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All right, that's Eric, KD7ES. Any other check-ins, please come down. Good morning, AK6OK.

And good morning, Jeff, AK6OK from Rockland, California. How are we doing, brother? Good, Max.

Just walked in the door. It's time to get it cuffed off again and get moving here. All right, Jeff, you go do that, and I will check in with you in a minute.

All right, that's Jeff, AK6OK. Other check-ins, please come down. Thank you.

All right, the net would like to acknowledge Peter, KJ7BA. Good morning, Peter. See you there on the High Moon Bay.

Let's see, you're probably over here. Yep, you're over here in Utah, too. Says Peter, KJ7BA.

And Peter says good morning to everyone, and good morning to you, Peter. Always appreciate your greeting. Okay, we've got Peter checked in, and Washington is well represented here between Peter and Phillip.

So appreciate you guys being here. All right, any other check-ins, please come down to your call service. OK, the net would like to acknowledge Brian, KJ7PWM.

Brian, see you there on the Utah SDR. Good to have you with us. If you want to key up and chat, we are here.

And if you're busy tending to animals and whatnot, that's fine too. Just glad that you're here to listen. All right, that's Brian, KJ7TWM.

WB7VZL here. And there is Roger. Good morning, Roger.

How are you doing today? Well, I'm a bit sore from trying to keep up with the 13-year-old grandson. His way of walking, if you want to stay next to him and hear him talk, it's not a slow walk.

It's one of the fastest walks I've ever taken over. Copy that. Well, let me share a grandpa trick with you.

You get a ball and chain and you attach it to his leg and then you go for a walk with him. That slows him down, over? Yeah, yeah.

He's getting to be, well, getting up there towards six feet already. And he loves to play various instruments, which is neat. And yesterday...

I had my first golf involving saucers. That's how I'm flying saucers, so to speak, with discs. Over.

Yeah, disc golf. I know all about that. That's a fun game and way more challenging than people realize.

So good for you. Well, you got some good exercise. We don't want you getting stiff from sitting around doing nothing there, Roger.

So good for your grandson. I'm glad he stretched your legs a little and got you going. All right, that's Roger, WV7VZL, checked in.

All right, any other check-ins, please come now. KE7WKI. Okay, we got W7SAB.

There's a Pulse Alpha 580 in there somewhere. Turn the wire on. Double.

W, W, W. Okay, I heard a W, a W station. Come ahead.

Yeah, Dave was in there too, K7WKI. Alright, okay, we're going to sort this pile up out. Okay, so I got Dave, KE7WKI.

Dave, KE7WKI, come back to me. KE7WKI, good morning everyone, no prayer requests. Okay, copy, no prayer request.

Dave, KE7WKI, we got you checked in. Kevin, thank you for the relay. All right, back to Beck, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee.

Beck, talk to us. Good morning. I just wanted to check in and say hello.

I'm just going to stand by and listen today. No new prayer requests. All right, copy that, Beck.

Stand by and listen. No new prayer requests. We got you and Sandy checked in.

Thank you for being there. All right, any other check-ins, please? Camille?

Any relays? Alright, this is WB7MX, net control for the West Coast Bible Study. We're going to get started with our Bible Study.

And I'll continue to check the SDRs. And if you pop in here and I haven't recognized you, you just throw out your call sign and we'll get you checked in. No worries.

All right. We are in the book of Colossians chapter 4, verses 7 through 18. And this is Paul's closing.

greetings and exhortations and encouragements and commendations and so we have seen that the theme of this book is that Christ is a perfect Savior who provides us with a perfect salvation to which nothing needs to be added and from which nothing should be taken away and so we saw from Colossians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10 In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him. So Jesus has all we need and everything that we have by way of need for redemption and grace and mercy and forgiveness and eternal life. and strength to fight the battle and grace to minister for the Lord, all of it is found in Jesus, comes from Jesus.

And as Bert was telling us this morning when he checked in, it's all about him. It isn't about us. So to God be the glory, great things he has done.

Well, it's been a wonderful book, and we're going to close out the book today. So looking forward to that. Um...

Yeah, but before we get started with our reading, we want to open our time together in prayer. Ed, N6XOH, could you please open in prayer for us today? Sure, Lord.

Power, Ed. I have my father who has come to this morning. We ask that you love our Bible study.

Let us see great light that you put in each of these scriptures to each one of us. Help us to see the things that we need to use that we can use in our own lives. Lord.

as we read these scriptures to guide us and direct us in your path Lord watch over Pastor Max as he leads out he brings us the bread of life just ask you to bless him today and everybody that's listening Lord touch each heart that's here and that each person here will get a blessing from this day. Once you're over it, count the floors, all be ready when you come and take us off. I'm praying in Jesus' name, N663.

Amen, Ed, N663. Thank you for that prayer. I really appreciate that.

All right, WB7MAX here. I'm going to go ahead and read this section since there's a bunch of names here. Make it easy on everybody.

I'll be reading out of the King James as usual. and I'm going to be reading Colossians 4:7 through 18 that's Colossians 4:7 to the end of the chapter all right a Colossians 4 in verse 7 all my state shall take a curse declare unto you who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate and comfort your heart. With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you, they shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluted you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, touching whom you received commandments. if he come unto you receive him and Jesus which is called justice who are of the circumcision these only are my fellow workers unto the kingdom of God which have been a comfort unto me Epaphras who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluted you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you and them that are in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis." And even this very day, go unrecognized maybe by the world, but we can be so thankful for sharing the good news and sharing the word of God.

KV7 is at XM. And one of those duties, as you well said, was carrying the mail. That is, taking these letters that Paul wrote in prison and getting them to their proper destinations.

And, you know, it says three things about Tychicus here. It says in verse 7 that he's a beloved brother, number one. Number two, a faithful minister.

And number three, a fellow servant in the Lord. And then we see in the next verse, verse 8, that he is one who is able to comfort the hearts of others. And so here's a guy who, as you said, is mentioned by name and we have some bare descriptions of him.

But this was a real guy who was a disciple of the Apostle Paul and a servant to Paul and to the churches, and one who was a beloved brother. And, you know, when a brother in the Lord shows up, it just warms your heart. I mean, I just love check-in on this net because every time I hear voices like, yes, there's another one of my brothers or sisters who are here and entering into the fellowship.

And I'm just encouraged by the beloved brethren that gather around and share the word of God and encourage each other. And then he's a faithful minister. You know, a lot of people will take on a ministry for the prestige or the glamour or the glory of it.

But if those people would just show up day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and just faithfully carry out the work of the ministry, whatever it is, that their gift and situation in life presents to them. Those are the people the kingdom is built on. And, you know, I think that one of the things that we see here is that there's a bunch of people involved in doing the work of the kingdom.

It's not just Paul. So, yeah, this guy Tychicus, Kevin, thanks for pointing him out. He's a wonderful example for us.

of someone who's kind of behind the scenes and yet making the scenes happen. Because if it wasn't for guys like this, a lot of things wouldn't happen. All right, other car bits, please come down.

I'd just follow up. Follow up, Kevin, please go ahead. Yeah, and you know, with that, I can imagine that Dicacus, as he was carrying these letters through all these miles and hardships, you know, it wasn't easily easy traveling long distance back then.

You had Robert Steves' weather. all kinds of adversity there and some long distances. But I suspect he probably did not ever have an inkling of the impact that he was going to have long-term on the kingdom of God.

But he was faithfully carrying out his duty, faithfully serving the brethren and serving not only Paul, but the churches where he was carrying these letters to. And I would encourage others to sometimes we don't understand the big picture. God does.

But if we can be faithful to God and faithful in our service at our local church or wherever God leads us there to him, God uses it in ways that we cannot understand. And so, yeah, and as you said, the kingdom of God, as we see here as an example, is made up of all the church. And everyone plays an important role.

KB 7 is that example. Yes, they certainly do, Kevin. And without all those people doing what they do, we couldn't do what we do for sure.

All right, Danette would like to acknowledge November Golf NG. Thank you for being there on the Half Moon Bay SDR. Saw you there yesterday.

Appreciate you coming back and listening. All right. Any other comments on this passage, please come down.

WB7EZL. Good morning, Roger. Go ahead.

Yes, one of the pleasant surprises, and I'm surprised I didn't pick this up before, is that Onesimus is mentioned in verse 9. I had focused in on a sermon because of that Christianity article. Christianity Today article on Philemon and the episode that's in that little letter of Paul about Philemon and Amisimus, his slave.

And he's mentioned in verse 9, and our faithful and beloved brother, and one of your number. That's true. Philemon was from Colossae, and that's where his slave was.

ran away from to Rome only a thousand miles, quote, as Kevin said. So that personality jumped out on me. And one of the fascinating parts of my trip to Turkey was to find out that all these three, the Hierapolis is, if you're standing in Laodicea's theater, they had two theaters, and that's why we know that Laodicea was relatively wealthy, quite a wealthy community because it has two theaters, one to the west, the setting sun, and one to the north.

And they often put their theaters on a visual experience so that you would sit higher up from the next row and of course it's kind of a similar situation like a coliseum where your seating would be higher and higher and higher well the North Theater you can see very easily both communities you can see the mineral springs of hierapolis approximately 10 miles north. You can see the white mineral deposits. And then you can see Kalakai in the distance to the east.

And it's about 10 miles or so. So it's a wonderful experience to read the with some of those visuals in mind. So that's, I just wanted to give you a kind of a orientation towards these communities approximately, oh, 72, 80 miles east of Ephesus.

And one of the archeological experiences that we learned in Laodicea about at least a dozen, 15 years ago, that they're projecting that Laodicea will be and is planned to be a new emphasis when it's fully are uncovered. So it's in the process. Some of the temples were just started to be raised up by cranes after the earthquakes had toppled them over the years.

So that's Laodicea with its wealth. They're armed to excavate it like they've done with Ephesus. Yeah, Roger, thank you for that description of your trip and what you saw.

And I think it's important for us to understand that these places that are described in the Bible are real places. They have geography, they have location. These events actually happened.

This is not some fantasy fairy tale. The revelation of the Bible is rooted in historical fact and historical events, historical times, historical places in person and so we see here Laodicea and Hierapolis both mentioned in verse 13 and of course the book of Colossians was written to that city of Colossae and all three of these cities as Roger said were quite close together it's kind of like a tri-cities area if you will and And that's the reason why he says, you know, I'm sending a letter to the church at Laodicea. You guys be sure and read it and have Laodicea be sure and read the letter that I sent to you, the church at Colossae.

Now, we don't have the letter that was written to the Laodiceans. Obviously, God didn't see fit to include that in the scriptures because... It wasn't necessary.

And so we have all we need. We're not missing a letter. It's just that God chose not to have that one included in the scriptures.

Nevertheless, we have the letter to Laodicea in the book of Revelation, don't we? in which that's the seventh and last church that Paul addressed there, Revelation chapter 3. And from that letter, we learn a lot of the things Roger was talking about, that it's a very wealthy city.

They had a school of ophthalmology there. They had a great... commerce there they had this beautiful black wall of the sheep and and then of course they had great great wealth and great learning so anyway it was a it was a real place and Roger glad you're able to visit there and confirm to us about all right other comments on this passage please come down Well, yeah, let's talk for a minute about Onesimus.

Roger brought up Onesimus in verse 9 there. With Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother who is one of you, they shall make known unto you the things which are done there. So the church at Colossae, as I recall, met in Philemon's house.

And so as a result of that, when Onesimus ran away and Paul led him to Christ over there in Rome, he wrote the book of Philemon, sent him back to Onesimus, and basically sent Onesimus back to Philemon to create reconciliation there. The end result was that Onesimus apparently was freed by Philemon to serve Paul and to be a minister on his behalf, working with him and helping carry out the work of the ministry. So, you know, Onesimus is someone who just represents those who are the fruit of a faithful ministry.

and then those who engage in service as a result of having come to faith in Jesus. And so he was there for Paul, doing what he could, and he's called here a faithful and beloved brother. And so an Onesimus-type ministry is where you're faithful and you show consistent love.

to others that perhaps are more gifted and are able to do more, and yet they need that support group around them. And if you can be one of those support folks, well, then you're like Onesimus. All right, other comments on our passage, please come down.

AK6 OK. Jeff, AK6 OK. Please go ahead.

You know, I see something here in 15. King James Version mentions meeting in... Hang on a second.

Having church meeting in her house. Other translations say his house. Oh, I got it backwards.

King James says his house. Other translations say her house. What's that about?

Well, Nymphos is a name that sometimes applies to males and sometimes to females, okay? It's a Greek name. And so in verse 15 is what Jeff is talking about here.

Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea and Nymphos and the church which is at his house. And Jeff is saying other translations talk about it being at her house. So I think that there's some uncertainty here about the gender of the person.

All we have is the name. I don't recall what the gender in the original language is. Let's see.

It's just a person, whether male or female, who opened their house, showed hospitality, willing to share their possessions, selfless took people in uh and and used their house as a lighthouse and a rescue station for the gospel so it's kind of like what you do with your warehouse there jeff you know you invite people in you minister to them you selflessly take time out of your schedule and responsibilities to sit down have a cup of coffee and share the scriptures with whoever shows up So this nymph is just an individual as I said whether male or female That was willing to open their home in service to the gospel Just like you open your warehouse in terms of the gospel back to their job Okay, got it max yeah that kind of confused me a little bit King James Version Confuses me anyway, I don't know if it's just me or everybody else as well, but that's a hard one for me to understand Well, copy that. You know, the reason I use it, well, there's a bunch of reasons. But, Jeff, back when I got saved, I'm 70 years old, right?

I got saved when I was 16. And that's all anybody used. Everybody, all the churches used the King James.

And so it's like when I went to the Bible store to get a Bible, I didn't know my head from a hole in the ground. I went and walked in the Bible store. A brand-new Christian didn't know anything, went up to the clerk and said, hey, I need a Bible.

Well, she takes me over and she shows me the Bible. And all of their work were King James. So I picked one out, bought it, still own it to this day.

It's really beat. It kind of sits over there on the shelf and looks at me and reminds me of when I was 17 years old. And in any event, I've just used it all my life.

And I'm so used to it. And I've memorized everything from it. I've preached out of it for 34 years.

So, yeah, to me, it's just a good old familiar friend. person today picking it up might have a more difficult time but I just encourage people to use the Duking James that's a great translation and maybe a little clearer and easier to understand but each to his own and Jeff I'm glad you're using something that makes sense to you and that you can relate to and live out in your life. Alright WB7MX here looking for comments on our section in Colossians 4 7-18 please come out Yeah, one more comment, Max.

We're looking right now, my wife and I are reading a book on the history of Tyndale House. And Ken Taylor, who was one of the founders, rewrote many books of the Bible so that his kids could understand it. He used to read them at King James, and his kids just weren't getting it, so...

He actually started rewriting it so that his kids would understand it. Over. Yeah, Ken Taylor is the author of the Living Bible.

And, you know, the thing about paraphrases, you know, the one that you use is a paraphrase. And the Living Bible is a paraphrase. And we just have to recognize that that's somebody's interpretation of what they think the Bible teaches.

as opposed to being a translation of what the Greek actually says. And so it's really important that we check these paraphrases and highly free translations with a more accurate translation. So, you know, check it against the New King James, check it against the New American Standard Version to be sure that whoever did that freehand paraphrase didn't misrepresent what was actually there in the words of the original.

So that's the only caution I would offer. If you're going to use a paraphrase, fine, but recognize that you need to check that against a more formal equivalent translation. so that you're not led astray by the theological biases of Eugene Stoner or Kenneth Taylor or whoever it is that's doing that free paraphrase of the passage.

Back to you there, Jonathan. Yeah, that's interesting. It's a balancing act.

And one reason is that if you can't read the King James and understand it, it's much better you go to a paraphrase that you do understand it. versus fully not understanding what you're reading with the King James. This has been a challenge for me.

Maybe it's because I haven't watched you so bad and that kind of thing. But anyway, good explanation anyway. Yeah, Jeff, and I'm glad you're in the Word of God.

I'm glad you're reading. That's wonderful. and appreciate you being there and appreciate you sharing what your paraphrase is saying because oftentimes that does bring out the meaning very well.

All right, WB7MAX here looking for comments on our passage, Colossians 4, 17 to 18, 7 to 18, I should say. Please come with your comments. Is that XN?

Is that XN? Kevin, please go ahead. Yeah, and you could go through the list here and each one of these people mentioned has a story around them and behind the mention here.

Onesimus was mentioned here, the runaway slave. And it's interesting how just the full restoration here, you know, he was a, you know, back at that time, a runaway slave, and especially one that stole, that could be punishable by death. And he left a thief and a runaway, and now he's coming back as a restored and as a brother.

in Christ. And it's just amazing how the gospel, Christ has worked in each of these lives here as a community of people for the glory of God. And it also demonstrates, too, that the gospel is carried forward FORTH MY PEOPLE.

YOU KNOW, AS MUCH AS TECHNOLOGY IS GREAT, IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT CARRY FORTH THE GOSPEL, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE ENCOURAGING -- THE ENCOURAGERS, IF YOU WILL. IT'S THE PEOPLE -- that share what's going on from church to church and and the circumstances sometimes the letters and the correspondence can't completely articulate on what's going on behind the scenes here that's people and one of the other stories we see here too is mark mentioned john mark you know it a few years back on the first missionary journey. There was quite a division created by John Mark when he left the mission field, headed back and almost caused a rift between Barnabas and Paul here.

BUT NOW WE SEE HIM INCLUDED IN THOSE THAT ARE FAITHFUL BRETHREN AND QUITE AN ENCOURAGER TO PAUL NOW. SO EVEN, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE BRETHREN, SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN. and issues come up and there can be some disagreements and sometimes hard feelings for a period of time.

But the goal is always a restored relationship, and we see that fulfilled here as well with Mark there, which is quite beautiful, I think. TB7, is that acceptable? Yeah, thank you for pointing out Mark.

And you're right. You're exactly correct. He was a believer who failed and was restored and returned to usefulness.

He basically failed in the middle of ministry and went home and left Paul and Barnabas by themselves to do the work. And then when the time came for another journey, Barnabas wanted to take Mark. Paul didn't.

And there was a division there, and Paul took Silas, and Barnabas took Mark. You know, I guess I don't have an answer, a good answer for you, Jerry, as to why he made a point of bringing out that these were of the circumcision. I think all he was doing is saying these are the Jewish converts, these are the Gentile converts.

you know because a bunch of these names mentioned here are clearly gentile names they're not jewish names and of course the church of colossae was largely made up of gentiles and so maybe he's trying to say to the church of colossae hey you know have a good attitude towards the jews a bunch of them are my fellow helpers because the Gentiles didn't like the Jews any more than the Jews liked the Gentiles. And so maybe this was just an effort on Paul's part to say to the Gentile Colossian church, hey, here's some Jewish folk who are coming to visit you. They've been a tremendous help to me to receive them.

Back to you there, Jerry. That makes total sense to me. And that puts the light on in my head.

That's... that's good enough for me. Thank you so much.

Back to you. - All right, Jerry, KG6J, thanks for your comment. All right, any other comments, please come through.

- This is ZXN. - ZXN, Kevin, go ahead. - Well, and just on your last observation there, comment, Max, I would agree.

I think, too, because in some areas there was still some confusion and maybe, propensity for division between Jews and Gentiles and here he's demonstrating here how they are all we are all part of one church Jew and Gentile working together for the glory of God under the new covenant covenant here and so yeah I think the read on that is correct as well kb7 is that example Thank you, Kevin, for that. While we're running out of time, I want to talk for a minute about verse 17, where it says, And say unto Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received of the Lord, that you fulfill it. So this Archippus was a pastor, and he apparently was pastoring there in the church at Colossae.

Maybe he was at Laodicea, maybe he was at Hierapolis, this letter was going to that region. But in any event, he had a ministry. He had received this ministry from the Lord.

And the exhortation is, "Fulfill the work of the ministry." In other words, do all that is required of that office and activity. Don't neglect any of it. Be faithful in accomplishing all your responsibilities.

And, you know, pastors are under tremendous stress. They have a wide variety of responsibilities. It's easy to go discouraged because they are at the tip of the spear when it comes to spiritual warfare.

And they receive far more assaults. from Satan and his people, many of them disguised as fellow Christians, than others do. And so I guess, you know, I just want to encourage all of us to encourage our pastors in the work of the ministry because Paul saw the necessity of encouraging Archippus.

And whatever Archippus you've got that's pastoring your church, walk up to him and say, you know, I really appreciate the work you do. I'm praying for you. And this is where I encourage you to carry on.

because your ministry matters to the Lord, it matters to me, it matters to everyone in this church, and we're all growing as a result of what you're doing. So carry on, brother. Be encouraged.

And, you know, just a simple encouragement like that, maybe you don't have any ministry, maybe you don't have any giftedness, you know, maybe you don't have any resources, but what you do have is you've got a tongue. And you got a heart. And out of that heart you can speak words of comfort, words of encouragement to those who are at the forefront of the battle and struggling with the assault that they are under.

so you need - - They love foul weather. That's good, Beck. Thank you for that.

I appreciate that. All right, there was another station in there. Other station, please come down.

Can somebody give me a relay on what he said? He said he just woke up and something about the joke. Can somebody give me a relay, please?

He was too light here and on the SDR in Utah. I'm just not picking people up. So anyway, if somebody else can give me a relay.

I heard the relay said something about turkeys, but I'm just not getting it. Over. Thank you.

Okay, copy that you're just running 100 watts. Any other relays? Okay, I apologize.

My email address on QRZ is good, so please email me. You can go to QRZ and... WB7MAX Whiskey Bravo 7 Mike Alpha X-Ray.

And you can just see my email address there. Send me an email because I really want to understand what it is that you're saying. So station with 100 watts, appreciate you being here.

Wish I could penetrate the mud on the band, but unable to do so. All right, any other comments or observations, please come down. Alright, this is WB7MX, I'll be clearing QRT, see you all tomorrow, and God bless each one.

Blessings, Max, and to everyone. KB7 is at extension. Okay, you don't like turkey very well because it's a fowl.

Yeah, okay, I got you a little better there. Thanks for turning on your processor. State your call sign, please.

Okay. OK, Whiskey Bravo 7, Whiskey Quebec Kilo, that's John. John, is that you?

Over. Okay, roger roger, gotcha John, thank you for turning on your processors, I punched your voice through a little better. Uh, so WB7WQK doesn't like turkey because it tastes foul.

That's a good joke, thank you for that John. I finally comprehend it, appreciate you being patient with me brother. Yeah, copy, you woke up a little bit ago.

I'm glad you're getting some sleep. That's great, John. Appreciate you checking in anyway, and we got you checked in for today.

And thank you for being there. Looking forward to having you with us tomorrow, if that's possible. But sleep's important.

I get that. We meet pretty early in the morning for the sake of the band because it deteriorates as time goes on. But anyway, John, thanks for being there.

WB7, WQK. All right, John, have a great day. 73.

All right, any other comments? Please come down. I'll never look at foul weather the same.

Yeah, copy that. That's good. All right, back to you, John.

I'm going to go ahead and get back to you. I'm going to go ahead and get back to you. All right, John.

All right, John. Appreciate you being there. WB 70 minutes.

I'm going to be clear in QRT, not hearing anybody's voice out there. This is WB7MX. I'll see you all tomorrow.

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