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RKJ7 PWM, Brian, good morning, how you doing? Alright Brian, good signal today, good clear voice, appreciate you being there, no new prerequisites, copy that, and thank you for checking in, that's Brian, KJ7, PWM. Alright, any other check-ins this morning, please come out, you're coughing. Thank you. WB-7 and the X-Hairnet control for the West Coast Bible Study. We're going to be looking at Ephesians chapter 4, verses 25 to 32 today. So you'll be looking in your Bibles at that section. That's Ephesians 4, 25 to 32. And we are looking for check-ins. We have another couple of minutes before we get started. So please come down to the call sign. Thank you. Thank you. We have a WB-7 in the exact control for the west coast boundary study. We continue to look for check ins. Please come down to cover. Thank you. WB-7VZL. Hey, good morning, Roger. WB-7VZL. How are you and Darlene doing? Well, haven't checked in with her yet. A little early, but we did play for a memorial service. yesterday and we also did some playing at the church service so she is able to still play and so I'm so thankful for that. Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah, that's really good that she continues to be able to play. Okay, good. Well, we'll mark that down then as an answer to prayer. And glad that you guys have the privacy back and the peace that comes from having just you and your wife there. And it's really difficult having someone else live in your home. And especially when there's challenges in that relationship. And I'm really glad for you guys. And I think that'll help reduce stress and also help daily net heal better. So I'm glad to hear that, Roger. That's a good answer to prayer. All right, any other check-ins before we get started with the West Coast Bible Study, please come down. K-E-7-W-K-I. Hi, Dave. K-E-7-W-K-I. Good to hear your voice, brother. How are you doing? doing great just laying there feeling so good and bad and thinking do I want to get up and do Bible study yes I do but I sure enjoy laying here yeah copy that John My dad used to sing me a song, it's great to get up in the morning, but it's better to lay in bed. And so I remember that song from when I was a kid. So Dave, glad you popped out of bed and peed up the radio. I appreciate you talking to us. That is Dave, K-E-7-W-K-I. Dave, any prior requests, are we good? No, no prior requests this morning. Alright, copy that. Okay, that's D-87WKI. Alright, any other check-ins, please come now. Alright, the next connect now is JRK6LBP. JR, see you there on FMBSTR. Appreciate you being there, and we got you checked in. Alright, one last check here, and I'll be right with you guys. I would like to acknowledge Gene, K7GWR. Good morning, Gene. See you there in Utah, SDR. And I am looking for Peter, but I do not see him. perhaps I'll show up in a little bit. In any event, I think we are caught up on our SDRs and we are ready to get started with our Bible study. Alright, this is WB7 and X, and I control from the West Coast Bible study. Our passage today is Ephesians 4, 25-32 and, um, In this section, Paul is saying, "Don't walk like the Gentiles walk." We looked at their depravity of heart and mind in chapter 4, verses 17 to 19 yesterday. And now today we're going to look at our contrasting gobbiness of behavior. And so we will go back and look at a couple of verses here that mark that transition. You'll notice verse 17 of chapter 4, "This I say therefore in testifying to the Lord, A chance for it, walk not as other Gentiles walk. So there's a negative example there of what not to do, what not to be. And he really does a great job of describing human depravity, of those who are lost and unsaved. How their minds are darkened, their understanding is darkened. They have blindness of heart and their affections are corrupted and perverted. Verse 20: "But," here is the great word of contrast, "is not so learned Christ." If so, did you have heard of Him and have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus? that you put off concerning the former manner of life, the old man, which is corrupt according to the faithful us, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man, which after God has created a righteous, essential holiness. So we looked at those passages yesterday, but they really set us up for... the contrasts that are then articulated in verses 25 to 32, and there's a bunch of them. And basically what he's saying is, here's how the unsaved live, and here's how you're supposed to live. And so you need to put away that behavior that characterized the old life, and you need to put on the behavior that characterizes the new life. And he sets out a number of examples there, so we'll be talking about those later. after we read the passage, but we won't open our Bible study in prayer today, and so Steve, W6YSI, if you could open in prayer for us today, I'd appreciate that. This is probably for the Martin Stevius, whatever, and for the mountains. people to bring, people to save. Lord, we want to acknowledge you. You are the most wonderful God. You saved us, given us new hearts, and given us a new bent. I know God did. This is from a past. For giving us a way that you would have us walk. It's about that walk, oh God, that I'm concerned as we look once again through the guidebooks, all these scriptures, and... We just ask that you help us. We're needy people. Many times, we acknowledge to you that we want to walk in the way that you would have us go, and yet, throughout the day, we're reminded that we've got a waste of coal here. And sometimes we don't do a very good job. So there's our need. We need to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. Lord, we need to be cognizant of the fact that many times we hear your word, but we don't do it. We go to faith. Lord, there's much that we need to solve. It's grace, and that's what we need. Morning, Father, as we look at this wonderful passage. put off and put on. Help us to put off the opium. Help us to be kind and not steal from one another. Yeah. Help us today. That would be what you put on our minds. It was a much of hope to change. And we will just give you the praise of the first Jesus. Amen. Amen. Okay, thank you so much for that prayer. Really appreciate that. And let our hearts echo those required, each one of them. All right, so that brings us into our passage today. Roger, WB707, I'm going to ask you to do some reading for us. Roger, if you could read for us Ephesians 4, 25 to 32. That's 25 to the end of the chapter there. Roger, go ahead. W-B-7-E-Z-O. And I'll be reading from the New American Standard Bible. I'm going to go. Therefore, may a five-foot-tall Todd speak to each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry and yet do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. and do not give the devil an opportunity. Let him who steals steal no longer, but rather let him labor, performing with his own hands what is good, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need. Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification, according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. and be kind to one another and be hearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. This is going to be something else. That's going to be something else. Roger, great reading. Thank you for that. All right, well, what we've got here is a list of exhortations. Any comments from anybody on any of these exhortations, please come down to your call center. Oh, uh, the WP7 V0. Yeah, Roger, please go ahead. I think there's quite a bit of similarity between this whole passage that you were introducing where we had our tracks and Jesus' words in John 14, starting with, if you'll let me do His commandments, but then the power of the Holy Spirit to pervade our being and live in Him, and he in us, like in John 17. So I see a lot of influence between John 14 and that section and what we're reading. Yeah, well said, Roger. You know, you mentioned Romans 12. Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. and that we not only do the right thing, we avoid doing the wrong thing. So let's take that first exhortation in verse 25. And it says in verse 25, we're putting away lying. Okay, that's the negative. Here's the positive. Speak truth, every man with his neighbor. Why? Because we're members one of another. You know, if your foot is lying to your brain about where it is, you're gonna stumble and fall. And so our body needs to communicate honestly, If our hand is touching something hot, it needs to communicate that to the brain so that the muscles will contract and move away. In any event, what's being taught here is that we need to cultivate the opposite positive virtue of our sins. So if we have a problem with lying... then we need to not only stop lying, we need to cultivate the opposite positive virtue, and that is to self-consciously tell the truth in each and every situation in which we speak. And it's the same way with stealing. If we have a problem with stealing, it's not enough. to stop stealing. We have to cultivate the opposite positive virtue of earning our own money with our own hands and then on top of that, actually give to people who have a need. And so instead of taking away from people, we're actually giving to people. And so in each of these ethical exhortations here, just to really stop doing a sinful behavior, it's to cultivate the opposite positive virtue of that behavior And that's how we fight sin. I know one of the things I struggle with is evil thoughts. Well, I can't just say to myself, stop thinking evil thoughts. I have to say to myself, replace those evil thoughts with good thoughts. And so your brain can only occupy one thought at a time. And the way to fight bad thoughts is not to have no thoughts. It's to replace them with good thoughts. And it's the same way. It's not enough to stop stealing. You have to actually start earning money and giving. It's not enough to stop lying. You have to be known as someone who always accurately represents. and whatever situation it is that you're reporting on and you're scrupulous about saying the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth in all of your communications. And that's how we overcome these sins, as you said, through the power of the Holy Spirit for working in, through, and with us as we recognize, number one, this is an area of weakness that I have, and number two... I know I need to stop, but I need to start doing the opposite of it. Great comment there, Roger. Thank you for that. Okay, I have a question here from Brian K7ZIP by way of text message that I want to address. And Brian says, he's pointing out here verse 26 where it says, Be angry and sin not. letting off the sun go down on your wrath. And his text message says this. It says be angry, but do not sin. But also it says don't let the sun go down on your anger. What does that mean? We can be angry without sinning, but we need to reconcile before the end of the day. Is that what it means? So that's his question. And so I just want to answer that question before I'm out of it. We need to understand that all emotions are neutral. Emotions can either be good or bad based upon their motive, their object, and their expression. So what motivates the anger? What is the object of the anger? And then how do I express that anger? Now we know that anger is not necessarily a sin, Brian, because... The Bible says God is angry with the wicked every day. And we know that God is not sinning. And it says in the Gospel of Mark that Jesus looked around about upon them with anger for the hardness of their hearts. So we see that both God the Father and God the Son... express anger. So anger in and of itself is not sinful. It can either be sinful or it can be righteous, depending upon its motive. Why are you angry? Its object, what are you angry at? And then its expression, how do you express that anger in dealing with others? So a righteous anger would be motivated by a revulsion towards a sin. And then, of course, what would be the proper object of anger? It would be the violation of God's law. And then how do you express that? Well, you express that anger in a way that brings about justice in relationship to the thing you're angry about. So when the old Puritan said, well, if you would be angry and not sin, let him be angry at nothing but sin. So if somebody molests a child, is it right to be angry about that? Absolutely. Okay. And what do you do about that? Well, you know, you don't go out and kill the child molester. You express that anger in the pursuit of justice. You go to the police. So, Brian, that's how we can be angry and sin not. Okay? Now, the trouble is that it's really easy for even righteous anger to bleed over into sinful anger. And that's why he says, and it's actually an imperative there in the original language, be you angry at the command. We need to be angry at everything God is angry at. And if we're not, then we are not pursuing justice. Okay? But we have to be careful that it doesn't bleed over the sinful anger. And then when he says, "Let not the sun go down on your wrath," he's saying that this anger that we have, it has to have limits. It cannot continue on and on and on. It needs to be resolved one way or the other. It needs to be resolved either, number one, by addressing the person and getting reconciliation, or number two, by committing it to God and trusting Him to give vengeance and to deal with the issue. So I think this is something that we should constantly have. It's something we ought to have when there is a violation of justice. but it's something we have to be careful with reference to, that we don't allow it to become evil. Uh, and it's expressed as WB7MAX, and Brian, I hope that answers your question. Uh, alright, any other comments on this passage or anything I've said, please come forward. WB7, hello. Roger, please go ahead. I'm, I'm looking at the, the sword of Paul's admonition here from Zechariah. And I believe that it's in verse 16, it's like a lot of feet, verse 16 where he quotes in our passage, and the purpose of truth. And the end of being in truth with one another is for peace. And your age is the phrase that I'm looking at. So for so long to happen. Apparently, I am judgment. need to take my speak to one another. So, and that's so true. I remember talking to a lady that was in charge of a group for boys, actually, that were in trouble. And it was a recent publication. a group of folks who are gangs, you know, kids who were in gangs already, even in law. And that was the first thing she said that we teach them, is what is truth-telling. And that's you. Yeah, Roger, you know, the Bible says righteousness and peace have kissed each other, and the idea you can't ever have peace without truth. And, you know, one of the things that just really disturbs me a lot over the decades is how much professing Christians lies. It's just shocking to me how they will just completely misrepresent what was said or what happened. And I'm thinking to myself, how can you do that? You know, it says of God in Titus chapter 1 and verse 2 that God cannot lie. And no lie, Jesus says, is of the truth. And so if there's one thing that ought to mark genuine Christians, it is scrupulous truth-telling. And one of the ways in which people lie is they over-exaggerate or they under-represent what the truth was. And so there's an element of truth in what was said. But the characterization of it is so skewed as to convey a completely wrong impression about what happened. And so it's imperative that we not overstate or understate, much less completely reverse what was actually said or done in the situation. And you know, it's the same way with preaching the Word of God. We can't misrepresent it. I can't lie and say, You know, God is perfectly okay with adultery, right? That would be a lie. And yet, how many preachers of the Word of God lie about what the Bible teaches? Have you seen it all, the cult? And so, it's imperative that we above all else be truth-tellers, because without truth there is no peace. Without truth there is no righteousness. Without truth there is no gospel. And indeed, every lie is a denial of Jesus Christ, because he is the way, the truth. Am I, uh, stepping on somebody? Okay, so we gotta double, okay? Uh, we're gonna do Steve and then we're gonna do Kevin. Roger, thank you for that. Steve, why I thought you'd go first and you'll do Kevin. Okay, well, then I'll just jump right in here and say the first thing we have to do. Uh, in this truth-telling, we need to tell the truth to ourselves. We have to admit to ourselves that I'm a liar. My nature is such that the first thing I'm going to do is try to protect myself. And, you know, sometimes the tax is going to force somebody to find out that you're lying. And you admit to yourself, yes, I am a liar. And I need to change. And that's what this is all about. I'm sorry, but I can tell you that you take a lot of time. Yeah, Steve, because who we are dictates what we do, right? And so if I am a liar, I'm going to tell lies. And if I am a thief, I'm going to steal. And if I have a corrupt heart, corrupt communication is going to come out of it. And so we personally have to be honest about, you know, who we are and what our remaining sin is, and especially... what our areas of susceptibility are. And that's one of the reasons why people lie, is they're trying to protect themselves. They're trying to avoid consequences, or they're trying to achieve some goal that can't be achieved legitimately. And so those are the reasons. But yes, it rises out of the heart. And you know, this is a especially serious issue, Steve, when we recognize Satan as the father of lies. Okay? And so when we lie, we're serving Satan. When we lie, we're denying Jesus, who is the truth. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life you have Satan who is the father of lies and so that makes this business of truth telling really serious and we need to be people who pray immediately or people who speak the truth a great comment Steve Kevin KB7ZX head over to you go ahead Thank you. As Paul writes this in chapter 4, what a transition this is from the depths of understanding that he gives us theologically, you know, from God of eternity past and his predestination and plan for our salvation and our Lord and Savior in history, God the Son. point in time in history procuring our salvation. Now, in the work of the Holy Spirit that has sealed us and working in us through eternity to secure us and build us up in that salvation. Now, he talks about, you know, So what do we do with that? Well, of course, we live our lives with that understanding. It's not to be held and just admired, but applied in our daily lives. And that's what Paul talks about here in chapter 4. And of course, he begins this chapter with just before what we do is important. He talks about who we are and... of how we be. We're to be humble, we're to be meek, we're to be self-controlled. But then, as he, I love the illustration he uses often of putting off the old man and putting on the new, the new man. You know, as the we are transformed a new creation created in Christ Jesus as we studied in 2 Corinthians 5 17 just recently part of that is instantaneous we are now born alive, born into Christ But part of that also is a work that is done in us through time, through that sanctification process that we talk about so often. And this is part of that process. How do we put off that old man and put on that new? And it kind of reflects, I think, you know, on a few things here. And one kind of reflecting on Psalm 44, you know, in regards to the anger. We are called to have righteous anger. But it's to be managed and, you know, we should be offended and angered by injustice, by heresy, by cruelty, by, you know, these things. But we are also not to sin by that. Like I said, he puts really a time limit on that. You know, you need to address that properly. But what I wanted to focus on here just briefly is verse 29. And, you know, he calls us to address our speech. And the three filters that I see here are, one, the speech is to be good. Well, what we say is to be good speech. And I know for myself this is a checklist that I need to be mindful of so often because these are important filters. You said our speech should be good. It should also build up, not tear down, but it should build up. And those are two important elements. And then the other point is, too, it should be relevant to the time and moment at hand. You know, and so these are three kind of important filters, I think, to be mindful of. because as we... We live our life with the understanding that we have from the first three chapters. Now we can apply this, being led by the Spirit, and like you say, putting off the, not being like the world, not being like the old self, lying or stealing or misrepresenting, because that is... the nature of our sin that would draw us toward those directions. But we are now not only living for ourselves, but as he points out over and over again, we are connected to one another. So what we do not only impacts us, but impacts one another and each other's walk with our Lord. KB7, Sunnyside. Yeah, Kevin, thank you for those comments. Yeah, I agree. We'll go back to chapter 4, verse 1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling wherewith you're called. And of course, this is what a worthy walk looks like. We put away lying, and we speak the truth. We put away sinful anger, we have godly anger. We put away stealing, we start working and giving. We put away corrupt communication, we start speaking those things that bring edification. We put away bitterness and wrath, and sinful anger, clamor, evil speaking, and we're kind and tenderhearted and forgiving. So we see these presentations of negative things to put off. and positive things to put on. And so there's this giant transition that takes place in the lives of Christians, as you said. And we need to be asking ourselves, okay, am I behaving like an unsafe person here? Or am I behaving like a safe person? And so here's a checklist. You can go through and evaluate your behavior. You know, did I tell the truth in this situation? Did I have some plunder or did I have rights to say them? Was I respecting other people's property rights in this situation? Or maybe I was being covetous. Did I speak in a way that honors Christ or was I abusive in my speech? Um... that I please the Holy Spirit or bring grief to Him. And so you just go through this list, and it really helps you evaluate whether you're being Christlike and walking worthy of that calling into fellowship with Christ. that God gave. So, Kevin, thank you for that and for that three-point filter there in verse 29. Is it good? Is it edifying? And does it minister grace? That's a great little checklist to evaluate whether what we said was appropriate or not. Okay, any other comments on this section? Please come out to the call line. Thank you. And now you're just rolling in. It was the typical shockwave, wave, tsunami wave came in. And your signal was very strong. Welcome home. And it just, I couldn't help but scanning from where we were a couple of days ago, you're just speaking the truth in love. So it seems like Verse 29 is opening up and unpackaging that sort of concept of love a little. Yeah, you have those two things, don't you? You have speaking the truth, which deals with verse 25, and then you have speaking it in love, which deals with verse 29. So, Roger, great observation there. Appreciate that a lot. All right, and I would like to acknowledge Peter KJ7BA. Peter, see you there on the SDR. And Jeff AK6OK. Jeff, see you there as well. Thank you guys for being here. All right, any other comments on this passage, please come out. Um, WB7V, uh, Roger, please go ahead. Uh, uh, uh, again, that first 32, uh, is a great flex, of course. to keep in mind who has forgiven you first. So just as God in Christ has also forgiven you, so that is the ultimate founding of why we do these things. Yeah, copy that. God's just a great example for our behavior, doesn't he? God doesn't lie. God doesn't have sinful anger. God doesn't steal things that don't belong to him. God doesn't engage in any corrupt communication. And, of course, God forgives. And he forgives when we repent. When we ask for forgiveness, he supplies us with forgiveness. And when people ask us for forgiveness, then we need to supply that forgiveness. So he says to forgive one another even as or in the same way as. God for Christ's sake has forgiven you and so it says in chapter 17 verse 3 if your brother sin against you rebuke him if he repents forgive him and so we have to echo how God treats us in the way that we treat other people. And when we're not doing that, we grieve the Spirit, don't we? Verse 30, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. And then our conscience tells us when we're lying or when we're stealing or when we're being abusive in our speech or we're being unforgiving towards those who are seeking reconciliation. I'm sorry. And so when that happens, we need to confess it, and we need to, as it were, put off those things that relate to the old life, and put on those things that relate to the new. And that is not an easy process, but it is a blessed process, and it's one we work at every day. And over the decades, more and more, the old life is shed, the old behavior, the old attitudes, the old words. and the new life is put on and so that's the process of sanctification and growth and transformation that happens as a result of the salvation that Jesus accomplished for us as described in Ephesians chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3. Alright, other comments on this topic, please come now. I was just going to touch on just briefly the text here about grieving the Holy Spirit. And I think this is important too, especially in the context of Paul's writing and really focusing on our relationships. with one another. And, you know, to grieve the Holy Spirit, He's not so much talking about, you know, great moral failures, which would be obvious, but He's talking about in context of our relationships with one another, with bitterness, or ongoing anger, or slander, or malice, and these things that we would, you know, if we did in the name of Christ, holiness or justice. Does that mean the Holy Spirit? Because the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal it or thing or abstract concept. The Holy Spirit is God. God is the third person of the triune God who works sealed us but works and lives within us and when we are living contradictory relationally and holding these things in and in trying to present them as something that is just and right, we should be quite convicted in our heart. Because that will certainly grieve the Holy Spirit. I think also the result would certainly be making us as a believer quite miserable as well. But you're going to cause harm to the body of Christ as well. So grieving the Holy Spirit is something that... to take very, I think, to take very much note of, as Paul expresses it here, in our relationships with one another. There is consequence if we continue to live in the ways of the world in dishonesty, because the Holy Spirit is trying to do a work in us. Well, He's doing a work in us. And we live and behave contrary to that. That will certainly grieve the Holy Spirit. KB7, thank you. Yeah, amen. And of course, the opposite of that is we have the peace and the comfort of the Holy Spirit when we do the right thing. We have his affirmation and encouragement given to us in our heart when we choose to do the right thing. So that's kind of like as a parent, right? They give their child instructions. I want you to do ABC and don't do EDS. And then when the child disobeys the parent, the parent is grieved and they have to bring correction or re-instruction. And at the same time, the Holy Spirit is, as it were, our spiritual parent. He has told us what we're supposed to do and not do in the Scriptures. praying for understanding and wisdom for what we should do in each situation. So we walk with a consciousness that the Spirit is there, and we want to please Him and not grieve Him. The good news is that we're sealed by Him to the day of redemption. And that seal, the Spirit Himself is the seal, that's the stamp of authentication. that we are a true child of God, a stamp of ownership, we belong to Him, and a stamp of security or safety, He's going to preserve us and keep us. So as we struggle in our walking and obeying all these moral exhortations that are in this passage, we know the Spirit's not going to get disgusted with us and abandon us. He has sealed us to the day of redemption. We're not going to be lost. but we do want to be conscious of his smile or his frown, not because we're worried about rejection, but because we're trying to express love for the one who loved us and gave himself for us. All right, we are out of time. It is time for us to go to prayer. Jerry's going to be leading us in prayer in a minute here, but do we have any final prayer requests before we go to prayer? Please come down to call time. I'd like to brief follow-up. Brief follow-up, go ahead. Well, I appreciate that, Max, because that was my next point, really. And we do this, as you said, out of desire to please Him. We do this out of love, and a motivation is not out of duty, but a motivation is out of desire to please Him, and a love that we have been immersed in should flow from us. Thank you for that, T.B. Summers. Yeah, you bet Kevin, good follow up. Okay, yeah, I need 85 per request, please come out to per request. I hear nothing Jerry, 87ER, go ahead and close some perforce please. Boy, what a sight! A mighty giant! He came face to face with the world for another day. For the one who is so devout, he's in a fit. He gave me a fat-ass antics TMI. But I still hate his antics. 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Not only is he the most fancy treatment, but similarly, he's so, just like the cancer. This video is a live-fire Hey, Christian. We've got last year's researchers. They're trying to solve this problem. They're trying to find a way to feed the radiation treatment. Laura, here is the signal. We're showing them how much it still has on it. Laura, stay tuned. We're okay there. He plays games and is able to watch the game on his computer. Come on, play very slowly. No, you're a dummy. Ha! So, he's looking perhaps to find a doctor to prescribe medicine to you. Well, Sam, by the way, you're getting a kidney. So we came here, and now there's a good bug school for his bones. So what would give you faith for that place? Autumn, she goes out in her own place. So yeah, she's been enjoying her life in Christ after her. So, maybe she's in it. And, again, let Autumn be the first one. But, if we go through this phase, she could take us on a new journey. Thank you so much for that closing prayer. I appreciate that. This is the WP7MX, net control for the West Coast Public Study. I want to thank all the stations who checked in today, as well as those who... goodbye to give us a clear operating frequency. We meet here seven days a week at 6 a.m. in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning message and application. We're here to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learn and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency now to your amateurists. This is WB7MX. We'll be clear and standing by. Thank you for watching. And then I got around to the next call, and he did not leave that interview going on. It remained in my timeline. So, accidentally, he talked 20 miles from me. And, uh, he admonished them to please stand by and don't be stiff. So, the takeaway here that I'd like to leave with you is they are attempting to jump-police themselves. Uh, WB7MASKG6J. Jerry, I really appreciate you sharing that. And I did receive an email from Chuck, Zero Zero Delta Whiskey Charlie, who is the net control. And he apologized to me personally by way of email for that. He said that he's addressing the people on his net and asked us for our forgiveness. So it sounds like that this whole issue is being well handled and properly dealt with. And I really appreciate you sharing that, Jerry. what you heard and also Chuck followed up with me via email. So the problem is being handled. And Chuck is a good guy and very cooperative with our net. We want to respect their net and be cooperative with them. And that's why we have that hard stop at 6:50 on Sunday. and hand the frequency over to the Vintage Military Radio Network. I give them ten minutes to tune up, and then their net starts at 7 o'clock. So that's a good report, Jerry, and thank you for bringing that. Really appreciate you sharing. Go ahead there, Jerry. All right, all right. And, yep, and so, yes, it's a feel-good moment all the way around. I love it so much. And the individuals, they do a tip on the floor when they do that. And I'm about 100 miles down from YSI, and I would think they do probably the 55 as well. But all good. And, yes, it's a positive takeaway in all ways. And as a closing comment, as I get ready to go over to the work PC and get going, I started at 4.30 a.m. so I could stop for the Bible study rather than go to work during the Bible study. But this is quite a journey to the seasons that's reminding me of when two times in my life what I turned away from that new age and also now currently returning to fellowship. And, yeah, I greatly appreciate the group and yourself being here. Thanks so much, and have a blessed day. And I'm going to get to work. WB7MAX. KT6J. All right, Jerry, real good. And thanks for getting up early so you can join us on the night here and still get your work done. Really appreciate you, brother, and thank you for your fellowship. All right, that's Jerry, KG6J, this is WB7MAX. Anyone else want to chat, please go ahead, make a call time. WB7MAX, K6LVP. Hi, JR, K6LVP, go ahead. Good morning, Max. I want to start this morning by saying thank you. You've got a gift, my friend, and you're not afraid to share it. Thank you very much. My question for you is, have you heard of the writings called the Philokalia? I have not. Go ahead. You know, the final committee is an interesting set of documents written many, many years ago. And it's spelled P-H-I-L-O-K-A-L-E-A. So, Papa Hotel India, Lima Oscar, Kilo Alpha, Lima Echo Alpha. Very interesting set of writings by the five desert fathers. And I, as we go through these studies of the scripture, I just see so many parallels in the writings of these gentlemen that I was wondering if you were familiar with the... Yeah, I am not, but I will look that up. I appreciate you bringing that to my attention. And it sounds interesting. It sounds like they perhaps did some commentary on the scripture or something. Is that correct? Well, it's original writings. The original writings were in Greek. and they've been transferred into many languages since. But it's the spiritual teachings of a group of men called the Five Desert Fathers. And very interesting is, to kind of give a summary, it's a group of writings on how to live a spiritual life. And... At some time, I think, on the planet Earth, somebody sat down and called a meeting, and everybody came from all corners of the Earth and sat around the fire, maybe, and listened to a sermon, if you will, and all went their separate ways and fabricated whatever they... chose to live by, but interesting writings nonetheless. You may choose to look into those mags. Fine, JR. I appreciate the recommendation, and I will look into that and see what there is to see there, so thank you for that. Sounds like you've enjoyed their writings and been benefited by them, so I appreciate the education and the information and the reference, and I'll look into that, JR. Thank you. 5K6LBP WB7MX Okay WB7MAX, God bless your brother and everyone else on the net here. K6LBP. Flight WB7MAX, you're ready to talk. Enjoy the look of the chop. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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