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And thank you, Beck, for taking good care of her. And Sandy, thank you for fighting the good fight. And we know that you guys are going to pull through this, and pretty soon you'll be dancing in the streets there with two new knees and a new hip. All right, real good. Okay, any other check-ins, please come now. All right, there's Brian, KJ7PWM. Good morning, Brian. How are the lambs doing? All right, real good. So we're bottle feeding some lambs, and we've got a few more to be born. So we continue to pray for your success in that regard. So thank you for that, Brian. I know you're probably absolutely exhausted, but this too shall pass. sooner or later. All right, good. That's Brian, KJ7PWM. All right, any other check-ins, please come down. KM-5S. Hello, KM-5F, good to hear from you, brother. How are you doing? Oh, I'm doing okay. Just waiting to get started this morning. No new prior requests, KM-5S. Okay, well I have a question for you. You asked us to pray for the protection of missionaries Jerry and April Langley in Africa. Any news on them, over? Yeah, we had talked to their mom and she said that the situation was over, whatever the danger that they were in was over. I was going to comment about that yesterday, but I forgot. Okay, no worries. Thank you for that. Well, then we'll just flip the switch as Jeff AK6OK set that metaphor before me this morning. We'll flip the switch to praise, from petition to praise. So anyway, thank the Lord for that. Okay, real good. All right, Kevin, TV7's at Xen. Are you there? I am here. Okay, hey, brother, you asked us to pray, and we've been praying a long time, for Harvey, WA3EIV, and his wife, Karen, who has AFib and early onset Alzheimer's. Any updates on Harvey and Karen? Over. Well, I know, and Andrew goes through a quite difficult time. She is still struggling with her health with those issues. And he kind of got taken advantage of or skimmed by a door-to-door sighting. outfit there. And so he's dealing with fraud on one end and his wife's physical and mental health decline on the other side. So I'm sure you'd appreciate continued prayers. Yeah, copy that. Happy to continue prayer for as long as necessary. No worries on that. Just wanted to see how things were going. So we'll keep him on the list. We'll continue to pray in those regards. And Kevin, thank you so much for that update. Okay. Any other check-ins this morning, please? No. WB7VZL here. And good morning, Roger. WB7VZL, how did the passing out of loaves and the bread of life go yesterday? I praise the Lord for your prayers. We had some wonderful conversations from new friends and old friends. So it was really a blessing to get out. Over. Well, praise the Lord for that. I'm really glad that you guys are reaching out like that. So many churches don't have any kind of outreach program. And so I'm glad to hear you're doing that. You made some good contacts. We'll pray for fruit. to come out of that passing out of mineral loaves that replicate, illustrate, symbolize the bread of life that came down from heaven, the manna from heaven. So real good, Roger. Thank you for that. Okay, any other check-ins this morning, please come down. Mark, KJ7PBT, if you're out there, come back to me, please. Okay, did anybody hear Mark? Negative. Okay, thank you for that, appreciate the relay. Okay, the net would like to recognize Joe, KF7UOQ. Joe, good to have you with us, appreciate you, see you there on the Half Moon Bay STR. That's Joe, KF7UOQ. Let's see who else is there. There's Peter, KJ7B8. Good morning, Peter. Good to see you there. All right, picked up Peter on the Utah SDR. Peter says good morning to everyone. All right, real good. So let me cruise through here and see who else I can pick up off the SDRs that I haven't already checked in. I think, um, yeah, we're caught up on the SPRs. Okay, we are done. It's time for us to get started with our Bible study. We're in Galatians chapter 4 today, verses 1 to 11. That's Galatians 4, 1 to 11. Roger, I'm going to ask you to read that. We began reading that, um, A few days ago, like last Friday, and then thanks to the suggestion of Mark, KJ7 TVT, we started talking about the crucifixion of Jesus since Friday was Good Friday. Will suggested that we talk about the burial on Saturday, which we did. He sent me a nice list of verses. And then on Sunday, we talked about the resurrection from John chapter 20. So it was a good refocusing of the West Coast Bible study away from our regular scripture reading to the topic of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. And I think it was really encouraging to all of us, and I'm so thankful that those suggestions were made. But we need to get back to our regular study. So we are in Galatians chapter 4, verses 1 to 11. And Roger's going to read that after we open in prayer. But we need to open in prayer first. And so, Bert, W7RKD, could you please open in prayer for us today? All right, sounds like Bert's off the microphone. Back off off of 5 Yankee. Please open in prayer for us today. Father, let us bow our heads. Dear Father, God in heaven, thank you so much for another wonderful day. I had a beautiful Easter yesterday. The weather was phenomenal. And it was a special day, not only because of your raising and going to heaven, but also but because there's a beautiful sunshine, no rain, no heavy winds or anything, and it was deeply appreciated. And the radio being clear where we could all talk and get out the message to one another was wonderful too. Please bless our study today. Let us hear the word and absorb the word. and carry it with us through today and tomorrow until we meet with you in heaven. In Jesus Christ's holy name we pray. Amen. Amen. Beck, thank you so much. I sure appreciate your prayers. All right, that brings us then to Roger W7BDL. And Roger, if you could read for us Galatians 4. I'm going to put you on hold for one second, Roger. I want to review where we're at so we're not just jumping into Galatians 4 cold turkey. As you know, the chapter breaks. And the Bible are not inspired. They were put there by people later on to help us find places in the Bible. So our chapters and our verses were not part of the inspiration process, but they were added later on just to help us be able to locate passages. So most of the time, these chapter breaks are really well done. But eventually, you know, you've got to break a chapter somewhere, and they broke it right in the middle of an extended discussion. So we want to recognize that the first part of chapter 4 is really connected with the last part of chapter 3. And Galatians chapter 3 is talking about covenantal transition. And so it started out talking about the Abrahamic covenant. in verses 14 and 15, and then 16. And so the Abrahamic covenant is the whole foundation of our salvation, because the promise is contained in it, ultimately resulted in the coming of Messiah, the provision of salvation, and also the ultimate provision of the new heavens and the new earth, where we're going to dwell forever. So we have the promise of the land, the seed, and the blessing. Well, 430 years later, the old covenant comes along, instituted at Mount Sinai in Exodus chapter 19. And the question is, well, did that one do away with the previous one? And the answer is no. the old covenant did not supersede or replace the Abrahamic covenant. It was added in alongside of it. And the purpose of it was to help Israel maintain her national identity and to maintain her godly morality and to maintain proper theology until Jesus would come, the promised Messiah. And so once the Messiah came, Israel was seen as moving from her childhood to her adulthood. from her minority to her majority. And the Old Covenant, in fact, was done away with and replaced by the New Covenant. So now we have the Abrahamic Covenant and we have the New Covenant. And so the New Covenant is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant because the reason for the Old Covenant passed away, the Old Covenant itself passed away. So we have this idea of Israel being in her infancy and childhood for centuries there, and then she came into her adulthood when Jesus came. No longer is she confined to a land. No longer is she tied to a physical temple in a location. No longer is she bound by endless ceremonial and civil laws. Now she's free to spread out and cover the whole earth and preach the gospel around the whole world. And so when you have kids, you keep them at home, right? You keep an eye on them. But then when they become adults, you go, there's the world. You know, go for it. And that's kind of what happened to the covenant community. There was a long time when God, as it were, kept Israel at home and nurtured her and brought her to maturity. And then when Jesus came, the New Covenant was instituted. It's like, okay, you're adults now. Go ahead and go out in the world and preach the gospel in every nation. Well, there were some of these false teachers in Galatia who said, "Oh, let's go back to the Old Covenant." And Paul is saying, "Wait a second. That has to do with your childhood. You guys are adults now. What do you want to go back to the childish things for?" So that's the argument that's being developed here. And he uses the illustration of a family and how that in a family, children reach a certain age where they are then accepted as adults. So that's the process that's being prescribed here in Chapter 4. So what we have is a historical covenantal transition of the nation going from her childhood to her adulthood. And Paul was saying, don't go back to those childish things. You've grown past those. And it would be like instead of using a milk glass at the table, you start using a baby bottle at the table again. How ridiculous would that be? I mean, I can see Jeff A.K.O.'s 6-0-K, right? Instead of having a coffee cup, he's got his baby bottle there, and he's sucking out of it. Would that be ridiculous? Okay? And so we don't go back to the childish things, to those first elements, those first principles. Okay, that's where we're at. Roger, please read for us Galatians 4:1-11. That's Galatians 4:1-11, Roger. Thank you, Max, for helping me read with some further understanding. This is WB7 of EZL reading from the New American Standard Bible. 1 of chapter 4. 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, we're held in bondage under the elemental things of the world. Now, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order that he might redeem those who are under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has set 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 for you that perhaps I have labored over you in vain. Saturday night until about 11:00 p.m. or later, 11:30. I feel like I experienced the baby bottle experience that you described so vividly. Over. Copy that. And that's exactly what you saw, Roger. Well said. All right. Comments on this passage, please come down to your call site. You know, Max, just to remind where we came back, we talked about the meaning of the fullness of time and how some of the other New Testament writers recognized there was a time. If you could speak to that again, I'd appreciate it. Over. Yeah, copy that, Roger. Verse 4 is what Roger is referring to. But when the fullness of time would come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law. God has a timetable. And that timetable includes various events. So before the foundation of the world, God decreed how everything was going to go and how everything was going to unfold and when events would occur. So we have things like the creation, we have the flood, we have the Abrahamic covenant, we have the old covenant, the exodus out of Egypt, and of course, that Israel and the land are captivity in Babylon, Daniel writes, Daniel chapter 9. And then ultimately we have this intertestamental period of 400 years of silence, and then Jesus shows up. And what Paul is telling us here is he showed up just at the right time that God ordained for him to show up. Now, many people think that based on Daniel chapter 9, 24 to 27, we're talking about 70 weeks. They teach that each day is like a year, and so 70 weeks would be 490 years. And then after 69 weeks, which is 483 years, Messiah showed up. And so from the time of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of Messiah the Prince would be 483 years, if you literalize a day for a year. Many people do that. I have tried to do that myself, Roger, and the math doesn't work. There's about a 15-year gap there. And so I take the 70 weeks of Daniel as being 7 is the number of completion, 7 times 70 is completion intensified. And so that's my understanding of how numbers are used in apocalyptic literature. Nevertheless, whether you literalize the numbers or not, the passage clearly teaches that there is a time of fulfillment when Jesus is going to come. And when Jesus showed up, that was not random. God had appointed the day and the hour and the second. that he was going to be born from eternity past. And so when it says in the fullness of time, we can take that as, okay, that's the fulfillment of the 69 weeks of Daniel, which it is. Okay, it just depends upon if you see those numbers literally or if you see them symbolically. Either way, there was a time, a set time. for Jesus to come. And he showed up just at the right time in redemptive history. So about 4,000 years from the creation until Jesus came. And now we've been about 2,000 years on the other side of that. And there is a day when Jesus is going to come back. Now, we don't know the day or the hour We do know some of the signs that are going to be indicative of his coming But God's appointed the time for him to come back to so God has a very fixed time table and everything is progressing according to plan Back to you there Roger Yeah, I can see how you've taken a very broad stroke on that and I've studied what I Isaac Newton here where he wrote a commentary on Daniel dying. On Daniel actually. He used 457 BC from Ezra chapter seven. And it works quite amazingly well using Isaac Newton's figures. And it works out to the time of Jesus' baptism when he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. So 457 is when Ezra 7 works quite well as Isaac Newton found out. Over. All right, real good, Roger. Thank you for that. I will look at Isaac Newton's writings on that. I'm sure they're in the public domain, and I'll see what he has to say. I did write an appendix on Daniel 9 in my commentary on Revelation, and I don't know if you have that or not. I'd be glad to send anyone a free copy who wants that. Just send me your address on QRZ and I'll send you a free copy. But nevertheless, Roger, thank you. I will look at Isaac Newton. And I know there are those who say that the math does work. And that's perfectly fine. I absolutely will not argue this issue. And I hope the math does work. That would be great. and perhaps I'm ignorant and I haven't done enough research to know all the things that are there. So Roger, thank you for pointing me to that resource and I will certainly look at that. Alright, other comments on the passage? Please come in. Alright, well what we have here is a family. Notice verse 1. We have an heir. That's the child that's yet in their minority. The heir, as long as he's a child, differs nothing from a servant. Though he is, by way of legal right in the future, going to be. the Lord of the estate. But while he's a child, he's under tutors and governors. And these are people who are appointed to watch the children, educate the children, raise the children until they reach adulthood. Moms and dads were busy. And so there were, I think we call them nannies nowadays, Sometimes there's private tutors that are hired, and they're raising the kids until they reach adulthood. They're under tutors and governors until the time appointed to the father. And so the father says, "Okay, it's time. There wasn't a set age in particular. Sometimes it could be, you know, 16 or 18 or 20 or whatever the father deemed was the appropriate time to recognize the son as now being an adult. So that's what's going on there. And so he says, even we, when we were children, were kept in bondage. Interesting phrase here, under the elements of the world. Now, you think about an element, right? So you think about carbon or you think about gold or you think about mercury or hydrogen or helium. Those are all elements, right? And those are the first building blocks, if you will, of larger molecules and, indeed, all the matter that we see around us. And so when he talks about the elements of the world, he's just talking about the building blocks of the old covenant, okay? It was the, if you will, the ABCs of God's redemptive language. So... We teach our kids the ABCs and then gradually they form sentences and gradually they form paragraphs and essays and stories. And same way with the times table, right? You teach kids, you know, two times two is four. And so eventually, based on those elemental concepts, they can do calculus. And so the elemental concepts here is the Old Covenant and all the laws that were there. And those were the foundation, the building blocks upon which New Testament revelation and doctrine are built, expanded, and brought to their full expression. So that's the idea of elements there. All right, any other comments on the passage? Please come down. Foxtrot? Will, KMX 5 Foxtrot, go ahead. Yeah, in verse 9 it says that we might receive the adoption as sons. Under Roman law, an adopted child could not be disinherited. A natural born child could be disinherited. I thought I'd just interject that note. I can't find it. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know about that law, that an adopted child couldn't be disinherited but a natural child could. That's interesting. First time I've heard that. Well, thank you for sharing that. You know, adoption is used in two ways in the Bible. It's used of a child that's not part of the family, and they're an orphan, for example. And you bring them in, and you adopt them as your own son. We all understand that. That's the adoption we do today. But as adoption is used in this passage, it's talking about the placing of a child as an adult son. So he is, if you will, adopted into adulthood out of childhood. And that's the second way in which it's used here. And so we don't want to confuse the adoption that we all experience in redemption where we go from being outside of God's family, but into God's family, with the adoption that's spoken of in this passage, which is the placing of a child as an adult son, which is also called adoption. And so that's why there's a little bit of confusion here in a lot of folks' minds as they read this passage. All right, thank you, Will. Other comments, please come down. Question. Question, go ahead. Yes, I'm looking at verse 4 and 5. "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 that Son." Could you comment a little bit on that, Max? Yeah, so why was Jesus sent? Well, to redeem, verse 5. Who is he redeeming? Those that are under the law. What law is that? Well, that's the old covenant. That we might receive the adoption of sons, that's the placing of adult sons under the new covenant. So a lot of people will take verse 5, Steve, and they'll use it to refer to salvation. And in the context, in the context, I'm not talking about salvation. When we read the whole argument here, the whole argument is about the transition of the covenant community historically from being under the old covenant to being under the new covenant. And that transition... is called adoption. And so when it talks about redemption here in verse 5, it's talking about being brought out from under the old covenant in order that we might receive the placing as sons in the New Covenant with all of the additional liberties and privileges and rights that come under the New Covenant that the people of God didn't have under the Old Covenant. And so if we grab verse 5 out of its context... we can see, oh, that's redeeming us from the curse of the law so that we might receive salvation and be adopted as children of God. Now, while that's absolutely a true concept, it's really not the proper interpretation or application of the verse in light of the context in which that verse occurs. Now, certainly the Bible teaches that whole business elsewhere, but it's important that we interpret a passage in light of what's before and behind it and the overall context in which it's being discussed. Back to you there, Steve. Thank you, Mitch. Appreciate it. All right, Steve. Any comments anybody else wants to make, please come down. WB-7VZO. Roger, please go ahead. Yes, I went through a commentary on the book of Hebrews about the better this and the better that, the better promises and the better land. The book of Hebrews of living the life of faith does. and I interpret the book of Hebrews as a recorded sermon of Paul even though we don't have any explicit evidences of that but whoever put Hebrews together had to have a mind like Paul to take us from those elemental things of the world, even though it was under the Older Covenant, as you say. I mean, I think Paul is extending that, as you say, into the Older Covenant, on all the rituals that were placed to take us from the bottle, the baby bottle, to the true life of faith that we have in Hebrews 11. that the Older Testament saints of Hebrews 11, the faith chapter, were already experiencing by faith in the everlasting covenant, so to speak, from Genesis 3:15. And I see, as the commentary highlighted so vividly in my mind, This letter of the Hebrews to the Hebrews was for the local Jewish church, the local Christian church, to birth them and to redeem them away from all the fancy ceremonies and all the seasons and all the liturgical year and all the gift of structure that had gathered after 1500 years of the older covenant. They were having to live in the old covenant. in the neighborhood. And this book of Hebrews was to birth them, to give them a heavenly faith perspective. And it was so critical because they just--it was like a black hole for especially those in Jerusalem. I was so moved by the power of--and what it took--the inertia of the spiritual forces that had to be in place for that birth to take place. And if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, of course, and for the teaching of Hebrews, it wouldn't, well, God knew that it was well-nigh impossible for flesh to do that. That's why the only thing I could say after hours and hours of liturgy and ceremony, the only thing I could say to Craig was, Live by faith. That's the only thing I said to him after the whole thing. Live by faith. As we see in Hebrews 11. Over. Roger, that was all extremely well said. Thank you so much for expressing those thoughts. Thought on. Very good. You know, this whole idea of covenantal transition is a huge deal. And what we see is that there are extended portions of Scripture devoted to the whole concept of covenantal transition. You see it in the book of Hebrews. The entire book of Hebrews is a book about covenantal transition, and that's why you see that phrase, better than, better than, better than, occurring over and over and over again, saying that under the new covenant, we have a better priesthood, we have a better temple, we have a better sacrifice, et cetera. And... And so the book of Hebrews, and then of course Romans 9, 10, and 11, are all about covenantal transition. And here we have Galatians chapter 3 and Galatians chapter 4, all about, once again, covenantal transition. And you're right, it was about birthing the Jewish nation, or bringing the Jewish nation out of her childhood and into her adulthood. And you're correct, there was tremendous inertia there. they didn't want to leave behind the Old Covenant. They were comfortable with it. They were used to it. They were attached to it. They were participating in all the rituals that it contained. And so it was a huge, monumental effort to help them leave that behind. and go forward into the new covenant. And that's why you have extensive, just many, many, many chapters in the Bible devoted to that. And so you're exactly right. Hebrews is a recorded sermon. I think Paul wrote it too, though I can't prove it. But nevertheless, it's a wonderful passage, and it just really emphasizes, as our passage says, the need. to leave behind the old covenant. And so when you see people re-erecting altars and having sacrifices and priestly robes and calling the leaders priests and all of those things, in the Catholic Mass there's a lot of pulling of the old covenant into that supposed new covenant practice of the Mass. So we need to leave behind that. all of that old covenant ritual and reenactment of sacrifice, and recognize that there's been a once-for-all sacrifice by our Lord Jesus. And our Lord's Supper is a retrospective looking back on that sacrifice, not a reenactment of it. And it's also looking forward to the day we will no longer celebrate the Lord's Supper because we will be with Him. So as In eating the bread and drinking the cup, you show forth the Lord's death, that's looking back until He comes, that's looking forward. So we're in this period of the New Covenant where we're spreading the Kingdom of God through the whole earth as adults. We're going out of the land and we establish churches throughout the whole world. Roger, great comment. Thank you for that. All right, other comments, please come in. ZXN. Kevin, KB7 ZXN, go ahead. Yeah, good conversation and a lot there to unpack, but I'll just touch on a couple things. Yeah, in the context of this text here, It is helpful to read this in life, the last part of Chapter 3, to be sure, because the chapter break does not serve us there. It is part of the same psalm. But the transition, you know, the point that Paul is really making to them here is that it's always been faith. It's always been faith, even through the time of Abraham. He goes as far back as Abraham, pre-law, pre-circumcision, all of that. And the law served a purpose. It was a tutor. It was a guardian, if you will. But it did not contain the fullness of the glory and the blessing of the coming of the Messiah, the death, failure, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, and by faith. And as we'll see, you know, tomorrow probably as we read on, he talks about that, that, hey, I've become like you, and you've become like me. You know, become like me. I've become like you. I don't follow the dietary laws. You know, I've come to God by faith now. Here, a very strict Jew, strict to the law, Now I'm saved by the same way you were. And I enjoy the Greek food. I enjoy the Greek culture. I'm not living by the law. And likewise, you need to live by faith and not live by the law. So the law had a certain role, but one of the marvelous things here, is the relationship now because of the coming of the Holy Spirit, because the Lord has came, because we now are in the age of grace. We are, as Paul puts it in Romans 11, that salvation has come to the Gentiles in an open, free way through the blood of Christ. And the Judaizers, of course, had no problem with Jesus, but they... we're adamant, well, but that's just not enough. And even today, so many times people think, okay, so you think, well, if I just do good things, you know, they might not want to follow the ceremonial law or the sacrifices or what have you, have to please God. But in today's culture, it's, It's like, well, you know, if I just do good things, if I just give enough, if I just help the old ladies across the street and give to the needy, then life is, you know, God will be pleased with me. Well, that's not what pleases God. I mean, yes, we're called to do good works. But what pleases God is faith. What brings us salvation is faith. And we're motivated by that love. But our relationship, one, changes with God. We can call him Father Abba in a very real way. We become brothers of Christ even, though he's our Lord and Savior. Right? in one sense. He is also, we're brought into a brotherhood, a family of God with each other. And there's no family like that. And, you know, one of the, I think, more than ever being called pastor or any other title, I held what always I covered it more than any was brother because brother denotes that we are in Christ that we are saved by his grace through faith and I appreciate Roger going back to Hebrews I was just looking at that a little bit ago you know as God goes all the way back to Abel and talks about Enoch and others through there as he goes into the discussion it's always been faith and And even under the New Covenant, and as he still, you know, Romans 9, 10, and 11, he still refers to Israel as ethnic Israel. That's spiritual Israel, and he still has one for them under his eternal covenant. But the fact of the matter is... Salvation has come to all peoples through Christ, and we have the opportunity and responsibility to make disciples of all peoples. KB7 is that extent. Yeah, thank you for that, Kevin, and the emphasis on living by faith. And that is what Paul is really urging these Galatians to do is, Live by faith, live in the freedom of the new covenant, and don't go back to be bound up again with the old covenant issues. Notice verse 9, but now after you have known God, or rather are known of God, I'll turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements. or until you desire again to be in bondage. Notice the language. This is how he views now the Old Covenant ceremonies and restrictions. He calls them weak and beggarly elements. He says, verse 10, you observe days and months and times and years, referring to the Jewish feast days and fast days and all of the observations that were all part of the Old Covenant. And then he says, I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor and vain. In other words, what is your object of trust? Is your object of trust a return to the old covenant and keeping its rituals? Or is your object of trust Jesus Christ alone, as Kevin said, and trusting in him and having him as the object? of your hope and at the ground of your acceptance of God. As Kevin said, it isn't serving the soup kitchen that is the source of your acceptance of God. And it was never observing the feast days and the fast days that was the source of their acceptance of God. It was... salvation by grace through faith and the promise to Messiah. And of course a lot of those animal sacrifices were designed to be pictures of, visual symbols of that sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, just like our Lord's Supper is a symbol and a picture of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. We don't trust in the bread, we don't trust in the wine, We trust in the one that they represent. And in the same way, testuit leaders, they didn't trust in the animal sacrifices, the rituals, the ceremonies, the observances. They trusted in the one that those represented. You know, you start trusting in the illustrations. instead of the object that that illustration is pointing to, well, then you're trusting in those weak and beggarly elements. Because really, those things are powerless by themselves. A lot of bulls and goats never took away sin, right? And so that's why they're called weak and beggarly, because they don't have any power in themselves. But they represent the one who does have power, and that's Jesus Christ. And so there's no power in the bread and the wine, but there is power in the one they represent, who is Jesus. And so we look past the elements to the one that they represent, just like the Old Testament saints look past the animal sacrifices to the promised Messiah who is going to shed his blood for them. So, yeah, we've got to not look at the symbol. We've got to look at the one that the symbol represents. point to. Thank you for that comment there, Kevin. All right, we are out of time. Been good looking at this passage. Urge you all to read it over and meditate on what it has to say and the encouragement it provides us with. To not go back to the old covenant, its practices, rituals, sacrifices, altars, priesthood, but let's look at the new covenant and all that it promises, provides, the liberty it gives. and the worldwide mission now that it has, not tied to a piece of land or to a temple, but now going to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. All right, are there any final prayer requests before Al leads us in prayer? Please come down with your call sign. Just a quick follow-up. Quick follow-up, go ahead. Thank you. Yeah, just briefly, you know, fascinating, fascinated. You know, in southeast Rome there, they brought the steps from the palace of Pontius Pilate there to the basilica there, and still to this day there are people that will walk crawl upon their knees step by step, praying and abusing themselves up and down those steps in a way of somehow paying penance for their misdeeds. And that, again, is a false teaching. It's a heresy because God... He's not asking us to pay penance, and He certainly never asked us to do such an act as that, but He's asked us to repent, to turn away from our sin and trust Him, as you point out. It's all about the focus of our faith, and it's Him. He did it all. KB7, Zedekson. Well said, Kellen. Yeah, repentance is an act of the heart and the mind. It's not a ritual we go through. It's not putting ourselves through pain. as though somehow by our pain we're going to pay for our sins. A completely unbiblical practice once again, of which the Roman Church is saturated. All right, thank you for that, Kevin. Appreciate that. All right, any final prayer requests before we go to prayer, please, for now? All right, Al, KJ7QQH, please close in prayer for us. This is KJ7QQH, please, I'll be back in a minute. I'll be okay, go right ahead. Very good. I had a dropout of my remote here and I had to restart it again. So, good to be back and sorry about that. But let's go ahead and gather together in prayer. Definitely Father. She was taking her medicine and we're told that it's maybe a few more days before that clears up. We ask that that process will continue and full recovery before she has her 10 and 9 done on April 15th. And for JASA K6LK, this is what Betty Hughes also had my surgery. We understand she's doing well so far and we pray for her to stay healed. For Brian KJ7EWM, who is a perfectly tuned landing seat. We pray for him and to Chief Moss that they will have healthy lambs and the bottle feeding will continue with success. And for our brother Doc, W6RLJ, for the government of EG to allow this medical mission to continue open a dental clinic on the island. We, Jerry and I, also want to listen for St. John's for his situation. He's cancer in the process that he's going through right now with his chemo treatment. Even though he's discouraged with these trips, we have to take to have those done and the side effects and everything. We just want him to be discouraged keep the faith and stay with it that the ill-dicted camper can become a chapter survivor for also for our friend's son lucas who suddenly lost his hearing they did find a mass new brain that uh is that they believe is the cause but uh whether it's operable or not it still remains But no waiting for word on that. And for Dr. Max's friend, Rick Bovick, who's a good Christian with a malignant malalignment, now receiving immunotherapy treatment to stimulate his T-cells to fight the cancer. and he's struggling throughout the night. And if you don't know if you need a fire services, you can pray that a fire will be found and come to purge his past. And for Roger KB-7, he's a VVL, and his wife, Kaylee, who's having 16 radiation treatments for breast cancer. We pray that those treatments go well and she tolerates the after-effects of those treatments. We're also for real, KM5, we do a lift up towards the family as they process heat passing up towards them recently. And also we look at Carroll, KJ7TPO. President Jimmy, a Christian, has dated two mom pastors who prayed for her healing. And also Amy, a Christian who had recently spread cancer surgery, who prayed for her recovery. And for Joanne, who is healing from shingles. Alright, guys. You got it right there, Pastor Mac, because he saw the salad dressing. That's good. The tomato turned red because he saw the salad dressing. That's funny. Mac, those are great. Thank you so much for the laugh. And we'll see you guys tomorrow, WB7V, standing by. Oh, Beck, oh, my. I'll remember that joke with every tomato I pick this summer. I doubt that, but I certainly will be thinking about you occasionally for sure because of that. Thank you, Beck. Thanks for your courage. That's a beautiful joke. WB7V0. Right on. I'm glad nobody was offended by it. Well, and I missed it. My pleasure. Well, I need to scoot out of here, but sure good to hear you guys and talk to you all this morning. Good study and blessings to all. KB7, Zeddington, I'll be QRT. you you you you