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Good morning, Brian. How are things up there? Well, Cobb, I'm going to go ahead and get you on the line.

Copy that. I'm glad that you're having some warm days. Copy no prayer requests.

Brian, appreciate you being there. All right, that's Brian, KJ7PWM. All right, any other check-ins, please come now..

.. Thank you. Alright, this is WB7MAX.

We've got about three minutes to go before we get started with a West Coast Bible study. Any more check-ins to the West Coast Bible study, please come down with your call sign. KB7ZXN.

All right, there's Kevin, KB7ZXN. Good morning, Kevin. How are you doing?

Good morning, Max. And I heard your report earlier on your back, and that is so wonderful. and just Thank you also, Al, for visiting, and we'll pray for you as well, Sandy.

And anyway, I just had something quick to share, if you have a minute. I think Will's in there, though, wanting checked in. Okay, Kevin, hang on there a second.

Will, Keel Mike 5 Foxtrot, please go ahead. Oh, just checking in. No new prayer request.

Okay, I'm for this. Thank you for that. Okay, you've got Will KM5F checked in.

Will, thank you for being there. Also, Gene K7GWR is there on the Utah SDR. Gene K7GWR, thank you for being there as well.

All right, back to you there, Kevin. KB7 is at Xen. Go ahead, please.

Yeah, just briefly, to take you to that extent, you know, my brother and I grew up loving football and playing American football. And until I was in high school, my eyes got bad enough where I couldn't really play anymore. But my brother continued to play.

And we lived in different areas. He lived in East Texas, far East Texas. And anyway, he had a couple of scholarships offered to him and things, so he chose academic.

But one of his teammates was named Pism. And my brother Scott asked him. locker room one day and he asked his friend, he says, well, Pism, he says, where in the world did you get your name?

I've never heard of somebody named Pism before. And Pism says, well, Scott, he says, you know, my mother, she couldn't pronounce words or read real well, but she loves the Bible and she loves the Word of God and her favorite book and the whole Bible is the book of Psalm and that's how she pronounced it. So every time I think here the Word of you know think about the book of psalm i think of my brother's friend pism there anyway you don't have to be a good reader or theologian to be tremendously blessed by this wonderful book of psalm tb7 is that example Yes, that's interesting.

I've heard other books of the Bible mispronounced in a similar fashion. So, yep, it's not about being wise or noble or mighty. It's about having faith in the God that's revealed in the Bible and His Son, Jesus Christ, and the redemption He's provided.

Yes. and she'll get that pronunciation all straightened out when she gets to heaven. Probably already there.

Kevin, thanks for sharing the story. Appreciate that. I see Jeff AK6OK lurking around there on the Utah SDR.

Good morning, Jeff. All right, we're going to check in Jeff AK6OK on FACE, on his call sign being on the Utah STR. All right, any other check-ins?

Please come now. WV7VZL with a praise. Roger, WV7VZL, tell us your praise.

Go ahead. I had my first one-on-one visit with Brigetta that we prayed for regarding her wrist surgery, and she is praising the Lord and wants to thank us as I talked to her, told her about our prayer warriors here, and she has another wrist. It's not fused.

It is a wrist. She's limited to five pounds or less. But she is very, very happy about it.

I met her through a cell phone, so to speak, in western Montana, and it's called The Hole. She was visiting it, I think, for the first time with a family reunion in western Montana called The Hole. Have you heard of it?

I hadn't, over it. Yeah, I've heard the place, but go ahead. Right, yeah.

So anyway, that's where she says you'll never guess where you're talking to me. So it's one of those cell phone moments. Go ahead, Max.

Well, that's a real good report, Roger. We're so grateful for you sharing that. Yeah, we prayed for Brigetta.

Brigetta had really bad osteoarthritis or something similar to that in her wrist. And she was going to have surgery on them, and they didn't know if they were going to have to fuse her wrist together or if they could clean it up and fix it up so that it could still be flexible and movable. So God answered prayer, and she now has a flexible wrist.

still healing, can't put a lot of pressure on it but that's a praise to the Lord so Jerry, 8E70R let's return thanks to God for answering prayer for Brigetta Brigetta B-R-E-G-E-T-T-I-A and that her wrist surgery was successful alright Roger, good report thank you for that any other check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study please come now 8E7WKI Okay, that was Dave, KE7WKI. Good morning, Dave. Good to have you with us.

How you doing, brother? Doing great. Good morning, everyone.

No prayer requests. Copy that. Doing great.

No prayer requests. All right, Dave, KE7WKI. Got you checked in.

Any other check-ins, please come now. Alright, I heard somebody in there really think. Can somebody give me a relay?

That was AK6OK lurking around, he said, N6T and I. Okay, AK6OK must not have his amp on or something. Thank you, Dan, N6T and I.

Appreciate that relay for Jeff, AK6OK. Jeff, we got you checked in. Alright, any other check-ins?

Please come down. A relay. Yeah, I'm back.

Okay, you're back. All right, I heard another voice in there. Other voice?

Please try. Yeah, I meant to relay in Jim N7BKE earlier as well. He was in here early and left to the -- Okay, copy that.

Old folks on. Yeah, okay, copy that. That's Jim N7BKE.

So we got Jim N7BKE. Checked in by way of relay. Appreciate the relay.

And, all right, any other check-ins? Please come now. Okay, thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim.

Thank you. All righty, this is WB7MX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We have a bunch of check-ins this morning.

Grateful for every single one that showed up. And we are beginning a new book today. We're beginning the book of Psalms.

And this book, we're going to introduce it, but first, before we introduce the book, we want to open together in prayer. And so, Kevin, KB7ZXN, could you please open in prayer for us this morning? Absolutely.

Let's bow our heads, close our eyes. Lord, we thank you so very much for this day that you've given us. Lord, we praise you for your bountiful mercies bestowed upon Beck and preserving him, giving him a road to healing and a way to be a good man.

Thank guiding the hands of the surgeons and doctors and caregivers there that he has now Lord we continue to pray for him and his wife Sandy Father we also have so many other that we lift up in prayer this day that we add to our list. But each and every need is important, Lord, and you know each and every need before we do. Lord, we thank you for being so faithful to hear our prayers.

I was just thinking about Beck while you were praying. All right, this is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We are opening a new book today, and that is the book of Psalms.

And so I want to give a little introduction to the book, and then we will proceed to read the first psalm, and we will talk about it. The word psalm is a word that just simply means psalms, S-O-M-G-S. And so the book of Psalms was a collection of hymns that was used by Israel in their worship and for their worship.

So what we have in the book of Psalms is a divinely inspired hymn book of the Old Testament saints. And so these psalms were sung in the sanctuaries. And they were sung among the people in praise and prayer and worship to God.

And so in the book of Hebrew, it's actually, in the Hebrew Bible, pardon me, it's actually titled the book of praises. The earliest psalm was written by Moses, which is Psalm 90, the only one he wrote, but he did write one. And it was composed sometime around 1400 B.C.

The majority of the psalms were written around 1000 B.C. during the time of David and Solomon. And a few were written during and after the exile, with none of them being later than 500 B.C.

So it spans about... a thousand years from 1400 BC to 500 BC and most of them being written around a thousand BC the purpose of the book is to provide a collection of spiritual songs of praise and prayer for the worship of God And so it provides the Jews and us with hymns for worship. And it also provides us with prayers for worship.

Because some of these psalms are more like hymns, others are more like prayers. And so they provide us with music and they provide us with petitions. The second purpose of the book is not only to provide us with a collection of spiritual psalms of praise and prayer, but to teach Israel and us the kind of heart attitude we and they should have toward God in our life and in our worship.

The book of Psalms is preeminently a book of heart communion with God. and in it we're able to look into the actual inner thoughts of those who are writing the psalms and see what communion with God in the heart looks like. And so we can guide, and the thoughts of our own hearts toward God and grow in our communion with God as we read these psalms.

So that's the second purpose. The third purpose is to provide prophetic hope regarding the Messiah and regarding the triumph of the people of God over all of their enemies. And so many of these psalms contain prophetic references to Messiah.

We're going to talk about that in a minute. But they're very uplifting, very encouraging. And even when a person is in profound despair and despondency and discouragement, there's always a psalm that will lift you up out of that as you read it and pray it and meditate on it.

and use that to guide your thinking in relationship to your circumstances. So those are the three major purposes of the book. To provide a collection of spiritual songs of praise and prayer, to teach us what our heart attitude should be and our heart communion with God and what that looks like.

and then to provide us with hope and encouragement regarding the future because there's a lot in the Psalms not only about Messiah but the eternal state as well. The importance of the book is, as I said, that it teaches us what heart communion with God looks like and we learn from it how we can have a relationship with God and especially a prayer life with God. But above that...

It teaches us a lot about who God is and about what God is like and about what He expects out of us. So we learn a lot about God Himself. This book provides us with a tremendous amount of theology and doctrine.

And what's interesting is that the book of Psalms is the most extensively quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament writings. In other words, the New Testament quotes more from the book of Psalms than any other book in the Old Testament. And there are at least 70 formal quotations out of the book of Psalms in the New Testament.

And there's as many as 93 if all the allusions to the Psalms are also included. So a great deal about what we know about God and a great deal about what we know about Christ is derived from the book of Psalms. Now, the book itself has a number of authors.

Most books in the Bible just have one author. But that's not the case with Psalms. We think of the Psalms as all being written by David.

Well, David wrote a bunch of them. He wrote 73 of them. okay but also there's a band a pace that we composed 12 a Cora composed 11 Solomon composed 2 and then a band a human a composed one all 88 each composed fall 89 Moses composed Psalm 90, and Ezra composed Psalm 119, and then there are 48 more on top of that, and we don't know who the authors of those psalms were.

The important thing about it is not who wrote the psalms, but who inspired them. And so we can say with confidence all of the psalms were written by God. He just used various human instruments in order to convey those psalms to us.

Now, these psalms are broken down into several categories. In fact, there's eight of them. So we have what are called the penitential psalms.

And these are psalms that express repentance and confession and sorrow for sin. So an example of that would be like Psalm 51. Then there's the imprecatory psalms.

The imprecatory psalms are prayers for judgment on the wicked. And the classic example of that is Psalm 35. Okay.

And then thirdly, there's the Hallelujah Psalms. And these are psalms that express praise to God. There's a bunch of them.

The classic expression of that category would be Psalm 150. Then there's the Nature Psalm. And these are the Psalms that celebrate the glory of the Creator.

And, of course, Psalm 19 would be a classic example of that. The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament shows His handiwork, etc. Then, fifthly, there are the historical Psalms.

And these are Psalms that rekindle the history of Israel, especially the Exodus. And Psalm 105. Psalm 105.

would be an example of a historical psalm. Then there are the Messianic psalms, and there's a bunch of them. And these are the psalms that set forth the coming Messiah and his kingdom.

And the classic one there would be Psalm 2, which God willing we'll be looking at tomorrow. So we have the Messianic Psalms. And then we have what are called the Scripture Psalms.

And the Scripture Psalms are Psalms which glorify the Word of God itself. And the classic one there is Psalm 1. We're going to be looking at that today.

his delight is in the law of the Lord and in the law that he meditates day and night so Psalm 1 praises scriptures as the final ultimate and exclusive source of authority in our lives and then the 8th category is the what we call the Ascent, A-S-C-E-N-T, the Ascent Psalms. They're also called Psalms of Degrees. That's another title for them.

Anyway, these psalms were sung during the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the required feast. There were three required feasts in Jerusalem that all the people of Israel had to go to. And so three times a year, the whole nation ascended up to Jerusalem, because Jerusalem is sitting on a mountain, right?

And most of Israel is at a lower elevation than Jerusalem. So they had to ascend up to Jerusalem. So there were psalms of ascent, which are psalms they sang as they were moving toward Jerusalem.

And the classic example of the Psalm of Ascent would be Psalm 122. So that is the category of the Psalms we're going to be looking at. This book does not have chapters.

These are not chapters. These are just individual Psalms, and they're not necessarily connected to each other. Just Psalm 42 and 43 are connected, but all the other psalms are independent compositions, and one psalm doesn't necessarily have any relationship whatsoever to the psalm before it or the psalm after it.

So we don't talk about Psalm chapter 33, we just talk about Psalm 33, because these really aren't chapters. Okay. People talk about the structure of the book, and I'm not a big fan of this, but I will mention it because you'll run across it.

By the way, this is WV7MAX. The book of Psalms is supposedly broken up into five books. Book one is...

said to be Psalm 1 to 41. And this series of Psalms were collected during the time of David. And there's mostly Davidic Psalms in this section.

And most of those are about man and his relationship with God. And so people say, well, that corresponds to the book of Genesis because Genesis is a book about man and his relationship to God. And then there's a book 2, and that would be Psalm 42 to 72.

And these psalms were collected largely during the time of Hezekiah. And the theme of the book is Israel and God's relationship with the nation and the nation's relationship with God. And that would correspond to the book of Exodus, of course, which is all about Israel coming out of Egypt.

The third book... would be Psalm 73 to 89. The time of collection of that book was also during the time of Hezekiah.

But it really focuses on worship in the sanctuary and a lot in there about the temple and whatnot. And, of course, that would correspond to the book of Leviticus, which was all about temple worship and animal sacrifices and all those things. And then Book 4 would be Psalm 90 to Psalm 106.

and the time in which those were collected was during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. And that talks about the earthly pilgrimage, the walk that we have with the Lord as we go throughout life. And, of course, that would correspond to the book of Numbers, which talks a lot about Israel's wilderness wanderings.

and ultimately her experience in relationship to that. Well, then we come to Book 5, which is from 107 to 150. And once again, the time of collection there of those books was the time of Ezra and Nehemiah.

The theme of those is largely about the Word of God. And, of course, that would correspond to Deuteronomy, which was the second giving of the law. I'm not a huge fan of that kind of division of the book of Psalms, but many people are.

And you'll see that mentioned, and I just wanted to toss that out there in case you run across that. Well, the theme of the book of Psalms is the revelation of God's glorious person, and the heart's response to him. So what do we have in Psalms?

A revelation of God's glorious person, and then we have how the heart responds to the revelation of God. of that glorious person. So we see God, we see the heart response to God, and that's really the theme of the book.

That's what this book is about. And so it's preeminently a book of personal communion with God. And so if you're struggling with how do I talk to God, how do I pray to God, what should I think of God, what should I think of myself?

Well, you just read these Psalms, and you'll get the answers to all those questions. I have a key verse of the book of Psalms that I'm going to throw out there. And the key verse that I think really captures the whole book is Psalm 18 and verse 46.

Psalm 18, 46 says, The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock. and let the God of my salvation be exalted. And, you know, interestingly, this is WB7MX.

Interestingly, when I was a young believer, I was reading the book of Psalms, and I came across Psalm 1846. And I thought, that's my life verse. That verse is going to define who I am and what I'm all about for the rest of my life.

And I have it up on the wall of my house. I was saved when I was 17. I probably came across this when I was 18 or so.

And it's always been a very precious passage. because the Lord lives. That's the declaration of fact.

Blessed be my rock. That's who he is. He's the source of stability in my life.

And then let the God of my salvation be exalted. That's what my life's dedicated to, is exalting the God of my salvation. Of course, salvation...

is what we have experienced, and it's what we're praising God for, and it's what we live for through our Lord Jesus. So anyway, that is a brief introduction to the book of Psalms, and I hope it gives you some perspective on what we're going to be plunging into as we study this book together. All right, this is WB7MAX.

What we want to do now... is we want to read Psalm 1, and then we want to talk about it. So I'll just go ahead and read it since I'm all keyed up here.

Psalm 1, beginning at verse 1, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.

His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

to the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish alright this is WB7 in the X-Net control for the West Coast Bible study any comments on the introduction or on Psalm 1 please come down to the call line Roger WB7VZL please go ahead Thank you so much, Max, for your personal favorite text. I've got it marked here with a noted story. And yes, the organization of the book, the survey...

I really, really appreciated your sweep for us today. WB, sound reasonable. Yeah, Roger, you bet.

There's nothing like the book of Psalms to get my heart relationship with God going again after it gets a little cold and dull or after I've fallen into sin or whatever. What a precious book. Thank you, Roger.

Any other comments? Please come down. KB7 ZXN.

I think I heard Kevin KB7 ZXN. Go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, thank you, Max.

And I agree. Wonderful introduction. You covered a lot of ground with it and really set the good foundation for what we'll be looking at for a period of time here and looking into.

And with that, you know, Psalm 1. and one and two are congruent with that. You know, it's no accident that Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 are where they are positioned at the beginning of the book.

And as you mentioned, you know, some are without attribution who to, though Many scholars believe it is likely David that penned Psalm 1 and 2. And the indications are early that Psalm 1 and 2 were written as one literary unit. But it's really such a powerful and wonderful way to be the gate, if you will, the gateway into all the psalms that we'll be reading, all the different psalms that we'll be reading and looking at going forward.

It's really the lens that we look through to consider as we go through these psalms. And we see here the contrast of... two men and two paths.

You know, in life, we have a choice. We have choice. God gives us volition.

And with that volition, we have choices to make. And with those choices are responsibilities and consequences. And here we see the...

the anathetical nature of those two paths, they do not coexist together. And we see this also reflected kind of as 1:1 and 2 in Acts 13:33 there, and as it's really cited, if you will. One of the things I just want to begin with, focus on, is the first word of the text here is blessed is the man.

Blessed, the word here has such a really kind of a deep meaning. I think that it adds perspective as we go forward too. And the blessed here really gives a picture of a man with peace and well-being.

You know, and what a... What a desirable place to be in our life is to be where there is peace and well-being, where we're at peace with God, where our spirit is at peace, and our relationships are at peace and well-being. So this is the premise that this text begins with, is peace and well-being is the man.

Blessed is the man. But anyway, thank you for that wonderful introduction, Max. KB7 is at XM.

Yeah, Kevin, great comments. I appreciate what you said about the book of Psalms, Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 being the lens for the rest of the book. Now, most of us here, because we're old folk, wear eyeglasses.

I'm wearing eyeglasses right now, and I have a right lens and I have a left lens. And you need both to be able to see, right? And sometimes the prescription for your right eye is going to be different than your left eye.

That's certainly the case with me now. since I had cataract surgery in my left eye. And so what you have in Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 is the right lens and the left lens, through which we look at the entire rest of the book, because the theme of Psalm 1 is the Word of God, and the theme of Psalm 2 is the Son of God.

And so our attitude towards the Word of God, Psalm 1, and our attitude towards the Son of God, Psalm 2, then provide us with a perspective or lens, to use Kevin's words, with which to view the entire rest of the book of Psalms, and indeed the entire rest of the Bible, right? If your perspective on the Word of God is right, and your perspective on the Son of God is right, then you're going to understand all the rest of the Bible. But if we don't get Psalm 1 right and we don't get Psalm 2 right, we're in big trouble.

And so these two Psalms are like the right pillar and the left pillar in the temple. They hold everything up, and they provide the structure for everything, not only in the rest of the book of Psalms but in the rest of the Bibles. So, Kevin, I really appreciate you pointing that out.

All right. Any other comments, please come down. WB7VZL.

Thank you. Roger, please go ahead. Yeah, thank you.

I like that too, Kevin. And thanks for underscoring it, Matt. I've got it marked here.

Over. Yeah, copy that. All right, real good.

Kevin also mentioned the two paths that are mentioned there in Psalm 1. He talks about the blessed man, verse 1, and then verse 4, the ungodly. So we've got two categories of folks here walking two different paths.

And those two different paths are based on who are they listening to and who are they following? All right. Any other comments on this chapter, or pardon me, on this psalm, Psalm 1?

Please go ahead. That would be several reasons. Roger.

Please go ahead. Yes, I noticed this person in Psalm 1, the Blessed Man, is not distracted. I don't think he had a cell phone that dings on him.

Unless it was the dinging of the Word of God. He meditates silently. day and night.

So he is dedicated, not distracted. Over. Dedicated, not distracted.

I love that terminology. That is so good. We need to be dedicated, not distracted.

Well, everybody wants our ear, don't they, Rodgers? Everybody wants our eyes. Everybody wants our attention.

And everyone wants our mind. And so we see that there's a source of information we need to cut off, and there's a source of information that we need to expose ourselves to. So Psalm 1, blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, doesn't stand in the way of sinners, and doesn't sit in the seat of the scornful.

Now, verse 1 is just describing the voice, the collective voice of unsaved people who are living in rebellion against God. So the ungodly are those who are not like God in their morals, in their values, in their motives, and in their conduct. And then standing in the way of sinners, a sinner is someone who is constantly violating the law of God.

And then, of course, we don't sit in the seat of the scornful. Scornful people are people who mock and make light of the scriptures, of Christians, of the church, of Jesus. And these are the people that we need to not listen to.

And so it's something that we get exposed to incidentally as we live in this world. But it's not something we turn our attention to and it's not something we willfully spend time involved in. And so you've got the ungodly trying to counsel us.

Well, here's the way. Walk you in it. Live like the Hollywood stars, right?

Live like the billionaires. Seek material wealth. Seek fame.

Seek sensuality and sexual immorality. And so there's all those voices out there trying to draw us away from Christ and trying to entice us into... if you will, Babylon into this world and all that it offers and all that it promises, which, of course, is all vanity of vanities, right, as you read Ecclesiastes.

You know, Solomon tried all of that and declared how empty it all was. But, yeah, there's these powerful voices calling out to us and trying to draw us into their way of thinking, into their way of speaking, into their way of acting. And there's some interesting verbs here in verse 1.

Walking and standing and sitting. And the idea is that of spending time with, if you walk... in the council of the ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful.

And the idea is that you're choosing to remain under this kind of influence. And so we've got, of course, the Internet. We've got the entertainment industry.

We've got, you know, all the political voices. We've got the movies and the radio and all of these voices. The question is, are you lingering under the influence of those voices?

Are you actually choosing to spend that amount of time listening to these folks and being under their influence? It's not the way to be blessed. And if you're going to be a blessed man, you choose not only what you expose yourself to, but you also choose what you don't expose yourself to.

So use this as a filter as you're listening or watching or... in the presence of influencers say well are these ungodly people are these sinners are these scornful folk well maybe I need to just pack my bags and walk right on out of here and not spend time exposing myself to Psalm 1 and verse 1 type folk and type influence alright WP7MX here back to all of you anybody else have a comment please come now Brian, K-7 VIP, go ahead. Thank you.

Very well said, Brian. Yeah, somebody doesn't have to be overtly evil in order to have a bad influence on us. Like you said, they could be nice folk, but their world view...

is that of darkness and it's that of departure from God and His will and ways. And so, you know, we have to select our friends. I mean, the Bible says evil companions corrupt big morals.

And the Bible says elsewhere, you know, he that walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools will be destroyed. So what are you going to expose yourself to? Well, you can expose yourself to people...

who are fundamentally in enmity against God, verse 1, or you can expose yourself to the Bible and those who are teaching you and telling you the Bible, verse 2, because the blessed man avoids some things, but he self-consciously chooses other things, verse 2. His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law does he meditate day and night. So his mind is constantly filled with the perspective that the Word of God provides on every aspect of life.

So whether it's your marriage, whether it's your work, whether it's your moral choices. whether it's how you spend your time, what kind of ministry you do, how you do the ministry. All of those things need to be guided by the Word of God.

So what we need to do when we're facing any thought or anything we're thinking about saying or anything we're thinking about doing, our first filter that we put that through is what does the word of God have to say about that? And so, you know, to the law and to the testimony, if I'm not thinking or speaking according to that, then I'm operating in darkness. So that's the lens, that's the filter.

We don't listen to what the ungodly say. We do listen to what the Bible says. And we...

we put everything to the test, the scriptures, as it says in 1 Thessalonians 5, prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. And so this is why the Bible is a big book, and we need to constantly meditate in it. If you've got a choice between watching a Hollywood movie...

or sitting down and reading your Bible, well, turn off the movie and open your Bible and read it and be thinking about it. When you get up in the morning, all throughout the day, you lie down at night and thinking about what does the Bible say? And even when you're driving down the road, You can meditate on a verse you know or a passage that you have read or remembered.

And so you're constantly saturating your mind with the Bible. And you're right, Brian. There's a lot of people who are nice folk, but they're never going to lead us toward God's word and God's truth.

They're only going to lead us away from it. We have to be aware of that. All right.

Any other comments on this psalm? Please come now. Is that acceptable?

Okay, thank you, Roger, for that relay. Kevin, KB7 is at XM. Please go ahead.

Yeah, man, it's kind of tough, but thank you, Roger. And wonderful comments and thoughts all the way around. You know, I'm just considering the three things.

that a blessed man avoids. And boy, what an important thing to start with and to have in perspective too, because it's like a stair step down to a very bad outcome. And he mentions, of course, the wicked, the sinners, and the scoffers.

And we see that too. And then the counsel of God. those that to avoid as well and as you point out to walk to stand and to sit and i think too one of the pictures that comes to my mind too is the wicked you know it's they're going to try to influence your thinking uh the sinners they're going to influence your choices The scoffers, which the book of Proverbs has a lot to say about and are among the most dangerous because they are actively attacking the things of God, the ways of God, the word of God, the people of God.

And the scoffers are going to try to capture your heart. So every one of these is a stair step down to a very bad outcome and an eternal failure. separation lest you repent and turn toward God but there is good reason why the blessed man as a blessed man we should avoid these three categories of people kb7 is that example Yeah, Kevin, well said.

And what a difference in outcomes folks have depending upon the choices they make. We can be like the tree planted by the rivers of water, brings forth its fruit in its season. Its leaf also shall not wither, whatever it does shall prosper.

We can be like the chaff which the wind drives away and will be burned up in the day of judgment. And so verse 6 really summarizes the whole psalm. The Lord knows the way of the righteous, that's path number one.

But the way of the ungodly shall perish, that's path number two. And the difference between... the righteous and the ungodly is who are they listening to?

Are they listening to the world or are they listening to the word of God? The one has stability and fruitfulness and endurance and perseverance. The other is light and frivolous and passing and of no lasting consequence.

You know, when you think of a piece of straw blowing alongside the road, and then you see an oak tree that's been standing alongside that same road for the last 150 years, that's the contrast between the life of the godly person who meditates in the Scriptures, learns versus the person who is filled with the vanity of the world and their life amounts to nothing because none of it was invested for the Lord and in fact it was invested in rebellion against the Lord. All right, we are way out of time, but this psalm is a wonderful psalm. Verses 1 to 3 talk about the blessed man.

Verses 4 to 5 talk about the wicked man. And then verse 6 is the summary. All right, time for us to go to prayer.

Do we have any prayer requests before Jerry leads us to prayer? Please come down with your callsign. Roger, please go ahead.

had a wonderful Father's Day visit with Candy from Kenya. And the Lord is blessing our prayers, I can tell you. It was a wonderful visit.

Go ahead, Max. Yeah, praise the Lord for that. Glad things are going well with Candy and May there in Kenya.

And we've got them on our list and we are praying for them. So thank you for that, Roger, WB7BZL. Good report.

They're there. Things are going well. that's a good report all right any other prayer requests please come now all right Jerry 87 er go ahead and close in prayer for us please He was a police chief with the 85 wife, healing from his head surgery after an accident.

One, KJ7, W, healing from a broken neck, healing for his wife, Vicky, turning. Roger, W, December. that Andy and Ray are in pain, and we pray for success and ministry among their deaths.

We also pray for students, students and researchers I'm going to yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the doctors figure out what the problem is. He's showing us that the crazy cat has come. Well, the devil's coming from the CGI.

See, the two of them are the same. Haley is his mom's girlfriend. And what did you ask for him for his father's phone number?

See, what did you say the one you're calling? Mr. Harriot?

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Oh, so good, sir. and We're going to use the bracer by the. Sir, take me to 6-Q.

I'm searching for. First, I have to diagnose the. He is the one MRI.

10-837-230, using the person on stage 2 immediately. 30 seconds. - - - So, maybe I can move away from the mini-inch to a much better, you know, to get the correct heart rate.

207-GIT. Pressure gauge. T-mode oxygen sensor and non-radiation treatment.

The radiation treatment for a 7-mode catamount pad for a 10-mode. 27-GIT. U-intake.

Thank you. Adrian, you know, he's the only person that I forget to say that I'm doing anything. But, you know, this person was thankful and he thought that they had to get it done.

So, I think that's the best thing. Keep us open, okay? Keep our focus on this.

Help us to live a life Amen, Jerry. Thank you so much for the prayer. This is WB7MX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study.

I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning. as well as those who stood by 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 to our lives, and to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learned. and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship. I'll be returning this frequency now to regular amateur use.

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That silence was, in a sense, symbolic of thinking about Beck, isn't it? I'm sure blessed to have received the message from you, and it sounds like the Lord, in His mercy, is restoring our friend. Yes, he is.

I was able to visit with him yesterday and he's now been moved out of ICU, down onto the regular room. He'll still be there for a few more days, but definitely headed in the right direction. He can see out of one eye.

The other eye is fine, it's just swollen shut, right? He's got massive bruising, obviously, in his forehead and nasal area. So he's able to pry one eye open and can see, and the other one will open as time goes on.

And so he's happy and, I mean, he's in pain, right? Don't get me wrong. Got a real positive attitude, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

Looking forward to the Lord's healing. And yeah, that silence is like ordinary effects piping in there with the joke of the day, enlightens all of our hearts. And we sure miss that guy.

And looking forward to having him back again one of these days, as the Lord wills. But things are going well. And headed in the right direction.

No signs of any long-term complications at this point. So we're praising the Lord for that. Didn't see any brain swelling or any of that stuff.

So, yeah, praise the Lord. What a terrible accident. What a gracious recovery.

And looking forward to the day when we get back to key up. and talk to us again. Roger, back to you.

Yes, and he can personally share his testimony of how the Lord in his testing preserved him. I heard rumors that I think it was from Javi that he was a--it could have been so much, much worse. But, uh...

Anyway, we'll look forward to the day when we can hear him tell his side of the story directly. Some of you have already heard it, of course, and have talked to him. But, yeah, that was an amazing shock for us.

Yeah, I've got another story. Yeah, go ahead. You mentioned Psalm 90, being with Moses from Moses' hand, and I appreciate you mentioning that because it has a special place in my memory regarding our trip to Kenya.

We were on one of the many camps in Matamara where you observe the game and you know observe an incredible expanse of that reserve. But there's camps surrounding those just outside the preserve. And at one of the camps, we were just leaving, and I was talking with one of the employers, an employee, excuse me, named Phillip.

And we were talking about his Christian orientation that I picked up and found out that he was a lay preacher. in one of the Maasai churches in the area. And then I met his friend right next to him, and his name was Moses.

He hardly spoke any English, and he was relying upon Philip to translate. for him and at that point I had my little pocket message Bible maybe Jeff is listening since he uses the message to the commentary and I said Did you know, Moses, and Philip was helping, that you have a psalm, a Moses psalm? How do you sue that out?

And it just seemed to be a connection. And I told it, I pointed it out in the Bible, but we were in a rush to go, and of course we had a group of us, and so I was disappointed. that I didn't get to read it for him.

And so the group knew I was going to read it to him, but then we couldn't. Now, this is the story. When we were leaving the camp, we get a call about five minutes away No, I think what happened was that I wanted to turn around and read it to him.

You know, I was disappointed. We don't have time. Well, we'll get a call going down the road, and our...

Our truck, Jeep driver, picks up his phone and finds out that Sarah, our Kenyan host, female, who in her own right, she was the one that actually graduated from Walla Walla College and bonded with my in-laws. Okay? Sarah, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. was notified by this call that she had left her computer in the tent, the house tent. And so we had to go back.

We had to go back. And that was a shock. In fact, the the driver that we hired to take us around Masamara, he said, you know, this is a very highly unusual experience to have somebody that's honest enough to call us about a computer that's missing.

That usually doesn't happen. We go back. I read the psalm.

And that's when we connected about donating these Bibles to Philip's lay church congregation. And then Candy connected with him again. and they want more.

Well, what else is new? Like Jeff's two and a half billion Bibles. Anyway, that's a long story, but God works through these amazing connections.

And the fact that Moses was there There was a psalm written by Moses. Did you know that a psalm was written by Moses? You know, you're namesake here.

So, I mean, to get his attention, and then Philip reveals that he has a need, and we were able to easily meet 25 Bibles. I mean, what's $250 for people that are traveling on the other side of the world to get there? I mean, that's just minuscule.

Back to you, Max. Yeah, Roger, what a great story. And you see how God's providence works so that God's work gets done whether people intend it or not.

You know, that lost laptop was what God used in order to create that opening and that opportunity to get those audio Bibles to those people. And had he not gone that call and had you not gone back, that door of opportunity wouldn't have opened. And so it's amazing how a negative event like, oh, I lost my laptop.

was exactly designed by God to bring about a positive outcome. And I think it's a great lesson, Roger, that when something bad happens, like, you know, I flew in from New Jersey late Saturday night, right? And I've got to not only get up Sunday morning and do the ham radio Bible study, but then I've got to teach Sunday school, I've got to lead worship, and I've got to preach because my pastor's sick, right?

and I'm thinking man I need to get home and I need to review my notes and I need to get ready for the hand Bible study and I need to go to bed well guess what I get about five miles outside the airport on high-speed freeway and I get a flat tire on my car So I had to pull over and long story short, it took me an extra two hours to get home. And I'm thinking to myself, of all the times where I'm pressed for time, it's the worst possible time that I would have to lose another couple of hours. because of this event.

And yet, you know, it was part of God's plan. And as I look back on it, I can't figure out why, but I know God had a reason, and I know there was a purpose. And who knows what that is?

The only remarkable thing that happened to that is, you know, I get out of my car right now, open the trunk, and I'm starting to get my tools out and, you know, get the spare tire out. And a couple of young guys, good-looking young guys, probably 25, pull over. And they come running up to me and they say, you know, do you need any help?

And it's like, how incredibly unusual that someone would stop along a high-speed freeway to help somebody who has a flat tire, right? And I said, "You know, I really appreciate it. I think I got all the tools I need.

I just need to go through the process, but thank you." He said, "Okay." You know, they jump back in their car and they drive off. You know, I don't know their names. I will never see them again as far as I know.

But, you know, as they drove off, I thought to myself, you know, God was just really showing me that he's taking care of me by providing help if I needed it. And I thought to myself, I bet those two guys were Christians. We didn't interact that long.

I mean, you know, when I said that I had it covered, they said, okay, well, all right, we'll go ahead and leave then. And I said, fine, thank you so much for stopping. So there was that little interaction with two guys I would have never met otherwise.

Don't know what that meant. but I do know that God was saying to me that I can provide help for you anytime you need. And he just said, as it were, a couple of his angels there just checked up on me and made sure I was doing well.

So, you know, Roger, as providences unfold, you know, we look for God's purpose in them. Sometimes it's like we see it really clearly like you did. Right.

in this situation. Sometimes, you know, it's about someone else or something else, and we never see what that is. But there's nothing random.

All those things are planned, and so this morning, when I hang up the microphone here, Got to go into town, get my flat tire fixed, and, you know, get my day started. So anyway, Roger, thanks for sharing that providential event and how God used a negative circumstance to bring about a super positive result. Back to you there, Roger.

Thank you for sharing your story. Yeah, I think those guys worked. at least in quotes angel to for them to stop that was amazing you know you know usually you'll stop by for you know a lady is in need of help yeah that was unusual I would say that God I was telling you that even though you you Basically, your time is so precious and you're maximized.

Yeah, Kathy gave us a hint on your schedule lately, and especially with the Job experience of your dear pastor that we're praying for. Oh my, and then what you have been called to do, Lily, is just amazing. Oh, incredible.

And what was kind of shocking about the story back in Kenya was this lady, Sarah, didn't even know she had left her laptop. She didn't even know. And so it just worked well because everybody knew I was disappointed that I didn't get to interact more with this new Christian that Philip was, I think, hanging around.

Or he didn't know English very well. And what is interesting is that you can get Swahili Bibles. But to get Messiah Bibles, you know, with their native nuances, with their native tongues, that's a little bit more challenging.

So that's where I think God says that, you know, that church, needs the Messiah Bible. Oh, right. Yeah, amen.

Well, you know, God built this kingdom. You know, Jesus said, upon this rock, I will build my church. And so Jesus is doing the building.

The church belongs to him. And he recognizes that, wow, These Maasai people, they need a Bible. I'll send Roger over there.

I'll create a lost laptop. I'll cause a phone call to happen. I'll speak to it.

This church gets these Bibles. And, you know, that's the wonderful thing about the work we do, Roger, is that, you know, we have someone with a capital F. We have someone who is supervising the work, organizing and orchestrating the work, and making sure that every part of it is properly supplied, even though we down here in the trenches don't see that big picture and don't see what he's doing and how it's all working out.

So I'm just glad that we have, if you will, a CEO who is managing the work of his kingdom, the activities of his service, and the unfolding of providences, so that everything that needs to get done is accomplished and his people become saved and the church continues to grow. and is preserved and accomplishes His glory and His purposes. So it's really nice to be under the divine sovereign leadership of an infinitely wise and an infinitely good Lord who is running the show, our Lord Jesus.

Back to you Roger. Yes, beautiful, beautiful summary.