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Good morning, Roger. How are you doing? It's good to hear your voice.

Thank you. It's great to hear the check-in so clear without my noise that I normally have. And the prayers for stillness certainly have been answered as of yesterday.

It was so windy here. And it's absolutely still. And the good news up here in Byers Creek, and wanted to check with RKD Bert whether he remembers Byers Creek that comes from Huckleberry Mountain.

That's where we are located. But yeah, it's very calm. and the skies are relatively clear.

Fortunately, yesterday we had so much smoke, I was so glad that I didn't have the windows open. Anyway, just praising the Lord to be able to praise the Lord with these WB7Vs and all. Yeah, real good.

Glad to be able to see that things are going well for you there all right wb7 in the X look for chickens we got Roger WB some of these they all checked in any others kilo Mike 5 Foxtrot and good morning well came 5m how you doing I'm doing okay no new prayer requests just sitting here waiting for the Bible study to start KM5F. All right, real good. Good to hear that.

All right, we got Will, KM5F checked in. Any other check-ins, please come now. Thank you.

Thank you. This is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Follow Study. We continue to look for check-ins.

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Thank you. All right, here's 6 o'clock. It is time for us to get started with the West Coast Bible Study.

This is WB7MX. We are looking today at Psalm 42 and Psalm 43. And we're going to be reading both of those psalms together because they are a unit, and we'll see that as we go along.

But before we get started, we want to have Mike W7TWO open a prayer for us today. Mike W7TWO, can you open a prayer for us today? Go ahead.

Well, good morning, everyone. This is W7TWO. And it's definitely fun to come to you this morning with the first to learn more about you and about what you have done for us.

we thank you for your grace that you've given us we thank you for who you are and what you've done and we ask that you instill your wisdom in our hearts and give us the opportunity today to prepare for them and give them to others. Thank you, Father, and we pray in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen, Mike. Thank you so much for that prayer. I really appreciate that.

All right, so we're going to do something a little unusual today. We're going to look at two psalms together, Psalm 42 and 43. Psalm 42 and 43...

are by many Bible scholars considered to be one psalm with one theme. And how they became separated into two psalms and why they became separated into two psalms, it's not known. But many of the older Hebrew manuscripts have them as one psalm, though the Septuagint has them as two separate ones as they are in our Bibles.

But there's such a remarkable internal consistency in language and thought and theme and phraseology in them that it makes it virtually certain that they are one psalm. Now, both of these psalms lament the author's inability to come to the temple to worship. Both of these psalms are a prayer to God to remedy the situation of his inability to go to the temple and worship.

And both of them repeat the same refrain of hope in virtually the same words. If you notice, Psalm 42:5 it says why art thou cast down oh my soul why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance and then you notice Psalm 42 in verse 11 why art thou cast down oh my soul why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the help of my countenance and my God. And then notice, if you will, Psalm 43 and verse 5, Why art thou cast out, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him who is the help of my countenance and my God. So we see the connection here between these two psalms in the theme that they have and even in the language that they employ. So we're going to treat both of these psalms as one single psalm and deal with them as a single unit.

Now, we don't know who wrote this psalm, nor when it was written. What we do know is where it was written. The author of this psalm, tells us very specifically in verse 6 of chapter 4 of the 42nd psalm uh that he was uh uh over by the river jordan uh he was on the northern part of it which was the land of the hamanites and he was on a hill by the name of mizar verse 6 of chapter 42 tells us all of that The point is, he was nowhere near Jerusalem in the temple.

He was a long way away, okay? And for unknown reasons, and apparently because of the actions of his enemies, he was forced to remain where he was, and he was not able to get to the temple to worship. And therein lay his depression, his sorrow, and his grief.

In a word, he was brokenhearted because he couldn't go to church. Because of circumstances outside his control, he was hindered from being able to go to the house of God. And that's what these two Psalms are all about.

Now, for some folks, they're really thrilled that they don't have to go to church because they don't have a heart for the Lord, his people, or his worship. But for other people, it's like, boy, I'm really bummed out I can't go to church today. and that's what the author of this psalm's attitude was.

He loved God. He loved God's people. He recognized that at the temple where God's people and God's presence are is the place to worship and fellowship and be close to the Lord.

So the point is that the true Christian has a strong desire to come into the special presence of God and the house of God to worship together with the people of God. And he figures out every way he can to make it to church, not every way he can to avoid having to go. And so when this Christian can't go to church, he cries out to God for help in overcoming whatever it is that's hindering him from being able to go.

So that's what's going on in this psalm. What we have in these two psalms is the cry of a man who longs to be able to once again attend the public worship of God and the house of God with the people of God. And so this prayer contains supplications regarding that theme, and they all end with the same phrase of self-encouragement, where he has a chat with himself, and he says, Self, why are you cast down?

Hope in God, he is going to help you. All right, that's a little introduction to our two psalms. And so Al KJ7QQH is going to read to us Psalm 42 and Psalm 43 as a single unit.

Go ahead there, Al. Thank you, Pastor Mac. This is KJ7QQH, and I'll be reading from the New King James Version.

Psalm 42, verse 1. One of our favorites. Sing in church.

As the deer and for the waterworks, so pants my soul to you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for this living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears within my food, day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. where I used to go with the multitude.

I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with the multitude that kept a no-boom feast Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Open, God, for I should yet praise him for the health of his counsel. O my God, my soul is cast down within me.

Therefore, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and from the heights of Parma. from the hill my dark deep come to deep as the voice as the noise of your waterfalls all your waves and billows have gone over me the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime and in the night his song shall be within me a prayer to the God of my life I will say to God my rock Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the midst of the oppression of the enemy?

As with a breaking of my bones, my enemies reproach me, while they say to me all day long, Where is your God? Why are you cast out, my soul? Why are you just blinded with empty hope in God?

For I shall praise Him, the help of my Counselors and my God. I want to give you a moment to turn the page to Psalm 43. Well, we'll continue.

Prayer to God in times of trouble. Psalm 43, verse 1. Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For you are the God of my strength. Why are you casting me?

Why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out your light and truth.

Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God by exceeding joy.

And on the harp I will praise you. O God, my God, why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you divided within me? Oop in God, for I shall yet bring him to help with my counsel and my gospel.

That is... Psalm 43, KJ7, QTH, we'll be back to you, Pastor Max, at next control. Good reading, Al.

Thank you so much for reading Psalm 42 and 43 together in that fashion. All right, any comments on these two psalms? Please come down to your call center.

Mark, KG7PVT, please go ahead. ... ...

... I think that's what's happening already towards the end of the year. Yeah, you bet.

Thanks for that. I'm aware of that structural nature of the book of Psalms. Thank you for pointing it out.

And yeah, what a place to begin. With the Exodus, Israel is leaving. Egypt and they are headed to the promised land and of course there in that promised land they will be able to worship God that's the place of God's special dwelling and they are headed that direction so how appropriate to open that exodus section of Psalms with a desire to be in the house of God in the land of God Mark thanks for pointing that out alright other comments on this please come down All right, well, while you're thinking, I will comment on verse 2 of Psalm 42.

My sole thirst for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God? And so that's the heart cry of a real Christian. He wants to be with God.

He wants to draw near to God. He wants to have fellowship with God. That's why we're in this Bible study.

That's why we're reading the Scriptures. That's why we pray. It's why we go to church.

That's why we seek out every means available to us of contact with God and of communion with God. And so this verse 2, I think, really expresses all of our hearts. We want to draw near to God.

And there's a verse that says, I will be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness, O Lord. And the idea is that when we finally die and we go to be with the Lord and our first sight is of his face and of his presence in heaven. that is going to be the ultimate, final satisfaction.

You know, we long after God, we do everything we can to draw near to God and have fellowship with God, and yet we still do that by faith and not by sight, right? And so the closest we get to sight is, you know, reading the scriptures and visualizing, what they describe about our Lord Jesus, his life, his ministry, his words, his actions. And as we look at those things, we, as it were, see Jesus with the eye of faith through the descriptions of Scripture.

And it's like, boy, I'm really looking forward to the day when I can lay actual eyes on him And we won't have to walk by faith anymore. We can walk by sight because we'll be walking with him in those green pastures and by those still waters. All right.

Any other comments on these two psalms? Please come down. WB7VZL.

Roger. Please go ahead. It's again the drawing for going to the temple to be part of the procession, I noticed in verse 4, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.

And it makes me very much aware, as you highlighted along with us, the importance of the book of Hebrews to move the early Christians to focus in on where Jesus is and to leave that tradition behind. And that's a huge transition. And I'm putting myself in the place of this author with these tremendous drawings of tradition.

And then imagining myself becoming a believer of Jesus and living also... possibly in Jerusalem. So I'm emphasizing with the early church and the inertia and the momentum that it would take for the exercise of faith that Jesus now is our high priest.

The focus should not be on earth, but on heaven. That's the impression I had. Over.

Roger, that's a really insightful statement. I completely agree with you. And we see the difficulty of that transition throughout the New Testament, especially in the book of Hebrews, but also in the book of Acts and elsewhere.

And, you know, all of Old Covenant Israel's religious life revolved around the temple. That was the focus. And when we come to the New Covenant and the New Covenant Church...

All of our religious life revolves around the temple as well, except that the temple is now the new covenant church, the local church. Jesus said in Matthew 18 and verse 20, where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst. And repeatedly in Ephesians 2 and 1 Corinthians 3 and 1 Peter chapter 2, the local church is specifically called a temple of God.

And elsewhere we're told in 1 Peter 2 that we are spiritual priests. We make up the living stones. We offer spiritual sacrifices.

Uh, and Jesus is there with his glory and special presence. So, uh, the language of the old covenant temple is brought directly into the new covenant church, not physically, but spiritually. And, uh, So this is why we long to go to church for the same reason we long to go to the temple under the old covenant.

That was the appointed place where God met with his people. That was the place where spiritual sacrifices were done. That's the place where worship was specifically offered at a unique way and in a deep level that we just don't experience during the week.

And so that transition... of walking away from the temple and walking into the gathered assembly of the saints, the local church, was a tough transition. And in fact, what you see is that like in Acts chapter 3, I believe it is, Peter and John going up to the temple at the hour of prayer.

So that was a process for them to switch over from Old Covenant worship to New Covenant worship, and also from the place of Old Covenant worship to the place of New Covenant worship. So, yeah, Roger, that would have been a tough transition. Back to you there, Roger.

yeah thank you for enriching that that uh perspective and the broadening of of my perspective uh because uh you know even though jesus is in heaven as we find very strongly in I hope it's still on frequency here, but where Al said, I hope to get to church today. And I can sure see why it was appropriate for him to read this morning, especially with that desire. So, Al, we're certainly praying that you will be able to do that.

Anyway, back to you, Max. Yeah, thank you for that. Appreciate that, Roger.

Okay, any other comments on this passage? Please come down with your call, sir. All right.

Well, while you're thinking, pretty quiet out there today, I'll go ahead and make another comment. And that's the condition that the psalmist found himself in. When you look at verse 5, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?" You know, I don't know about you guys, but I experience that quite a bit, you know, where circumstances or my sins or, you know, whatever's going on in the world can really throw you into quite a sense of despondency and being cast down in your feelings and in your attitude. And so what David does here is he's counseling himself. He's having what we call a soliloquy, which is someone talking to themselves out loud.

And he's counseling himself, and he's saying, "If you're depressed, self, hope in God. He's the antidote to depression. I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

And so he's looking to God for lifting up. He's looking to God for an encouragement. He's looking to God for deliverance from his anxiety.

And he's saying, verse 6, oh, my God, my soul is cast down within me. And he describes that as being like buried under a waterfall in verse 7. And he says, verse 8, Yet, in spite of the fact that I feel crushed by all of my burdens and struggles and difficulties, yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytimes, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

So what he's doing here is in the daytime, he's meditating on the kindnesses of the Lord. In the nighttime, he's singing to the Lord, and he's praying to the Lord. And so what he's doing here is he's turning his focus away from his circumstances and his troubles, and...

And he is turning his focus on God, and he's reflecting on God, he's praying to God, he's singing to God, and that's how he lifts himself out of his depression. I remember there's a passage in Samuel, 2 Samuel, where it says that David sat down on a rock and encouraged himself in the Lord. And he just went over his promises, and he went over his relationships, and he went over God's attributes.

And after going over all of that, he was encouraged to get up and keep fighting the battle in spite of very discouraging circumstances. Alright, any other comments on this passage? Please come down.

WB7, is it open? Roger, please go ahead. Yeah, your comments certainly attracted me again to verse 3.

This is how the NIV puts this depression that you described so vividly. My tears have been... my heart day and night.

What a description. Over. Yeah, for sure.

And there have been times when we just cry our eyes out and we see Jesus weeping at the tomb of Lazarus. And so for us to be so discouraged that we're just sobbing is not anything extraordinary or unusual for the people of God through the centuries. And so we see these lamentations.

In fact, we've got a book entitled Lamentations in the Scriptures. So, yeah, he's not able to enjoy the means of grace, which in his day and age was going to the temple in Jerusalem. Apparently his enemies were keeping him away from the temple and the means of grace.

He feels crushed and burdened by his circumstances, whatever they all included, and as a result, he is heartbroken. But what do heartbroken people do? They don't turn away from the Lord.

They don't curse the Lord. They don't charge God foolishly with injustice or unfairness or unkindness. Instead, they turn to the Lord.

And they counsel themselves to have hope. And, of course, hope is the antidote to brokenheartedness. You know, when somebody is depressed, what they need is hope.

And where are you going to find hope other than in the Scriptures and in the promises and in our Saviour? and in our Heavenly Father who loves us and whose love we can't be separated from, as it says in Romans chapter 8. All right, any other comments on this passage?

Please come now. KD70S. Eric, KD70S, go ahead.

Yeah, your comments just kind of made me think of a proverb. Okay. I think it's Proverbs 13:12, where hope deferred makes the heart sick, and when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

So, yeah, that's kind of my thought or my comment. I'm going to just call that to my memory. Yeah, that's a great passage and directly applicable to this passage as well.

And yeah, hope deferred makes the heart sick. You know, when there's a gap between what we expected to happen and what actually happens, you know, that depresses us. It discourages us.

And so, you know, we have to set our expectations of where God instructs us to place them. That is, in His promises, in His character, in His Word, in His Son. But then also we have to recognize that sometimes there's a gap between the promised appropriated and the promised experienced.

So, for example, Eric's Psalm 50 and verse 15, And call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee. and thou shalt glorify me. So there's a promise.

We're taught to expect that in our day of trouble, we cast it on the Lord, and he will deliver us. But what he doesn't say is when, and what he doesn't say is how. He just says that He will.

And so we tend to put our hopes in a particular time frame. We tend to put our hopes in a particular method of God's deliverance. And when those don't come, we can get really discouraged.

But what we have to do is exercise patience on the timing of God's deliverances. And we have to exercise faith and trust with reference to the wisdom of God as to how He's going to do that deliverance. So, yeah, hope deferred makes the heart sick.

And we have to ask ourselves, well, am I hoping it's something God really has in common? Is it something I've just erected in my own mind that God should do or must do or ought to do? And so, yeah, thank you for bringing that passage out, Eric.

Good passage, and I think directly relates to our passage. All right, any other comments, please come down. QQH.

Oh, KJ7QQH, go ahead. I just wanted to... I appreciate Roger's comment about getting to church, and I just think that we draw our strength from God through each other, our communion with each other, and that the tears being like food is our suffering.

The things that we suffer through also make us stronger. KJ7, KQH. Yeah, two really good thoughts there, Al.

I know that a lot of times when I am discouraged, just being around another Christian who isn't, or pouring out my discouragements to another Christian and having them counsel me with the Word of God and with prayer often lifts me up and lifts me out of that. So, you know, thank you for bringing that out. It's really important to have fellowship.

That's one reason why we have the West Coast Bible study, right? And so that we can encourage each other in the things of God and strengthen each other and Lift each other up out of that out of that state of discouragement So Al, thank you for that comment. What was the second half of your comment that slips my mind now?

Regarding the tears being like food and that also distributing it as well. Yeah, right. So in our sorrows, we draw near to God.

You know, you don't think of tears as being nourishing. But there's a passage in Ecclesiastes that says it's better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. For in the house of mourning the heart is made better.

And so, you know, afflictions are one of the primary tools God uses to help us grow to that next level. And so, you know, it's during these times of discouragement that we also find there are times of growth, times of deepening faith, times of drawing near to God in prayer, times of trying to really having fellowship with God and being... made more into the image of his son.

So, yeah, tears are meat. Tears are food. All right, any other comments?

Please come now. Mark, KJ7PVT, go ahead. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I'm sorry. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for that.

Those new covenant promises are things we can cling to when we are in a state of depression, in despondency, discouragement. And to know that we belong to him, he's written his laws on our hearts, to know that he's committed to us. You know, He will be our God and we shall be His people.

And then to know that He's cleansed us. You know, if your sins and iniquities will I remember no more. God is not going to cast off His people ever.

And so even though it appears from our circumstances that it seems like we have been cast off, we repudiate those satanic suggestions. that somehow God has let us go and abandoned us. We have to rely on His Word and not on our sinful fallen reasonings or on the whispers of Satan who comes to us and lies to us about what God's attitude towards us is.

And, you know, we just have to continue to be trusting in God's Word Follow up, go ahead. who had back surgery and is in a lot of pain now as he strives to recover and all those nerves that were inflamed by that surgery need to calm down and heal up. And Lord, I just pray that you would speed that process and that Chris, Father, would soon be back on his feet, able to walk, be pain-free, and be able to go forward with his life, Father, and do the work that he needs to be able to do.

Father, we continue to pray for Tom, WW17, Lord, we just pray that you would continue to meet his physical needs. Father, he needs a wheelchair. Pray that you would provide that for him through those government agencies that are supposed to do that.

Lord, we pray that his legs and body would heal up from his spinal surgery and all the difficulties that come from sitting for so long and so much, and Lord, I just pray that He would just have peace and wisdom in knowing how to manage the affairs of his life. Father, we pray for Beck. I ask that you would continue to heal him, take away that double vision, pray for full recovery of his hearing.

And, Lord, we just ask that he would have peace and patience with the healing process, recognizing that it takes time, but, Lord, we pray that you would speed that process and that his vision would be fully restored sooner rather than later. Lord, continue to pray for my own pastor, Pastor Jeff Black. and his severe ulcerative colitis.

Lord, I just pray that you would be pleased to heal him of that so he can return to the pulpit and to the place of ministry that you called him to. Lord, just give him patience with the process. Give him freedom from pain and difficulty.

And Lord, I pray that all of his functions would be returned to normal. Lord, we continue to pray for Cody, KS7TRF, Father. His dad, Roger, has multiple failures in his body.

It looks like he's going to be going home to be with you before long. Lord, I just pray that you would be pleased to give him peace. May his final days here on earth be blessed with a sweet fellowship with you in his heart, rejoicing in your promises and receiving ministry from his family.

who loves him and is gathered to hold his hand, as it were, as he crosses the River Jordan and into that promised land of heaven. Father, we just pray for Cody's niece, Zoe. Father, we just pray for her salvation and that she would make good choices.

Father, we continue to pray for our brother Keith, WB7RKR. Lord, pray that you would heal him of his recent concussion. Pray, Lord, that you would give him wisdom in terms of knowing best how to deal with Ronnie and what the best living situation for her would be.

And, Lord, I just pray that there would be sound wisdom exercised and an open path for that provides clarity with reference to Keith and Ronnie and what's best for both of them going forward in their lives. Father, we just want to pray for Keith. Keith, K7NEB, his son Grant, is on a two-week deployment with the Air Force as a firefighter.

Lord, I just pray that you'd give Grant safety. Father, I just pray for all the firefighters across the western United States, Lord, who are battling these forest fires. Lord, give them success, give them safety, cause the wind to die down.

Lord, I pray that you would spare structures and lives. And Lord, I just pray that Grant in particular would know your presence and the protection of your spirit, Father, as he fights these wildfires. Lord, we just want to pray for Steve, W6YSI, that you would give him wisdom and his wife regarding finding a new home in Tuolumne County.

if that's your will we pray that you provide them with a place and that you would give them wisdom and knowing which one to select lord we continue to pray for scott 87 yqt yqt for his wife pam that you would bring her lupus into remission and that she would know freedom from that autoimmune disease that's attacking her body. Lord, just pray that Scott will be able to get his antenna up soon and he'll be able to join us here on the net. Lord, I just want to pray for our brother Darrell, WB7AOT, who's running the Midwest Bible Study.

Lord, we just ask that your good hand of blessing would be on him. Lord, as they fellowship together around the word there, at 4 a.m. our time.

Lord, may you be pleased to enable them to encourage each other in the things of God. Lord, I just want to pray for Roger, WV7VVL, and his witness to so many of the lost, Father, that he reaches out to. We pray especially for Caitlin and for Levi.

Lord, I know there's others that Roger's ministering to. You know their names. Lord, open each heart.

And then, Lord, for our brother Jim in 70KE, who asked to have opportunities to testify for the Lord and tell of his grace to others. Lord, open doors of utterance for all of us. that we would be able to share the gospel freely and that you would open hearts to be able to receive it.

Father, we pray for Brian, KJ7PWM, his son Bailey, and his partner Joey. Lord, are involved in a construction business. I pray that would go well.

I pray it would be profitable. I pray that the customers would be happy. and that it would be a win-win situation for everybody.

Father, I just pray that they would be able to build a solid and successful business so they can provide for their families. And, Lord, I just pray that you would help them to do well. in that activity.

Father, we continue to pray for Brian's friend, Jay, and his continued healing from prostate cancer. Lord, just have mercy on Jay. I know he's got some radiation treatments coming up here in August.

And, Lord, I just pray that those treatments would go well. and would fully eradicate his prostate cancer from his body. Lord, we continue to pray for Kevin, KB7ZXN, and his ministry.

Lord, to Harvey and Karen. Lord, I pray that there would be an open door there for their salvation as they struggle with health problems in their declining years. Lord, we just want to pray for our nation today.

Father, we pray for our president, we pray for Congress, we pray for all the judges. Lord, we just ask for mercy on our nation. May it be, Lord, that our nation is brought to repentance and that it would turn away from its iniquities.

And Father, that you would lead our nation in a direction that honors you. that creates peace and security and stability and economic prosperity. But Father, most of all, a humility and a God-centeredness and a return to submitting to the authority of your words.

Lord, bring revival to our nation, we ask. Father, we just want to ask all of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Thank you for his goodness, his mercy, and his grace to each one of us and for the gift of your son, Jesus Christ.

Amen. Father we ask these things in Jesus name Amen All right, this is WB7MX, Net Control from the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank all the stations you 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 pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learned and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship.

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We're running the 76MID, February 1, 4-10-5-8. uh, modulated by a BMI of 5.5 days, uh, 300 watts per hour, and what the system is, and how do you do it again, and where you go, and the micro-summers they show the time, yeah. and it's pretty much a rundown of the transmitter so we're going to see where is the normal strength right now 6117A and we'll say it's eventually an and the United States built the British, or English I should say, English Regal RA-117.

And that's the receiver. And I don't know what the statement that I made. Chuck mentioned that it was used in the MLS-3.

It's an interesting diameter in the water. It's hanging on the bow and it's in a really pathetic gray colored box. And, you know, George and I say it sounds alright.

And that's the good thing. People in these zones that we see, like a lot of cases, may allow speakers out. We have to run the right challenge of 6.3.2 volts or something like that.

So we have to run a 4 ohm figure. So we have to run that 55 degrees this morning. So anyway, that's going to be clear.

It's going to be hot. Yeah, I mean, I saw this. Let's see.

Let's see. Over to my W7. And that's WA7.

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

**Psalm 42:1-11** 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 These things I remember, and I pour out my soul in me: for I will go into the place of the wonderful altar, even unto the house of God. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the help of my countenance and my God. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto God shall be accepted. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the help of my countenance and my God.

**Psalm 43:1-5** 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the help of my countenance and my God.

### Study Summary

The study focused on Psalms 42 and 43, which are considered a single unit by many scholars. These psalms express a deep longing for God and the temple, reflecting the author's sense of being away from Jerusalem. The psalms are filled with lament and hope, with a recurring refrain that encourages the soul to hope in God and to praise Him (Psalm 42:5, 11; Psalm 43:5).

The passage begins with a vivid image of a thirsty deer seeking water, symbolizing the soul's yearning for God (Psalm 42:1-2). The psalmist's soul is in distress, longing to be in God's presence and to worship Him. This sense of longing is further emphasized by the psalmist's tears and the daily reproaches from those who mock his faith (Psalm 42:3-4).

In Psalm 42:5, the psalmist turns to self-encouragement, urging his soul to hope in God and to remember that praise is yet to come. The psalmist's soul is cast down, but he finds strength in remembering God's presence and promises (Psalm 42:6-8). Despite feeling overwhelmed by circumstances, like deep waters calling to deep waters (Psalm 42:7), the psalmist finds comfort in God's lovingkindness and the assurance that his prayers will be heard (Psalm 42:8).

The psalmist also questions why God seems to have forgotten him, especially in the face of oppression and reproaches from his enemies (Psalm 42:9-10). Yet, the refrain returns, urging the soul to hope in God and to praise Him (Psalm 42:11).

In Psalm 43, the psalmist calls on God to judge his case and deliver him from ungodly and deceitful people (Psalm 43:1-2). He seeks God's light and truth to guide him to His holy hill and tabernacle (Psalm 43:3). The psalmist expresses his desire to go to the altar of God, to praise Him with joy and music (Psalm 43:4). The study concludes with the same refrain, urging the soul to hope in God and to praise Him (Psalm 43:5).

Participants contributed various insights, including the structural nature of the book of Psalms and the Exodus theme, the transition from Old Covenant to New Covenant worship, and the importance of hope in God, even when it seems deferred (Proverbs 13:12). The discussion also emphasized drawing strength from God through fellowship and suffering.

The study concluded with prayers for various individuals and situations, reflecting the psalmist's own cry for help and deliverance. Pastor Mac summarized the study, emphasizing the themes of longing for God, hope in God's promises, and the importance of turning to God in times of distress. ==========