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KM5F, I'm trying to get things untangled here. We got snow today, I guess it looks more like winter than Easter. No new prayer requests, KM5F. Alright, real good. Will, KM5F has snow today. So that's interesting. Will, thanks for being there. No new prayer requests, copy that. Alright, any other check-ins, please come now. There was a Kilo 7. Thank you for that, Beck. Kilo 7 station, please come again. Okay, that's Keith. Okay, so Keith, K7NEB, got you. Van conditions are poor today, Keith, but I did pick you up. I can get you on the Utah SDR. Keith, go ahead. Any prior requests? Okay, copy. No prior requests. Thank you for that. Did I hear Beck Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee out there? Yes, but there's another weak station trying, so I'll stand by for a second. Please do, thanks. Appreciate relays. KJ7PWM, good to have you with us. Brian, any prayer requests? Go ahead. Okay, so Brian is asking us to continue to pray about the lambing season. So, Jerry, AE7ER, this is Brian, KJ7PWM, asking us to pray for success. with the lambing season. They've had lots of babies. They've got a few more babies to be born. We're just praying for healthy ewes and healthy lambs. Over. Okay, I'm done. All right, Jerry, thank you for that. Okay, so we've got Brian KJ7PWM checked in. All right, and Beck, thank you for that relay. All right, any other check-ins, please come now. AL7KG Okay, there's Lee AL7KG. Good morning Lee, how are you doing? Hello there, good morning back. Driving to City, City, City. Copy that, doing steady, steady. So Lee AL7KG, we got you checked in and thank you for being there. Much appreciated. Alright, any other stations please come down. *Rain* Alright, Beck Alpha Alpha 5Y, I guess it's your turn, go ahead. Oh, okay, I thought you already checked me in there, WS7SAB, don't forget to throw her on the list too, Roger. Uh, didn't copy your last statement, please state again. I'm wondering, is there something going wrong with my station? No, there's nothing wrong with your station at all. We've got poor band conditions today. Everybody's noisy and quiet, so no worries there, Beck. Everything's fine. We just got poor band conditions. Over. Roger. Okay. I'm listening on the SDR, so, you know, it's always... better for me rather than trying to listen in this deep dark hole that I live in. I said let's not forget to add WS7-SAB to the list Roger. She is on the list already. Jerry AE70R is going to be praying for us so we got Sandy WS7-SAB on the list for healing from her hip replacement surgery so thank you for that Beck. All right anything else? Amen. No, thank you. And you all, everyone have a blessed day. Alpha Alpha 580, keep standing by and back to NET. Okay, real good. All right, any last-minute check-ins before we start the NET? Please come now. All right, the NET would like to acknowledge Gene K7GWR. Good morning, Gene. See you there on the Utah SDR. That's Gene K7GWR. Just scanning my SDRs one last time here before we start the net. Oh, there's Peter, KJ7BA. Good morning, Peter. Good to have you with us, brother. And Peter says good morning to everyone. Now, I see Al, KJ7QQH out there, but he hasn't checked in by voice. Al, I'm going to check you in and Jerry because I see there on the Utah SDR. So we've got Al, KJ7QQH checked in. Yeah, we got Doc, we got Mike, we got Joe, KF7UOQ checked in, Peter. Oh, there's Scott in 7NPA. Scott, see you there on the Half Moon Bay SDR. Good to have you with us, brother. All right, so Scott in 7NPA is with us this morning on the Utah -- on the Half Moon Bay SDR. Okay, any other check-ins this morning? Please come now. All right, we are going to get started with our Bible study, and we are in Galatians chapter 4, verses 1 through 11. And Paul... is continuing his discussion of covenantal transition. And you know, we have this chapter break in chapter 4, but we really don't have a new subject. And so what Paul started doing is, in chapter 3, he started talking about the covenants. He talked about the Abrahamic covenant that, of course, made the promise of the seed, the Messiah. And then about 430 years after that, the Old Covenant was instituted, and we talked about the purpose for that, which was of course, to be a tutor, a governor, a schoolmaster, to keep Israel contained, controlled, and separate from the nations around it, to restrain her sin so that she could maintain her national identity and walk in relationship with God until the new covenant would come. And we saw the new covenant described as the faith in verse 23. And we saw that when Jesus came, The Old Covenant was done away with, but of course the Abrahamic Covenant continues. And the New Covenant is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant. And so we saw that we Gentiles are incorporated into the Abrahamic Covenant through faith in Jesus. verse 29, and if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Well, now we move into chapter 4, and he continues on with this illustration of a family. And we're in a family, we've got a mom and a dad, and we've got kids. And then sometimes there are tutors and governors who are responsible for managing the household and managing the children. And, of course, the children go from what we call minority to majority. That is, they go from childhood to adulthood. Now, in America, We go from childhood to adulthood at age 18. And someone that's prior to 18 is called a minor. Someone after 18 is considered to be an adult. So we have this very clear line. Well, they had the same thing back in Bible times, where at an appointed time, child would go from being a child to being placed as an adult son. And that process was called adoption. Now, that's different than us being adopted into the family of God as children of God. This adoption is the placing of one as an adult son. So what happened in history is that God started the Jewish nation with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 sons that Jacob had. And then Eventually that nation went down into Egypt, was there for some 400 years, and came out from being 70 people to being several million people. And then of course the Old Covenant was instituted with them out Mount Sinai in Exodus 19. Well, then that covenant ruled the life of Israel for a long time, over a thousand years, until Jesus came. And of course then when Jesus came, the covenant community went from her minority to her majority. She went from being contained and controlled to a piece of real estate with a very complicated ritual system of temple and sacrifice and priesthood and laws and all of that, to when Jesus came, the old covenant passed away, the covenant community came into her adulthood, if you will, and now she has far fewer restrictions on her. And now she's free to wander the world and preach the gospel in every nation. And so now we are in the covenantal time of adulthood under the new covenant. And so the community has gained maturity and it has gained liberty. and now we go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. So that's the transition that's going on here. And when we understand that, then the passage makes a lot of sense to us. So it's a historical growing up of the covenant community from her infancy through her childhood and then into adulthood when Jesus came. All right, that is a little bit of background for the reading we're going to be doing today. But before we start our reading... We want to open our time together in prayer. So Mike at W7TWO, could you please open in prayer for us today? Alright, sounds like Mike is out getting coffee or something. I'll go ahead and open in prayer. Father, thank you so much for this time we have together to read your word. We ask for the illuminating ministry of the Holy Spirit. Father, may he be pleased to fill us with an understanding of the scriptures. Father, we pray that we would just be humble students and willing followers. of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we pray for each one here on the net that they might grow into the measure, the stature, the fullness of Christ through the ministry of the Word and fellowship and the operation of your Spirit in each heart and in each life. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, we need someone to do some reading. Roger, WB7VZL, can you read for us? I'm here. Okay, I'm glad you're there. Okay, I need you to read for me Galatians 4, 1 through 11. That's Galatians 4, 1 through 11 there. Roger, go ahead. All right, I've got a page turned here. I've got to make sure I've got it ready here. Okay, this is WB7VZL reading Galatians chapter 4. Thank you for the intro. And I love that phrase, the fullness of time coming up in verse 4. This is WB7VZL. Now I say as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave, although he is owner of everything. but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the Father. So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son, into our hearts crying, Abba, Father. Therefore, you are no longer a slave, but a son. And if a son, then an heir through God. However, at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. but now that you have come to know God or rather to be known by God how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things to which you desire to be enslaved all over again you observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear you, for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain. Yes. Back to you, Max. All right, thank you so much for that reading. Really appreciate that. And we need to talk about this passage. So any comments on this passage, please come down to your call line. Whenever I see, like at the beginning of Mark, this is WB7, pardon me, go ahead. Yeah, Roger, go ahead, you got the floor. Yeah, well, you know, the kingdom of God is at hand, etc. There seems to be a timeline that this, kind of a God's, Well, it goes back to the prophecy that Gabriel talks to Daniel about in Daniel and the end of Daniel chapter 9. And I think Paul, who knew those prophecies pretty well, knew that God had a time for prophecy. these elemental things to be put away. The law changed and actually the prediction of Messiah would come. And so I find it very intriguing, you know, the fullness of time. Here this year we're going through this passage and referring to that. And it is the transitional time when Jesus goes to the cross on Good Friday and makes the cross. And it's a very makes all these celebrations that took place to highlight the coming, makes it into the past and brings redemption to us and adoption of sons. Over. Yeah, amen. Well said. I really appreciate you zeroing in on the fact that there is transition and timelines in the unfolding of the plan of God. We know that God from the foundation of the world had a plan, and then of course that plan has a timeline. And when those time periods come that God has preordained, tremendous events occur. And so God had a time for Israel to go into Egypt. He had a time for them to come out. He had a time for Messiah to come. And so that's what is being spoken of there in verse 4 when it says, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. And so, as you said, in Daniel chapter 9 there, it talks about time periods, seven weeks and 69 weeks and one week, and some people interpret those as years. I don't. I interpret them as symbolic periods, but nevertheless. they are indicative of time and time periods. So Jesus came right at the time in history that God had planned. He didn't come a day late. He didn't come a day early. He came just at the right time to take that next step in God's redemptive program of taking the children of Israel out of the old covenant into the new covenant, out of a system of animal sacrifices, to looking and trusting in the one final finished and perfect sacrifice of Jesus. And so, yeah, thank you, Roger, for that. There is going to be a time when Jesus comes back again. We don't know what that time is, but I assure you God has a set time. a fullness of time. So until then, we will carry on in the covenantal arrangement that God has us in, which, of course, is the new covenant. Great comment, Roger. Thank you for that. Any other comments, please come now. Is that a DVD? DVD. Okay, I heard DVD out there. Go ahead there, Mark. I was wondering if we could take a break this morning, as it is morning. where Jesus is the pilot, and maybe we could take a break for a moment and just read something out of the Bible that talks about the actual fact of life and what he did for us there, and then get back to this book later. Yeah, that's certainly possible. What passage would you like us to read? Over. Okay. Oh, I'm just looking right now at Mark chapter 15. We don't have to read a whole bunch of it, but I think it's real important that we, you know, as the sun is coming up this morning, kind of remember the time that Jesus has been marched out in front of the Pilate. He's just going to say what he wants to say. and plaited a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees, worshipped him. And when they had mocked him, they took the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. And they compel one Simon, a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And they bring him into the place Golgotha, which is being interpreted the place of a skull. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh. But he received it not. And when they crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them what every man should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And the superscription of the accusation was written over the king of the Jews." And with him they crucified two thieves, the one on the right hand and the other on the left. And the scripture was fulfilled with Saiyat, and he was numbered with the transgressors. And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others, himself he cannot save. Let Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, which is being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by when they heard of it said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him the drink, saying, Let alone, let's see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost." And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from top to the bottom. And when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly, this man was the Son of God. There were also women looking on afar off, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the last, and rolled a stone under the door of the sepulcher. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph beheld where he was laid. This is WB7MAX. I've just read Mark chapter 15 because it is Good Friday at the request of Mark KJ7PVT. Mark KJ7PVT, do you have any comments you'd like to make to us? Go ahead. Yeah, Mark, it sure is. And it's overwhelming. You know, it's easy to read the words, but we need to put ourselves in that situation. And we need to visualize what was happening and what each person was thinking and feeling. Especially, of course, our Lord Jesus Christ, who laid down his life for us. Abba, Father. We have that relationship with Him, not only as servants or slaves, but as sons and daughters of God, as children of God, which is the family of God, because now you and I that are saved are brethren in Christ. Give you seven, set example. And we're all under the curse. Verse 11, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. So justification is not by keeping commandments. Justification is by exercising faith. Well, faith in who? We're going to find out. Verse 12, and the law is not of faith, but the man that does them shall live. I'm looking at that and what a tie-in to this day from my perspective from Isaiah the Gospel prophet of the passion of Jesus. Over. Yes, Roger. Let's do that. Isaiah 53 verses 3 to 12. It says in verse 3 regarding Jesus. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted; yet he opened not his mouth. It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones. And here we also see a picture of how awful our sins are, that they caused this kind of grief to the Son of God and demanded this level of suffering in order to atone for them. And so let us not think of our sins lightly. This was the cost of their atonement, because the evil was great. In fact, the evil of our sins is infinite. It required an infinite sacrifice. Alright, Jerry, AE70R, please go ahead and close in prayer for us. Let us pray. Our Father in heaven, we come to you, Lord, in this good Friday, Lord, to give you thanks for the gift of your Son, for the salvation of our children. Praise the Lord for healing of my temporal arteritis. Center 3 occurred. Praise the salvation of Jaden, his grandson, who's immersed in rock and roll culture. Randy? Randy still needs housing. Jeff, he thinks it's okay. Jeff needs healing. He needs salvation. And also, praise from God for all the past injustices done to her. She is making good improvements in her life. Autumn. remembering the sacrifice of our Lord. 76 RLJ, uh, "GD Dental Clinic could be opened," uh, he asked, and, uh, the, the Fijian, uh, get that kind of health care. We pray for James. James repentance in seeking Christ into his life and fellowship. 77RTV prays for the persecuted brothers and churches around the world. Protect them, particularly in the Islamic countries. Brian KJ Fraven, KWM. sacrifice that our Lord suffered and gave on that cross that is the only way to our salvation. We have so many things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. And this is AE-70R. Amen, Jerry. Thank you so much for that prayer. I really appreciate that. Danette would like to acknowledge Philip Kasich's HSV and also Dave's AE-7WKI. Both those guys showed up quite a while back on the SDRs. And I think it was really God-honoring. I think it was encouraging to all of us and also humbling for all of us as we see our Savior and the suffering he went through on the cross. So thanks to Mark, KJ, 7PVT, to Roger, WB7VZL, both of whom suggested passages to read. All right, real good. Back to you. Please email me your call sign and your comment and I will respond to you by email. 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