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All right, Jerry, KG6J is having trouble with a denture coming loose while trying to talk, so that's what's holding him up there. He's going to be a listener today, not talking. So he's praising the Lord that Rochelle and her husband made it home safe last night.

from her Stanford treatment for her cancer. And we prayed about that yesterday. We asked the Lord to give Rochelle and her husband a safe trip, and the Lord did give Rochelle and her husband a safe trip.

So, Jerry, AE70R, let's return praise to God for giving Rochelle and her husband a safe trip up to Stanford and back. That was an answer to prayer. Copy?

Copy that. The call sign again? The call sign is KG6J.

That's Kilo Golf 6 Juliet. Kilo Golf 6 Juliet. Real good.

And then he says, KG6J says his back is much better. So he wants to give thanks to the Lord for the healing of his back injury. So let's turn that prayer request into a praise.

Yes, sir. Thank you, Jerry, for that. Appreciate that.

All right, that's Jerry, AE70R, talking about Jerry KG6J and his prayer request. All right. Any other check-ins or prayer requests, please come down.

Kilo Delta 7, Echo Sierra. No new prayer requests for me today. All right, Eric.

Katie, 70S, we've got you checked in. Thank you for running the NetLogger program for us today, and we got you checked in. All right, any other check-ins, please come down.

This is WB7VZL from the Colville Woods, and we're just praising the Lord for the joy on the guests from Australia and Kenya. And we're going to take them to Spokane today for visiting a relative that practices medicine here in the Spokane area. Over.

Thank you. Well, copy that. Roger, WB7VCL, got you checked in.

Glad to hear you guys are enjoying yourselves there and got a little trip to Spokane today. That's not a little trip. That's quite a little way, isn't it?

It's about two hours. Yeah, copy that. Yeah, two-hour drive.

That's a good, solid drive. All right, Roger. Well, glad you guys are up there doing well.

We got you checked in. You're on frequency. Everything's sounding great.

Okay, any other check-ins? Please come down. There is Carol, KK7TPO.

Good morning, Carol. How are you doing? Copy that, Carol.

I'm hearing you direct on my radio. You're loud and clear. It's amazing.

I love to hear your voice on my radio. So, Carol, KK7TPO got you checked in. The conditions are fantastic today.

All right. Any other check-ins, please, come now. All right, then I would like to acknowledge Peter, KJ7BA.

Good morning, Peter. Good to see you there on the Utah SDR. I'm glad to have you with us.

And Peter says good morning to everyone. Good contact there, Peter. Thank you.

Also, Brian, KJ7PWM is there on the Utah. KJ7 PWM in off the Utah FTR. All right, any other check-ins, please come now.

KB7 ZXN. And there's Kevin, KB7 ZXN. Good morning, Kevin.

How are you doing? Good morning, Max. Good morning, everyone.

Hope everyone is doing well today. I copy that, Kevin. Everybody's doing great on this end of the stick.

Appreciate you being there. All right. Any other check-ins, please come now.

Kilo, Mike 5, Foxtrot. And there he is. He showed up there at the last second.

Good morning, Will. How are you and Martha today? By the way, how's her toe doing?

She broke her toe. So I don't, we're not sure that she actually broke it. It kind of turned purple, so she at least framed the joint or did something to it.

So the toe, she's got it all wrapped up and is able to walk around on it. So we'll see how long it takes to heal up. There's not much else I can do to it.

No new prayer requests other than for my wife's toe, KM5S. Thank you. Yeah, copy that.

She is already on the list for her toe, and it's healing. But, yeah, my wife does that from time to time, too, and it's really painful. And, yeah, about all you do is tape it to the toe next to it and wait for it to heal up.

Well, tell her to quit kicking stuff. Yeah, right. That is just a part of life for sure.

Well, tell Martha Faye we're very sympathetic and been there, done that, and... Sorry for her pain. All right, WB7MX, looking for any final check-ins.

Please come now. KJ7 PWM. There's Brian, KJ7 PWM.

Good morning, Brian. Already saw you there on the Utah. How you doing?

Doing good. Glad to be here. All right, real good.

Doing good. Glad to be here. Great signal, Brian.

Man, our band conditions are lovely today. All right, any other check-ins? Come now.

all right we are all caught up on sdrs and whatnot i'm looking over my netlogger thing here um okay i think we're all caught up there eric so everything's looking good all right this is wb7mx net control for the west coast bylaw study we are in psalm 63 today And so we'll be reading that when the time comes. But before that, we want to open our net in prayer. Jeff, AK6OK, please open a prayer for us this morning.

Thank you, Max. Good morning, everybody. It is Saturday.

And let's pray, everyone. Lord, it's been a crazy week. There's been a lot going on, and the enemy has been full force here in Rockland since we deployed 20,000 Bibles this week.

We received 60,000 Bibles this week. It's been brutal, but you know what, Lord? You are right there.

You've been right there. We've got all kinds of people who have issues going on here, and just pray, Lord, that you double it up and save us and be with us and help us to be at peace, even though we know that if we shouldn't be at peace, we're at peace anyway. And that's awesome.

And I just pray for this Bible study today that we'll all be listening up, and I think we've got a good Psalm 63 going this morning. We're blessed, Lord. Thank you so much.

And I want to pray in advance for Matt's trip coming up. The thousands of people will be affected by that. And the team back here will do well on our own.

I don't know how that works, but it does. And we're blessed. Thank you, Lord.

In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, Jeff. Thank you so much for that prayer.

I really appreciate that. Okay, we are in Psalm 63 today. A little background on this psalm.

Now, yesterday we looked at Psalm 62. And you'll remember that in that psalm, David was very strong in his faith in God. And in fact, his confidence in God was so strong that he was neither dismayed nor troubled by the circumstances he was in.

or by the enemies he was facing. Well, now in Psalm 63, the psalm before us today, David's in a very similar frame of mind. David, even though he's fleeing from Absalom in the wilderness of Judea, has great confidence in God.

God has made a covenant with David. You remember the promises that he made. And David is confident in God's promises, and David is sure that God will keep his promises.

And so David's confident also that his enemies are going to fail, and that God's going to bring judgment on them. And so he doesn't spend any time worrying about his enemies. He doesn't expend any emotional anguish over them.

God's going to deal with them, and God will deliver him from them. And so the focus of David in this psalm is exactly where our focus needs to be, and that is on our fellowship with God. Our fellowship with God is the theme of this psalm.

This psalm was all about our communion with him, our communication with him, our inward heart conversation with him. And that conversation we have, of course, at church. We have it at home.

We have it out in public, and we have it in private. And so the idea here is that David is strong in fellowship with God. And if we would fellowship with God more and focus on our problems less, we'd be a lot better off and enjoy a lot more peace.

And so David spends the first eight verses in this psalm speaking of his desire for fellowship with God and of his satisfaction in his fellowship with God. And because of the degree of fellowship he had with God and because of the depth of the fellowship he had with God, he's filled with contentment and peace and confidence regarding his circumstances. And so when David goes out after God and comes into the presence of God, he winds up leaving his troubles behind.

So that's how we gain peace about our troubles as well. Come into the presence of God in his church, in private, in your home, even if you're out and about, and find communion with him. And that brings confidence and victory over your problems.

All right, so be looking for the whole issue of fellowship as we read this psalm together. All right, that brings us to Beck, Alpha 5 Yankee. Beck, please go ahead and read for us, please, Psalm 63.

Psalm 63. Good morning, everyone. Al Balfa, 5 Yankee.

I'm reading the New King James Version. And this is a psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. 63.

Oh, God, you are my God. Early will I seek you. My soul thirsts for you.

My flesh longs for you. and a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, because your loving kindness is better than life.

My lips shall praise you. Yes, I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips. When I remember you on my bed, I may mediate on you in the night watches, because you have been my help. Therefore, in the shadow of your wings, I will rejoice.

My soul follows close behind you. Your right hand upholds me. But those who seek my life to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

They shall fall by the sword. They shall be a portion of four jackals. But the king shall rejoice in God, everyone who swears by him shall glory.

But my mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped. Thanks for letting me read, Pastor Max. Alpha Alpha Phi Yankee, back to Matt.

All right, good job, Beck. Thank you for that reading. Appreciate that.

All right, any comments on our passage? Please come down to your call sign. WB-7VZL.

Roger, WB-7VZL, please go ahead. Yeah, there are so many special phrases and verses in this, and I'm sure that there will be many people that will highlight. The two that stand out, and I'm going to look here in a few minutes, 1 Chronicles 16, 11, what it says.

to see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. And like I said, I haven't looked it up yet this early, but I will here in a moment. And then in verse 6, When I remember thee upon my bed, I have done more praying in bed than probably I should.

So, in fact, when my knees are aging, I usually just flip over and go to my knees with my knees on my bed. Max, over. Okay.

Yeah, copy that. Yeah, praying on the knees on a hardwood floor, that gets old after a while, even for a young person. But, yeah, do, Roger, to pray in bed, that's something I think we all do.

You know, it's when we've stopped for the day. It's when we are starting the day, either when we go to sleep or wake up. And that's where we're reflecting and have some quiet time and can focus on what's happened during the day and pray about that.

Or in the morning, what's going to happen in the day and pray about that. And, you know, what's interesting, Roger, is that, you know, in verse 2, the fellowship's taking place in the sanctuary. That is in the temple, which would be kind of equivalent to our church, right?

So we pray in church and we pray at home. And so wherever we go is the idea. We pray to God, and that's the substance of our communication with God.

You know, communication or fellowship is like two people. Like, Roger, you're talking to me right now. I'm talking to you.

We're going back and forth. That's what we call fellowship, right? Yeah.

So we talk to God in prayer. He talks to us in His Word. And so as we read the Bible, God's speaking, and as we pray, we're speaking, and that's how we have fellowship with God.

So, Roger, thanks for bringing out the importance of prayer in bed, and the way to do it so it's a little easier on those old arthritic knees. Back to you there, Roger. Yeah, it sure has made a difference.

And of course I pray my favorite Romans chapter 3 prayer, usually in the first phrases. "Lord, take my defective will and send it back to me purified and sanctified." That's my go-to morning phrases. Yeah, amen.

And, you know, we all need to pray that prayer. I'm sure we all do in one form or another. But, you know, in verse 1 of Psalm 63 here, it says, O God, thou art my God, here it is, early will I seek thee.

And the idea is there early in the morning, and, of course, early in life, too. Early in any circumstance, at the front end. of anything we're doing, the front end of our day, the front end of our life, the front end of a project.

We pray at the front end of this Bible study. You know, Jeff AK6OK, let us in prayer. And so we lead with prayer is the idea.

It comes first. It comes early. Everything else comes after that.

All right, Roger, great comments. Thank you for that. Any other comments on the passage?

Please come now. KM5F? I will.

KM5F, please. KM5F, did you hear me? Yeah, I will.

Please go ahead. Please go ahead. Yeah, I got an echo there.

In 1 Thessalonians 5.17, it says, Pray without ceasing. So we're supposed to pray all the time and any time. Amen.

Even when we're driving and we see something that needs prayer, you don't want to close your eyes at that particular time, but prayer is a constant thing all the time, any time of the day, any time of the night. KM 5S. Yeah, amen, Will.

Thanks for pointing out 1 Thessalonians 5:17. Pray without ceasing. There's never a moment when we don't need God's help.

So there's never a moment when we should not be praying for God's help. And so the idea is don't let periods of prayerlessness go on in your lives. That needs to be, you know, one of the writers, I can't remember who it was, talked about practicing the presence of god and the idea is that you constantly have in your mind god is here you're constantly carrying a running conversation on with god as you go about your day and as you carry out your things and the idea is that you know you're always breathing right um EVERYONE OF US SINCE THIS BIBLE STUDY STARTED HAS BEEN BREATHING IN AND OUT, IN AND OUT, IN AND OUT.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN OUR CONVERSATION WITH GOD. WE'RE CONSTANTLY PRAYING JUST LIKE WE'RE CONSTANTLY BREATHING. BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS GOD CONSCIOUSNESS, WE'RE PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD, But Jesus Himself said, "Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age." And so we're laborers together with God in all that we do, and He's always with us.

And hopefully we're always with Him in our thoughts and minds. Now sometimes, of course, we've got to do stuff that requires our whole concentration. You know, when Jerry KG6J is doing his accounting and payroll work and all that stuff, he's got to focus.

And yet, you know, when you run into a little glitch, you know, and you think, Lord, help me with this, and then you go on. So I remember Nehemiah, that little arrow prayer he threw up when the king asked him, why are you so sorrowful, right? And he thought, uh-oh.

You know, you're not supposed to be sorrowful in the presence of the king. I'm in trouble. And he says, Lord, help me.

And then he told the king, hey, Jerusalem's in ruins, and, you know, my people are in distress. And the king says, well, what do you want? He says, well, I want to go back there, and I want to rebuild the wall.

And the king says, yeah, sure, go on ahead. So you see that little arrow prayer being thrown up there. Will, thanks for bringing it out, 1 Thessalonians 5, 17.

Great passage. All right, other comments, come now. Kevin, KB7ZXN, please go ahead.

Thanks, Bec. Yeah, great comments, KB7ZXN. And I just wanted to kind of look at the beginning of the text here as well.

or some versions might say Eli my God or oh my God. The addressing of the Lord here is addressing of a personal covenant God, a God that is a special relationship, the addressing of God in a covenant way. And we see that in Genesis 21, 33, when Abraham addresses God and everlasting Lord.

We see that in Genesis 48, 15 with Jacob, where he said, you have been my shepherd all my life. We see that in the New Testament, too, with Thomas in Genesis. John 20, 28, oh my Lord, my God, that same address of that covenant relationship there, and then launches right into earnest prayer, earnest seeking Him.

In other words, God is is a first priority here for David. He's not an afterthought. He's not a get-around-to-it type of thing.

In David's life here, he's expressing that thirst, that hunger, that desire to... to start his day, to initiate that communication with God from the outset. And not, you know, so many times people may find themselves just reaching out to God in crisis.

but that's not that's you're missing out on everything if you're doing that or you're missing out on so much sometimes that will bring people to God but the blessing comes when you make our Lord priority in our lives we start our day as we do here at this Bible study earnestly seeking God in God's presence in our lives, God's guidance in our life, God's strength in our life, and God's assurance and trust in his promises in our life. So just as he launches into this text, I think it's quite substantial. substantial the way he just addresses God and commits himself first and foremost to that seeking of Him.

KB7, is that acceptable? Yeah, Kevin's great comments. Yeah, you know, Kevin was saying that first phrase, "O God, Thou art my God." And you know, a lot of people talk about "the God," But it's a different thing to talk about my God.

And the idea of my there is the idea of personal connection. It's not that David owns God. It's just that God of the Bible is the God that David worships, the God that David has a relationship with, and as Kevin said, that he's in a covenant relationship with.

And so, you know, a lot of people talk about God... but they don't talk about a personal relationship with Him. And, you know, it's really telling to ask the question to people, how did you come to know the Lord?

And then listen for the answer. And a lot of times you can see this person doesn't have God as their God. They're just someone who is objective, someone that they call on whenever they need help.

But the rest of the time, He's not really part of their lives. And Kevin was bringing out the fact that we have a covenant relationship with God. He's a first priority.

He's not an afterthought, not someone we just call on in a crisis, but someone who we have an ongoing personal relationship with where he has first place in our life. You know, I was thinking of that verse in... Philippians where Paul says for me to live is Christ and the idea there is that Christ was the central organizing principle of his life Christ is what he led with the Christ is what he operated in the context of and Christ was the one that he was giving his life to and that he was serving so Kevin thanks for pointing out that my god is a declaration of that covenantal relationship, that first priority, and that God comes first in his life.

All right, other comments. Please come now. WB-7VZL.

Roger, WB-7VZL, go ahead. Yes, that passage in 1 Chronicles 16:11 that was in my side reference, piggybacks right next to Will's comment from Thessalonians about seeking God and praying with Him continually. And that's what this text says in verse 11, "Seek the Lord and His strength." seek his faith continually.

And so that certainly is what Paul talks about. Pray continually. And that's where he gets it without ceasing.

And then your comment about a monk that was really involved with praying continually, even as he washed the dishes in the monastery that he was in. I read that book too. Brother Lawrence, over.

Yeah, copy that. Okay, yep, that rings a bell now. Thank you for that.

Yeah, 1 Chronicles 16:11, "Seek the Lord in his strength, seek his face continually, That goes on here that he was going to seek the Lord continually here in our passage. Roger, thanks for that connection. Roger, up in Coville, are you able to hear Kevin KB7's edic sin up there?

Oh, beautifully. Yeah, the north-south or relatively north-south path is beautiful. Over.

Okay, real good. Glad to hear that. All right.

Any other comments on this passage? Please come now. KB7's edic sin.

Kevin, KB7's edic sin. Go ahead. Yeah, there's also kind of an understanding of separation here, you know, as David being in the wilderness, possibly when Absalom was after him and he was on the east side of the Jordan and there's a separation from Jerusalem there and kind of on the desert side of things.

YOU KNOW, EVEN ANY TIME, YOU KNOW, GOD CREATED US TO HAVE A THIRST AND A HUNGER FOR HIM, A DESIRE TO BE CLOSE TO HIM. AND SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY IF WE FIND OURSELVES, YOU KNOW, KIND OF IN THE WILD, wilderness of life sometimes, how much more stronger is that thirst, that desire to be drawn close to God here. And I think we see that here as he's physically separated there from the city of Jerusalem.

His thirst and hunger to be connected to God here is present as well there. Take me seven. Is that okay?

You know, Kevin, you make a really important point. You know, God has his appointed place of worship under the old covenant. That was the temple under the new covenant.

That's the local church. But, you know, there's times when David couldn't be at the temple, just like there's times when we can't be at church. But God is still close.

I mean, as you said, David was maybe even on the east side of Jordan. But God was there. And wherever we go, God is there because He's omnipresent.

And so when He says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you," what He's saying is, "Wherever you are, I am." And Psalm 139, you know, talks about, you know, whether I go forward, God's there; whether I go backwards, He's there; to the right, to the left. up and down, wherever I am, God is there. And that's a great comfort to know that fellowship with God is as close as turning our thoughts to Him, reflecting and echoing His Word, and then speaking to Him in prayer.

So, yeah, there's times when in God's providence we're not able to have a corporate fellowship or go to the place of God's special personal presence. which is the temple in the Old Testament and the church in the New Testament. But that doesn't mean that we can't have access to God.

And what a comfort it is to know wherever I am, you know, if I'm crawling around underneath the house, I can talk to God. If I'm up on top of a mountain, I can talk to God. If I'm out on the boat in the lake, I can talk to God.

If I'm in the kitchen washing dishes, I can talk to God. So what a blessing to know that God is as close as our turning our thoughts to Him. Kevin, thank you for bringing that out.

All right, other comments. Please come down. AK6OK.

Jeff, AK6OK, go ahead. You know, something that occurs to me, and I hear this all the time, about my God, your God, this God, that God. And it occurs to me there's only one God.

And I constantly hear this. Are we all in agreement that there's only one God? Amen.

We are absolutely in agreement. And, you know, that's the trouble is that people wind up inventing or self-defining who they want God to be, and then they wind up declaring that's the God that they have a relationship with. And I'm saying to myself, well, that's not the God of the Bible, and there is only one God.

So you're exactly right. When David talks about my God, he's not talking about a self-defined God that he invented that makes him feel comfortable and warm and fuzzy. He's talking about the God of the Bible, the true God, the one and only God.

That God is the God that I have a personal relationship with. And in that sense, he can say he's my God. But, Jeff, thank you for bringing that out.

There is only one God. And so, you know, people who worship a false God or a God of their own imaginations, are really worshipping an idol and no God at all, and it will do them no good, either in the present or in the future. So let's not delude ourselves by having thoughts about God that are self-invented and self-defined or culturally defined.

let's get our ideas about God from the scriptures you know just just a few psalms back and so on 50 in Psalm 50 and verse 21 you know God was that personally directly addressing in his own voice the people in Psalm 50 and verse 21 he's talking about their sins he says these things you have done are And I kept silent. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver. Whosoever offers praise glorifies me, and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God. So God is saying, look, don't project into me your own personality, your own value system, your own thoughts.

I am not like you. And that's why, Jeff, we've got to be diligent students of the Scriptures and say, "Who is the God the Scriptures reveal to us?" And then make sure that's the God that is our God that we worship. Great comment, Jeff.

Back to you. Okay, thanks, Max. And, yes, I've thought a lot about that.

And this is one reason it's so important to understand and know the Bible. is that when you see something going on that looks godly, you better compare what you know out of the Bible to make sure that it's God who's talking to you, it's God that's presenting something to you, etc. I read yesterday about, and some of you may have heard about this, about an imam, a gentleman in, I think it was in Iran or that area, who was talking down God, talking down Christians, screaming, loudly and he was struck down and died right on the spot.

I hope that got some people's attention over. Yeah, I heard about that story as well. And yeah, you're exactly right.

So, yeah, I really appreciate what you said. We've got to compare what's going on with what the Bible teaches. You know, for example, I knew a young lady once who moved in with her boyfriend, and they were living in fornication, unmarried.

And I confronted her about it, and she says, well, I prayed to God, and he told me it was okay. And I said, I don't know what God you are praying to, and I don't know what voice you heard, but it wasn't the voice of God. Because God says, you know, you shall not commit adultery.

Marriage is between one man and one woman. And in that context, you know, marriage is honorable and all, and the bed is undefiled. But, you know, whoremongers and adulterers, God's going to judge.

So just because somebody says, oh, you know, God told me this, God told me that, you've got to put it to the test of Scripture. and make sure that it's in alignment with that. So, yeah, people like to say, God said this, God said that.

The only way we know God has said something is because it's in the written scriptures. That's where God speaks. And if we have a prompting in our conscience or we have a voice that is nudging us to do something, Immediately, you know, we go to the scriptures and we say, "Is this of God or is this just the pizza I ate last night that's giving me indigestion?" And so, to the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it's because there's no light in them, Isaiah 8:20.

Alright, other comments on our passage? Please come down with your callsign. 5 Yankee.

5 Yankee. Go ahead, Beth. Yeah, I got a quick comment.

If someone was to say, "Who's your God?" I would say, "The God that sent His Son to die on the cross to save us from our sins." That's an excellent answer, Beck. That is a biblical definition of who the true God is, and I would say that that's a perfect answer. Go ahead, Beck.

I hope that's not the wisest thing to ever say. Yeah, well, it's a great thing to say for sure, because you're defining God according to biblical categories, and especially in relationship to the central work that He has done by which He has most greatly revealed Himself. And that is through the giving of his son and the provision of salvation by his substitutionary saving work on the cross.

So what God do I worship? Yeah, the God who sent his son to die for my sins. Excellent answer.

All right. Any other comments? Please come now.

Yeah, because, you know, when you're talking with a Mormon and he uses the word God, he's not talking about the same God you are. And if you're talking to a Muslim and he uses the word God, he's not talking about the same God you are. And so Paul recognized that he couldn't go to Athens, for example, and have a chat with the Greeks about God without first defining who that God was.

And you remember in Acts chapter 17, Paul was there on Mars Hill and he's preaching the Gospel and the first thing he does with these folks is he says to them, "I'm going You know, as I passed by and beheld your worship, I found an altar with an inscription to the unknown God, whom therefore you ignorantly worship; him declare I unto you. And he begins to define God. He begins to define him as the Creator.

He begins to say how he's to be worshipped. He talks about how that all people are made of one blood. and then he talks about the fact that he gives everyone life, and then he talks about the fact that he has a son, Jesus, and they need to repent and believe in him.

So if you're talking to a person with a Christian background, you can assume that they kind of understand the same God that the Bible talks about. But if you're talking with someone from a pagan background, you can't assume that their understanding of God is even remotely close to anything that's in the Bible. So you've got to start out with, "Who is God?" and then who is man in relationship to God and then what is sin and what are the consequences of sin and only after that do you get to the person and work of Jesus so that's a really important thing to understand alright other comments please come down KG6J Jerry KG6J go ahead stepping out of the face with a loose denture.

So coming out of those New Age beliefs and that exposure to some cults and things like unity, it occurred to me that it's like... You know, kids have filled it there. They have filled the God.

And as I was coming out of that, when I was introduced to a really good non-denominational evangelical church where the Bible was taught, and I heard this in a Sunday night study, and it's not from Scripture, but it was profound, and it made a difference. A God small enough for me to understand is it big enough for me to worship? I just wanted to ask that.

That was a profound and light-bulb moment for me. Amen. Well said, Jerry.

A God small enough for me to understand is a God that's not big enough for me to worship. Because a God small enough for us to understand is at our level. And we recognize no other human is suitable as an object of worship.

And if God is fully able to be comprehended by us, then He's no greater than us. And it's the nature of God that He is infinite, and the word the theologians use is that He's inscrutable. And the word "inscrutable" just simply means above and beyond our ability to comprehend.

It's not that God is irrational, and that's why we can't understand. it's that he's supra-rational which means he's above and beyond our understanding and so yeah uh God is is uh uh immense he's infinite um and uh therefore um you know, someone that we're always learning about but never fully comprehend. But what we do comprehend is enough for us to worship Him, to trust Him, to love Him, to serve Him, and to depend upon Him alone.

for the salvation of our sins by trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. So, right, this idea, build a God, build your own God, right? That's what people do, and that's just a self-constructed idol.

It may not be a physical statue. which is what we tend to think of as idols, we can have idols of the imagination. And they're just as evil and corrupt and destructive as idols of the eye.

So, Jerry, thanks for bringing that out. A God small enough to be understood is a God that's too small to be worshipped. All right, other comments?

Please come out. 87ES. Eric, 87ES, go ahead.

Yeah, I don't know if this is 100% applicable, but I'm recalling a scripture in Isaiah 58, or excuse me, 55, verse 8 and 9. And it says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." And so anyway, just throwing that out there for, I don't know if that's 100% applicable to our conversation here.

But anyway, back to you, Katie70S. Yeah, it's absolutely applicable. That's exactly what we're talking about.

The reason why we can't imagine what God is like is because our imaginations are not suited to come up with correct answers. And that's why we've got to go to the scriptures, as Jeff AK6OK was saying earlier. and learn about what God is like from the Bible, let God define himself by his own revelation of himself, and then just accept what he says about himself.

You know, it's like if I want to know what Eric is like, who better can reveal to me what Eric is like than Eric himself, right? And I can't sit here and say, oh, you know, I bet Eric likes to play tennis. And just invent a bunch of stuff out of my own head about who Eric is and what Eric likes and, you know, what Eric wants me to do.

I can't just decide for myself. I have to go to Eric and I have to say, okay, Eric, tell me about yourself and then tell me what you expect out of me. and then operate on the basis of that knowledge of his own self-revelation.

And that's exactly what we have to do with God, is we have to let God define himself, explain himself, and declare to us who and what he is and what he expects out of us. And what we find as we allow him to do that by reading the scriptures and just accepting what they say is, is that, wow, I would have never thought that God was like that or like this. I would have never thought that God wanted me to behave in this way or that way.

So study the book and then humble yourself before the book. and the God that's revealed in it, and then accept him for who he says that he is. Eric, great comment and great passage.

Our minds are not fit to figure out God. We have to just simply bow before his self-revelation. All right.

Any other comments, please come down. Comment? Comment.

Go ahead, Beck. I may have said this before, but I'll say it again. You can never say, I think God thinks or I think God feels.

That's exactly right. You need to be quoting scripture passages, right? You know, to sit here and say, I think that God thinks this, or I feel that God thinks this, that's the wrong starting place.

The right starting place is, you know, chapter 25 and verse 16 says about God... And then, you know, you quote chapter and verse, right? And so that's what we have to do is tie all of our beliefs to a passage of Scripture that supports that belief.

And if we can't do that, then we need to be very slow to assert something. If we can't back it up with the Scripture, in fact, we shouldn't be asserting it at all as anything other than just our opinion and so for example in fact what I'm preaching right I will say you know God's will is XYZ and the reason why is because this passage says ABC right and so but but on occasion I'll say you know I can't prove this from the scripture it's just my opinion that and then I might say something right. So I'm very careful to distinguish between my opinion and about thus saith the Lord based on a scripture passage or a scripture text.

So it's not arrogant to say something definite about God. when he has revealed himself. On the other hand, if God hasn't revealed himself, then we need to be very cautious about what we assert and qualify it as being that which this is not definite and this is not certain and make that distinction.

great comment there back thank you for that all right any other comments please come now all right we are out of time and it's time for us to go to prayer are there any questions final prayer request anybody wants to bring to our attention before we go to prayer please come down to your call point all right jerry ae70r go ahead and close in prayer for us today please I'm sorry. We come to you this morning. I'm grateful.

You're here as well. And we ask you to consider these. Sir Brian, I'm Kate, and this is V.A.T.

Thank you. This is Steve Steghouse. My W7TWO.

The healing of his torn rotator cuff. The life of his wife, Sherry, is years to be. His granddaughter, Jocelyn, needs salvation.

Well, except Jocelyn in part. Help her to find you. - Hey, hey, Senator, you've got her here.

I was a baby in utero. Find a bit of a graceful wisdom for treatment on the floor. He also asked that his final visitor can be easily repaired.

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- Lauren, Doug will be back. - Will, hang up for a bit. - I'm sorry, I'm trying to make sure the radiation will be effective on you.

- Same on my mother. - Just trust these chances. - The train has broken through, so we pray for you.

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Tom is recovering from major spine surgery. and a wheelchair. So this physical therapy will provide relief from pain and come to increased mobility.

Frasers and hands for an electric wheelchair will be met and Frasers and hands can be put back up. So he sent Jonas on this night. Beck, 8851, pray for continued hearing and resolution of this double-disc.

Pray for full restoration of the hearing in his right ear. Your neighbor Nancy needs healing for terminal cancer. She also needs to be saved.

Nancy, bring her to you. Since she has this terminal cancer, she has one last prayer. Open her heart and mind.

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Or if they could do right this good man. Or, can you see on the screen back there? It's cold.

Cody, TI720. feeling for Father Roger, first things first, wholeheartedly. Feeling for Uncle Doug, who's a great man, so much to do here.

And first of all, I'm going to pray for my cousin, Tony, with salvation. Again, Lord, touch her heart. Bring her...

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To protect each one. Sam helps them get control of the YSI's. Hey, W6YSI's for sale at the farm in the county.

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Where'd we put him? - I'm going multiple times. We pray for my and we pray for a good outcome.

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His firmness, faith, and truth need be passed through. We pray for the silent militants who look to the rest of the Bible so that God would meet their needs. Brian, 837-TWR, Swift.

for his son, for him to be open to Brian's ministry. Pray for Wilson to see if he can take the six houses of our children. Pray for Dan to save the non-Saxon community to hear and believe the gospel.

He doesn't have to buy a blind money to see the poor, at least for having backpapers that need it. We ask for a good outcome. Please thank you for your goodness and mercy.

And grace to each one of us and to the gifts of your Son, Jesus Christ. All of these things be asked in Christ's name. Amen.

And this is a E7ER. Hey, Manjari, E7ER, thank you for that. This is WB7MX.

I received a text message from GK7NEB. He said, His daughter, Sierra, who had the baby with spina bifida. The baby had medical complications, too many.

Sierra went to Seattle for emergency surgery. They lost the baby. She's okay and recovering at home, returning this evening with her husband.

So the baby that was in utero that had spina bifida did not survive the surgery to repair that. And so we need to really pray for Sierra and her husband for peace and comfort over the loss of their baby. Let's just pray for them for a moment.

Father, I just pray for Sierra. And, Lord, I pray for her husband. Lord, they lost this baby who had spina bifida.

And Lord, I pray that your comfort and your peace would surround them. Lord, I pray that they would recognize that the will of the Lord has been done and that, Lord, they would just be able to bow to that. And, Lord, I just ask that you would just comfort them and encourage their hearts and help them, Father, to trust you.

But during these difficult circumstances, I pray that their marriage should be strengthened as a result of this law. And, Father, might they draw near to each other. May they draw near to you.

And, Father, may they obtain great comfort from the scriptures as they read them together and reflect on this law. this life that was given and then taken away. And so, Lord, we just echo the words of Job, "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord." Father, just comfort Sarah and her husband. And also Keith, K7NEB, Father, he's a grandpa, and he lost a baby too. And so, Lord, give him peace and comfort as well.

Father, we ask all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

This is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. I want to thank all the stations who checked in this morning, as well as those who stood by, to give us a clear operating frequency. We meet here seven days a week at 6:00 a.m.

in order to read the scriptures, to understand their meaning, message, and application. and then 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. 5 Yankee.

5 Yankee, go ahead. Yeah, you probably remember what sound it is. I don't.

But I remember when I was a child when we would have communion, the very ending words of the song was, The Lord giveth and taketh away, granteth thy peace. Amen. Yeah, I am not familiar with that hymn.

That sounds like one from the Lutheran church where you were a boy. I'm sure it was a great hymn, but I just don't know it. Does anyone else...

and know the hymn that Beck is referring to. Please come now with your call sign. Yeah, Beck, you probably looked that up on the Internet.

You know, just go to Google and type in lyrics and then put those words in that you do remember. and see what comes up over. Oh, that's one idea.

Thank you. Yeah, I find lots and lots of hymns that I've lost track of by just doing that. So just the word lyrics and then throw in the words that you know and it'll come up over.

All right. Thank you. I should have thought of that on my own, Pastor Max, but...

I guess my head's not in the right spot right now. Yeah, no worries. All right.

Anyone else want to chat, please come down to the call sign. KD7ES? KD7ES, Eric, go ahead.

Yeah, hey, Max, I just want to let you know that... Tracy and I will be praying for you daily while you're over in Malaysia. So I just want to let you know that we will definitely keep you in prayer and pray that the Lord Jesus you in a mighty way and also for your safety.

So I just want to let you know that we will be doing that and I am going to get you on our prayer chain, our prayer list over our church too. So because we have a Wednesday night prayer group. So I just want to let you know that we'll be doing that and I am praying that everything exceedingly abundantly above all that we can think.

So anyway, back to you. This is KD70. Yeah, Eric, thank you so much that you and Trace are going to be praying.

Appreciate that so much. And also your church, that's wonderful. Really appreciate you bringing me before the throne of grace because without him I can do nothing.

But through Christ, we can do all things if he strengthens us. So, yes, we're going in pure faith, pure dependence, pure trust, looking to God to do supernatural things through a natural person. And may he be pleased to do that.

Eric, thank you. And Tracy, thank you so much for that. All right, any other comments?

Please come down to your call sign. AB7, that's it. Kevin, give me 7-7, go ahead.

Yeah, and of course we'll be certainly praying for you as well, Max. And I was wondering, just wanted to mention, you're probably well aware of it, but there's an app called WhatsApp that is just a wonderful tool of communication internationally. Anytime you at least have Wi-Fi, or internet access maybe through a cell tower but wifi works great is you have free communication worldwide and it's the quality of the communication as long as you have a decent internet connection on your phone The connection is just absolutely, quality is excellent on the audio communication, even video calls if you chose, but the audio just works fantastic.

So it's a wonderful app for international communication and it's free. KB7 is at Accent. Yeah, Kevin, thank you for that.

I do have WhatsApp, and I have a friend in Nepal that I talk to all the time on it with video calls, and it works great. So, yeah, I really appreciate that, Kevin. And we'll definitely be using that to communicate from Hong Kong and from China.

Malaysia as well. Also, I do have regular cell phone service as well on my phone. So, yeah, we'll be able to communicate and I'll be sending some reports back and keeping you guys updated on what's going on.

So, Kevin, thanks for that suggestion. I second what you said. WhatsApp is an amazing method of communication and it's free so appreciate that Kevin all right any other comments please come out your conference one other question 87 yes quitter will Kathy also be traveling with you yes Okay, I figured as much and I just want to make sure that we also pray for her.

So anyway, you guys have a really blessed time and I know you will. So anyway, back to you KD-70S. Yeah, thanks for that.

I will be here tomorrow morning and then that will be my last morning for about 15 days or so. Alright, thank you Eric. Appreciate it.

Yep, KB-7KTY, my lovely wife, will be sitting right beside me the whole way. And what an encouragement she is. You know, she's been my partner, a companion in ministry all my life.

And without her, I wouldn't be able to do all the things I do because she ties up all my loose ends for me so I can focus on what I need to do. Just a wonderful help has been fit for me. and the calling God has on my life.

Behind every good pastor is a good wife, and I'm sure grateful for mine. All right, any other comments? Please come down.

I have a question. I don't think we got the joke of the day either. Is Beck going to do a joke of the day?

Yeah, Beck, you go ahead with your question and your joke of the day. Why do chickens love to play in the rain? Why do chickens love to play in the rain?

Let's see. Boy, I can't make any connection there. Anybody else want to give that a try?

Go ahead. All right, Beck, you got us. Because they love foul weather.

They love foul weather. That's funny. That's good, Beck.

Thank you for that. My pleasure. Thank you.

ZXN. I'm going to start my search for the song, Pastor Max. Yeah, Kathy, have a blessed day.

Everybody else out there listening. Alpha Alpha Phi Yankee CRT. All right, 73, back to you and Sandy, and have a great day, and we'll talk to you later.

Kevin, KB7 ZXN, go ahead. I was just going to mention that back your joke reminded me of my uncle who's gone on to be with the Lord, but he used to not like eating chicken at all. He just said it was foul.

So anyway, 73 guys blessings to all and I'll be QRT as well. KB7 Zeddington. All right, Kevin, KD7ZX, that was a good one.

All right, 73 to you, Kevin, and you guys, you and Boze, have a great day today, and we'll see you tomorrow morning, God willing. All right, WB7MAX, standing by. Thank you.

The chicken had a foul taste. Yeah, that's what he was saying, right? His uncle didn't like to eat chicken because it just tasted foul.

That put a smile on my face. Everybody have a great day. All right, back.

You guys have a good day, 273. All right, this is WB7MX. I'm going to be clearing QRT.

We'll see you all tomorrow morning. God bless each one. And be looking at Psalm 64.

That's what we're going to be in tomorrow. All right. We'll see you later.

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