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all right, Roger, we'll pray for a safe trip tomorrow. How long are you going to be there, over? Well, several days, probably over the weekend and into next week.

But yeah, that's right, it's a long ways to help for sure. All right, we'll be looking for your check-ins every morning and if we don't hear a check-in, we're going to send somebody after you. Yeah, that's the idea.

I'm going to be talking to a neighbor about a reference call. Over. Yeah, well, give us, send me some contact information so I know exactly where you're at.

And who to contact in case we don't hear from you in the morning, okay? Okay. And Candy, fortunately, and 70IT does similar things too.

But it's nice to have redundancy. Over. Okay.

Copy that. All right. Real good.

So is Candy listening in on the nets in the morning here? Sometimes. She's busy with caregiving for April, who has two kids.

a rather severe case of Parkinson's. So yeah, she's busy, busy. But yeah, we'll be touching base with her, I believe, every morning after the net.

So yeah, it's, Yeah, it's significant, for sure. Over. Alright, well we're glad to hear that you got a contact schedule with Candy via ham radio.

That's good to know. And so anyway, yeah, send me some contact information for redundancy and we'll go from there. Roger, you take care, have a safe trip, and we'll talk to you this morning.

You want to open a prayer for us today when the time comes? All right, thank you for that. Appreciate that.

Okay, WB7MX here. Any more check-ins in the West Coast Bible Study? Please come now.

KM5F? Will, KM5F, go ahead. I'm just curious.

Has Carol checked in? No. - KK7TPO did check in, yes she did, over.

- Okay, I was just wondering, 'cause I see you're on the Weezer FDR. - Yeah, copy that. She checked in almost first thing, so anyway, I was able to pick her up real well on the Coeur d'Alene remote, and so she's fine with no prayer requests.

Alright, I'm looking over my SDRs right now. While I'm doing that, any last minute check-ins? No.

Good morning, KB7, ZXN. Hey, good morning, Kevin, KB7, ZXN. How we doing?

Any prior requests? Go ahead. No new prior requests.

Just great to hear everyone this morning. All right, copy that, Kevin. Got you checked in.

Any more check-ins, come now. All right, we're going to get started with our Bible study today, and we are going to be looking at Psalm 38, so you can have your Bible open to that section before we get started with our reading. We're going to have Roger WB7BZO open in prayer for us.

Roger, please go ahead. Dear Heavenly Father, you also know my feelings and those of us who look into this psalm about a person that, as I looked at it, is very, very powerfully moved and very sensitive. and to the point where one wonders about his state of mind for sure.

And so, Lord, it's a challenging psalm for me, and I... I pray for Max as he leads us, as most of all the Holy Spirit, as we allow this to unfold for us this morning. Thank you for revealing the extremes for us in this song.

Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, Roger.

Thank you so much for that prayer. I certainly agree with what you expressed in Psalm 38, in Resting Psalm. Psalm 38, like Psalm 32, which we've already looked at, and Psalm 51, which we're going to be looking at, God willing.

It's a penitential psalm in which David expresses remorse and confession for the sins he has committed. These penitential psalms should not surprise us at all. Remaining sin in the lives of God's children is a reality that we all deal with every day.

And frequently we become aware through the scriptures or through our conscience or through the reproofs of other people, we become aware that we've sinned and that we need to repent and we need to confess those sins and find forgiveness for them. As Christians, we still have remaining sin in our lives. So it's not until we get to heaven that we will be able to stop confessing our sins.

But there's some good news. The good news is that there is forgiveness from God. The good news is that Christ has made a perfect, finished, final atonement for our sins.

And the good news is that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, as we look at this psalm in particular, we see that David dwells at some length on the physical consequences of the sins that he has committed. God has apparently chastised David to a very painful degree in his body for the sin that he committed, whatever it is.

I don't know the specific sin here, but nevertheless, it was serious. And God is chastising him in his body both to provoke him to repentance and to encourage him not to engage in that sin anymore. And so we see in this psalm very clearly that David was wracked with sickness and pain because of his sin.

Now, this once again should not surprise us. The Bible speaks in several places about physical illness, being the chastisement that God brings for unrepentant sin. We see that in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, where we're told that illness and even death was the result of persistent sin, in particular the abuse of the Lord's Supper at the church in Corinth.

And Paul says there, if we would judge ourselves, that is, if we would confess our sins promptly and change our behavior, we wouldn't experience this illness. God may use various chastisements to move us to repentance. And among them, striking us with illness is one of the ways in which he can do that.

And so the question is, how do we know if our illness is caused by our own sin? Well, our own conscience will tell us. It will remind us and convict us of the pattern of sin in our lives that we have been tolerating and justifying and defending and going on in.

And of course, secondly, when we repent of that sin and confess it to God, then the illness will come to an end. And so if we judge ourselves, then God will not. So David's own conscience had made it clear to him that his sin was not to be forgiven.

painful serious physical illness as well as his inward conflict and turmoil were the result of his unrepentant personal sin. So what we cannot do, what we cannot do is what Job's friends did. Of course Job had terrible afflictions in his body, right?

And they said, oh, it's because you sinned, as though all illness is caused by our personal sins. It is not. In fact, it's extremely rare that God would bring that as a correction and a chastisement for our sins.

generally uses other methods but only the individual person themselves can draw any conclusion about why this illness has come into their life is this just the result of being a fallen person in a fallen world and we have illnesses like everybody does, or is this God speaking to me personally about what I know in my own conscience has been going on in my life that I haven't dealt with, and God is finally using this to get my attention? Only the individual can make that conclusion, and we must not guess and project into others' illnesses, any explanation for that. That is a personal matter.

It's certainly not a public matter. All right, well that's a little introduction to our psalm. I hope that gives us some perspective on it.

I've asked Steve, W6YFI, if he would read this psalm. Steve, please go ahead and read for us Psalm 38. Psalm 38, yeah, just below the Psalm 38, my Bible says, Keneson and a Psalm of David for a memorial.

I think David was deathly suffering from his sin. Let us read, beginning with verse 1: "O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, Chasing me not in thy burning anger. Thine arrows have sunk deep into me.

And thy hand is pressed down on me. There's no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignance. Indignation, I should say.

There's no health in my bones because of my sins. For my iniquities are gone over my head And the heavy burden may weigh too much for me My wounds grow foul and fester because of my falling I am bent over and greatly bowed down I go mourning all day long My loins are filled with burning and there's no soundness in my flesh. I am benumbed, badly crushed, and groaned because of the agitation of my heart.

Verse 9. Lord, all my desire is before thee. and my sighing is not hidden from thee.

My heart throbs, my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me. My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague and my kinsmen stand afar off. Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, and they devise treachery all day long.

But I, like a deaf man, not here. Did I, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth? Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no arguments.

For I hope in thee, O Lord. Thou wilt answer, O Lord, my God. For I said, may they not rejoice over me, who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.

For I'm ready to fall. My sorrow continually before me. For I confess my iniquity.

I am full of anxiety because of my sins. For my enemies are vigorous and strong, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. Those who repay evil for good, they oppose me, as I follow what is good.

But forsake me, Lord. My God, do not be far from me. Take haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.

Psalm 38, W6YSI. All right, Steve, good reading. Thank you so much for reading that to us.

All right, any comments on Psalm 38? Please come down to call us. ZXN.

Kevin, KB7ZXN, please go ahead. Well, I'll get things started here, I guess. Very good introduction, Max.

and beautiful reading, Steve. You know, as you pointed out, this is one of the seven penitential songs. And the introduction I see in mine is part of a memorial offering that he's giving here.

And it talks about the memorial offering, I guess, in Philippians. Leviticus 2 24 but it's a portion a grain offering if you will and then a portion of that grain is burned but it's interesting that he begins the psalm the same way he does in another penitential psalm in chapter 6 um you know, and in recognition, "Rebuke me not with your anger and discipline me not with your wrath." In other words, he's recognizing that God's discipline upon him is justified. He knows he's sinned, but he's asking for mercy.

for God to be measured in his response to that sin. But he is totally owning up, if you will, to his sin. And he recognizes that this great physical suffering that he's, going through here, part of this discipline that God has chosen in his case here is physical and a very painful and difficult...

uh... physical suffering here and as well as social you know we see as the next section here where the consequence also involves the abandonment of his friends and the aggression of his enemies and you know this is difficult when you're going through um you know SITUATIONS LIKE THIS WHERE YOUR BODY IS BREAKING DOWN, YOU'RE HAVING SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES, AND THEN IT SEEMS LIKE THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN, YOUR FRIENDS ARE BANNING YOU, AND THOSE THAT WISH YOU ILL ARE MORE AGGRESSIVE. THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY DIFFICULT TIME.

David recognizes that it's a consequence, if you will, it's a discipline of God to restore him back to God. And we see the remainder of this psalm where David really does, his heart turns back to God and pleads with him. and seeks to restore that relationship and accept the discipline that God has chosen for him, but also does prayer for that restoration.

And, you know, these Penitential Psalms are difficult. And as you point out, not every bad thing that happens in our life means that God is scolding us. But sometimes our walk as believers is...

you know one step forward and sometimes you might slip and a couple steps back along the way and fall into a sin but the important thing is is to address that sin as God sees that sin recognize it and repent from it and cut seek a restore that worship, that relationship with God. And as difficult as some of these portions of this psalm are, it is very encouraging that God loves us enough that he would seek to restore our relationship with us as well. KB7, Zedek Shaq.

Yeah, you know, Kevin, it's a great comment. You know, it's really good to know there's a path of restoration. Thank you.

You know, I was reading the book of Leviticus the other day, right? And, you know, a lot of people would say, "Well, that's not the most exciting reading." You know what was exciting to me about it is that there's all of these means that God has provided for redemption from sin and reconciliation with Himself, you know? We've got this offering, we've got the other offering, we've got this third offering, and we've got these priesthoods and these altars and these temples.

And basically the whole book of Leviticus is a declaration, I want to be reconciled with you. Here are the avenues of reconciliation. I've provided an abundant means to achieve that because I'm a God who can be reconciled with.

And, you know, that's the good news of passages like the one in front of us, is that we have a God who has provided a means of reconciliation, has provided invitations for reconciliation. And if we simply confess our sins... He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But that confession means to say the same thing about our sins as God says about them. And so, Kevin, you brought out the fact that in this psalm, David is justifying God and condemning himself. In other words, he's saying the same thing about God, and he's saying the same thing about himself and his sins.

as God says about himself and as God says about David's sin. And so I really appreciate your comments about him justifying God and condemning himself. So good comments there, Kevin.

I appreciate the perspective. It is spot on. Okay, any other comments on this psalm?

Please email. YSI. Okay, we had a double there.

We'll go with Steve, YSI, and then we'll go with Ted. Steve, go ahead. Yeah, we have a sin problem.

God tells us in His Word in the Book of Jeremiah, "The heart of a man is thick, hopeless." How do we get over that? How do we get beyond that? Look at this psalm of what David is saying.

It's what God in his providence, because he loved David so much, because he loves us. And he is going to do whatever it takes to cleanse that heart. Amen.

to get rid of that sin. And this life is not going to happen completely until the day that the Lord comes back. But in Hebrews 12, verse 6, we have a very short verse here.

It says here, For whom the Lord loves, it's you and me, chastened, and scourges. I'll set that up sometime and chew on that one for a while. It says he scourges every son whom he receives.

Every son is going to be scourged, whatever it takes. to cleanse our hearts, because our hearts are sick. I mean, it's sick to my inside.

Yes, he's really well said. And, you know, that shows the fatherly care that we're under. I mean, one thing we know is that a father doesn't love a child that he doesn't chastise.

You know, the Bible says he who loves his son chastises him. from time to time as is needed. And God does that as well.

Thanks for pointing out that passage in Hebrews chapter 12. Whom the Lord loves, He chastises, He corrects. So why does He do that?

Well, because He wants us to stop hurting ourselves. You know, sin only hurts ourselves. And so God loves us.

He doesn't want to see us engaging in behavior that's destructive to ourselves and that is destructive of our relationship with Him. that cast aspersions upon the family name. You know, when believers fall into sin, it reflects really negatively on their Heavenly Father.

And so there's a variety of motives God has for ensuring that we do not go on an open, egregious, willful, defiant sin. that we continue on in and justify. Because it's the nature of God's children that while they may fall into sin, they don't live in it.

And they repent of it and they return back to the narrow way that leads to life. And, you know, God is a faithful father and he will not allow his children... to go in a way that's contrary to their best interest, in a way that's contrary to His glory, and in a way that's contrary to a sound testimony to the lost.

So, Steve, great passage. Thank you for bringing that out. All right, that brings us to Ted, KK70QQ.

Good morning, Ted. You had a comment. Go ahead.

Good morning, Dr. Matt. KT7-OTQ.

I want to thank y'all. Eric sent that West Coast Bible study cup. It's really beautiful.

Thank you. But I was going to say that... you know and she's and finding out that worry I think things like anger was angry all the time last you know different immorality stuff brings certain diseases you know so I think a lot of let me you know overeating and all kinds of different things.

Some of these diseases are self-imposed, whether somebody was doing it in ignorance or fully well doing what they're doing. I know alcohol compromises the stomach, causes an empty gut, which causes all kinds of problems. and autoimmune diseases and whatnot.

I think a lot of my diseases I've brought upon myself, but it's a consequence of a lifestyle that I've chosen. So yeah, some of it's self-induced diseases. it might say, uh, it's going to just put all these diseases on us, but, uh, sometimes, uh, he does to get someone's attention, perhaps.

Uh, but yeah, that's all I had to share. Thank you. KK7, OTC.

Yeah, real good. Thank you for bringing that out, Ted. Um, sin does have natural consequences.

I mean, if we engage in drug abuse, that's going to have a direct impact on our bodies and we do reap what we sow. You know, there may be, you know, sexual immorality can lead to consequences of disease as well. And so, you know, evil companions, you know, that can lead us into some...

very, very unfortunate situation. So you're right. There are natural consequences to sin.

And on occasion, you know, there's divine consequences. So, for example, we look at the church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians chapter 11. They were abusing the Lord's Supper.

Sin is unhealthy, and as you said, when we're full of guilt or anxiety because of our sin, that can certainly have an impact on our body as well, because stress and anxiety can bring about physical consequences too. Ted, KK70QQ, thank you for pointing that out. All right, before we move on, I would like to acknowledge Dave, KE7WKI.

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

Please go ahead. As far as the discipline, in Proverbs 23, 13, it says, Do not withhold discipline from a child. Well, we're the children of God.

We should expect to be disciplined by him. Thank you. Yeah, well, good comment.

Any natural father disciplines his child when he gets out of line because he loves the child and he knows that kind of behavior isn't going to work. It destroys relationships. And so thank you for bringing out Proverbs 23, 13, that the father chastises their son.

And so in the same way, God is a faithful heavenly father. You know, in the Lord's Prayer we pray, our father who art in heaven. Well, if he's our father, we're his children.

If we're his children, he's going to raise us. And part of raising children is giving them positive instruction and setting before them a good example. And the other part of it is correcting them when they get out of line.

Sometimes we do that verbally. Sometimes we do that in terms of natural consequences. Sometimes we get out the rod and there's a spanking that's administered.

So, you know, God doesn't resort to these more drastic means of correction as a father when more simple means bring about the result. So one of the things we need to learn to do and that is repent early, repent easy and repent often. And don't just, you know, set your jaw and say, you know, I'm just going to keep on doing this.

You know, you never win in those kind of battles with God. And you'll either repent sooner or you'll repent later, but you'll repent. And the longer you wait, the harder it gets.

So let's repent quickly and soon. God is abundant in mercy and grace. He loves to forgive.

Where sin abounds, grace is much more abound. You know, we're coming to a father who's glad to receive the prodigal son. And he has a robe and a ring and a feast and open arms.

And that picture of our Heavenly Father is one that we can turn to knowing that when we come to him, he's not going to beat us up. He's going to unfold us and forgive us. And that's the God that we have and that we serve.

Thank you, Will, for bringing out that passage. All right, other comments, please come now. Roger, WB7VZL, please go ahead.

Yeah, again, I really appreciate the chapter on discipline. on Hebrews chapter 13. Thank you, Steve.

And again, I want to join those that appreciated Steve reading this very serious description of sin. I guess I've really never fully immersed or found a person that was so fully immersed in what I read here in this psalm as Martin Luther. It was so extreme on him.

He was basically killing. He was killing him. and what he was doing physically to himself was, you know, the flogging and all those exercises.

And it wasn't until Stavros, the monastery overseer, and the theologian, he was aware of the Book of Romans, and we just praised the Lord that he did. He opened Luther to the Word of God, and it was like heaven came down for Luther when he started to process the idea that the just shall live by faith. And that was huge from the Older Testament, about the just shall live by faith.

And that gave him the relief from this overbearing burden of death. And what I see, yes, I see the tremendous discipline of God. for David as well as a type.

And as we have processed, this is the only way I can, especially at the very end of this phone, the only thing I can process is our large. This is what happened when Jesus was willing to come and immerse himself as the complete sacrifice. I mean, you know, you were mentioning Leviticus, that's for sure.

That was the corporate liturgy. But, you know, everything is focused in on our Lord. This is what Jesus went through, and especially at the complete end of this psalm.

There's no one person that has ever faced what Jesus faced, and this is getting close to verbalizing it. Over. Over.

Yeah, that's for sure. You know, when we look at these psalms, one of the things we need to do, Mark TG7 PVT has reminded us, is look at how the psalm relates to David, look at how the psalm relates to Jesus. Look at how the psalm relates to us individually, and then look at what the psalm has to say about the future.

The eschatological perspective that's there. And you're right. This is Jesus speaking from the cross.

In many respects, in many of these statements, he suffered tremendous physical pains. and sorrows in his body because he took our sins upon himself. And so we hear, echoed in David's voice, the voice of our Savior when he was on the cross, experiencing God's punishment for our sins that were placed on him.

And, of course, you know, Kevin pointed out earlier in his initial comment about the fact that in this psalm, We have not only David's plea for mercy from God's chastisement in verses 1 to 10, but we also have David's plea for mercy from heartless people in verses 11 through the end of the chapter. And so this, once again, pictures what happened to Jesus when he was on the cross. Not only was God's hand heavy upon him, but the heartless people that were around him were mocking him.

and glorying in his pain and in his sorrow and in his difficulty. So, Roger, thank you for pointing that out. And I guess one of the things we need to see from this psalm is how serious sin is.

This is not a light thing. It brings this kind of pain and sorrow and of course this is just a foretaste of the pain and the sorrow that occurs in hell, you know, where the fire is not quenched and the worm dies not and there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and all of those things that are described as people are cast into hell. A very sobering passage, one that causes us to say, wait a second, this sin is way more serious than I'm committing and that I realized I need to be done with this.

You know, it's like playing Russian roulette. That's dangerous business. And of course, all the cylinders are loaded when it comes to sin.

And we never escape the consequences of it. So the sooner we repent and get right with God, the better. And here we have a little bit of insight into the suffering of our Savior on our behalf.

Alright, any other comments? Roger, thank you. Well said.

Go ahead, any other comments? W7RKD. Bert, W7RKD, please go ahead.

You know, I've understood so far. I'll be walking towards Christ. And I can handle the punishment.

But... Like you said, Max, you know, like Joe, sometimes it's even required. And sometimes we do good, and Satan notices that.

And then told you, you know, he attacked Joe. He's attacked many in the Bible. And, you know, two of us, you know, with this mouth going, well, it's not necessarily that we fit, like you said, for being symptoms.

And there is one thing I try to do on a daily basis for more than a week. - - - I'd like to bring up John. I believe John is very great.

Just because you're here, you're going to put a rough time in our life. You know, we have a church. We can't think of our promise.

We have a beginning. You know, all of us. Thank you.

Yeah, I got a hard time. You know it's a hard one. Did I receive?

I received a few more before I was going to follow him. So it didn't have to have to follow him. I'm pretty sure it stayed on the path because I'm not going to be coming.

I did. That's good. And you know, he's a very jolly guy.

- Yeah, Bert, well said. Thank you for bringing out that additional perspective on the source of suffering. The vast majority of the time, suffering is not the result of our sins.

It may be the result of the sins of others. It may be that which God is using to... bear witness to himself.

In Acts chapter 16, it talks about Paul and Silas, and how they had many stripes laid upon them, and they were cast into prison. They put their feet in the stock. So here's two guys that are just lots of pain in their bodies.

Their backs have been beaten raw, their feet are in the socks, and yet what are they doing? At midnight they prayed and sang praises to God, and the prison was opened, as you recall. So there's lots of reasons and causes for physical pain and physical suffering.

And, you know, we just have to allow each individual before the Lord to decide what the source of that is and what the cause of that is. And as you said, you know, we can't do the Job's friends thing and start projecting into people what we think the cause of their sufferings are. I like what you said about doing a moral inventory.

You know, every day we need to look back over the day and we need to say to ourselves, you know, how did I do today? Was there anything that was out of line? Well, just confess that and wake up the next morning with a clean conscience.

and go forward. And when we judge ourselves in that fashion, we are not judged by the Lord. And that's good news.

So thank you for pointing that out. You know, you talked about the seven deadly sins. We could also talk about the Ten Commandments.

And of course the seven deadly sins reflect the Ten Commandments in many respects. And just go through there, you know, have I trusted in something other than God, you know? Have I put my trust in some sort of an idol?

Did I use the Lord's name in vain? You know, have I honored the Lord's day? You know, have I honored my parents?

Have I committed mental adultery? Have I been angry and hated people and wanted to kill them? You know, you just go down through the list.

Did I steal? Did I lie? Did I covet?

Did I have adulterous thoughts? All of those things, help us to do a moral inventory. We confess those sins at whatever level they were, if they were there.

And if not, we can thank the Lord for His grace and mercy in upholding us in the way. So thank you for bringing out that issue of making a moral inventory. All right, we are out of time.

We need to go to prayer. Are there any final prayer requests before we go to prayer? Please come down to the call line.

I have a praise. Roger, go ahead with your praise. Yeah, I want to thank RKD for highlighting John 16, 33.

That is a wonderful, wonderful way to summarize our going forward, over. Yeah, copy that. John 16 and verse 33 says, These things have I spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace; in the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." So Roger, thank you for extending that gratitude to Burt W7RKD for that passage.

And once again here we see that this tribulation we have isn't the result of our sin, it's in a world that hates God, his word, his ways, and his people. And so a lot of the things that happen to us happen just because we're involved in spiritual warfare. They happen because we're doing the right thing.

And there are no signs of God this pleasure with us. And your own conscience tells you that. And that's the peace that you can have, the freedom from anxiety, knowing that you've been upright.

And we saw that, like, back in Psalm 35. We just got done looking at it, right? And in Psalm 35, David is saying, you know, I didn't do anything wrong here.

and all this hostility I'm getting, all this pain that these people are causing me, isn't the result of my sin. In this passage, he says, my pain is the result of my sin. So our conscience will sit in judgment on us.

We need to listen to it. And... you know, through it, know what our response should be.

All right. Any other final prayer requests? Please come down.

All right. Al, KJ7QQH, go ahead and close in prayer for us, please. Thank you.

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We pray for the victims of those that have been dislocated and are refugees from those fires that are without us now. We pray that you will survive. USW.

In the healing of this broken neck, my victim should be on the main and the sexual surgery of the reverting. For Eldon, at KF KS7 SIA he did that case. For JR at US6 LBP Cary, W6GLB for stage 4 cancer with CEDO therapy and the treatment process there on site at the TWA My sister Barbara, Salvation, and my computer, from the memorial in our presence.

Let's, uh, what's on our list right now, Lord, but we'd like to also list up all of your significant offensives, and most of those, all those, your sufferings from today. Let's thank you for opening your heart to each one of us, for the gift of your son, Jesus Christ, made. and it's KJ7QQH, thank you for your help in this.

- Al, KJ7QQH, thank you so much for those prayers. We really appreciate you leading us to the throne of grace. This is WB7MAX, neck 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 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, this is Orange Joke.

Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, go ahead. Why do crabs never volunteer? Why do crabs never volunteer?

Um, wow, you got me on that one. Anybody want to give that a shot? Go ahead.

Because they're so shellfish. You're right. That's a good one.

Alright everybody, have a blessed day. I'll pass if I need to. Thank you for that, Beck.

Yeah, why do crabs never volunteer? Because they're so shellfish. All right, real good.

Thanks, Beck. All right, WB7MX, standing by. Anybody want to chat?

I am here. Mark, KJ7PVC, good to hear your voice. How are you doing?

I'm sorry. Yeah, real good, Mark. No worries.

We got you down at the late check-in, and you're on the list for today. So thank you for being here. And, yep, don't worry about the alarm.

That happens to all of us. And, yeah, the whole coffee cup thing was a joint project between Eric, KD70S, his wife, Tracy, who did a bunch of the work, and myself. And so Eric came up with the idea, and he and Tracy did the design and all the footwork, and I helped out.

So anyway, yeah, we try to send one to everybody on the net. Some have gotten theirs already. Some have yet to get theirs, depending upon what the post office does.

But we ordered 50 of those things and we're trying to get one to everybody who's been checking into the net recently. So I just realized that I have to put Cody KS7TRF on the list and have him there so he'll before too long. But anyway, Mark, I'm glad you got your cup, and now you can join the West Coast Bible Study drinking coffee out of the West Coast Bible Study mug.

Back to you there, Mark. Thank you. .

Thank you. Yeah, Mark, real good. Well, I'm glad that you're seeing the source of your noise and that you're chasing your electrons down and making them line up and behave themselves.

That's always a good process. Yep. Well, you'll be able to baptize your West Coast Bible Study mug with some coffee tomorrow, and we'll look forward to hearing from you.

Mark, KJ7PVT, you're sounding good on my radio. Probably a 4x5, a little staticky, but very readable. able to copy all your words just fine.

So anyway, good signal, Mark, in good conditions today. All right, WB7MAX, is there anybody else have any comments? Please come down to your call line.

I'm sorry. Hey, K6FK, everything went well this morning, Mac. Yeah, real good.

I was really happy, yep, and was able to use the Coeur d'Alene station several times to listen to folks. Works out really well. I just spin the dial up and listen, and then I spin it down to transmit, and, you know, the volume, and it just works great.

I'm so thankful. Yeah, me too. We'll get the transmit side of this working probably early September.

We've got to get a tree climber up there and all that stuff, so I'll give you an update on how that's going. Yeah, copy that. Nevertheless, it's working well for me.

Jeff, I'm so pleased with the report of the Ministry of Community Affairs you for the additional pictures i'll be looking those over haven't had a chance really to talk about that or look at them very much uh got an interesting comment from eric katie 70s uh he said uh first john 2 1 jesus is our advocate when we do sin that was a great comment on his part i got there a little late while the prayer was going on nevertheless That's another good thing, the reference to Psalm 38, that Jesus is advocating to the Father on our behalf for our forgiveness. And what a blessing that is. He applies it.

He shed blood on the cross. to the forgiveness of our sins, not only in our justification, but also in our sanctification, our walking with the Lord. So, when we confess our sins, Jesus is on our side, asking the Father to look on His own shed blood as the grounds and the reason why fellowship with Him should be restored.

Eric, TD70S, Sanctus.com Back to you there, Jeff, 186, okay, go ahead. Yeah, Max, that's a great verse too. You know, it's so nice to sit down with young kids and have a good chat with them like I was able to yesterday.

And after that, we took the cannon out. I don't know if you know about the monkey cannon, but that's a whole other story. I've got a CO2-operated cannon.

And it's about four feet long. It's a double-barrel CO2 cannon that I bought years ago. It's part of what started Operation Worship.

And the funny part of it is I don't want to shoot— stuff at kids, obviously that's kind of dangerous, but what I have discovered over the years and it works so good is you put tennis balls in it and it shoots a tennis ball or more, one or more, almost a thousand feet in the air and I All I tell the kids is, look it, all you gotta do is catch one. If you can catch a tennis ball coming down from that high, I will give you a stuffed animal. So I brought a bunch of stuffed animals with me.

I gotta tell you, it's hilarious watching these kids try to catch that. It's almost impossible, over. Yeah, you bet.

A tennis ball falling from a thousand feet has got some fairly decent velocity. Yeah, trying to catch one of those is interesting. You know, we made potato cannons, and we would put starting fluid, you know, and make it out of PVC pipe, and the barrel on them was about an inch and a half in diameter.

PVC and we take about an 8 foot section of it and we would sharpen the puzzle. And so when you take a potato and you shove it in there it cuts the potato to the right side, yeah? So you use a ramrod and jam it all the way down and then the chamber, was about three inch of PVC.

And so you glue the inch and a half barrel into about a two-foot section of three inch PVC. And on the back, you have a screw lid, right? So you unscrew the lid and you squirt the starting fluid in there.

You screw the lid back on and then you have a little striker. that we got out of a Coleman lantern. We put that into the side and you spin that thing and it shoots the potato out there at really high velocity.

You absolutely don't want to shoot that at anything. You don't want to destroy it. So I understand about the tennis ball cannon and CO2, well, that's, That's not explosive.

We're operating a little more dangerously than that. But, yeah, remember potato cannons? We had a lot of fun with those.

So I understand about the tennis ball cannon, but I can't imagine catching a tennis ball coming down. Did any of the kids catch them? Were they able to do that over?

Yeah, I'll tell you what I had to do. Our cannon is made, it cost us $7,000 back many, many years ago. And it turned out to be the biggest ministry tool I've ever purchased.

I've shot 10,000 stuffed monkeys out of that cannon over the years from 2006 till now. and in the big concerts, you know, where we had 30,000 people. But it's made of aluminum.

It's powder-coated red. It is the most gorgeous thing in the world. And I run 300 pounds of pressure in that thing.

As you know, that's a lot of pressure. That's what it was rated for. So quite a thrill for kids.

Yes, a few of them caught them, but what I had to do to get that to happen, we had about 50 kids out there participating in this event, and I had to shoot six or eight of them at a time. And, you know, now and then one would catch it. When I was at Camp Pendleton with this gun, I had 450 Marines, and I would shoot a tennis ball out, and none of them could catch it.

That's funny. That is funny. Well, anyway, yeah, that's a lot of fun, and I'm glad you're able to do that and create a lot of interest.

And, yeah, you know, I was at a baseball game, and they were shooting T-shirts out of a cannon like that. They roll up a T-shirt and slide it down the muzzle, and then they'd shoot it. And I actually was one of the ones that caught the t-shirt.

That was fun. Oh, yeah, I've done some crazy stuff. At Spur West Coast, Max, I did something I don't believe to date I did.

I put a t-shirt in the cannon, and I did sort of what was a trailer that was Carl's Jr., and I said, listen, I need a big, big old bowl of ice cream. with Hershey's chocolate on it. I would just put cherries in there, everything.

We loaded the full barrel of that cannon with a chocolate sundae, and it's a four-inch barrel that's four feet long. When I shot that, it came down on, oh, gosh, probably 1,000 kids.