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All right, copy that. No new prayer requests. Brian, KJ7PWM, we got you checked in.

Appreciate you being there. All right, this is WB7MX, Net Control for the West Coast, follow the study. I wanted to read to you the message that Carol, KK7CPO, got from Amy.

Amy is the mom of five we've been praying for. And Amy sent a message, and she says this. Dear church family, thank you so much for praying for me.

As I went through my radiation treatment, I'm done. Praise God. Next, I will be on some medication to block hormones.

Hopefully we will find one that I can tolerate well. I guess I've graduated from cancer patient to cancer survivor. Now I'm filled with gratitude that God is giving me more time on earth to love and care for my family and live my one precious life for Him.

Both of my parents died young from cancer, so I realized what a gift I have been given. Thank you so much for checking in on me and us, bringing us meals, caring, praying, and showing us that you do every text, call, meal, visit, and card was a blessing. Your love and prayers were a very great encouragement with love, Amy.

So Amy has been on our prayer list for a long time. Carol, KK7TPO brought her to our attention. We prayed for her many, many times.

And so this is a huge answer to prayer, and we can give praise and glory to God for that. Amen. Good copy.

Thanks for that good news. Thank you, Al. Appreciate that.

All right. Well, praise the Lord. That's one of the reasons why we pray for a long time for some of these requests, because it takes a long time for the answers to work out.

And so we can turn that from a prayer to a praise for Amy, the mother of five who had breast cancer that we've been praying for. All right. Any other check-ins this morning?

Please come down to your call sign. 6YSI. That's awesome.

Okay, I think we had a double there. I heard a "That's awesome" from Jeff AK6OK, and yes it is, and I think I heard Steve, W6YSI. Steve, are you there?

Yep, good. Morgan Max, W6YSI here. Okay, copy that, Steve, W6YSI.

Thank you for being there. Any prayer requests, Steve? Oh, no.

Well, Mama's still lingering. I'm going to go to the hospital. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So we're just kind of family, just kind of sitting back and waiting for that day. So let's just pray for Grace. We're going to need to deal with all we have to deal with.

W6YSI. Copy that. Okay, then Steve, W6YSI's mom Marilyn, who is lingering and just praying for Grace that when she passes into the arms of the Lord, Steve and the family will have wisdom to deal with all that's involved in that.

Okay, real good, Steve. W6YSI, thank you for that. All right, any other check-ins, please come down.

WV7VZL. Roger, WB7VZL, thank you for being there. How you doing brother?

Well, just empathizing with Steve here, as we've had to, we just finished the memorial service that you prayed for, and anyway, Steve, our empathy to you. I haven't heard from Brigetta, who we prayed for, for her surgery, but I hope to have a report in the near future. Over.

Copy that. We've got Brigetta on our prayer list, and I'll be praying for her today, so we'll just continue to lift her up before the Lord for her rheumatoid arthritis and also for mobility in her wrist after a wrist surgery. you Okay, oh there's Will, KM5 Foxtrot.

Good morning Will, KM5F. I see you down there as a listener. Understood.

You've got that Vacation Bible School going on this week and we are praying about that. So we've got you on the list Will. And we're praying for that.

Okay, real good. Let's see. I think I got another text message here.

Oh, yeah, here's Will. KM5F, heading to Tacoma area to a wedding of a dear friend after VVS. All right, Al, KJ7QQH, we want to pray for Will.

KM5F, for Journey's Mercies to Tacoma. to a wedding today after the VBS, the Vacation Bible School, is over. So Will is a listener today, and he's on the Utah SDR.

Appreciate you being there, Will. Okay. Any other requests or check-ins, please come to them.

All right, give me one second here to check my SDRs. Yep, there's Peter, Phil, Eric. Dan.

Alright, that's Utah, or that's the Aspen Bay. Let me stay here just a second. Alright, we have everybody checked in off both SDRs, and I think we've got all our voice check-ins in.

So we're going to get started with our Bible study. We are in the book of Job, chapter 10. Now, what we're dealing with here is this discourse between Job and his three fins, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, about why...

Job is experiencing the things that he is. And we have seen that his three friends, two of whom we've heard from so far, are both singing the same tune. And basically what they're saying is Job is suffering because Job must have some secret hidden sin in his life and He needs to repent of it, and if he did, then all his problems would go away.

Well, we know that that can be true in certain people's lives, in certain circumstances, if in fact that is what's going on. But that was not what was going on in Job's life. And we know what was going on in Job's life because we got to read chapter 1 and chapter 2.

But Job and his three friends didn't get to read it. They didn't know what was going on in the heavenly sphere. And so human circumstances don't always have human explanations.

Sometimes there's things going on that... are beyond our comprehension but part of God's infinite and all-wise plan. So sometimes we have to trust even when we don't understand.

Well, Job is now wrestling in chapter 9 and in chapter 10 with God and what God is doing and why God is doing it. I want to review a couple of verses out of chapter 9, and then we'll talk about chapter 10. But before we do that, I think we want to open in prayer.

So Jim in 7BKE, if you could open a prayer for us this morning, I would appreciate that. Go ahead there, Jim. Thank you.

Heavenly Father, let us all bow in front of you and give you praise and thank you for having us here this morning. We each have a time in life, and each one of us are getting way short on our time. Any morning you could take us home, and we won't be here.

But we'll be up there with you. So we praise you and thank you for all you do for us. Keep us all safe this day.

Bless the ones that need healing and touch of the body that are ill. That's the main thing. Keep us going strong.

And we give you all the praise and the love. and care of your son, Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen.

Amen, Jim. Thank you so much for that prayer. May the Lord be pleased to grant each of those requests.

And that would like to acknowledge my good friend Joe, KD7WBV. That's Kilo Delta 7. Whiskey, Bravo, Victor.

Joe up there in Battleground, Washington, thanks for being with us again on the Utah SDR. All right, we are going to look at our passage here, and I want you to focus here back in chapter 9, verses 1 to 4. Let me just read those.

It says, And Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth, but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength.

Who has hardened himself against him? and has prospered. So he starts out with a really right view of God here, his exalted nature, his transcendence, and the fact that no one is in a position to question God or to argue with God.

And then he goes down in verse 12 of chapter 9, And it says, Behold, he taketh away, and who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What doest thou? So no one can say to God, What do you think you're doing?

He can take away if he pleases, and we're not in a position to question that. Verse 13, If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers to stoop under him, how much love shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? Whom?

Though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. But I would make supplication to my judge. So he's not going to argue with God, but he does want some answers from God.

All right? And so he recognizes that God can do whatever God wants to do. He's not in a position to argue with him, not in a position to call him to account.

He recognizes God can do what he wants to do, but he would sure like some answers. He would like an explanation. Well, that brings us to chapter 10, our scripture reading today.

In Job chapter 10, Job stops talking to his friends. And he starts talking directly to God. Chapter 10 is a prayer.

And so as we read Chapter 10, we're going to see the innermost parts of Job's heart as he talks to God in this prayer. So that's what we're dealing with in Chapter 10. All right.

Well, that brings us to AK6OK. Jeff, if you could read for us Job chapter 10, the entire chapter. Appreciate that.

Go ahead there, Jeff. You bet. Good morning, everybody.

Job, I'm going to read out of the NLT this morning, if you don't mind. Job frames his plea to God. I am disgusted with my life.

Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. I will not accept the gate.

Tell me the charge you are bringing against me. Why do you gain my oppressive base? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?

Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? Is your lifetime only as long as ours?

Is your life so short that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? Although you know I'm not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. You formed me with your hands.

You made me. Yet now you completely destroy me. Remember that you made me from dust.

You turned me back to dust so soon. You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones, and the signs, I think it is, together.

You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. my life was preserved by your care. Yet your real motive, your true intent was to watch me and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt.

If I'm guilty, too bad for me. And even if I'm innocent, I can't hold my head high because I'm filled with shame and misery. And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.

Again and again, you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. Why then?

Did you deliver me from my mother's womb? Why didn't you just let me die of thirst? It would be as though I never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave.

I have only a few days left, so leave me alone that I may have a moment of comfort. Before I leave, never to return, to the land of darkness and utter gloom. It is the land as dark as midnight, the land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.

My, my, my. There you go, Max. Jeff, AK6OK, thank you for that scripture reading well.

Here is a man who is in great confusion and distress and is expressing that to God. All right, any comments on this section? Please come down with your calls on it.

Does that make sense? Kevin there. Kevin, KB7ZX in.

Go ahead. Thank you for that relay. I didn't hear it.

Sorry there. I didn't have my power on. Hopefully that helps a little.

KB7ZX in. Oh, I get it. The ball rolling a little bit here.

And I'm glad you kind of -- you touched on Chapter 9 too because it's a little bit more Job still turns to God and addresses him directly and begins this conversation with God. Basically, the blessing of life has become a great burden now. And as he addresses God, he's really asking God, I know, you know what?

going on. I cannot make sense of all of this suffering that's taking place. Would you please occur to me and see, at least understand, why are you pursuing this suffering on me?

Why the suffering? And then he calls upon God to at least, please, give me a little reprieve before the lights go out completely. Please just give me a little bit of reprieve from this suffering.

But he's essentially asking the question, why? Help me understand. Because he knows that he says, God, you know, you know my heart.

the statements that Job is expressing here. Hang on a second. Had to sneeze.

Didn't figure you wanted to hear that. Okay, let's see. Kevin, yes.

So, yeah, well said. You know, Job can't make any sense out of what God is doing. He wants an explanation, because what it feels like is that God made him, and now God's destroying him.

I mean, that would be like somebody, like, building a house, and then when it's all done, lighting it on fire, right? It's like, does this make any sense? And that's what it appears to be happening from an external human, under-the-sun point of view.

Right. And so he's saying, as you well said, Kevin, he made me. Why is he destroying me?

And Lord, give me a little reprieve before I die because I don't want it to end like this. So here's a man who is observing what has happened. but he doesn't know why it's happened, and so he's asking God to show him what is going on.

And what's going to be interesting is that God will never explain to him the why, and that will unfold as time goes on. But that's really what Job is asking here. He wants an explanation.

And in the end, what he's going to find out is that he doesn't need an explanation. He needs to just have a vision of his God as to the greatness of his wisdom and the awesomeness of his power. and you just bow and accept even though you don't understand and get an explanation.

Kevin, great analysis of the passage. Thank you for that. All right, any other comments, please come out with your call sign.

WB7AZ. Roger, please go ahead. Well, I'm leaning on Kevin.

I remember Jeremiah had some real challenges with his birthdays. In other words, birthdays were not a time of celebration. They were a time and I turn to the passage that Kevin mentioned the other day, Jeremiah 20, and it is a classic unbirthday experience, very similar to what we have here in verse 18.

Why then thou brought me out of the womb, would that I have died, and no eye had seen me, and I should have been as though I had not been carried from womb to womb. So anyway, I had the opportunity, Kevin, to look at Jeremiah 20 and verse 14 and following. Very similar depression.

bad depression and worrisome depression actually. Yeah, Roger Wills said, and you know, this is not the first time Job has said this. You remember back in chapter 3, it says in verse 3, let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, there is a man-child conceived.

And, yeah, he was not happy about the fact that he was existing. And so he was questioning why he was brought into this world if this was what he was going to be experiencing. And, you know, we see people who are born into this world, and maybe they have severe birth defects.

Maybe they have issues of a brain defect. And it seems like their whole life is one of suffering. It's one of being severely limited and being unable to have any kind of normal function.

And we think to ourselves, why did God bring this person into the world? And that person may be thinking to himself, why does God have me here? And, you know, God doesn't do anything arbitrarily.

He doesn't do anything irrationally. And he doesn't do anything with cruelty. All of his purposes are good.

And yet those good purposes are worked out in a context... of a fallen, sinful, broken world where Satan is operating as the god of this world and where a great deal of evil occurs. And we have to accept that as the reality and say to ourselves, whatever God is doing in this situation, he has good and wise purposes.

He's working out his redemption. He's working out his redemption. He's working in the lives of his people to sanctify them, to save them, and/or conversely to show who they really are and provide a record for the day of judgment against them by the way they respond to his providences.

And everything is a test. It's a test of who we are. And it's also a time for us to express humility and gratitude and worship in the face of the most provocative circumstances that Satan can bring against us.

And so what we want to do is learn from this story. to rise above the question to a level of trust. Because trust can find peace and contentment in God and His character, even when circumstances provide us with no reason to have that from a human perspective.

And so people have gone through the most horrific of circumstances, have come out the sweetest of faith because they didn't demand the answer to why. They just focused on the who. And they fell in love with God all over again in spite of their circumstances.

And that closeness to God gave them joy. that transcended the pain that they were having. And so instead of standing back and questioning God, let's throw ourselves into the arms of God and experience His love and closeness even while we're in pain.

You know, we've all had experiences where a child has fallen down in their knee, and it hurts. But they come to their parent, their parent wraps them up in their arms, And you know, even though the pain hasn't gone away, the fact that the parent is hugging them makes it bearable. And our pain may never go away in this life.

I have a friend who has a son with cerebral palsy. That's not going away in this life. But that boy recognizes who God is.

He loves God and he finds peace and comfort in God and is promised that in the resurrection, he will be healed. And in the meantime, He has peace that God's managing his life. And, of course, his father has taught him those things.

And that's the position that we need to wind up in, even though these incredible questions that Job asks are on all of our hearts when we're going through pain. All right, WB7MX, there are other comments on this passage. Please come down.

Thank you. Jim, N7BKE, please go ahead. Yeah, you know, if you put it in the prospect of us during our own lifetime, if this would happen to us or our family, how in the world could we keep from asking the Lord why?

What did I do to do this? I have never had any problems except my grandkids have. He's lost a little baby at 14 weeks.

One was 13 weeks, one was 14 weeks, just within the last month or so. But that's in the Lord's will. We have no way of saying why.

Whatever happens in our life is in the Lord's will. And so we just have to accept what happens. Same way with Job.

But his was so hard. And of course, he knew Job from the beginning. He knew Job's heart.

He knew Job could withstand all the torment and trouble that the devil is doing to him. So we just praise and thank the Lord. He watches over us each day, too.

N7BKE. Jim, really well said. Thank you for that.

And you are so right. You know, what's interesting to me, Jim, is that people question God and even want to find fault with God when difficulties come in their lives. But people don't question God and find fault with God when great blessing comes into their lives because we don't deserve those.

And it's like, okay, I'll take the blessings, but I'm complaining about the negative circumstances. And so I think it's important for us to understand that we have less pain than we deserve. And we have more blessings than we deserve.

And so if we have anything better than a place in hell under the wrath of God, we're incredibly blessed people. And so we need to see the glass is half full and not ask, why isn't it clear full? you know, it could be empty.

And so whatever we do have, we need to be thankful for it, and we need to recognize the grace of God and the goodness of God in it. And we also need to recognize that the gospel provides us with a way out of it, a remedy for it, and a deliverance from it. We just have to exercise patience, patience for a lifetime.

And, you know, maybe that's 70 or 80 years, right? And that seems like a long time. But here I am, 70 years old, and I'm looking back, and my life is just a vapor.

Boom, it just went by, and here we are. and it's not going to be long before we're into eternity. So, you know, 70, 80 years of struggle, difficulty, pain, unanswered questions, that's nothing compared to an eternity of having all the answers and experiencing all the blessings and knowing all the joy.

and having life and having it more abundantly, and faith looks past the present into the future, and it embraces the God and the promises that he makes regarding that future, and it gives us the ability then to have perspective on the present, to get through it, and to not fall away because of the hardships that are here. you know, well, I'll stop right there. All right, any other comments on the passage?

WB7MAX here. Please come down with your call, please. ZXN.

Kevin is there. Thank you, Kevin. KB7ZXN, please go ahead.

Appreciate that relay, roger. Thank you. Boy, you heard me on 50 watts there, Max.

I'm glad I somehow turned my amplifier off. KB7ZXN, Walton. Oh, Max, I think you make a good point, but I think there's a distinction here we need to really identify in this text, too.

And from the distinction being from asking why, And as you pointed out, sometimes that asking why falls into a combination of God allowing suffering or God accepting the suffering. And there is an important distinction. You know, the question why, why God?

You know, help me understand why this suffering. Why are you allowing this? In fact, why are you, do you have your hand in this suffering?

great suffering that I'm enduring, God. But he does fall short of condemning God for that, and that's a big distinction. In fact, God does not condemn Job for asking these questions, this question, why, God?

And it is, you know, as... I point to again in Job 42, it points out that Job has spoken right of me. But he does fall short, as you point out, Max, of blaming God, condemning God for being unjust in this.

He just cannot reconcile in his mind. how god uh knowing who god is uh would do this and that is so hard for us and we see this throughout really church history if we step back just a little ways and look from our perspective and vantage point here in the 21st century, you know, from the days of Christ forward even alone, we can see how tens of millions of Christians and faithful believers have been persecuted and killed. And many, you know, not only from the Catholic Church, not only from the Catholic Church, from the Muslims and Islam, but many from Protestant churches.

Calvin killed thousands of Anabaptists, but so did Luther and others. So, you know... The suffering of Christians is nothing new.

Suffering of believers, I should say. Suffering of those that are faithful to God. But God does have his ultimate purpose, and though we don't understand it, and what we see really as a theme developing here, and a theme developing throughout the Old and New Testament, is God's response to the answer of why is, trust me.

In other words, the just shall live by faith. KB7 is that example. I think those two words, trust me, are the operative words there.

And that's what Proverbs 3, 5, and 6 says. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on any own understanding. Because our understanding is limited because it's fallen.

because it's defective, human reason is never going to arrive at the correct answers unless it's guided by divine revelation. And so, you know, I think you make a really important observation, and that is that we do not, and are not in a position to ever condemn God for suffering. We may ask why, and it's perfectly fine to ask the question why.

You probably won't get a complete and full answer to that. But even partial answers or limited answers have some value in terms of helping us to comprehend what's going on. Indeed, that's why the book of Job was written.

It was written to give us some answers for human suffering. and so we can take what happened to Job and what God was doing in Job's life and we can project that into our lives and say, okay, there's something bigger going on here and I can be patient and wait on God for the outworking of His program. So asking why...

is not the same as saying God is wrong. And as you point out, Kevin, God didn't condemn Job. He says, Job has spoken rightly of me.

And so however far Job went with his frustration and his questions, he never became disrespectful or irreverent towards God. He never wound up saying God is wrong or God is evil or God is unjust. He just couldn't figure out why.

And so if you can't get an answer to the why, then just focus on the who. Learn of him, love him, draw near to him, recognize that you're in the arms of a loving Heavenly Father, not a cruel and vindictive and arbitrary deity. and that's the comfort that Christianity offers to us is that we serve a good God who does us good and who keeps his promises alright other comments please come down Jeff AK6OK please go ahead Yeah, I'm going to bring forth a different perspective.

Back in 2006, and I was a believer back then. I've been a believer since I was 17, and now I'm 72. But I had three cardiac arrests.

in one day. I physically died, met an angel in the hospital. It was quite a story.

I won't go into all that because there's more, believe it or not. And I survived that and was very, very grateful. I was never upset with God.

And since then, I've had numerous heart attacks. I've had two strokes. I've had cancer, throat cancer, which just about took me out also.

Through all this, I never got upset with God at all. It was very interesting. I think God insulated me from that and said, "You know what?

I got this covered." I was never afraid. And my wife, bless her heart, thinks I'm a hero. But I'm not.

I'm just a bigger guy. And all of this started when we started deploying Bibles. Within a couple of months of starting that ministry, I ended up in cardiac arrest three times.

So obviously the enemy was after me. But what happened as a result of that is right after I got out of the hospital, I joined up with the American Heart Association just thinking, "You know, maybe I can be of some help." They put me on the board, and I was on the board for 15 years. And I got to speak in front of thousands of people and relate to them the fact that, "Look, I should be a dead man." And when I speak at Camp Pendleton, It's one of the opening lines that I use in front of 800 Marines.

You're looking at the guy that was once dead. What a great way to share that testimony. And then I go through this whole story about, look what I have been through and look what God has done with it.

I've got the pleasure of speaking to a summer camp for a bunch of high school kids, 150 of them coming up in July. all I do is tell this story. And it's riveting.

And so when you look at all of this and look at all the suffering, and again, this was an easy process for me because I knew who God was in the first place. I'd seen too many miracles before. And he said, no, that's not why I'm calling you.

He said, I need some spiritual advice. And I was trying to figure out how he knew I'm a believer. That's interesting.

He said, well, a while back you sent me a Bible. And I just called and asked you for it, and you freely sent it to me. And he said, "I just need to know how to read this." He said, "I've been considering Gandalf." You guys know who he is, right?

From Harry Potter. "As my savior." And he said, "I don't think it's quite right. I think something's wrong with all this." He said, "How do I read this Bible?" talk to him about, let's start with John.

You know, and I gave him, this is a great big study Bible I'm saying. I said, let's start with John and work our way through, and I want to keep in touch with you. And then he explained to me why he doesn't go to church.

He said, that's just useless. You know, going and listening to a sermon message that's going to last you for a day and a half, and then you're over it. And I said, wait a second.

You got a wrong concept here. We got to talk a little bit about community, what the church community is all about, you know, a band of believers. Anyway, long story short, this all wrapped up with a conversation that he had with me about our videos.

I did a bunch of videos through the past five years about how to install our products. And that is, I knew who God was in the first place. And because you knew who God was, you could implicitly trust God no matter what happened.

And it's like, okay, God, I'm going along for the ride here. Let's see what you have in mind. I'm watching the hand of God at work in my circumstances.

I got a text message here, let me see what this is saying. Let's see, this is from Brian, KJ7PWM. Yeah, 1 Peter 3:13-16 goes with what Jeff has been through.

Amazing how my personal study always lines up, the whole Bible always does. So let me just turn to that passage, 1 Peter 3. And verses 13 to 16.

Let's see. Here it is. And who is he that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good?

But if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you. that falsely accuse your good manner of life in Christ. Well, Brian, yeah, that's exactly what Jeff is expressing, and that's what you were reading in your Bible earlier today.

It's amazing how it all lines up. Brian, KJ7PWM, thanks for that text message. All right, we are getting close to being out of time.

We have time for one more comment. Any final comments? Please go ahead.

to the throne of grace and to our own prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and thank you for this study today and we give back have faith, then we also have faith in you to help us through the things that we're struggling with, and also we offer up praise for those who have answered prayers as well. We look up our owner, Steve, W6YSI, and he supports his mother, Marilyn, and we just ask that you give him an extreme comfort, that he helps his mother, Marilyn, on her final days, and help her over the finish line of her life.

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What has more lives than a cat? Thank you, Mr. O'Keefe.

Thanks for the opportunity to share a little bit today, Max. Yeah, thank you, Jeff. I appreciate you sharing it because, you know, that's a real-life job experience, and I think that, you know, your testimony really provides an example of how we need to respond to it.

You know, I remember when my wife Kathy got breast cancer the first time, It was tough, especially for me. Well, then, you know, she had surgery and she had radiation and she was declared cancer-free, and she was. Well, 15 years later, she got cancer again in the same breast.

Same place. And, you know, by that time, we had, of course, had 15 years to grow in the Lord. And the kids had grown up and were gone.

And our attitude was a lot closer to, you know, what you were expressing this morning about your heart surgery. It's like, well, Lord, let's get her done. You know, whatever you got in mind here.

And what I told Kathy is I said, you know what, this is God's doing. We're just along for the ride to observe and see what it is that he intends to do here. And I told her, you know, everybody's going to die of something someday, and if this is it, fine.

If it's something else, fine. We're not in control of that, and we just are... waiting to see what God's purposes and God's plans are.

Well, she had surgery again, and no radiation this time because she had a full mastectomy. And, you know, we came out the other side in much better shape spiritually, emotionally. It just was so much smoother going through it the second time with a level of just increased confidence in God's management of our circumstances.

So hopefully, Jeff, every time something new happens to us, we grow a little bit more and we handle the next one a little bit better. Back to you, Jeff. Yeah, very true.

And you know who this affected the most is obviously Patty, because she wasn't sure in each one of these situations whether I was coming back. You know, and through the cancer treatment, through the radiation was one. I mean, I went seven weeks every day except the weekend.

And through the chemo. the chemo they bring it back from the dead they bring it to the point of death and back from the dead that was that was a little tougher so i'll tell you what i look forward to every day which is really kind of funny i uh look forward to 2 30 in the afternoon when leave it to beaver was on the rest of the time I just spent in bed I wake up to leave it to beaver and go back to sleep and you don't want to look back on it it wasn't that big a deal and but the stories I get to tell are stunning and their head turners back well yeah Jeff and that's exactly what we read in 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 and And verse 7, we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. And so who's Jeff?

Who's Max? We're just clay pots. But there's something inside of us of infinite value, and that is the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

and the salvation and transformation that he's provided, the new birth. And that's what we point people to. It's not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord.

And ourselves, who are we? We're just servants for the sake of the people of God. That's why Paul says, "We're troubled on every side and yet not distressed.

We're perplexed but not in despair. We're persecuted but not forsaken. We're cast down but not destroyed." And so he says, you know, in all of our suffering, we have joy.

and sorrowful and yet always rejoicing. So, yeah, Jeff, we're nothing special. God is something special, and he did something special in our lives.

And so we want to proclaim his glory by proclaiming what he has done. Over. You got it, Max.

Well, thanks again. That was a good study this morning. And our AK-6, okay, I'm going to be clearing.

I'm going to go to work. Thank you.