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Also, he equips ships with chapels. They'll designate a room in a ship for a chapel, but they don't put anything in it. And so he goes in there with a team and they equip that chapel with hymnals and Bibles and audio-visual equipment and all the things that are necessary for them to be able to do worship. So, great ministry Jeff has. Operation Worship. I think it's a.4 as I recall. But anyway, Jeff, AK6OK is involved in that. All right, real good. Thank you for that update. All right, any other check-ins, please come down. Okay, good morning, Matt. 827, the NIRB, what is your prayer request? All right, real good, Jerry. Did you get the prayer request list that I sent you at your turn in the rotation to close in prayer today? I'll follow it up right now. Alright, real good. Thank you for that, Jerry. W7RKD checking in for my daily breath. Stan Bird, W7RKD, good to hear your voice. How you doing? Doing wonderful, Max. In fact, you can take that prayer request for myself on the Insomnia and Danielle, she was affected by this too, to over to PRACE. Well, copy that. I'm so pleased to hear that. That is absolutely wonderful. You struggled with that for a long time, and Danny, too. So, all right, we will take that off the list as a request. We will put it back on there as a praise and rejoice in the Lord. How is she doing with her MS? Over. She's doing much better. She had a bout yesterday a little bit. You know, it doesn't take much to send it off. She gets overheated. Heat, excessive heat or anything above a certain temperature makes the MS flare. And so once in a while, she doesn't even know that she's getting too warm. And then it kicks it into overdrive. She starts talking, the slurring of her words, hand-eye coordination, walking. Everything is all messed up. you know, and, but yeah, she's, you know, she has her bouts with that, but she's doing well. We'll copy that. We will continue to pray that that thing stays in remission and doesn't bother her anymore. So, Bert, real good. So please, praise the Lord for his answer to prayer regarding you guys in Sao Nio. All right, any other check-ins this morning? Please come down. AL-7KG. Okay, we got a double there. We got Lee, AL-7KG, and then we got Keith. So Keith, we'll get you in a second. Lee, AL-7KG, go ahead. Yes, this morning, sir. Hello, this is... We're going to get through it just today and start the new week. WB7, VZL. Church yesterday week, and you'll have a good week this coming week. Alright, that's Lee, AL7KG. Lee, thank you for being there. Alright, back over to Keith, K7NEV. Good morning, Keith, how you doing? Good morning, K7NEV, all. Happy to be here. No prayer requests today. Copy that. You're here with no prayer requests, and Keith, we really appreciate your voice and glad you're with us. Okay, any other check-ins, please come down. WB7A. And there is Roger. Good morning, Roger. How are things? We were so moved emotionally by the first performance of the Lamb of God that it kept me awake. I kept hearing things. So, yeah, it was quite a moving experience, the Lamb of God. All right. Well, Roger, I'm so glad. Yeah, that's kind of an Easter Bible presentation via music and song. And Roger, of course, plays the viola, I believe it is. Your wife plays the violin, as I recall. And yeah, they had this big presentation of what's called the Lamb of God. And anyway, it's just a presentation of who Jesus is and what he's done and the fact that he's risen from the grave. So, Roger, I'm excited to hear the first one went well. The second one will be tonight. So we need to continue to pray about that. Okay, Roger, real good. Are you going to be playing tonight then again also? Yes, that's... I think I need to catch up on some sleep. But yeah, there are about six... well, there's what it looks like about singers representing the characters of the story surrounding Jesus. And the composer, surprisingly, did not want to represent Jesus, well, I mean, wisely, and it's represented by a cellist. And we had a wonderful cellist who's quite renowned in this area do Jesus. Yeah, copy that. Interesting, very interesting, very reverent. Okay, real good, Roger. Thank you for that. Was that live streamed? I think the copyright issues are such that they couldn't get permission. There are a couple of performances on the Internet, I noticed, or I've heard. So, yeah, that's the access. Yeah, copy that, understood. Okay, alright, real good. Okay, thank you Roger, we got you checked in. Any other check-ins at the west coast of Pueblo City before we get started, please come down. Alright, hearing nothing, I think it's time for us to get started. Back out off of 5-8-P, do you want to read for us today when the time comes over? I would love to, Pastor Matt. All right. So get your Bible open to Galatians 2, verses 11 to 16. That's Galatians 2, 11 to 16. And that will be our reading when the time comes, which is not quite yet. Okay. Our section that we are dealing with here has to do with an unfortunate confrontation between Paul, the Apostle Paul, and the Apostle Peter. And it had to do with living out... the truth of the Gospel, and how that Peter had a little stumble here, and he, out of the fear of man, failed to do the right thing. And Paul confronts him. And then out of that confrontation, he makes one of the most wonderful declarations of the gospel and its terms anywhere in the scripture there in verse 16, which will be the last verse that we'll read to us. And we're going to discuss this section today. I'm really looking forward to it. But before we start our discussion, we want to open our time together in prayer. And so Bert, W7RKD, I think you've opened a prayer for us for a while. So if you could do that, I would really appreciate it. Go ahead, Bert, W7RKD. Thank you Max. Yeah, it's been a little while, but I pray for it. I pray aside. But anyhow, this is W7RKD for Troy Montana with CarHeads. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for the blessings that we've received and the blessings to come. And we also thank you for this frequency and this gathering. The gathering so we can... We can be nurtured on your manhood and be that light that you needed to be to help us back along. Like a mark to a point. And we hope we shine bright, bright as we can for you all. So we can find those sheep, all that know your voices. And it's a promise that everybody else, that their health is recovering well. as it can be at your will, Lord. Please watch over everyone as they go about their walk today with you. In Jesus Christ's holy name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for that, Bert. Really appreciate that prayer. And I would like to acknowledge Carol, KK7TPO. Carol, see you there on the Utah SDR. Appreciate you being there. Also received a text message from Scott in 7NPA. And he said that he is currently in the Dalles in Oregon along the Columbia River at an Oregon Trappers Association meeting with politicians and lobbyists. So he'll probably be back next week sometime. All right, so we've got Carol checked in. We've got Scott reported on. And I think we are ready for our Scripture reading. So, Beck, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, could you please read Forrest Galatians 2, verses 11 through 16? After that, and I'm reading through that, New King James Version. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood with him to the face because he was to be blamed. For before the certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles. But when they came from... But when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself during them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews disassembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou be a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why comest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are the Jews by nature are not sinners of the Gentiles. Knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even when we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not only the works of the law, for by those works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Alpha Phi Vici, back to Matt. Alright, real good, Beck. Thank you for that reading. Well done. Alright, any comments on this section of Scripture? Please come down with your call, buddy. Zedek Sin. Kevin, KB7 Zedek Sin. Go ahead. KB7 Zedek Sin. Happy to get things rolling here. Yes, and very good summary. You know, sometimes the challenges of walking in Christ and being faithful, have some surprises along the way and some landmines along the way. And here we see Paul put in a very difficult situation. In his passion and desire to be faithful to God, and his commitment to the purity of the gospel, he now has to confront a dear friend. Not only a friend, but the most prominent apostle of the time here. The most prominent Christian, if you will, and well-known. And yet, because of error, because of sin, Paul... has to confront him. And because this sin is a public sin, and that is, we're talking about Peter, identified as Cephas in the text, basically his Aramaic name for Peter, has to be confronted here because he had fallen under the social pressures of being influenced by legalists, by the Judaizers, by those that have compromised the gospel. They didn't deny the gospel, but they said, well, you know, they'd come along behind Paul in many cases and influence the brethren and say, well, you know, the grace is good, but you need to also be circumcised. You also need to kind of follow certain elements of the law that you can be in good fellowship with believers. Well, we know that that is false. And we know that God is not a respecter of persons. But lest we be caught up in that too and look down so much on Peter, be mindful. Because we need to be very careful If we start judging others and we start saying, oh, well, you know, judging people based on their social class or their economic class or even identifying by some specific class, period, it's really a sin because God is not a respecter of persons. One thing that is emphasized through this text is that the gospel is for everyone. And man, woman, child, and it doesn't matter your ethnic origin. It doesn't matter your social economic origin or position. It is an open gospel. nor to those that would embrace the true gospel without respect to others. So anyway, I don't want to ramble on anymore, but this is a difficult time that Paul has to really confront Peter, not out of malice, but for the love of God and for the love of the gospel. KB7 is that example. Yeah, amen. And that's why the confrontation is being done, not out of malice, but out of love to God and love for the Gospel. That's a great statement, Kevin. Really appreciate that. And you know, we have to understand how difficult this period of history was for both Jews and Gentiles, because prior to this time, under the Old Covenant, the Jews were not to mix with the Gentiles. You recall, God said, you know, "Be a separate people." And so here we've got James, who was a Jew, of course, half-brother of Jesus. We saw him at the Jerusalem Council yesterday when we read Acts 15. And then certain people come from him who are obviously also Jews, and Peter's concerned about what they think. And so he's afraid that if they see him mixing with the Gentiles, they'll be aghast. Because Jews don't mix with Gentiles. At least that's the way it used to be. And so we see all of these struggles with feast days and fast days and the day of worship and all of these things: dietary restrictions, who you company with. All of these things went through transition as we went from the old covenant to the new covenant. And there was a lot of catch-up that had to be played in people's minds. And, of course, that's one of the discussions there in Romans 14. Some regard the day, some don't. Some eat this and others don't. And so we, standing 2,000 years later, think what was wrong with these guys? But we weren't in their shoes, we weren't in their period of history, and so we understand that they had struggles that we didn't necessarily. But Kevin, jumping ahead, to chapter 3 and verse 28, it summarizes exactly what you said. 3.28 says there's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither bond nor free, there's neither male nor female, for you're all one in Christ Jesus. All those traditional distinctions that used to determine whether someone was in the kingdom of God or out of the kingdom of God or what role they played, those have changed and in many respects flattened out. Um, You know, there's still differences in roles of men and women, but there's certainly not any differences in terms of race. And men and women are equally accepted on the terms of the gospel. And, you know, bond or free, socioeconomic status, that doesn't matter. So we need to make distinctions where God makes distinctions, and we need to not make distinctions where God doesn't make distinctions. And anymore, God doesn't make a distinction between a Jew and a Gentile. And so we need to understand that, and that's what Peter did. And I think he was really concerned about what they would say about him behind his back if they saw him involved with Gentiles. And, you know, I think what we have to do is not fear the face of man. We just got to obey God and let the chips fall where they may. And when you obey God, you are going to get criticized, mark it down. And that's what Peter was afraid of and that's why he was modifying his behavior in an unbiblical fashion. So, Kevin, excellent job of bringing those points out. All right, other comments, please come out. W7RKD, go ahead, please. I'm curious, I'm here to work and I'm here to make money. Just for reading the air and then learning the book of Kings, it points out that this is how the people strayed away. Also, we have that good book, The Children. ... Yeah, Bert, real good. You're right. You know, we've got to study all of the books of the Bible. We've got to understand them all. And, you know, when you read the book of James itself, there is a warning against this very behavior that Peter is engaging in here. And it says in James chapter 2, he says, verse 1, "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord is glory, with respect to persons. For if there cometh to your assembly a male with a gold ring and goodly apparel, and there cometh also a poor man in vile raiment, and ye have respect to him that weareth the happy clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place, but say unto the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool. Are you not then become partial in yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, it's not God chosen the poor of the world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him. But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not be blasphemed in that worthy name by which you are called? And so there's quite a section there in the book of James about not showing partiality, certainly in the area of economic status and social status. And so, yeah, you know, it's important for us to read all of the Bible and to understand the total message if we're going to understand any one particular passage. Because each passage not only has an immediate context of the verses before and behind it, it also has a remote context. And that is the book and, of course, the rest of the book of the Bible. All right, Bert, good comment. Thank you for that. All right, any other comments? Please come down. Is that X-ray? That's X-ray. Go ahead. I hope the feathers jump in as well because I know there's some good thoughts out there. One of the things too, just in the context of the text here too and prior, you know, one of the examples Well, two things, two quick points. One, this was a powerful influence, and this is why it's so important to be not only well-founded in the truth of the gospel, but also who you choose as your friends and who you surround yourself with, because we can be influenced without our intention sometimes. And this was a very powerful influence. It even influenced Barnabas, who went on a couple of missionary journeys with Paul and planted many churches and knew the gospel as well. Peter knew better. He preached the truth. He preached the gospel many times. He pitted it down by the inspiration of God. But one of the testimonies here, too, is Titus is a perfect example. Here is an uncircumcised Gentile that is saved, that is a faithful servant of Christ, and is serving churches. And, you know, so there's a perfect example that they all know now as an example of the gospel being equally applied and available to all Gentiles. And so Peter knows better. But the pressures of men and the pressures of those around us can be very strong sometimes in ways of error. And we probably all experience that at one level or another. Even on TV, you need to be very careful. There's some very charismatic, influential, I guess they call preachers on TV personalities on TV that will preach a different gospel and be careful lest you be influenced as well because we have no right or authority to change the gospel and unfortunately I think Peter repents but yeah this is a great text this whole book like I said it's a card of freedom for the believer and um And I think one of the fears here, too, to keep in mind, too, is that, you know, well, if it's just grace by faith, well, then, you know, these Gentiles, they're just going to live like, you know, do whatever they want. Well, no, salvation doesn't work that way. When God transforms us, when you are saved by grace. We are a new creation in Christ Jesus, and our desire is not to sin freely, but to serve God freely with the freedom He's given us. And I love, as you pointed out, going into verse 16 here, and I can't remember if you proved that as part of the text today, but that really sums it up there. Give me some of that again. Yeah, Kevin, verse 16 is part of the text. We'll be discussing that momentarily. But, you know, you bring out two really important points. And the first is, we need to think about the impact of our actions on others. And we see that because Peter took action, that caused others to stumble and to sin. And it says other Jews also followed his example, and even Barnabas followed his example. And, of course, what kind of message, as you well said, does this communicate to Titus? who's a believer in Christ and uncircumcised and a prophet rejecting him and to eat with him because somehow he's lesser or unclean or something. So, you know, we're not an island to ourselves and we need to think, okay, how will my behavior and how will my work impact other believers and will it be for good and for godliness or will it provoke them to bad practice, bad behavior, and sinful attitudes? So, you know, we're responsible for not only our actions, but also for the impact those things have on believers who perhaps are less mature and look up to us. as an example. And then the second point you made, which is so important, Kevin, and that is that we need to be careful whose example we're following. Now, you would think Peter would be a safe example to follow, but even great men of God can be wrong about this or that or the next thing, sometimes about doctrine, sometimes about a practice. And so just because, as you said, someone is widely known and widely respected doesn't mean that everything they teach is correct. And so, you know, Barnabas, who is certainly less than Peter, he's not an apostle, he should have said, you know, Peter's going this direction, but I know that's not right, and I'm just not going to follow this renowned man of God in his teaching and practice that he is engaging in. So we have to not... be fearful of men, especially men of high profile and great renown, but we've got to put everything to the test of scriptures. It says that the Bereans gladly received the things that were spoken by Paul, but then they searched the scriptures daily to see whether those things were so, because the scriptures were more authoritative than Paul. And so the scriptures are more authoritative than I am. They're more authoritative than any of us or any other preacher, no matter how famous or renowned. So we've got to test it by the Word of God. And not be followers of men, but followers of Jesus as His will is expressed in the Bible. Kevin, great comment there. Thank you for that. All right, other comments on this passage? Please come down with your comments. Well surely somebody's got a comment on verse 16. Help me out here. Come with your call sign. Is that 8-10? I think I heard Kevin's voice out there. I'll pick you up on the SDR. Go ahead, Kevin, if that was you. Yeah, so I'm a little light back on the alternate wire today. And, yeah, I pointed to it yesterday a little bit too, but, you know, this is so powerful of a verse, and really 16 through 21. But the three times in here, as I mentioned, Paul points out that we're justified by faith. And to be justified is so important, because to stand righteous before God, otherwise we cannot stand before God. And... But how can we... to ever expect to stand righteously before God, us, a sinner, us separated from God by our sin, forever condemned by sin. And of course, as Paul had told us before, the wages of sin is death. The consequence, just by our very nature, we have no way on our own to come before God in a righteous way, but by faith. of faith alone, because of God's grace, God reached out to us in His love. God reached out, expressed through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our Lord expressed His love, His grace, by giving Himself a ransom for us, that by faith we can stand justified before Him. You know, the whole chapter 11 in the book of Hebrews is about all those from the Old Testament, that came before us that were patriarchs, many of them in the Old Testament. But every one of them, as it points to, as we affectionately refer to as the Hall of Faith, we are led to understand that they were saved by faith as well. They were made righteous before God by faith. by the promise of the coming of the Messiah and trusting God and His promise and His promises, we can look back and now at the cross and know that God fulfilled His promise, that by faith in the work done on the cross, the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, we can stand righteous before God. KB7 is that example. Yeah, Kevin, real good. Thank you for that. You know, verse 16 is so pivotal to the whole doctrine of salvation. And you know, what we see in this verse, is, first of all, a denial. Notice verse 16. Here's the denial. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law. And then we have an affirmation. Repeated affirmation. But, by faith in Jesus Christ... even as we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. There's the affirmation. And now it closes with another denial. And not by the works of the law. By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. So we have a denial, and then we have multiple affirmations And then we have another denial, and then we have a conclusion. The conclusion is, by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. So Paul is very adamant here in saying, here's what the gospel isn't, and here's what the gospel is. And by the way, here's what the gospel isn't. And here's how we don't get saved. So, yeah, that is a powerful passage. And so it's like an expansion of Ephesians 2.8.9, right? For by grace are you saved through faith. And here's the denial, that not of yourselves. Here's the affirmation, it's a gift of God. Here's the denial, not of works, lest any man should boast. And so a lot of doctoral statements are couched in this terminology where they say regarding a doctor we deny and then we affirm. And you can really see that in R.C. Sproul's book, Getting the Gospel Right, where he goes through the denials and the affirmations. Because it's oftentimes just as important what you deny. as it is what you affirm, because both of those elements are part of the whole. And, you know, a lot of people are known by what they say, but they leave an awful lot unsaid, which then creates ambiguity. And so we need to have our denials and we need to have our affirmations. And, Kevin, you're exactly right. The gospel is the same in the Old Testament as it is in the New Testament. It's not a different gospel, same message, salvation by grace, through faith, in either the promised Messiah of the Old Testament or the provided Messiah of the New Testament. And so God's had one method of salvation from Genesis 3:15 onward, clear to the end, and that is faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and nothing added to His work by way of our work. Okay, other comments, please come through. 7B7BZL. Roger, please go ahead. Yeah, I have a question for you and Kevin, verse 16, that we're talking about. What are your evaluations of reading twice in verse 16? It says, but through faith of Jesus Christ. of Christ Jesus or faith in Christ Jesus. And then it's repeated again, that we may be justified by the faith of Jesus or by Jesus. What are your takes on that distinction of the preposition? Over. Yeah, so it's in the genitive case there, and that can be translated various ways. I mean, clearly, of is the primary translation, but it can also be translated in. Beck, Alfalfa 5 Yankee, I need you to read verse 16 out of the New King James, please. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ... Even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Alphaphobe I. Yankee Thank you for that reading. So, Roger, WB7VZL, in the New King James, the preposition of is translated in, so the word in is used in all three of those phrases. faith in Jesus Christ, even if we believe in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ. So, you know, I had a Greek professor say to me once, you don't build theology on prepositions. And one of the reasons for that is because prepositions are quite fluid and flexible and can be translated legitimately various ways based upon the context of the passage and the structure of the grammar. And so, you know, if we're going to say the faith of Christ, then we could just take that as the subjective genitive, which means the faith that Jesus produces in us. We're not saved by Jesus' faith. We're saved by the faith that Jesus applies to us. And that kind of goes along with faith in 2:8 and 9, right? "By grace you save through faith, and that faith is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." So we know that faith comes by hearing. "Not all men have faith," it says in another passage. So I'm completely comfortable with the translation "faith of Christ," if you see Christ as the source of the faith. Christ is the supplier of the faith, then, you know, it's fine. Go ahead and translate it, of. But it can also be translated in, that same Greek instruction, which they did in the New King James Version. Roger, I think you have the New American Standard. Do you have of or do you have in in that first and third phrase? Over. Yes, it's in. Over. Okay. Copy that. Okay, well, then that, I think, helps explain what you were talking about. Back to you, Roger. Is there anything else, or was that satisfactory? Over. Yeah, I think your memory, interesting comment in seminary or when you were taking a Greek class, you don't build a theology on prepositions. That's interesting. I'd like to hear Kevin's take. Over. Kevin, KB7ZXN, please go ahead and give us your take on the passage. Kevin O' KB7ZXN, sorry, I was kind of reviewing my notes there on that. But, well, and that pretty much concurred there. And prepositions can be important, but again, the point is there -- legally by the justification, which is a very legal term recognized by the Jews. And even in verse 15, Paul points out, you know, Peter, we were born Jews, but not by the law are we justified. No one is justified. But in Christ, of Christ, really is pointing to Christ through Christ. In Christ, and I think the more acro-property translation is in, from what I can tell, without looking at the preposition from the Greek here right now, but it's pointing to Christ in Christ alone, again, as we talked about. I like the circle of prepositions or the qualifiers, if you will, in Ephesians 2, 8, 9, and 10, because if you circle by and of and for, by grace are ye saved, through faith, well, I guess by, through, and then for, yeah, through faith, and for good works. You know, you get the root before the fruit. And, you know, it's by grace, by His sovereignty, by His initiating action, you know, God... first loved us because we love God because He first loved us. It's His grace that initiates all of that. And it's really His faith that we respond to, that we can respond with. And, you know, by grace, through faith, for good works. For the, you know, the works of the law are good, many of them, and God's law is good. But it certainly needs to be distinguished. It's not part of our salvation, KB7 is that extent. All right, back to you there, Roger. Any comments? Yeah. Well, thank you, Kevin, for those with the band conditions as limited as they are between Kevin and I. But thank you for responding, Kevin, to both of you. Very interesting and good wisdom that we don't build theology with the prepositions. Thank you. All right, real good, Roger. Appreciate that. Okay, we've been discussing verse 16 here, but let's go back and refocus. We're not justified by the works of the law. He says that twice: not by the works of the law in the opening phrase, not by the works of the law in the closing phrase. By the works of the law, no one will be declared righteous before God. How are we declared righteous before God? By faith in Jesus Christ, even as we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ. As a source of that faith, it's a gift of God. The source of that faith is provided in regeneration. When God takes out a heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh, He gives us the desire and the ability to believe. Now, we do the believing. But we have to be given that because the carnal mind and the saved mind is enmity against God, not subject to the law of God, and neither indeed can it be. All right. We have the Vintage Military Radio Network, and it's going to be stepping in here at 6.50. And so we have about 12 minutes or so before they show up. Jerry, AE7ER is going to be closing in prayer for us today. Um, Jerry, there was a number of requests that came in before you checked in. Were you listening and did you get those requests? Over. I'm not going to. The one I have is for Roger Knight and my singing. Okay. You're real good, Jerry. We're going to do something unusual here. I'm going to go ahead and pray regarding the request that came in before you checked in. and then you pray according to that request and the ones that are on the list that I sent you. Do you have the list over? I have it in front of me, and thanks for doing that. All right, real good. That'll save us some time. All right, I'll open in prayer, and then Jerry will conclude in prayer. All right, our kind and gracious Father, we thank you so much for... this passage for its clarity. Help us, Father, to not fear the face of man like Peter did. Help us not to set a bad example. So help us, Father, like Paul, to graciously confront wrong theology and wrong practice. And Father, may we, like Peter, have the humility when we are confronted to admit the truth and to repent of any wrong behavior and teaching that we have engaged in. Father, I just want to thank you that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. And that's the essence of the gospel, that some were perverted. Father, I just want to pray today for Randy, Mike W7TWO's brother-in-law, that he would be able to get a good RV that would get him through the winter. Father, he's just not getting into the housing that he needs to. So, Lord, may there be wisdom. and selecting something that works really well for Randy. Father, we thank you for Daryl's recovery from his heart surgery. Father, he's coming off his medications now. Lord, just continue to heal Daryl, Father, and I just pray that he would have a healthy heart. We pray for his mom, Barbara, for her salvation. Lord, that she would be pleased to work in her heart and draw her to Christ. Lord, we just pray for Mike's eyes. He's got floaters, Father, that are really obscuring his vision. Just a storm of particles. And Lord, I pray that you would just settle all those down. And I pray, Lord, that he would be able to see clearly. Give the doctors wisdom in diagnosing them. And then, Father Glenn, KJ7UMW is like the key in the chronic pain they suffer with. Lord, have mercy on them. Relieve that pain in their backs and elsewhere. Give them wisdom in managing that. Lord, we pray for our brother Jeff. I can't think, okay, he's flying home on Monday. Lord, I just pray that you give a blessed day in church today. And Lord, I just ask that the fellowship would be sweet, the message would be biblical. And Lord, that he would be lifted up toward Jesus as he worships him. Father, just thank you, praise you. for Bert W7RKD and his wife Danny, that their insomnia is gone. They've been healed. And Lord, we thank you that they're sleeping well and soundly. Father, we continue to pray for Danny, that you would heal her of her MF. And Lord, I just pray that she would be able to regulate her body temperature so that that doesn't flare up. And Lord, we just ask these things in Jesus' name. Okay, over to you, Jerry, AE7ER, you carry on. Hi, Father, we send you this morning with George. Hey 2J, hey 8KX, one for me and my wife Anna, and four boys need to find a good find housing. Ah Lord, may that be accomplished. Jeff, 8K6, okay. Success in needing back East to raise funds for Operation Worship. Will, KM5S. He is in a men's retreat in Idaho. Pray for his blessing and growth from the message and fellowship. The Midwest label study at 4 a.m. Standard time, phone 3952.5. And for Daryl, WB7AOT. It's that control. Please help me. Al, KJ72QH. Pray for Jenny's recovery from her hip replacement. Brian, KJ7, PWM. His son Bailey and partner Julia started a new construction business. Pray for his success. Pray for Brian's dad Bob who is recovering from prostate surgery. We'll pay it by that protection. From missionaries Jerry and April Langley. in Africa. Fine. K7 VIP. Jay, receiving chemo for prostate cancer. That's five more treatments to go. Ending in June. May that be successful. Please, Lord. David, K7 PDI. Julie, believer. Pet a severe stroke, recovering at home. Right side paralyzed but able to attend church for the first time. and first stroke. Kevin, KB7ZXN, Harvey, WA3EID, his wife Karen, and early onset health condition. Zach, A5Y, Quebec's floods are going to be normalized. We pressure our nation, its leaders, by displacement at state level and national level. Thanks the Lord for goodness, mercy, and grace with each of us. for this gift of the Ascension of Christ. And tonight, my brother, he's playing tonight on a presentation on Jesus and singing. Could we ask for souls to be saved from this presentation? So if we let the souls rest in faith, keep us well in faith. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Real good, Jerry. Thank you for that. Danette would like to acknowledge several people who checked in on the SDRs, but I did not recognize in the heat of our discussion. We've got Peter, KJ7VA. Good morning, Peter. Glad to have you with us. We've got Brian, KJ7PWM. Good morning to you, Brian. And, of course, Dave, KE7WKI, our other faithful pastor there. And I really appreciate you guys and thank you for being here. Jerry's been listening to us for a few weeks now, and he decided to tune in today and give out his call sign and let us know he's there. Jerry, really appreciate you being here, and hopefully we'll hear from you again. Now, as I said, on Sunday, the Vintage Military Radio Network immediately follows our next. and we have agreed with them on a 6:50 cutoff time for the transition. We're a little early today, but nevertheless, we're going to turn the net over to them so that they can start tuning up their old Egypt radio and be ready to chat with each other. So this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. 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 to pray for grace and mercy to live out what we learn and also for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. So I'm going to be turning this frequency over now to the Vintage Military Radio Network, and I will see you all tomorrow. This is WB7MX. I'll be clear and QRT. Thank you. Thank you. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I Thank you. Thank you. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you