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All right. For those of you who have already checked in, we are in All right, the net would like to acknowledge Peter, KJ7B8. Good morning, Peter.

See you there on the Utah SDR. Glad to have you with us. And Peter came back with a good morning to everyone.

So good morning to you, Peter. Thank you for being there. Appreciate those greetings.

All right. Any other check-ins, please come down. Thank you.

Thank you. All right, we've got about two minutes to go before we start the West Coast Barlow Study. Are there any more check-ins to the West Coast Barlow Study?

Please come down with your call, sir. WB7VZL here. There's Roger, WB7VZL.

Good morning, Roger. Good to have you with us. How you doing?

I'm doing quite amazingly. Had a wonderful, wonderful contact, gospel-oriented contact with Austin yesterday at Les Schwab. Just a beautiful testimony about how through the Spirit of God, his wife, through reading the Word of God, became personally accepting of our Lord Jesus.

It was just really precious. But what I was invigorated to this morning is reading Acts chapter 4, which is such a marvelous quotation of our psalm for today, Psalm 2. So anyway, that story of Peter and John and putting that quotation of Psalm 2 in there, Luke did, over.

Yeah, copy that. Well, Psalm 2 is quoted six times in the New Testament, twice in Acts, twice in Hebrews, and twice in Revelation. It's one of the most quoted psalms, it's not the most quoted, Psalm 110 is the most quoted, but it's quoted a bunch, and every time it is specifically applied to the Lord Jesus.

So, yes, this is a very precious psalm, a Messianic psalm. Remember we talked about the categories of psalms. Well, this is a Messianic psalm.

and it tells us a great deal about the Lord Jesus. A lot of our theology about Christ is gotten from the book of Psalms, in these Messianic Psalms. So, Roger, I'm so glad that you had a chance to have fellowship with Austin and hear about his wife coming to faith in Christ.

That is great. Okay, Roger, that would be some of these. We've got you checked in.

Any other check-ins before we get started? Please come down. All right, Jerry, AE70R, I'd like to ask you to read Psalm 2 when the time comes.

Can you do that for me? Good, Tom. Thank you, Jerry.

Appreciate that. Alright, so we got our readers and our prayers all lined out. We're going to get started with the West Coast Bible study.

We are proceeding through the book of Psalms. We just started yesterday. And we gave a bit of an introduction to the book of Psalms yesterday.

And as we said then, Psalm 1 and Psalm 2... both serve as an introduction to the book of Psalms. And together they emphasize the two fundamental issues that every person has to face and deal with.

And that is, first of all, Psalm 1, what is my attitude toward the Word of God? Is it my final authority? Do I walk in the counsel of the world, or do I walk in the counsel of the Word?

Do I listen to the scorners, or do I listen to the Scriptures? Do I meditate day and night in the Word of God, or do I allow myself to be consumed with the words of the ungodly? Well, the answer to those questions is going to determine the blessedness or the emptiness of your life.

It will determine the fruitfulness. Are you going to be like a tree planted by the rivers of living water, or the futility of your life? Are you going to be like chaff that's driven before the wind?

Well, that was yesterday, Psalm 1. And now today we come to Psalm 2. And this is the second fundamental issue every person has to face.

Not only what is my attitude towards the Word of God, but what is my attitude towards the Son of God? Because Psalm 2 is all about Jesus. Do I view Jesus as an oppressor to be cast off or as a king to be obeyed?

to the Son of God, to the Lord Jesus. And the reason why we know that is because not only does the content talk about God's begotten Son, but this psalm is quoted six times in the New Testament. And every time it's directly applied to the Lord Jesus as being prophetic of him and the reaction that people would have to him.

Even today, people rage against Jesus. Other people kiss his feet. And those are the two reactions.

So what we see in Psalm 2 is a challenge to every reader to have an attitude of submission and trust toward the Lord Jesus if they're going to know his blessing rather than his judgment. So in Psalm 1, we saw the blessed man is the one who rejects the counsel of the ways of the ungodly and who delights in the law of the Lord. In Psalm 2, we see the blessed man is the one who submits to the Son of God and trusts in him as Lord and Savior.

And so we have in these two Psalms contrasts between those who are blessed and those who are under the wrath of God. So anyway, it's really important for us to understand these contrasts and these calls to submit to the Word of God and submit to the Son of God. We liken these two Psalms to eyeglasses, the right lens and the left lens.

And as we look out through the perspective of Psalm 1 and through the perspective of Psalm 2, we can then rightly view all the rest of the book of Psalms. All right. That is a little introduction to Psalm 2.

We want to read this Psalm, but before we do, Mike, W7TWO is going to open a prayer for us, and then we'll have Jerry read. All right, Mike, W7TWO, please go ahead and open a prayer for us today. Well, good morning everyone.

This is W7CW. Let's go to the center of the topic first. Thank you Father for who you are.

Thank you for what you're doing. what you've done on the cross and also what you've done on the rise. I pray for us this morning and for our hearts, so you hear our moans.

And may I pray for us, for our souls, for our healing, you send say thank you for the opportunity to do this on the air and we pray for all of us who are together here this morning around us we pray this and I love you we pray for the Lord amen amen Mike thank you so much for that prayer. Really appreciate that a lot. All right, Jerry, if you could read for us Psalm 2, I would appreciate that.

Go ahead, brother. Hi. Why are the nations in an uproar and the people devising a vain thing?

The king of the earth takes their stand, and the rulers take counsel together. against the Lord and against his anointed family. Let us tear their presence apart and cast their cords free.

Jesus sits in the heaven's lap. The Lord stops the king. Then he will speak to them in his anger and terrify them in his spirit and in his heart.

Back to you, 8E7Yer. Jerry, thank you for that reading. Really appreciate that.

All right, Psalm 2. Any comments on this psalm, please come down to call for it. Brian, KJ7PWM, go ahead.

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I sure agree with that. You know, it's such a foolish thing to rebel against God. You know, when you look at the benevolence of God's rule, He takes very good care of His children.

And when you look at the power of God's will, rule, you realize that rebellion against Him is folly. Because, you know, why would you rebel against a good God, and why would you think you could ever succeed in rebelling against a powerful God? And so God looks at this rebellion and He laughs.

I mean, this is like a chipmunk shaking his fist at an elephant. You know, it's just the height of folly. And so yes, God laughs, God scorns, God mocks those who would even think that they could successfully break His bands of thunder and cast His cords from them.

KB7ZXN. KB7ZXN, Kevin, go ahead. Yeah, very good.

KB7ZXN. Yeah, you're exactly right, Max. These, you know, the radio going off here.

Yeah, you know, this psalm is, again, is connected to one or two of the ancient rabbis that always connect them together, read them together. And so, because we see the same blessed man that is blessed by the law concludes a blessed in the Lord in the Son of God and as we come into this here too the first question that is asked by the psalmist is why do the nations rage against God and it's interesting that word rage in the Hebrew is the same word that's used as meditate it's a deep deep setting if you will it's a deep rooted fixation and where the blessed man is is deeply rooted in in meditating on the on the law of god the the nation's surrounding are deeply rooted in the hostility toward god And we see this has not changed at all. And this is, you know, not just a passive hostility, but, you know, they strategize, they work to plan and scheme to destroy.

And another consideration here, too, as he's talking about how they're fixated on, against him David the in one sense David but this this home goes far beyond and and is representative of the Messiah as we see because many times in the nations around Israel their their king was looked upon as the deity or representative deity if you will you know the Pharaohs and many others they looked at their King as deity but David did not look as himself as did here the people did not but he was God's anointed and by this them being hostile toward David was certainly an attack of Yahweh himself and we see I think this reflected also and those that sought to be hostile and kill Jesus himself. This same hostility to destroy the Son of God here that we see reflected in the psalm is the same hostility and rage that is reflected in the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin that wanted to destroy Christ. J.B.

Simmons, that example. Yeah, Kevin, and thank you for pointing out the meaning of that word rage and how deep-seated that is. And yes, because of human depravity, because of our fallen nature, the carnal mind, it says in Romans 5, 8 and verse 7 is enmity against God.

It's not subject to the law of God. Neither indeed can it be. So, you know, the question is, is where does all this hostility toward God come from?

Well, it comes out of the fallen, depraved human heart. that wants personal sovereignty and wants no accountability to any higher source of authority for its choices and for its behavior. And as you well pointed out, Kevin, you know, when he says here in the opening verse, or the second verse, the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together because they all thought they were gods.

And you remember that Pharaoh thought he was a god. And, you know, he could defy the true God. And Moses showed him the folly of that.

But he never gave up his rebellion until it destroyed him. And so the insanity of of this raging against God and this rebellion against God from the lowest people in society, you know, the heathen and the people in verse 1, to the highest people in society, the kings of the earth and the rulers, verse 2, All of them are fallen, depraved, rebellious, blinded, hostile toward God. And so it's kind of like an ocean wave throwing itself against a rocky cliff.

The wave never wins. The cliff just doesn't move. And in the same way when people rage against God and throw themselves against Him in anger...

They're just broken. And it's a foolish thing. It never works.

And yet the insanity of depravity is such that people continue to do it anyway. And so we look at them and we in one sense have compassion on them and in the other sense You know, we have the attitude of God towards them. What a fool you are to be rebelling against God.

All right, great comment, Kevin. Thank you for that. All right, any other comments?

Please come down. WB-70ZL. Roger, WB-70ZL, go ahead.

Yeah, thank you, Kevin. And this, I'm still pondering. this quote and what they chose to quote from Psalm 2 and the section that was highlighted by the comments are exactly what is highlighted in verse 25 of Acts 4.

"Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples devise futile things? And the kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against them." And And so Peter and John highlight that this is a providential experience in verse 27. Thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, O Herod.

and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel. So whatever thy hand and thy purpose predestined to occur. It kind of reminds me of Daniel chapter 9, verses 24 through 27, where it talks about...

the covenant of Jesus and what he would accomplish, and then those that would try to interfere with the covenant. And it's useless, putting the verse 27 over it, Yeah, well said. And that is one of two quotes in the book of Acts in which Psalm 2 is quoted and applied to the Lord Jesus and to exactly what's going on.

And, you know, that's one reason why we know the Bible is the word of God is because what it says about people and circumstances and how things are going to go is exactly the way it goes. and is king of kings and lord of lords and all they did was harm themselves by attempting to harm the son of God so Roger thank you for pointing out that passage in Acts chapter 4 and their analysis of what just happened to them when the king's told them, as it were, quit preaching in the name of Jesus. And they said, no, we're going to obey God rather than man.

And we knew this was coming. We read about this in Psalm 2. And so we're just going to pray that God carries out what he has said he will do, and that is break them with the rod of iron and subdue them under his authority.

If they won't respond to his gracious invitation, then they will come under his ramp and his rod. Good comment, Roger. Other comments?

Please come down. I think that was Brian. Go ahead there, Brian.

Okay, negative. Call sign, come again, please. Yeah, KD7ES.

Okay, that's Eric, KD7ES. Go ahead Eric, I had a static crash. Yeah, no worries.

Hey, um, I'm just, you know, I was reading through this and this is my operation here, and it kind of almost can be broken down in 30 connections in a way. Um, the zone kind of starts out with the zone was, um, you know, observing the kings and the powers and rulers trying to break their bands asunder and cast away their courts from us. And I kind of take that as, well, we're higher than that.

And, um... we don't want anybody, any God or anyone ruling over us because we're above that. And so you see the psalmist kind of talking about that.

And then when you see verse 5, it says, Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sword and his pleasure. And so the psalmist is saying, hey, God is about to speak. and then in verse 6 he says, "Yes, and I set my King upon my holy hill." So you see God the Father saying, "I am setting my King upon my holy hill of Zion no matter what you do." And then he says, it goes on and says, "I will declare the decree." And so the father is saying, I will declare the decree.

And then it's the son quoting what God the Father would say to Jesus when he was walking on the earth. He said, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. and then the father comes back and says, after me, I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost portion of the earth.

Well, I said, that's good. and then he goes on to say thou shalt break them with a rod and then it ends with the psalmist kind of saying hey be wise now therefore you can't be instructed be judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling and so my observation you see the psalmist observing these things and then you see the fathers be equal to the son's speech and then the psalmist says take heed be wise and serve the Lord that's kind of my observation yeah it's spot on Eric well said that's exactly what's going on here we've got the kings of the earth and then God has his king And we have the kings of the earth rebelling, and we have God's king, the Lord Jesus, exercising authority. And so really what you have here is competition between kings.

Who is going to be king? The kings of the earth say, we're king, we're the final authority. We will not have this man to rule over us.

And God laughs and says, "No, that isn't how it's going to go. I've set my king at the head of my kingdom." The Holy Hill of Zion here is a reference to, of course, Jerusalem, where Jesus was enthroned. These people want to be rulers themselves.

So we've got Caiaphas and Annas and Pilate saying, "You know, we're the king." And God says, "No, my son's the king." And so the question is, is what king is going to prevail? And of course, there is no question Jesus is going to prevail. And those who don't submit to him as king fall under his rod and under his wrath.

And that's a foolish, foolish course of action to go in. You know, and the amazing thing is, is when we submit to Jesus as king, as the king of our life, what a benevolent, wonderful ruler. You know, a lot of us don't like the politicians that rule over us now.

because they're wicked and they're selfish and they're oppressive and they're foolish and they do things to harm us but our king the lord jesus is not like that his rule is wise it's kind it's benevolent it's generous it's just and we just flourish under his rules And so, you know, not only is it foolish to rebel because it's not going to be successful, it's foolish to rebel because we're throwing away our own blessing that we could have. Will we submit to his rule and to his reign? Great comment there, Eric.

Thank you for that. All right, another comment. Please come down.

Thank you. Copy that. Is that XM?

Roger. Please go ahead. Yeah.

I felt it, but now I see it in the margin reference. Daniel 9, 24 and following is in the reference with this quote of Psalm 2. They're right together.

And then another passage is Acts 10, 38, which we know and you know very well. You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. For God was with him.

Certainly, Psalm 2 highlights that designation, and this is the confirmation passage. For sure. Over.

Yeah, Roger, well said. And what we see is Jesus acting as a king when he has authority over Satan and his demons. And we see him exercising that rule of authority in that no demon could ever resist him.

No demon ever succeeded in rebelling against him. And indeed when Satan himself showed up in Matthew chapter 4 and tried to tempt him, he went down to defeat as well. And so we see Jesus defeating Satan and his demons.

We see Jesus defeating the people who were trying to rebel against him and mock him and scorn him and even the civil authorities who ultimately tried to crucify him. and the fulfillment of the good news. But then Paul, as he expresses that great good news of the resurrection and the witnesses of many as they came up from Galilee, but he points again to the second song and today...

moment in time but we will see there will be a great battle against Jerusalem and in times as well against those the king of kings and of course Jesus will no doubt win that battle as well but uh yeah this this is uh one of the ways i see uh those messianic jews if you will those jews that have been uh brought saved by the grace of god one of their most ways they will witness to other Jews is by looking into the second psalm especially of course Isaiah 53 and 55 which is often omitted from the rabbinic studies. But they really come, not only in, of course, Psalm 22, but they really start looking into Psalm 2, and it's impossible to not see Jesus Christ in the light of the fulfillment of this text. KB7, is that acceptable?

Yes. Yes. Let me get my SDR turned off there.

Yeah, Kevin, real good. Yeah, you know, this business of thou art my son to stay have I begotten thee, and see how that's applied there in Acts chapter 13. It's interesting.

Jesus was begotten, of course, to life in the virgin birth. He was begotten to the priesthood, and he was begotten to the resurrection. And it's interesting how this phrase of him being begotten, of course, he's the eternal begotten son of God in eternity past.

And so this unique relationship between the father and the son is declared here. And there is a relationship, of course, of equality, but there's also a relationship of commission. The father sends the son to do a job.

And, of course, that job is that ultimately every knee would bow and every toe would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And this whole cosmic conflict that's being described here in Psalm 2 is ultimately, as you well said, Kevin, played out in Revelations. You know, in the final battle of Armageddon, when Antichrist and his transnational coalition set themselves against the returning Lord Jesus and think that they're going to go to war against Him, and in flaming fire, He comes and destroys them in an instant.

You know, there is no real battle of Armageddon, there's just a wipeout where Antichrist and his forces are instantaneously defeated by the Son of God and the word that goes out of his mouth. So yes, whether people are rebelling throughout history, whether they're rebelling in their personal lives, or whether there's this final eschatological rebellion that's going to take place in the end. They always fail.

Jesus always triumphs. And that's why he desisted in heaven's lab at the thought that these people would think that somehow they could ever succeed. In the end, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

All right, real good, Kevin. Thank you for that. Other comments, please come down.

We've got a B7AZL. Jeff, AK6OK. Jeff, see you there on the Utah SDR.

Thank you for being with us. All right. Any other calls, please come down.

Got with you, B7AZL. Roger. Please go ahead.

What was so beautiful about what we were able to see was the power of God changing a human heart and hearing about it at Leshawam. Just a serendipitous experience of seeing this dear woman who he had been... brought to and to see her surrendering to Jesus and the transformation and his testimony.

And so Psalm 2, as you say, was carried out in our own personal lives, all sorts of levels. Yeah, Roger, thank you for bringing up that real-life illustration of someone who stopped raging against the Lord and against his anointed, who stopped rebelling against the laws and the commands that he provided. It talks about bans in court.

Those are restraints. God's Word restrains us and commands us. And here's someone who, as it says in verse 10 and 11 and 12, that they served the Lord with fear, rejoiced with trembling, kissed the Son, and were blessed because they put their trust in Him.

phrase here interesting verse 12 kiss the son left to be angry the idea there is bowing down and kissing the feet of the of the key and that was the custom when you wanted to show obedience and you wanted to show loyalty and went so submission you would kiss the feet. And so that's the imagery that's being used here, is that we bow and we confess that Jesus is Lord. Well, that was like Austin's wife did that, and what an amazing testimony of God's power.

All right, well, this psalm is a psalm that describes the futility of rebellion and the blessedness of submission in verse 9 thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel you know my wife has a bunch of planters and you know I've got some rebar you know some 5 8 inch rebar out there in the shop and you know you think of picking up about a 4 foot piece of that setting one of the wife's clay pots up there on the driveway and just having a swing at the pot with the rebar And guess who's going to win? And so we're nothing but vessels of clay. And Christ is the eternal God.

Really no contest there. It's time to give up. It's time to give in.

It's time to submit. It's time to say, "Jesus, you are Lord. I'm not going to fight against you anymore." It's futile.

It's self-destructive. And it rots me of all of the blessings that I could have were I to submit myself to you, trust in you, and start serving you and know the blessings that come into my life from that. So that's really the challenge.

Where are you at? Are you trusting in Jesus or are you rebelling against Jesus? It's time to...

It's time to give up the rebellion and it's time to submit to and follow Jesus as Lord. All right, any final comments before we go to prayer? Please come down with your confidence.

Roger, please go ahead. I'm still amazed at the imagery. It's time to submit.

and powerful appeal. And they couldn't believe when the leaders of Israel were saying, no, you can't share Jesus' name. We're going to keep you to do that.

And of course, They said, well, are we going to obey you over obeying God? And here the man who had been 40 years of age, he was standing before them healed. And they couldn't deny what was happening.

Okay. to those who are still in rebellion. And that's why, you know, when you go from being a non-Christian to being a Christian, you go from being in rebellion to being in submission.

People who were formerly your friends now hate you. And people who formerly you didn't like, now you see, these are the people who are going to support me in my walk with Jesus and in my work and witness for Jesus. And so, yeah, The orientation of people towards you, you know, here we have, you know, the heathen raging and the people imagine a vain thing.

And the kings and the rulers setting themselves against the Lord. Well, guess what? They set themselves against all those who follow the Lord, too.

And so the question we have to ask is, you know, before we followed what the king said, we followed what the people said. and now we're following what Jesus says. And so that was the big question.

Are we going to obey God, or are we going to obey those that are rebellious against God? And that was the challenge of Psalm 2, Psalm 1, right? Are we going to listen to the Word of God, or are we going to listen to those who are in rebellion against God?

And so, yeah, Roger, the issue of authority is really the issue that is at stake in this psalm. Who rules? And whose rule am I going to submit myself to?

All right. I think we are about out of time. This is a great psalm.

It's very precious because we see the way it exalts Christ and the certainty of His triumph and victory over the kings of this world and the kingdoms of this world in Revelation chapter 11. It says, "The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His and Christ and his people who will shine as the stars forever. All right, Al is going to close in prayer for us today.

Before he does that, are there any final prayer requests? Please come down with any prayer requests you've got. Just a brief comment.

All right, Al, KJ7QQH, go ahead and close the paraforce today, please. Kevin had just one comment. Okay, I'm sorry, I didn't hear him.

Thank you for the relay. Roger, WB7VZL relay that Kevin, KB7ZX, has a call with Kevin. Please go ahead.

Yeah, just very briefly, and thank you for that great summary there. I think it encapsulates it well. I just want to make one point, too, and those hostiles, I think what's remarkable about as well as Paul, with Jesus Christ and receiving that gift of grace.

You know, as Romans 5, 8 reminds us that while we were yet sinners, God commanded his love toward us and, you know, saved us. yeah thanks for pointing out the example of paul that originally he was verses 1 and 2 and then later on he became verses 11 and 12. what a transformation of someone who is shaking his fist Thank you, Pastor Max.

Good morning, everyone. This is KJWQQH. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for today's lesson, and we learned it. Even though you gave us free will, we learned to do that the sooner we learned the futility of going and resisting that will, the better it will be for us to just conform to what will you have for us in our lives. We also want to thank you for your many blessings and that you will be pleased to answer our We're lifting him up a kilo-mic-five box-front for his DET scan to have him come in upon Thursday.

So the first off-day cancer, we have to do a little before him, and the heat of giving teeth and calm as he prepares for that coming up. We also lift up a voluntary KG-6 jet. who tells us that Mark and Jake and he's a B.

That's why Lauren travels for his group. He's got the Traveler season. And then you would be watching both of them go before them and say, go back.

We lift up our brother Jim and took BKB and his ministry as we serve him and as we do this spread there. And you would give out the word and as he fellowships with us, and then the skills he has received in the military to get through. For NNKJ7 UMW, for the healing of his broken neck, for healing with his white bikini tornia.

For Derek KD7BS, his 84 year old mom is having a pacemaker installed on July 15th. history of the deaf and we thank you lord for answering prayer from forget it with surgery pray for relief also pray for roger's fellowship to austin for his wife to come to christ This is the first nomination. We also have a set of daily news.

Prepare to go full school for it.... Earth direction, your direction is tight. and wisdom as they make their decisions.

But George came to OJS and went through that thyroid surgery and was successful in covering and prompting regulations that thyroid replacement problems and that although she is back in the hospital now for calcium level being off. We asked that he would interview there and allow them to see how to properly regulate that calcium level to her. That's what we did for Dr.

Max's class, for the chapter class. serious health problems for those kids and for the doctors to figure out what the problem is. We're currently establishing the big dental plan on the climate of G-Team.

For Cody, We pray for this building industry and the Idaho State Washington facility. And acknowledge your services for us. And for the services we have in the regional corrections facility in Idaho.

We also lift up our brother Keith, WBZSRKR, We pray for Betty, a widow for comfort and strength to witness after the loss of her husband. Also, my tribe, Sherry, who is suffering veneers disease, experiences thoughts of vertigo. We ask that your healing would be over her on that, and that for his brother.

Randy with a foot infection and the treatment he's receiving will be effective to heal that infection. For many others, Lord, we also want to lift them up that are suffering throughout the world. We ask that you would be pleased to answer their prayers and give them peace, comfort, and healing.

So today, Lord, thank you for your goodness, your mercy, and your grace to each one of us. And please give us your Son, Jesus Christ, who we pray to all these things through. Amen.

Amen. This is Daniel Devitt, QA, returning back to you in the past. Thank you.

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 meeting message and application, and then to pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learn and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship.

All right. See you later. 73DU, Jeff.

AQ6, OK. And WB7 is in. All right.

Anyone else want to chat? Go ahead. QQH.

Al, KJ7QQH. Go ahead. I neglected to play for Sandy.

I just wanted to not leave her out. with those who are rejoicing. So anyway, yeah, let's all remember to pray for Sandy and ask God's blessing and strength and goodness to be shown to her while she's holding down the fort all by herself over there at Reedsport.

while Beck is over in Eugene recovering in the hospital. Al, appreciate you going to see him. That's great.

I'm sure he, well, I know that he appreciates your visits, and I just hope he's well enough to be able to see you. So, yeah, get in contact with Sandy. Let us know what she has to say.

and we'll keep that company until God's pleased to release it from the hospital. Back to you, Al. Hey, Matt.

Guys, I wanted this one by yesterday, but then you said you were not feeling up to it, so I raised off and I can't get it in today. I would be... Yeah, copy that.

All right. Real good, Al. Thank you for that.

That's great. We definitely want to hear it. Thanks for stepping up to the plate.

Go ahead, Mike. What has four wheels and flies? And we're looking forward to Beck coming back with his daily humor for us.

All right, anybody else want to chat? Please come with your call sign. You know, Mike, W7TW, I was thinking about that.

I had a little red wagon when I was a kid. It was called a radio flyer. Alright, W7TW 073 to you, have a great day Mike, we'll see you tomorrow morning.

WB7MAX here, looking for anybody who wants to talk, we're here to talk, so go ahead. Okay, WB7MAX going to be clearing QRT, AL/KJ7Q2H, thanks for being there. Thank you.

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========== ### Scripture Reading (KJV)

**Psalm 2:1-12**

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

### Study Summary

The study of Psalm 2 delves into the themes of submission to the Word of God and the Son of God, and the contrasts between those who are blessed and those under God's wrath. This psalm is recognized as a Messianic psalm, foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ as the anointed king and the ultimate authority over the earth.

The passage begins with a vivid depiction of the world's rebellion against God and His anointed one. The heathen and earthly rulers are seen as foolish in their attempts to break free from God's authority, likened to breaking vessels with a rod of iron. This imagery underscores the futility of rebellion against a powerful and benevolent God. The psalmist contrasts this with the divine response: God laughs at their attempts, indicating His supreme authority and the ultimate futility of their actions.

The study emphasized the importance of submission to the Son of God, Jesus Christ. The psalm highlights God's decree to set His king on His holy hill of Zion, and the anointed one's right to rule over the nations. This is echoed in other scriptures such as Romans 5:8, which speaks of God's love demonstrated through Christ's sacrifice, and Revelation 11, which foretells Christ's ultimate victory.

Speakers shared personal testimonies of transformation through faith in Christ, illustrating the transition from rebellion to submission. They discussed the deep-seated hostility towards God and the foolishness of rebelling against Him, referencing Romans 8:7 to highlight the depravity of human nature and the need for divine intervention.

The study encouraged believers to reflect on their own attitudes towards Jesus, whether they are in rebellion or submission. It emphasized the importance of trusting in Christ and recognizing the blessings that come from such submission. The conclusion of the study was a prayer, asking for God's blessings and healing for various needs, and emphasizing the importance of conforming to His will.

In summary, Psalm 2 serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of submitting to the Son of God and the futility of rebellion against Him. It encourages believers to trust in Christ and to recognize the blessings that come from such submission. ==========