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Good morning, good to have you with us. How you doing? *Loud engine noise* Okay Brian, lost the rest of that in the static.

I wasn't able to copy your further comments, but Brian we got you checked in. Appreciate you being there. Bad band conditions today, everybody's weak and poor.

So anyway, thanks for being there. I see you there on the Utah SCR. Hopefully you'll be able to hear me a little bit better there.

All right, that's Brian, KJ7TWN. All right, any other check-ins this morning, please come down. Thank you.

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Thank you. All right, this is WB7. I should talk into the right side of my microphone.

Do you ever do that, pick up your hand mic and talk into the back side of it? Well, that's what I was doing. All right, now we're talking on the front side of the microphone.

WB7 in the exit, net control for the West Coast Bible study. We are looking for check-ins. Please come now.

Thank you. All right, this is WB7MAX, Met Control for the West Coast Bible Study. Bruce says good morning to all on the Utah SDR.

Appreciate that, Bruce. and we are looking for check-ins. We'll be starting the net here in about 30 seconds.

Any last-minute check-ins, please come now. Kilo Mike 5 Foxtrot. All right, and there is Will.

Kilo Mike 5 Foxtrot. Good morning, Will. Good to have you with us.

How you doing? Good. I'm going to be early out going to go see the doctor this morning on the radiology side to see what they plan.

So I'll be out early, KM 5S. All right, Will, real good. We got you down for an early out.

Appreciate you being there. Okay, any other check-ins? Please come now.

Jerry, AE70R, did you find me a prairie point, over? Yeah, I think so. Okay, real good, Jerry.

I got a couple for you to copy down here if you're ready. Okay, this first one is from Kevin, KB7ZXN. That's Kevin, KB7ZXN.

He has a daughter named Christina, that's spelled with a K, K-R-I-S-T-I-N-A, Christina. Got a problem with our heart, it slows down too much. So low heartbeat rate and so we're just praying that that comes up and normalizes.

Copy. Thank you for that. And then we have a praise here.

Eric KD70S, that's Eric, Kalo Delta 7 Echo Sierra. His mom had a pacemaker put in yesterday. surgery went well so that's a thanks and also just for continued healing for her that's Eric Katie 70s his mom successful pacemaker surgery and praying for continued healing QSL all right and so those are the requests that we have there and appreciate that and we'll we'll continue to communicate as time goes on let's see i think i had something from yesterday i forgot to pray about because i had like three different prayer lists um yeah so uh let's pray for uh mark uh mark kj7 pbt that's kilo juliet seven Papa Victor Tango.

His mom is near the end of life. She's very weak, and she's very close to death. She's a solid believer in Christ.

And so let's just pray for Mark's mom, that the Lord will take her home quickly and easily. QSL? QSL?

Okay. Thank you for that. All right.

Let's see. I think that's it. All right, WB7MAX looking for check-ins.

Please come now. WB7VZL, good morning. Good morning, Roger, WB7VZL.

Good to have you with us. How are you doing? I am taking you seriously about the sermon idea that you shared.

Thank you. I praise the Lord for that. well that's real good yeah excellent i know that daryl's wb7aot has picked up some sermon ideas from the west coast bible study as well so that's good uh and that'll be a great good encouragement to folks christ always triumphs in every situation amen thank you Thanks.

Alright, real good. Okay, um... Alright, any other check-ins this morning?

Please come now. Keevo, India 7, India 50, Victor. Alright, there is Dave, KE7WKI.

Good morning, Dave. Wait a second, is that right? Give me that call sign again.

OK, KI7IWE, that's Dave, I believe. Let's see. Yeah, you're down in Albany.

Help me out with your name. I'm having a brain block here. Say again, I can barely hear you.

Yeah, okay, real good. It's good to have you with us. It's been a long time since you've been on, Dave.

Appreciate you being here, and glad to hear your voice. How are you doing? I'm doing great.

And yourself? Yeah, we're doing real good here, just plugging along with life and ministry and... serving the Lord and getting a little older as time goes on.

But, man, it's good to hear your voice. It's been a while. So we're on Psalm 25 today.

So if you want to turn your Bible to Psalm 25, that's what we'll be discussing. And it's really good to have you with us. All right, that's KI7IWV.

And that is Dave in Albany. All right, real good. Thank you, Dave, for being there.

It's sure encouraging to hear your voice. All right, any other check-ins, please come down. I want to encourage, it's great to hear Dave.

Welcome back Dave, WB7VZL. Thank you. All right, any more check-ins before we get started with the West Coast Bible Study, please All right, we are going to get started with the West Coast Bible Study.

We are in Psalm 25, as I mentioned. We'll be looking at that momentarily. But before we do, we want to open our time in prayer.

And that is Beck, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee. Beck, if you could open in prayer for us today, we'd sure appreciate that. Go ahead.

Yes, sir, I sure can. Alpha Alpha Phi Vinki. Let us come to the Lord in prayer.

Dear Father God in heaven, thank you for letting us see the light of another day. Please help us absorb the scripture that we are about to listen to and learn from. Let us carry it through our day and carry it through our lives until we come to meet you in heaven for our final day.

Let us find comfort in your word. and let us be blessed by everything that's said by everyone. In Jesus Christ's holy name we pray.

Amen. Amen. Beck, thank you for that prayer.

Great prayer. Really appreciate that. All right, we are in Psalm 25.

Before I read that psalm to us this morning, I want to just talk about this psalm a little bit. This psalm was apparently written late in David's life because in it he mentions the sins of his youth and the many enemies he had to deal with and the deliveries that he obtained. And yet his troubles aren't over.

He presently still has enemies. And he presently still has sins to confess and find forgiveness for. And so the battle against sin and the battle against the wicked may wax and wane.

It may grow more or less intense as time goes on. But it never goes away. We're going to have to deal with it right up until the end of our lives.

But the good news is we're always going to have God's help clear to the end of our lives, and we'll still have God's grace clear to the end of our lives. and we'll still have God's love and mercy and covenant faithfulness clear to the end of our lives. So the God who has led us safely thus far is going to continue to lead us safely home.

So David's object of trust and help in his old age is still the same as it was in his youth. God's promises never wear out, God's strength is never exhausted, and God's faithfulness never wanes. So that's the reason why we, like David, are going to persevere to the end, is because the same God that was there when we first got saved is the same God that's going to be there forever.

where we take our last breath and we'll be there for eternity. So that's the tremendous encouragement that we have. So this is the normal Christian life.

This is what true spirituality looks like. It's a continuous going out of the soul to God in a way that is directed and guided by God's covenant promises. and the commands and the promises of Scripture.

So that is a little introduction to our psalm, Psalm 25. I will go ahead and read this psalm, and then we will discuss it together. I'll be reading out of the King James Version, Psalm 25.

Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed.

Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Let none that wait on me be ashamed. Let them be ashamed which transgress without a cause.

Show me thy ways, O Lord, teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation. On thee do I wait all the day.

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses. For they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.

According to thy mercy, remember thou me for thy goodness sake, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord. Therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. All the powers of the Lord are mercy and truth, and the flesh is keepeth covenant and his testimony. For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

What man is he that feareth the Lord? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the earth.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me.

For I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. O bring thou me out of my distress.

Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sin. Consider mine enemies, for they are many. and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Keep my soul and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.

redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. All right, that is Psalm 25. Any comments on this psalm?

Please come now through call sign. KB7, is that extent? Kevin, KB7, is that extent?

Please go ahead. KB7 ZXN, you can get things started, I guess. Yeah, boy, every psalm has all the Word of God.

It has so much for us here. It's interesting that several of the psalms are acrostic in nature, in style and form. And this is among those.

That is, he starts with the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet with all of it. ends with "tau" as success, each verse precedes the other, is it builds on the text here. And it's not really just a novelty or a clever way to write.

but I believe it really denotes David's full devotion and openness to God, his humility to God, his dependence on God, because basically as he's saying it, as from the beginning of the alphabet to the end of the alphabet, All of my life is to you, Lord. And, you know, as we look at this, it's kind of bumping up, I guess, in three sections here. First, petition and admitting his trust in the Lord.

And then next, looking at the character and the qualities of God and His dependence on His instruction, His grace, His mercies and guidance. And then it goes back, but we see through the whole... Psalm here is a very personal devotion to God.

Until we get to the last verse, and then he recognizes this very same God that is always here for me, that I am dependent on for all areas of my life, is also the same God that is there for our nation, and that the same enemies that are my enemies are the enemies of our nation. Amen. And the same salvation and grace that God gives to me, God gives to our nation as well.

But for the most part, this is just a beautiful prayer of devotion that David expresses to our Lord. Give yourself at that extent. Yeah, Kevin, thank you for pointing out the acrostic nature of this psalm.

You know, the alphabet is a very fundamental building block of our language and our communication, and everything is encompassed from A to Z. And, you know, it reminds me, Kevin, of the statement of Jesus in Revelation chapter 1, where he says, I am the Alpha and the Omega... The beginning and the end, the first and the last.

And the idea of using acrostic among other things is saying from beginning to end, from first to last, from A to Z, my life and my heart is focused on God. Everything about me, everything about my life is encompassed by Him and His truth and His strength, His provision, His salvation. is the totality of my life.

And so we see David covering kind of the whole scope of the needs in his life from A to Z as he goes through this psalm. And because it's an acrostic, the first verse starts with aleph, and the second verse starts with beth, and the third with gimel, etc. The Hebrew alphabet, right?

It's a little bit disconnected. One thought doesn't necessarily flow into the next. But nevertheless, there's some themes that emerge out of this song.

David prays for victory over his enemies. That occurs several times here. David prays for guidance in perplexity.

That occurs several times here. And then David prays for forgiveness of his sins, and that occurs several times. So when you analyze the psalm thematically, victory over his enemies, guidance in perplexity, and forgiveness of sins, you can see those themes kind of recurring over and over again in this psalm.

But a lot of these individual verses are very precious in terms of their application to us, and in terms of the depth of the spirituality that they express. So, Kevin, thank you for that comment about the way this psalm is constructed and about the significance of that. All right, any other comments?

Please come down with your call time. WB7VZL Okay, we had a double to remark, KJ7PVT, go ahead, heard your voice. I don't know what that was, but I looked it up.

I think it was a mailing message. So that people could send in their mail. And David, when he was putting down the mail, .

and uh Mark, KJ7PVT, good copy, good copy on all. Mark is saying the reason why, among other reasons, that this is written in an acrostic form, is it makes it easier to memorize. So if you are a Hebrew and you're reading the Hebrew language here, and the fact that this is in the form of an acrostic, that's a memory aid to help people to be able to sing this as a song or recite it from memory as a means of edification.

So acrostics are memory aids, and that was the point that Mark was making. Mark, thank you for that. He mentioned the Lord's Prayer and how easy that is to memorize because of the way it's written.

And that's one reason why I really appreciate the King James. It's so easy for me to memorize because of the way the sentence structure is. All right.

Anyway, thank you, Mark, for that. All right, other comments, please come now. WB7VZL.

Roger, WB7VZL, go ahead. Yeah, I've noticed the way this Psalm ends, and it gives me assurance that even after I've had a name change, in other words, after I've moved from Jacob to Israel, There can be trouble, like a newly baptized person taking on the new name of Jesus. But redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Jacob is now Israel, but there are still troubles. Whereas the previous psalm, I focused in on how the deceiver was his name as Jacob. And certainly he learned some powerful lessons with that name.

But even getting the new name to Israel... redeem Israel, O God, out of his troubles. So even though this is a corporate reference to the country, I'm taking it in a kind of a personal spiritual encouragement as well.

All right. Yeah, Roger, great point. You know, getting saved does not eliminate our troubles.

Getting saved gives us resources that we didn't have before to deal with our troubles, and also it gives us a solid hope that one day when we get to heaven, those troubles will be over with. and we will never see them again. So good comment, Roger.

Appreciate that. You know, God changed the names of people quite frequently in the scriptures. You know, Simon went to Peter, and Saul went to Paul, and Jacob went to Israel, and Abram went to Abraham, and Sarai went to Sarah.

And so these name changes are symbolic of transformation in these people's lives. And so, you know, especially in terms of their relationship with God. It often symbolized entering into a covenant with God or a new realm of service with God or a conversion to God.

There was various reasons for name changes, but all of them resulted or were declarative of a new, deeper, more profound personal relationship with God. And so even though God takes us into his family, even though he forgives us of our sins, even though his blessing is on us, that is not the end of our troubles. And so that's what he's saying.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles, even though he's Israel and even though God is his God, he still has troubles. And the reason for that is because God recognizes that it's through troubles that we grow. It's through troubles that we become more like Jesus.

And the captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering. And so, therefore, we cannot expect to be brought to maturity again. in any other fashion.

So, yeah, a lot of people think when they get saved, all their troubles are over. Well, no, they're just different now. And the difference is now we're fighting against the kingdom of darkness and the people that are attached to that.

And the other difference is now we have the help and aid of God to moderate those troubles. to manage them so they're not greater than what we can bear, and to give us strength to be able to deal with them and overcome them. And they're meant for our good and for our growth and for God's glory and for a bunch of really positive results.

So, Roger, thanks for that. Christian life is still a life of trouble, but it's also a life of divine resources to deal with those troubles. All right, other comments?

Please come now. Omar, KJ7PVT, go ahead. - Good afternoon, ma'am.

Okay Mark, I got that last phrase, "The Lord is our instructor." Can anybody give me a relay on the verse Mark was referring to? Please come out with your call sign. Okay Mark, give us the verse number you were referring to, please.

Okay, so I have 25, 8, and 9. Yes, good and upright is the Lord, therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide with judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

So, yeah, you know, the wonderful thing is, is that God is in the process of teaching us his path. Okay. And so it's the way of the Lord that we want to walk in.

Mark reminds me of that verse that says, this is the way, walk you in it. And the Bible speaks elsewhere of the fact that there's the broad way that leads to destruction, and there's the narrow way that leads to life. So there's a path, there's a road.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." And the word there for "way" is the word "hadass" in the Greek. It's the word for "road." "I am the road." No man comes to the Father but through me. So anyway, Mark, great verses there.

Verse 8 and 9: "Good and upright is the Lord; therefore we teach sinners in the way, the meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. Mark, I didn't get most of what you said, but I got the references, and those are great references. Thank you for pointing us to the fact that we need to walk in the way of the Lord, and he's going to guide us in that way, and there is a way in which we're supposed to live.

and the scriptures tell us what that is. Thank you, Mark. All right, other comments.

Please come down. WB7, is that all? Roger.

Please go ahead. I noticed in verses 6 and 7, that David is bold in the respect that he doesn't mind asking God to remember. You know, God asks us to remember in the Fourth Commandment, but here a creature David says remember it right here this is all over yeah what's interesting is that in verse 6 he wants God to remember something and in verse 7 he wants God to not remember something you know in verse 6 he says remember O Lord thy tender mercies And then in verse 7, remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions.

And so in verse 6, he's just really asking God to be consistent in the future with his conduct in the past. I mean, all throughout David's life, God showed him tender mercy and loving kindness. That was the consistent way in which God dealt with him.

And I have to testify, that's how God's dealt with me. God has been very merciful and very kind to me. And verse 7 applies to me a bunch as well.

Lord, remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. Because if God remembers us for our sins... we have a problem but the good news is is that he has remembered our sins and iniquities no more that's one of the promises Roger of the New Covenant and of course that's in Jeremiah 31 but also it's repeated here in Hebrews chapter 8 when it describes the New Covenant.

And it says, Hebrews 8, 10, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be to them a God.

They shall be to me a people. They shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest. Now here it is, Hebrews 8, 12.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. So God doesn't remember our sins. He doesn't remember our iniquities.

And this is what Psalm 25 and verse 7 is saying. Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. So when we get to heaven, God isn't going to beat us up with our past sins.

Those are all under the blood. They're all forgotten and forgiven. He says He will cast them behind His back.

He will cast them into the depths of the sea. And you know, we see in Matthew 25 when the sheep and the goats are separated. God never mentions the sins of the sheep to the sheep, just their good works and the fruits of their salvation.

So what a wonderful thing that God would not remember our sins, but he would remember to deal with us in mercy and loving kindness. Back to you there, Roger. Thank you so much for reading the New Covenant again in both Hebrews and also in Jeremiah.

That's really a refreshing experience as you're coming upon remembering. Over. Yeah, real good.

So anyway, praise the Lord that God has the ability to forget, because justice has been served, and there's no reason to go back and re-resurrect something that's already been atoned for. So He's taken our sins and nailed them to the cross and taken them out of the way. Hallelujah for that.

All right, any other comments on Psalm 25? Please come now. Kevin, KB7ZXM, please go ahead.

I'm really enjoying these thoughts and comments. And I think that's a great way to start a It's so true. There's so much here.

And I just wanted to come back to the beginning here because as David begins this psalm, it is really a psalm of true, great devotion and trust. He begins, I lift up my soul to you, and God in you I trust. And, you know, I think in Romans 12 we were to give ourselves a living sacrifice.

But here, in this prayer, David is doing that. When he's expressing, he lifts up his soul. He's giving his whole inner being.

He's giving his whole self. to God. He's trusting God with all of him.

You know, as I mentioned before, sometimes in a Christian's life, there's a tendency to try to compartmentalize different areas of one's life. And especially in new believers, it's a process. of really learning what it means to surrender yourself to the will of God and trusting Him.

And this psalm is really not about a specific event, if you will, a great difficult circumstances in Psalm 22, or a great victory as in Psalm 24, but... that it is a lifelong devotion to God entrusting him and recognizing he is there not only for our forgiveness and and and for his forgiveness in this case but also for his guidance for his instruction and that's what we depend on to as believers you know I think about Jesus as he He looked upon the hearts of those that he came across, and he saw the hearts of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and those of the Sanhedrin and how far removed they were from him. And yet, you know, their righteousness was all on the outside.

And what a contrast it is. to hear, I think, what a beautiful, humble example that we have here with David that lifts his soul up to trust, to God's trust. And as we should do, we should be willing to trust God with all of our self, with all of our life.

And it's just a beautiful expression that this starts out. I noticed too in this Psalm that he repeats some of the themes, but he comes looks at it from different angles and perspectives. And that's kind of, I guess, synonymous with the Hebrew style of a text structure like this.

But it also adds a lot of depth for us as the reader, and I think substance for us as well in understanding what that trust looks like in a life of a believer. KB7, is that acceptable? Yeah, real good, Kevin.

Thank you for pointing it out. Yeah, Christianity is a religion of the heart. It's a religion of the inner man.

So, yeah, in verse 1 there, you mentioned unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. And, you know, the whole inner man is engaged with God. And we don't have any closets.

in our lives into which God is not admitted, in which we reserve for our own sovereign purposes or pleasures or self-protection. We completely open ourselves up to God. And, you know, being vulnerable with humans is often very risky because...

you know, they can take advantage of us with knowledge that they have regarding us, about our weaknesses or our sins or our shortcomings, but God never does that. He always has compassion. He has tender mercy.

He has patience. He has grace. And He loves us just for who we are and what we are in spite of our failings because He's going to fix all of that, and that's the good news.

You know, David is not afraid or ashamed to confess his sins to God. We see him three times in this psalm confessing his sins, which is opening up his inner man to the Lord. You'll notice verse 7, he says, Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.

According to thy mercy, remember me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. And then in verse 11, he says, For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. And then in verse 18, he says, Look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins.

So, yeah, Kevin, here's a guy who's being completely transparent and owns his sins and his shortcomings and his failings. And yet he knows that the God he brings those to is a God who is ready to forgive, ready to pardon, ready to show mercy, and has been showing him mercy and loving kindness all of his life. And he can rest in grace, and he can rest in God's plan and purpose.

to eventually completely deliver him from all of those sins. So good comment there, Kevin. The net would like to acknowledge Brian K7ZIP.

Good morning, Brian. Good to have you with us there on the Utah SDR. Thank you for being with us.

I see you're in Sweet Home, so not too far from my place. In any event, you're welcome to stop by if you're driving by. All right, WB7MAX, looking for further comments on Psalm 25.

Please come down to your call time. WB7VZL. Roger, please go ahead.

Yes, we were referring to the covenant, and I, sure enough, verse 14, the secret of the Lord, I love that, the secret of the Lord is with them, fear him and he will show them his covenant that is such a marvelous treasure and I felt the treasure yesterday when I went to follow up on Mark's comment about the Mishnah as I recall the Mishnah highlights the that Psalm 24 that we took yesterday was the Psalm that they used when they went into Zion, Zion, and into Jerusalem. And David was dancing to the music to that Psalm. to the point where his wife, Michael, was embarrassed.

And then right after, now this is what is so wonderful that thrilled my heart, immediately after, Nathan and David have that prophetic dialogue about the temple And Nathan says, "I'm going to... The Lord says, "I'm going to make a household for you, David, that will be way beyond a physical temple, but a covenant that will last forever." And that was just absolutely thrilling, 2 Samuel 7. That's so key, 2 Samuel 7.

and it stretches all the way to Revelation 22, verse 16. I mean, it is forever. Max, thanks for emphasizing the covenants, over.

Yeah, well, you know, the covenants are so important because they're the central organizing principle of the Bible. You know, just like your skeleton is the central organizing principle of your body, everything hangs on it and is organized by it. The covenants are the skeleton, if you will, of the Bible, and there are several of them.

But you're mentioning the Davidic covenant there in 2 Samuel 7. I really appreciate you pointing that out, and the fact that in that covenant God promised David... that he would have a son who would be, in a unique sense, the Son of God.

That son would build him a house and that he would sit on the throne forever. And, of course, all that's fulfilled in Jesus. He's the Son of God that was promised.

He's building a house, which is the new covenant church, the temple. And he's going to sit on the throne of David forever. So yes, the covenants explain to us what God's plan and program is.

Also, covenants define relationships. How do we relate to God? through the Abrahamic covenant, and through the new covenant, which is its fulfillment.

And those two grand covenants set forth the plan of salvation, who is saved, how they're saved, and the freeness of that salvation that's offered to all. And so we can approach God any way we please. We approach Him on the terms of the covenants that He set forth.

And as we do so, we find that peace and that union that we have with Him. Yeah, you can't emphasize or overemphasize how important the covenants are in the Bible for sure because they define our relationship with God, how we approach Him and what we may expect out of Him and what our obligations to Him are. Those are all defined by the covenant.

All right, we are clear out of time. This psalm has wonderful... nuggets of truth in it.

We can just take individual verses out of it, like verse 4. Show me thy ways, O Lord, teach me thy paths. There's a good prayer right there for today.

You can memorize that quite easily, and then you can just pray that throughout the day today. Lord, show me thy ways, teach me thy paths. Verse 5, lead me in thy truth and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation.

Indeed, do I wait all the day long. So verses 4 and 5 are a wonderful prayer, and if you're kind of dry and you don't know what to pray about, well, pray verses 4 and 5. That's a grand prayer.

An infallible one, too, inspired by the Spirit. All right. Any final prayer requests before Jerry leads us in prayer?

Please come down with your call sign. All right, Jerry, AE70R, go ahead and close in prayer for us, please. Let us pray.

Our Father in heaven. We thank you for another day on this old earth. And we thank you for this prayer group on Amateur Radio.

We begin the day at E6XLH. His brother-in-law, Ed, and his wife need to sell their home. Lord, help that occur for them, please.

Carol, KK7 TPO, feeling for lower back pain. Pray for son-in-law Chris. Chris has diabetes.

Be controlled so that he can have his back surgery on July 30th. Eric, W7RKD. WWW 17 Tom is lifting up in prayer since he lost his wife a few months ago and Tom is recovering from a major spine surgery in a wheelchair and is in serious need of daily assistance.

Lord, we come to you and ask for Tom. Lord, give him solace in the loss of his life and we ask for healing. Beck, pray for continued healing and resolution of his double vision.

Isn't their neighbor nasty? He's healing from terminal cancer, and she also needs to be saved. George, me too, KVX.

Pray for healing for George's whole shoulder. Pastor fell out just flat. Lord, this is a good servant of yours.

He has a severe ulcer in his colitis. Lord, please heal him through the medical treatment he is receiving. Cody, KIS7TRF.

Healing for his mom's broken arm. Healing for his father, Rodney, from colon cancer. He learned from his uncle Doug, a believer, from a severe head injury.

He had his first surgery. He lost his right eye. Additional procedures will follow, pray for his ongoing treatment and recovery.

Cody needs healing. She needs salvation. She needs a healing.

She needs a healing. She needs a healing. She needs a healing.

Touch her heart, please, Lord. Keith, WB7RKR. Pray for Keith to press God with the difficult circumstances that he is in.

And to make godly decisions regarding that. Pray for Keith to have wisdom and patience in managing his wife Ronnie's dementia. And for Ronnie to be calm and peaceful.

and pray for Keith's health and health. Jim, N7BKE, for the opportunity to share the gospel. Pray for the salvation of all the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of those on that stand.

For God to work grace in their heart. and for their protection from the ways of the world and the attacks of Satan. Brian, KJ7 PWM, salvation from Raya.

Brian's secretary. Brian gave her a Bible to read for Brian's son Avery, for his girlfriend Zoe to get married and become safe. They are the parents of a six-year-old Alex, and a newborn Adam, though he has been reading the Bible.

Ed, Ed 6XOH. Nephew Eric, in the military deployed to Israel. Lord, please keep this man safe.

Yes, in case there's no cases for the need for three to eight capitals to be built on canals for God to raise up those to manage them, as any type of need would be met. We thank the Lord for this. For this.

Mercy. Grace to each one of us. And for the gift of his son, Jesus Christ.

Kevin, 87. Is that our time? Christina, daughter.

Yes. low heart rate. We pray for diagnosis and treatment.

K7PVT. Mark. Mom had a, his mother had a place maker place and made that deal with her heart rate.

We asked for her healing. Mark, K7PVT. mom near the end of her life.

She's a solid believer in Christ who would be free from her soul and her A.C. passes. As we go on through this day, Lord, keep us all well and safe with our focus on you.

In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. And this is 1879. Jerry, thank you so much for the prayers.

Really appreciate that. This is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning and those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency.

We meet here seven days a week at 6:00 a.m. in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning 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. I'll be returning this frequency now to regular amateur use.

This is WB7MX. I'll be clear and standing by. Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee with today's joke.

Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, please go ahead. Knock knock. Who's there?

Spell. Spell who? W-H-O All right.

Spell who you did. Thank you for that, Beck. Appreciate that.

All right. Any other comments, observations, suggestions, or communications, please come down to your call line. AK6 OK, good morning.

I'm very late this morning. Well, good morning, Jeff. AK6 OK, we have you checked in.

Thank you for being there, and sounds like you're having a tough morning. I had a super relaxing morning. Slept in for the first time in a long time, and I'm just laying low.

Let's just start it over again for the next. Yeah, copy that, copy that. Well, the net has been recorded by Brian KJ17WM, so you can listen in.

We did Psalm 25 today, great psalm. And anyway, I'm glad you got sleep. Good for you for sleeping in.

I'm proud of you, Jeff. You need that support to heal your body. And I'm glad you're rested and going to get a good start on the day with a well-rested body.

So anyway, Jeff, thanks for checking in. Appreciate that. AK6OK, WB7MX.

Anyone else want to check? Go ahead. WB7VZL, good morning, Jeff.

Good morning, my friend. How are you this morning? I, sometime, sometime when it's a good time, I have a great story about an Arabic Bible delivery that went awry.

And it's from a pastor that serves Adventist World Radio in Nazareth. Yeah, it's quite a fascinating story. So it's about counting Bibles and what the Arabic world does at checkpoints regarding Arabic Christian, in other words, Bibles in Arabic.

Over. Well, that's interesting. How about that?

I've got time now or you can do it later. Well, I just wanted to make sure that -- Max, are you -- is this all right? Over.

Yeah, Roger. I just got a text message from Tom, WW7T. We need to stop and pray for Tom for a second.

He says, "Max, please pray for me this morning. I'm having leg cramps and they don't want to work right. I'm still laying in bed.

I can barely hear you guys on the radio, but I know you're there. Please pray for me this morning. like I'm having trouble getting up.

I still have to get dressed. Thank you for being there and having the study every morning. Sorry I couldn't be there.

Tom at WW7T. All right, we're going to pray for Tom right now. Our kind and gracious Father, we just pray for Tom at WW7T.

Lord, he's having leg cramps. I pray, Lord, that you would relieve those. I pray that his legs would work well, that you would give him mobility, and that, Lord, he would be able to get up and function as needed.

Lord, just take away those leg cramps now. Give Tom peace in his body. And, Father, bring him healing.

Father, in his heart, in his soul, and also in his body. Father, have mercy on your servants. and look upon him with compassion and loving kindness, meet his need, lift him up, Father, and give him strength and freedom from pain and leg cramps.

Father, we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, Roger, WB7VZL, go ahead with your story.

Oh my, oh my, that is an emergency prayer. Oh my. You know, our friend Tom needs a companion up there as we've been praying, over.

Yeah, amen. So we're praying that somebody will be there with him and for him to help him out. So yeah, good Roger.

Thank you for that, over. Boy, what do they do when somebody is in agony over leg cramps? What's kind of on tap for possibly Tom?

We're not doctors here, but it seems like... maybe some, I think, what is it? Is it magnesium?

And, of course, all that's complicated with his paralysis and his spine surgery that is not healing like we'd like. Owen? Yeah, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.

really help a lot with leg cramps. But I'll tell you what helps immediately, Tom, if you're listening, get some white vinegar, white vinegar and rub it on your leg. When I was logging and I'd get serious leg cramps, I would have a bottle of white vinegar by my bed, And when I woke up at night with terrible leg cramps, I'd take that white vinegar and just pour some in my hand and rub it right on top of where the cramp is, and that would take it away within seconds.

And I don't know how or why that works, but it does. So, yeah, as far as supplements go, potassium, magnesium, and of course sodium comes in salt. And those are really important electrolytes to help those muscles not to cramp.

Back to you there, Roger. So now Tom needs a buddy to help him get that white vinegar. Boy, you know, I had a doctor tell me years ago, "You've got smelly feet, you've got itchy feet, use white vinegar." And I started that tradition.

I've been using it for 30 years. Tom, if we were there, we could sure help you with that. Hopefully a companion will drop by and you can try that home remedy, Tom.

So, man, that's really something. the remaining 200 Bibles, 450 Bibles, and these were financed. They're very expensive, and they were financed by a generous donation from a person in Loma Linda.

And it says, after loading boxes and receiving the required legal transport documents, you know, this is life in Israel. and in the Middle East right now. This is, it's horrible.

He began to return home, the trip home. Usually the Israeli authorities stop him for inspection before entering the country. but this time something unexpected happened lyson was stopped by the palestinian authorities the officer who detained him contacted customs officials who came and demanded that all the boxes be opened and the contents inspected.

Then, to Wytham's astonishment, they decided to count every single Bible to confirm that the quantity matched the invoice. After a careful count, the officer looked up and said, There are 199 Bibles. Lysa was stunned.

The invoice clearly stated 200 Bibles, but because of this minor discrepancy, he was held for hours. He tried to explain that if anything, being short one Bible should not be treated as a crime. It would have been far more suspicious to have exceeded the declared number than to be short.

But no one would listen. After all else failed, Weissum called the dealer, and to his relief, he came quickly. The dealer came quickly, bringing an additional Bible to complete the count.

Even so, Weissum was fined and delayed further before finally being allowed to continue his journey. After this strange experience, Wisom wondered at God's purposes. But unbeknownst to Wisom, later that evening, the Bibles dealer decided to check his warehouse surveillance cameras to understand how one of the Bibles had disappeared.

To his surprise, the Bibles were not found. the cameras showed a man approaching Wisom's van. Hearing workers nearby, he panicked, grabbing the first thing he could find and running away without knowing what he had stolen.

He had stolen a Bible. A few days later, the dealer called Wisom and said that a man had come to the warehouse asking about the van. The dealer assumed he wanted to buy it, so he told him the van belonged to Pastor Weissom and gave him the phone number.

That afternoon, Weissom received a phone call. The voice on the other end was hesitant. but soon blurted out the words, "Please forgive me." "Forgive you for what?" "I don't even know who you are," Wisom replied.

"Well, and the other day I stole a book from your van. I brought it home and put it in the living room." That night I went to sleep, but for days now I've been dreaming about what I did. Every night I see the same dream, breaking into your van and stealing that book.

I have stolen valuable things in my life, but stealing this book... It has disturbed my heart. I cannot sleep." He paused and then said something Weissam will never forget.

"I decided to open the book and see what it was. I started turning the pages and then thought, 'Let me check the end of the book.' I found a title page called Revelation. And as I read the last couple pages, I began to feel guilty, even fearful.

For several minutes, the man continued sharing how fear pushed him to read more. He said, I couldn't sleep. The dreams wouldn't stop.

So I decided I must find you and ask you to please forgive me. Maybe this is the beginning of a new life for me. Wisom said as he recounted this story, in that moment I realized this hadn't been a stolen Bible.

It had been a delivered Bible. How's that? How's that for a story, Jeff?

Over. Oh, my gosh. How about that?

Wow. That took some very strange turns, didn't it? You know, it's a comfort to me that I love.

We ship pallets and pallets of these Bibles to the U.S. and they end up over there. Because our military sends them over.

And I got quite a few stories about that, including the fact that soldiers take extra Bibles with them and give them to the enemy. I have a hard time even understanding how that's possible, but it happens. So God is good, and yes, that was a delivery, not a theft.

Yeah. Yeah, I knew you had to enjoy that one. And I imagine you hear them by the scores about the fruit of all your ministry through your nonprofit.

Yeah, thank you, Jeff. And thanks for listening to this story that I said to myself as I read this. This has got Jeff's name on it.

Thanks, Jeff, for listening. WB7VZL. And I'm heading toward the gym.

Okay, I got a voicemail that came in this morning. I want to see if I can play this for you guys. You'll get a kick out of this from a rabbi at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, that called me this morning.

Hang on. Let me see if I can find it. All right, real good, Jeff.

Yeah, looking forward to hearing that. Roger, 73WB7VZO, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for the story.

And yes, God sovereignly supervises every single Bible in this world as to where it is, whose hands it winds up in, and then opens their understanding to it. So God's Word doesn't return to him void. It accomplishes that where unto he sent it.

And what an encouragement that is. All right, Roger, W87VZL73, have a great day. Jeff, AK6OK, back over to you.

Thanks, Roger. You're welcome. I'm going to go ahead and get out of the way.

Okay, let me see if I can get this to where you guys can hear it, just a sec. Morning, Jeff. You moving the kicksteer?

Oh, come on. Yeah, great weather. Great time.

What this is all about... here's a here's a Jewish rabbi chaplain anymore thousands of operation worship Bible I had a problem with this thinking what is he doing these Bibles and he said listen we have Christians all over the services when I do a Jewish service these guys need the Word of God over Well, praise the Lord for that. I'm so pleased to hear that he is asking for Bibles and distributing them to the Christians.

That's wonderful. And maybe one of these days he'll read it himself and see that the Old Testament is completed in the New and that Jesus is his Messiah as well. Jeff, that's wonderful that God uses even unsaved people to distribute his Word and to propagate his Gospel.

Go ahead, Jeff. Yeah, the last order I shipped him was 6,000 Bibles, and he has run out. Fortunately, we have more coming in on the 18th of August.

I'm starting to get a lot of calls from the military saying, "Hey, Jeff,