know, the light on the hill. Of course, political freedom in the United States is without its problems. Many strive for economic freedom to get out from under the tyranny of death. But the Galatians deals with a very specific freedom, the freedom from the tyranny of the law. And Paul does just an incredible job of expounding on that. In fact, I think Chuck Swindoll said, Galatians is like the Magna Carta of Christian liberty. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to this study. I always love the book of Galatians because it really frames our Christian liberty in a proper perspective. There, KB7, is that it, Kevin? Yeah, Kevin, really well said. Thank you for that. Yeah, you know, when you talk about freedom from the tyranny of the law... There's two elements to that. You know, there is the law in terms of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant is called the law. And, of course, the Old Covenant was done away with and replaced by the New Covenant. So we don't have to obey all the ceremonial and civil laws of the Old Covenant. And then there's freedom from the tyranny of the law in terms of the Ten Commandments in terms of... not being free from their requirements, we're always obligated to their requirements, but being free from their condemning power. Because what the Ten Commandments do is they provide us with a moral guideline by which we're supposed to live. But the trouble is we fall short, and therefore we're all under the condemnations of the Ten Commandments. But Jesus delivered us from the condemnation, so now we have it as a guide. So you're right. This book is about freedom. It's about liberty from not only the old covenant, which is called the law, but also from the condemning power of the Ten Commandments. So we're now free to live them without fear for our violations of them, because Christ paid the penalty for all those violations. So we have this tremendous freedom. And thank you, Kevin, for bringing that out. Jeff, AK6OK had a comment. Jeff, go ahead. Yeah, I love how Paul opens here, because if you look in verse 6, it would bring me ahead just a little bit. He's about to drop the hammer on these guys. What a great way to kind of get them at peace right out of the gate and say, listen, I represent God the Father who raised him from the dead, and I'm good with you guys. So, right, I bring you peace in the name of God. But the next sentence is pretty interesting. Over. Over. Copy that. And you know, one thing about Paul is he put the truth ahead of people's feelings. Now, he did everything he could, you know, to show himself friendly. He did everything he could to commend them. You know, we really see that back in 1 Corinthians that we studied a while back, where he says the first nine verses telling them about all the wonderful things they are, and and to be possessed. And so he provides these compliments, he provides these words of brotherhood and fellowship and goodwill and love and prayers for them. But that doesn't stop him from doing the difficult, hard work that a pastor has to do and says, look, you knuckleheads, you guys are way out of line here. And of course, he's gentle when he says that, too. He says, I'm Marvel, that your soul has been removed. But before he gets to his rebuke, he declares, as David K. K. 7th, he has been his authority. As Steve mentioned, this prayer of grace and peace, the goodwill he has towards them, the love he has, the prayers for him. And then this grand declaration in verse 4. I want to hear some people talk about verse 4, because that is the very core center and heart of the whole book in terms of the message that Jesus gave himself for our sins. Why? That he might deliver us from this present evil world. We live in an evil world. And how is all that achieved? According to the will of God the Father. He planned it. He elected us to salvation. He sent his son. And then after his son did his work, he sent the Spirit. And so here we are. So you're right. You know, when we have rebukes for people, we need to first establish the communion we have with them, the fellowship we have with them, and then go to the work of dealing with the problems that have to be faced and dealt with. Jeff, thanks for that. All right, other comments, please come down. - No, no, you're good. - Question? - Question, go right back. - Al Palma, 580. In verse one it says God the Father, and then in verse three it says God the Father, but in verse four it says God and our Father. Can you tell me the difference? Are differentiating lights different? Well, "God the Father" is a reference, of course, to the first member of the Trinity. We have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And so when he was talking about God as Father, that is, His title, he just said "God the Father" in verse 1, as you pointed out, and then he used it again in verse 3. a piece from God the Father. But when in verse 4 he says God and our Father, the our there, Beck, is a reference to the fact that he's the Father of Jesus and he's our Father also. So there is a sense in which we are joint heirs with Jesus. It says in Hebrews chapter 2 that Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. So there's a sense in which he has a father, and the father has a whole bunch of sons. The first of which, of course, is Jesus. And then all of those who are born of Jesus are also sons. So in a sense, the father is Jesus' father. And then the father is our father. And Jesus and I have the same father. And that's why the word our is used there. Back to you, Beck. Roger, okay, thank you. I wouldn't put it, who is our founder, but okay, thank you. All right, real good. Any other comments come out? No, thanks, Jim. Thanks, Jim. Kevin, go ahead. Well, and yes, you know, there's a couple other interesting points on this, too. back to the freedom portion of this, Paul addresses head on the belief or the fallacy that we earn our favor with God by our works. As pointed out, our works are a result of the grace, but that's not how we earn our favor with God. It is Christ did it all. And His favor toward us is His grace toward us. One of the interesting things too is this letter is written to Galatians. This was not written to a specific church, But Galatia was kind of a prominent region there in what we now know as Turkey. And historically, it's interesting that the Galatians, or the Gauls, ended up from persecution and such and migration through France and ended up in Ireland. And the Celtics that we know now as the Gaelics, this was the root of the Gaelics there in Ireland was Galatia, the people of Galatia there. KB7 is at Exit 1. Yeah, you know, human migration is an amazing thing. And, you know, the fact that people from Galatia wound up in Ireland, that's quite the trip. And, yeah, so praise the Lord for freedom from having to earn our salvation, because we could never do it. You toil for a lifetime, you don't have to do it. And in the end, 100% of the folks would be labeled as a failure, because only perfect people get into heaven. And, of course, you can't make yourself perfect. Only Jesus can do that by taking away all of our sins and giving us his righteousness. He, it says in Jude 24, presents us faultless before his presence. with exceeding joy. And he presents us blameless and unreprovable in his sight. So thank the Lord that, as it says in Jonah 2, verse 9, salvation is of the Lord. He's the one who purchases it. He's the one who provides it. He's the one who makes us perfect before God. All right, other comments. Come now. Papa Alpha. Papa Alpha, go ahead. I was kind of looking at verse 2 there, Max. There at the end it says, To the churches of Galatia. That could just as easily say, To the churches of the United States. Especially tying in with verse 6. And why are you so quickly deserting him? And all the false teaching that is being infiltrated into the modern church today, And I can't echo David's call to do as the Bereans do and search the Gospels. And it's pretty simple. Search the Gospels like we do at the West Coast Bible Study every morning, dissecting whatnot. And it becomes very apparent at what Scripture teaches and teaches. It doesn't take rocket science that some of the congregations around are going outside the boundaries. And so that brings us right back to the end of verse 2. To the churches of the United States, or to the churches of the scope of the West Coast Bible Study, or the West, you know, it doesn't matter. Churches of the world, if you'd like. It's evident in the Bible. Yes, Scott, well said. These letters to the churches, Paul of Galatia, singular. Galatia was a region in modern-day Turkey, and there was a bunch of churches there. This is a circular letter meant to be circulated in that region among those churches, and they were all supposed to conform to what this letter contained. And so churches are not allowed to freelance. and to come up with their own doctrine or come up with their own practice. They're all to be the same in their doctrine and in their practice, no matter where they are. And you're exactly right. Paul could have just as easily entitled this letter into the brethren, unto the churches of Oregon or Washington or the West Coast or America, as you said. So these things are applicable to every church everywhere at every time in history. And so it's interesting, Scott, how there were regional differences in terms of the problem. So you look at Corinth over there in Greece, and they had the problems that we read about in 1 and 2 Corinthians. And you didn't see Paul in those letters dealing with legalism so much. But boy, over in Galatia, they didn't maybe have such a big problem with immorality. He doesn't address that so much like he did at Corinth. But here he's addressing the doctrinal issues. So churches in different areas... you don't have different problems that have to be addressed in particular, but the solutions for those problems, wherever they may crop up, is always the same. And that is the infallible doctrine that's contained in the Word of God, communicated to us by apostles who are called by God, and are universally applicable to all of the churches. So just take your church name, Calvary Baptist Church, for Kevin there, Fern Ridge Baptist Church for Al. They just put that right in there where it says Galatia. And this is a letter for each of our churches. All right. Other comments? Come on. YSI. Okay. YSI and then ZXN. YSI, go ahead. Just very quickly, thinking of how we have in our church history a creed. And what was the reason for creeds? Why did the church come up with creeds? And I'm thinking specifically the Apostles' Creed, for starting out, "I believe in God Father Almighty." Creator of Heaven and Earth, W6YSI. Yes, Steve. And, you know, doctoral statements are so important because they are summaries of the doctrine that is in the Scriptures. And I hope that all of our churches have doctoral statements. And, you know, a lot of people try to get hyper-spiritual. They say, well, my doctoral statement is the Bible. Well... You know, a Mormon could say that, okay? Jehovah's Witnesses could say that, and they do say that, right? So, sure, you believe the Bible is the Word of God, that's great. What does that Bible teach? What does it teach about God? What does it teach about salvation? What does it teach about how to live the Christian life? And that's why doctrinal summaries are so useful and so beneficial. They're not a replacement for the Word of God any more than preaching. is a replacement for the Word of God. But what they are is an expression of what the Word of God teaches in a summary form so that we can maintain, through the generations, a proper understanding of what the Bible, in fact, does teach. So we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We've got a touchstone that we can all appeal to and say, Yes, this is the sum and substance and essence of the Christian faith, as all Christians believe, and I identify with that belief system and those doctrines, and that's why I understand the Bible to keep standing in continuity with all my brothers and sisters down through the centuries. So yeah, the doctrinal statements are super important. They're not a replacement for, but they are a summary of what the Bible teaches so that we can have clarity on that subject matter. All right, Kevin, KB7ZXN, go ahead. KB7ZXN, very good comments, and I concur completely. you know, doctrine is simply teaching. If we're adhering to the teaching of the Word of God, and then that brings us kind of back to where we're at here in this introduction of the book of Galatians here. It is unique in a sense that though he does start many of his letters with the peace and grace of Jesus Christ, here he doesn't introduce the letter with prayers and praise of the saints there. You can tell in this, if you read a little bit of Paul's writings, that he's pretty fired up here. Clearly his authority has been questioned. Apparently there's been those from Jerusalem that have come up and challenged Paul's authority on one hand and basically said, well, you know, the message of grace by faith is okay, but that's not the whole story here. It's grace plus works. And that's what these Hellenistic Jews or these Judaizers have brought into the picture here. These have come up from Jerusalem. It's grace plus. And this is on a collision course, Paul, Number one, for the integrity of the gospel, wants to clear the air because that is a complete misunderstanding. And we still see it in the world today in large part, and we're going to see many examples of that and how Paul does address that as well. But this is where the friction is. And that is Grace Plus. And that has been introduced by those that have come up from Jerusalem. And it's important that we get that right. And Paul helps us to do that. KB7 is in the camera. Yeah, Kevin, really well said. We do not have a Grace Plus Gospel. Well, we do. Kevin, here it goes. Grace plus nothing. That's my grace plus gospel, grace plus nothing. And I tend to say that quite a bit just to emphasize that it's grace alone, sola fide, or faith alone. And so grace alone, sola gratia, the great watchwords of the Reformation. So yeah, we are going to see that over and over again. And it's grace alone or grace plus nothing alone that is the whole ground of our salvation. And that's why Paul opens with grace, right? Verse 3, right? Grace be to you in peace. So he wants to establish that grace principle right up front. Before we close the net, which is about time to do that, I want to just make a comment there in verse 4. It says, of Jesus who gave himself for our sins, there is the substitutionary atonement. He died for our sins. That's real clear there. And why did he deliver us from our sins? so that he might deliver us from this present evil world, or some translations say this present evil age. So we're living in an age that is evil. And the book of Revelation uses Babylon as a metaphor for the anti-Christian, ungodly, wicked society in which we live. And, you know, he says, come out from her and be not partaker of her sins. We were just reading in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 that we're to what fellowship has light with darkness. And so, you know, when we get saved, we step out of. the world and the worldly ways and the worldly practices and the worldly thinking. And then, of course, one day Jesus is going to come back and literally physically deliver us out of this evil world by destroying it and giving us a new heaven and a new earth. So we need to recognize that we're strangers and pilgrims in this world. It's an evil world. We're not of it, and it is not of us. And so it's according to the will of God and the Father that if you're saved from your sins by Jesus, that you step out of this present evil world in terms of separating from its thinking and its practices and its immorality and its lies and all of the wickedness that is associated with it. All right, we are out of time. Are there any prayer requests before George leads us in prayer? Please come down with your prayer request. Foxtrot comment. Foxtrot comment. Go ahead, Will. Yeah, I wanted to add to that that grace, grace through faith alone, And if you add anything else, it's easy for Satan to draw us away from God's grace. Yeah, amen. By faith alone, through grace alone. And if you add anything else, then you're trying to be a fellow provider of salvation. And the good news is that He saved us. We don't save ourselves. You know, Will, there's a passage in the book of Titus. chapter 3 that is just always so encouraging to me. In Titus chapter 3, it says in verses 4 and 5, But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, But according to his mercy, now hear those three words, he saved us. I love those three words, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, renewing of the Holy Ghost. That's the core of the gospel right there. That's Titus 3, 5, he saved us. Will, great comment. Thank you for that. All right, any other prayer requests? Go ahead. Alright, uh, George, K2KJX, go ahead and close in prayer for us, please. This is K2KJX, please pray with me. And, uh, you know, I think that, uh, you may not bother to find David's news at work because our board is busy. And the question is, "Prayer, Lord, of everything in our lives, "that's what you're looking for, uh, in our prayer." I will pray for Steve, 76 YSI, his wife Leslie, the human cardiologist, and for further progress. I pray that he gets comfortable with whatever cardiologist he takes, and they provide. And for Pete, just stand there and listen to me. We have a desert. Give her comfort if she's bored. I just, I know And when we get to the end of our life, that's just a little bit. For Al, AJ7228, this is his wife. Jerry is on the cataract surgery on April 1st. And I know that his legs will be nice and fresh. So I'm going to put him through. For Jeff, AJ60K, I prefer making him North Carolina with the Blue Jays Association. That's the problem, right? And that's the reason they, uh, they, uh... Well, anyway, that they said everything was going well. Uh, Helo Mike, by Box Truck, uh, who, I think it's Greg Gordon, is in ICU. Uh, he's in and out of the hospital. I pray for healing for Roger, WD-70-ZO, for his life, and recovery. I pray that everything goes well with them also. For WD-70-RKR, Ronnie is in the emergency room for migraine headaches, and I suffered with him for almost 50 years. And also, hi, Roger. pleasure. I pray for your ultimate healing, Lord Jesus, and that you give them comfort. For John, WCROJ, I'm sorry about the radio issues on screen, but you will figure that out. And for John, N7NPA, thank you for filling in for Pastor Mack while he's not traveling. Thank you for your faithfulness in serving the Lord Jesus. Okay, and also from Scott, I'd say that he's in continuing recovery from his prostate cancer I see hearing from his urology issues. For coding, KITR, CLM, and he's going. I expect for the salvation of the number driver that knows that new or ILR boards And it's 3-0. For Charles, N7BEN, Trevor just finished seven weeks of chemo radiation treatment. I'm sure that it will take a toll on him. He should have a difficulty following. And he's also having trouble with his right arm and dealing with the face. better now, but still struggling. And I pray, Lord, that you come to him, give him the knowledge of who you are, that he is your Lord and Savior. And I also pray for Charles and his wife, Linda's marriage to strengthen and nothing more of representatives and a man and a woman being married and the picture of you Lord Jesus as I write. For Pete, W27RKR, healing for his damaged biceps and his wife Ronnie has Alzheimer's. I pray that it does not progress and strength and wisdom for Pete to carry for her. For Bert, W7RKD, that He's dealing with insomnia and health issues. And his wife, I pray for multiple. For Mike, W7CWO, his temporal artery has returned. I pray for his healing. for Jesus and wisdom and the proper medication to be used if needed. And also for Doug's wife, Betty, that she feels comfort in knowing that Doug passed into heaven. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your goodness and mercy and grace to each one of us. And thank you for the Lord Jesus who paid our sins and gave us the opportunity to have you as our Lord and Savior. And it's in your name, Lord Jesus, I pray. Amen. See you there also in Utah. All right, this is WB7MAX, next 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 6:00 a.m. in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning, message, and application, and then pray for grace and mercy to live out what we learn and for God to meet the needs of those in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency now to regular amateur use. This is WB7MAX. I'll be clear and standing by. That XMV with today's joke. Go ahead there, Beck. I've been holding off on this one waiting for you to get back. What do you call two birds in love? What do you call two birds in love? Well, of course I love birds, but I know that can't possibly be the answer. Go ahead, Beck. Tweet hearts. Tweet hearts, I love it. Yeah, Kathy and I are tweet hearts. That's good, Beck. Thank you for that. You're welcome, everybody. Have a great day. Alpha Alpha 5, thank you. All right, real good, Beck. All right, anybody else want to talk? I'm here. Talk soon. Will, QM5F, go ahead. Yeah, the guy that you had earlier, I think it was Shane, KA7DIA, I think I got the wrong call sign. Okay, so it's QO Mike 7 Bravo India Alpha, is that correct? Yeah, I had an A instead of an M. Thank you, KM5F. OK. 7 Alpha India Alpha. OK, copy that. So it's Kilo Mike 7 Alpha India Alpha, I believe, was the proper call sign. Can somebody confirm that? That is correct. Okay, right. So, Will, Kilo Mike 5 Foxtrot, Shane's call sign is Kilo Mike 7 Alpha India Alpha. Got it, thank you. Alright, Will, real good. Thank you for that. Okay, anybody else, go ahead. ZXN. ZXN, go ahead. You still copy me, Max? I can on the STL, yeah, go ahead. Very good. Well, I'm glad you kind of focused on verse 4 there. Didn't really get a chance to expand on it, but, you know, that really is the gospel encapsulated in one verse, really, verse 4 and 5 there, how succinctly he encapsulates. the gospel message. And I just always love that. One of the ways I heard one express that too in the work of Christ in that was voluntary, vicarious, and victorious. You know, he gave his life. He volunteered himself. You know, no one took it from it. He gave himself himself. a ransom for us and vicariously on behalf of others. He did not do that for himself, but on our behalf. And, of course, he was victorious in paying the full ransom of sin on our behalf. So voluntary, vicarious, and victorious. But I always love that verse because it really does encapsulate the gospel there so succinctly. KB7 is that example. Yeah, amen. Well said, Kevin. Thank you for those three words. It's voluntary. He gave himself. It's vicarious for our sins. And it's victorious. He delivers us from this present evil world. And, of course, from all the other consequences of our sins as well. And this is not something thought up at the last minute. It's according to the will of God our Father. What's the result? To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen. And so the more we understand the gospel, the better we worship. And, you know, when the gospel is minimized... worship is diminished. And when the gospel is maximized, worship is expanded and increased. And so you really see the connection there, as you pointed out in verses 4 and 5, between what he did and the worship he received. Back to you there, Kevin. Well, very good. Anyway, this is going to be certainly a wonderful study here, I think. And anyway, good to hear you back. Good to hear everyone else this morning as well. Great comments all the way around the table there. KB7, ZXN. All right, KB7, ZXN 73, you guys have a great day, and we will talk to you tomorrow morning, God willing. All right, WB7MX, standing by. Mark, W7UAR, it's really good to see you there on the Utah SDR. If you're on your microphone, key up and let me know how you're doing. PVT was in there. Oh, PVT was in there, Mark. KJ7PVT, Mark, go ahead.. Mark, unable to copy on my end. I heard your voice, but I was unable to discern any words. Can anybody give me a relay of what Mark said? Yeah, KI-7TRS. KI-7TRS, Cody, good to hear your voice. Go ahead. Yeah, Mark said you were here for the whole net, but couldn't get in. He just now finally able to hear himself on the SDR and was thanking you for the service, Mark. All right, real good. Mark, KJ7PVT got a relay from Cody, KS7TRF, saying that you were here the whole net. So, Mark, I got you checked in. Appreciate you being here and glad you were able to participate. Yeah, in any event, Cody, good to hear your voice. How is Zoe doing these days? Good to hear you guys too. I was able to make it, I didn't sleep last night, but I mean, glad to be here for the whole thing. Nobody's heard from Zoe in about two weeks. I don't really know how she's doing. Her mother, who just had a baby, says that it probably adds a hurdle to Zoe getting home. Does that, when she does come home, and if she does, she'll be carrying a burden with an empty. Yeah, copy that. Well, maybe caring for someone besides herself will help Zoe grow up a little bit, over. That would be a good thing. I think that could work, but I think there's still some other things we could have with that. I'll return to you before that comes around. Yeah, copy that, copy that. Okay, real good. Thank you for that, Cody. Appreciate it. K-7TRF. I'm going to go over to Mark, W7UAR. Mark, I see you're not on today, but welcome home. Thank you for that. And glad you were able to listen, even though you're not on the radio. So Mark, W7UAR acknowledging your text message and appreciate you, brother. Okay, Cody, back to you, K7TRF. So you still haven't dealt with your insomnia, is that correct? Yeah, that's right. I have been speaking about 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. very regularly with email. This is net. I've talked to a few times, but I didn't sleep last night. I was able to get the whole thing today. Yeah, I copy that. Well, good. I'm glad you were here. I'm sorry you're not sleeping well. We continue to pray for you in that regard. All right, real good. Okay, anybody else have any comments they want to make, please come down to call time. KJ7QQH Oh, KJ7QQH, go ahead I just wanted to give a shout out to Cassie and how nice it was to have her with us over the last few days and it's very enjoyable having her with us as well Yeah, copy that. She would report to me how things went on the net. I guess the band was bad for a couple of days. But anyway, appreciated hearing the comments in the fellowship, and I'm glad she was there to keep my microphone warm for me. So, yeah, she's got her general license. She doesn't get on the radio a lot, but when she needs to, she knows how to push that button and give out her call sign. So thank you, Al, for that. And she enjoyed fellowship with you and with all the people on the net. Very good, and please pass on our regards. Alright, say it again there. And please pass on our regards. Oh yeah. KJ7QQH at QQH 0.5. Okay, so yeah, we'll pass on your regards from KJ7QQH and QQH 0.5. We're gonna have to get Jerry to get a license, you know? You're gonna have to put her nose in the books and have her study so we can hear her voice. You just made her laugh. Do you use the mic in PD or in her day? Isn't it for in Alaska? Well, yeah, I copy that, but you could talk to her in third-party traffic using your call sign. We can do that. Yeah, I like your idea. Yeah, copy that. Well, we'll keep the pressure on. All right, Jerry, we love you. And if you don't get your license, we still love you. But we would really love it if you would get your license. All right, Al, thank you for that and appreciate that. All right, other comments, please come now. I'm super proud of mine. Yeah, you got every reason to be. PDI? PDI, David, go ahead. We need to hear more, Ted. Yeah, you need to get some rest, Max. You've been a long trip, and you did a great job this morning on no sleep and just getting into the study, so get that nap in so you're up to par. and feeling better. Your health is important too. Kilo Kilo 7 Papa Delta India, I'll say 73's and I'll be QRT. David, thank you for that and I'm going to take your advice. Yeah, I'm kind of a rag doll at this point in time, but God provides sustaining grace. So anyway, we'll turn all this electronic nonsense off, get the electrons back in the wires where they belong instead of in my radios and over the air, And I will see all of you guys tomorrow. This is WB7MAX. I'll be clear in QRT. Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, QRT. Thank you. ♪♪ ♪♪ Thank you. you you you you you you you you