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uh kj7 pwm good morning brian how you doing feels good a little quiet out there this morning yeah it's kind of quiet we're just getting people checked in uh one at a time and they show up when they show up uh How are things going up there on the farm, Brian? Go ahead. Everything's going good.

So no new prayer requests today and looking forward to a good study. All right, real good, Brian. Thanks for that.

Yeah, I'm in Rockland, California, operating out of Jeff's AK6OK station here and figuring stuff out and getting buttons pushed and dials spun. Anyway, under the watchful eye of Jeff AK6OK, make sure I don't have any smoke coming out of my machine. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

All right, WB7MX, you're looking for check-ins. Your machine or his machine? Yeah, his machine, right?

I'm not using mine. I don't have a single piece of my electronics online here. This is all Jeff AK-60K's stuff, over.

all right there is peter kj7ba peter i saw you show up there on the utah sdr you can't sneak in without me noticing peter good to have you with us all right peter says good morning to everyone okay he's awake he's alert he is uh pushing buttons and flipping switches so We've got Peter on board, KJ7BA. All right, any other check-ins? Come now.

WB7VZL. And there is Roger, WB7VZL. Good morning, Roger.

Good to have you with us. How are you doing? Yeah, just enjoying a hot bath.

It's my wake-up tool. Copy that. Roger, I need you to read for me this morning.

Do you think you can do that? We're in Psalm 88, over. All right.

Psalm 88. That would be 7VZL. Good morning, all.

All right, copy that. We've got about two minutes to go before we get started. So when we get started, we'll have you read.

But until then, just stand by. Okay, any other check-ins to West Coast Bible Study, please come now. J-E-7-W-K-I-R.

Okay, there is Dave, KE6WKI. Good morning, Dave. How are you doing?

Doing very well. Just waking up and no prayer requests. Copy that.

Doing well. Just got up, no prayer requests. Dave, we got you checked in.

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We got you checked in. Have you got that carburetor fixed yet, over? All right, copy that.

Lee still needs to get his carburetor fixed, so that'll be a little bit. Lee, thanks for being here. Good copy on your voice.

Appreciate you being here, brother. All right, any other check-ins at the West Coast Bible Study, please come now. .

All right, it is 6 o'clock. It's time for us to get started with the West Coast Wild West Study. I'm going to allow opportunity for any more late check-ins, any last-minute check-ins.

Please come now. All right, WB7MAX here. We are going to get started with a West Coast Bible study.

We're in Psalm 88 today. That's Psalm 8-8. And before we get started with our Bible study, we want to open in prayer.

And so, Scott, KD7YQT, if you could open in prayer for us today. Sure appreciate that. Go ahead there, Scott.

This is KD7YQT, opening in prayer. that if there's somebody out there listening that does not know you as Lord and Savior, that they might accept you and come into that saving knowledge and reassurance that you're there. We just thank you, Lord, for all the individuals on this net, all the folks that take part and that listen.

And we just ask your blessing on our study this morning, and thank you for good propagation and And just again, thank you for all the blessings and all the generosity that you have given to each one of us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you so much for that, Scott. Really appreciate that prayer.

Okay, we're in Psalm 88, and before Roger reads Psalm 88, I want to give a little introduction to the Psalms. Psalm 88 is the gloomiest psalm found in the scriptures. The author of this psalm seems to find no relief from the dark hopelessness he expresses in this psalm, even though he prays earnestly.

to God for help. The only glimmer of light in this is in the first phrase where he addresses God as, quote, the God of my salvation. Apparently, he sees God as one who has saved him and as one who has delivered him in the past, but that seems lost in the present difficulties.

And the psalmist is as deeply troubled at the end of this psalm as he is at the beginning of it. In the previous psalms, we found the psalmist starting out his prayer, he's troubled by some event or circumstance. But as he focuses on God and as he prays, he finds strength and comfort and assurance, which is reflected in what he says towards the end of his prayer, and generally there's some pretty hopeful statements.

But no such progression takes place in this psalm. It starts out gloomy, and it ends up gloomy. He prays, and after praying, he is as despondent and discouraged as he was when he began.

You know, prayer generally brings some degree of relief and hope to the afflicted soul sooner or later. But that's apparently not the case in this psalm. And it is well that we have this psalm in the scriptures because it reflects the experience that we sometimes have.

And that's the experience of deriving no apparent relief or comfort from prayer when we're in distress. Such a condition is not unique to us. Others before us who are genuine believers, have also experienced crying out to God and receiving no personal peace and no personal assurance that God's going to help them as they pray.

You recall that Job experienced a similar situation. He cries out in his anguish, and yet for a long time it seems like he received no answer from God and no help from God. And so there are, in fact, several parallel expressions in this psalm and in the book of Job.

Verse 6, verse 8, and verse 10. 6, 8, and 10 all have direct parallels in the book of Job. Both Job and the psalmist suffer greatly from physical maladies and from emotional and spiritual anguish, and they crowd to God for help, but there seems to be no help.

We know that along last, of course, Job did find help from God, and we are sure the psalmist eventually did as well. But help sometimes takes a very long time in coming. and we often feel completely abandoned by God for a time as though He has no care or concern for our problems.

Now, we know better than that. We know He loves us. We know He cares about us.

But faith is sometimes weak, and sinful despair and unbelief can arise. And so at times like that, all we can do is keep praying and trusting and looking to God for years if necessary, until he answers and brings us relief. And so the psalmist felt like he'd been cast off by God, but he himself would not cast off God.

He just kept being importunate with God until he either died or God finally answered him. The point is he never gave up, and he never gave up on God. He never gave up on prayer.

He just kept turning to God and turning to God and turning to God. So he didn't cast off God. He didn't get mad at God, and he didn't give up on God.

He clung to God for all he was worth, even when it seemed like God had forsaken him. And so this is what we have to do. Never, never, never let go of God.

Like wrestling Jacob, do not let him go until he blesses you, even though you have to wrestle a long time. So the lesson of the psalm is this. Keep praying until you're delivered or until you die.

That's the message of the psalm that we learn from the psalmist example. Well, that's a little introduction to the psalm, a little perspective on how gloomy it is. And so, Roger, please go ahead and read for us Psalm 88.

WP7DZL, reading from NASB: O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out my day and in the night before Thee. Let my prayer come before Thee: incline Thine ear to my cry. For my soul has had enough troubles, and my life is drawn near to shore.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit. I have become like a man without strength, forsaken among the dead. like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou dost remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, in a dark place in the depths. Thy wrath has rested upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 10.

Wilt thou perform wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise thee, Selah? Will thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave, thy faithfulness in Abaddon?

Will thy wonders be made known in the darkness, and thy righteousness in the land of forgiveness? Verse 13. But I, O Lord, have cried out to thee for help, and in the morning my prayer comes before thee.

O Lord, why dost thou reject my soul? Why dost thou hide thy face from me? I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on.

I suffer thy terrors; I am overcome. Thy burning anger has passed over me; thy terrors have destroyed me. They have surrounded me like water all day long.

They have encompassed me altogether. Thou hast removed lover and friend far from me. My acquaintances are in darkness.

This is, as you say, the most sombering psalm. This is WB7VZL, back to you, Max. Roger, WB7VZL, great reading.

Thank you for that. All right, any comments on this song? Please come now with your call sign.

Well, WB7VZL. Roger, please go ahead. Well, Max, from your introduction and then also while I was reading it, I'd say this is about as close to Isaiah 53 as I've read.

It was a powerful description of our Lord and what He faced. I mean, our lives are mingled with death all the time. If it's not in dire issues, it's dealing with safety issues.

Everything we do seems to be involving some sort of safety issue. It seems like the sins and the iniquity of the world is being placed upon this person. And I'd say it moves our souls as to what Jesus must have faced when all the blackness, the darkness, and the hell of the world was placed on Jesus.

WB7, visit L. Roger, really well said, and I appreciate you making that connection with Christ. I think you're exactly right.

You recall that when Jesus was on the cross, he says, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Amen. Yeah, back with you.

And he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And that's the note that's in this psalm is the note of forsakenness. So I think you're right.

I think this is really a picture of what Jesus was feeling. about his relationship with God when he was on the cross bearing the weight of the sins of the world and God turned his back on him because he was a pure eyes and to look upon iniquity and could not bear to look upon sin so roger thanks for making that connection we can plumb to a degree the depths of sorrow that our Savior was going through as we read Psalm 88. All right, any other comments on this psalm?

Please come now. You know, just WB7, is that all? Roger, please go ahead.

What it says, even from his youth, I think in verse 15, I was afflicted and about to die from my youth, and I suffered thy terrors, I am overcome. I sense that when Jesus, at 12 years old, not only did he speak to the older priests and scholars there in the temple but I sensed that he saw from his youth that he was the suffering lamb for the first time I think the spirit of God placed that upon him that he recognized that he was to go to the slaughter so to speak and yeah His mission was more enriched as he contemplated the rituals that were instituted by God in the Older Testament. So, yeah, I think he carried much of the burden of the weight of the world on him.

from his youth. Over. You know, Roger, I think you're exactly right.

And I appreciate you pointing that verse 15 out. I am afflicted and ready to die for my youth up. And, you know, when you think about a sinless person, living in the midst of a sinful world.

Here was someone who was perfectly holy, someone who was perfectly sinless, someone who was divine, and he's having to live surrounded by sinful people, sinful actions. I mean, imagine how he was mocked and treated as a child. because he just wanted to do the right thing.

And so I'm sure you are correct that from his youth up, he was treated badly because he would be a good example and he would be mocked for that. And also he was having to live, as it were, as a pure person in an impure world, and that was a grief to him. And as you said, at 12 years of old, he had a vast understanding of the Scriptures and And in fact, he was instructing the Pharisees about what the Bible meant, and they were amazed at his knowledge.

Well, what that means is that he knew about Genesis 315, right? He knew about the animal sacrifices. He knew what they represented.

And I think at a very early age, he knew who he was. and he knew what he was destined to experience. And so he wasn't just looking forward to the cross from Gethsemane forward.

He had that cross hanging over his head his entire life, and he knew that that was what he was moving toward. So I think you're exactly right, Roger, and I appreciate you pointing that out. Okay, so what we're doing here...

is we're entering into an understanding of the depth and the degree and the level of grief that our Savior experienced all of his life. It says in Isaiah 53 that he was a man of grief and acquainted with sorrows. And so this is an expression of that.

Roger, great insight. Thank you. All right, any other comments?

Please come now. KD7, YQT. KD7, YQT, go ahead there, Scott.

Yeah, I'm actually glad that this psalm is in the Bible. I know it's, you know, like you said, it's pretty depressing, but I think we've all been there. I know I have in my life, and verse 8 stands out to me.

It says, you have distanced my friends from me. You have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and cannot go out.

The degree of isolation that this person feels is overwhelming. And I'm reminded of Job and his so-called friends. who were very critical, of course, of him and judged him.

And I just really like that the Lord in his wisdom has allowed this song to be written and put in here because it just, to me, it speaks when we feel like we're completely isolated and nothing is going right and maybe you're dealing with some really monumental things in your life, you know, that, yeah, this has happened before. So anyway, back to you. Yeah, Scott, thank you for that.

You know, you're exactly right. I think all of us have been at this point in one – point in our life or the other. And, you know, when it says here, my acquaintances are far from me, you've made me an abomination to them.

You know, there's plenty of times in our life where we don't have anybody to support us, to encourage us, to give us any kind of strength. It's just us and the Lord. And we wonder what the Lord's attitude towards us is.

And I guess the thing that really encourages me about this passage is that this guy is still praying. Okay? The thing is, he addresses God by the title of Savior, which means that he believes that God is a God who saves.

And though the psalmist is profoundly discouraged and despondent, he's not faithless. Because if he was, he would not be praying at all. And the intensity of his sorrow is such that he cries day and night before God.

That is, he's praying constantly at every moment. He's praying without ceasing, suppressing all his promises, all his problems, and yet he just keeps turning to God and turning to God and turning to God. And so that's the mark of true saving faith is that no matter how bad it gets, we never give up on God, we never stop praying, and we just keep looking to Him for salvation.

Because we know, like the impertinent widow, that sooner or later God is going to act. And God doesn't delay just to annoy us or to irritate us. He delays because He has purposes, and we have to trust Him on that.

And sometimes it takes a long time. But until that time comes, we need to just keep turning to him again and again and trusting him. Even though we find ourselves tremendously distraught, we feel abandoned and entirely alone.

Scott, thank you for pointing that out, the fact that this man had no human help. No one was there to support him and encourage him. but God was, his promises were, and ultimately God came through for him.

All right, great comments, Scott. Any other comments? Please come now to your call sign.

All right, well, while you're thinking... You know, he says a couple of things here which indicate that part of his problem, at least, is physical. He's talking about the fact that he's ready to go down into the grave.

Notice verse 5. He says, He says, whom thou rememberest no more they're cut off from thy hand well that's the way it appears from a human perspective you know he talks like if he goes down into the grave he's going to be silent and there's not going to be any praise or worship anymore and from a human perspective that's the case I mean you go to a graveyard nobody's praising the Lord there. And we know that the soul goes on after the grave, but the point is that he's saying to God, what good is there if I die?

Your praise on earth from me is going to cease. So sustain my life so I can continue praising you. And so even though he's at the brink of despair, he still has this heart's desire not only to see God as a Savior, but also to be an instrument of God's praise on this earth.

And so, you know, he says... Verse 10, And so he's saying, look, if you let me die here, God, your praise on earth is going to cease. Don't let that happen.

So he's just grasping for arguments. with God as to why he should deliver him from his situation. So anyway, just someone who is looking for any argument to use in prayer to move God to bring him to deliverance.

All right, any other comments? Please come now. Okay, I'm sorry.

Will, KM5F, come back to me. Well, yeah, and reading this and all of his physical problems, I'm wondering if he was a leper, KM5F. You know, I suppose that's a real possibility.

I mean, that was a disease that was very difficult to heal. And you know, Will, one of the things that really encourages me is Matthew 8:1-3, where this leper came to Jesus and he said, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And Jesus said, "I will. Be thou clean." He reached out and touched him and healed him.

And so leprosy is always and ever a picture of sin in the Bible and how it clings to us and how we can only be cleansed by the power of another. And so you may be right. He may very well have been a leper.

You know, one of the things we see about Job is he was struck with boils from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. And so while I don't think that was leprosy, it was like leprosy in that it covered his skin and made him completely abhorrent to all that were around him. Will, that's a good guess.

I think you may very well be right. Okay, any other comments? Please go ahead.

All right, while you're thinking, I want to comment for a second on verse 13. He says, And, you know, he started his day with prayer. That's what we do here on the West Coast Bible Study.

And so as soon as we wake up, we think about God, we start praying to God about the day that lies ahead of us, about... whatever happened on the previous day and what we need to do to get through this day. So morning prayer, once again, is set forth here, and I think that it's a good example for us to do what we're doing on the West Coast Bible Study, and that's starting the day with prayer.

All right, any other comments on the passage? Please come now. WB-7VZL.

Roger, WB7VZL, go ahead. Yes, I sure want to underline that. And that's kind of typified where they had the morning and evening sacrifice for the continual description of the atoning opportunity for the corporate kingdom of God in the Older Testament.

So the morning and evening sacrifice represented the intercession that God provides through the blood. Yeah, well said, Roger. And we need to start the day with God.

We need to end the day with God. And that's why we often have morning and evening services in our church on the Lord's Day, the morning sacrifice of worship and praise and the evening sacrifice of worship and praise. And I know a lot of churches have reduced that down to one service on the Lord's Day, but it's really, I think, a loss that we don't have evening services in many churches.

You know, I want to go back to Scott's comment, KD7YQT. You know, he was pointing out here in verse 8, "...thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, thou hast made me an abomination to them." I'm shut up and cannot come forth. And as I was scanning through the Psalms, Scott, I was looking at the last verse, verse 18.

It says, Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and my acquaintance in the darkness. So he returns back to that theme of being abandoned by all human health. And, you know, the good news is that when there is no human help, there's always divine help because Jesus said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

He says, Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. And so the good news is, is that, even when there's no human help, there's always divine help to turn to. And even though it seems like he's delaying an answer and he's allowing the suffering to go on, he has a purpose in that.

He's not being cruel, he's not being indifferent, he's not being uncaring. He's just working out his purposes, and we have to be patient, and we have to trust. As it says in Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

And the idea there is just keep on trusting, keep on trusting, never give up, keep turning to the Lord. All right, thank you for those comments, Roger. Appreciate that, and Scott as well.

All right, any other comments? Please come now. You know, I'm looking at a commentary that...

that kind of leans towards... This is WB7VL. Sorry.

Roger, go ahead. Yeah. It leans to this being a description of David's experience as well as the full letter of the son of David, our Lord.

And so... Yeah, it's what David, well, we know David was probably the most melancholy writer that we have in the scripture. And it sounds kind of like it could be, David, over.

You know, it does, and it may very well have been. There were times when he was alone, like apparently when he fled into the land of the Philistines. Remember, he was hiding out there from Saul, and apparently he was by himself.

So that may have been the case. There's other Psalms where he says he's exiled from Jerusalem and he wants to come to the temple, but he can't come to the temple. And, Roger, getting back to a previous comment you made, you know, I mentioned...

in verse let's see where is it yeah there it is verse 13 and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee and we talked about the morning and evening sacrifice I just noticed in verse 1 It says, "O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried unto thee day and night before thee." So there it is once again. He starts at the morning, he ends up in the evening, he's praying all throughout the day. Really he's praying without ceasing.

You know, here's a guy who maintains his faith even in the face of apparent indifference from God. Because, look, if you throw God away, where are you going to go? Are you going to go to Satan?

Are you going to go to false religion? Are you going to go to complete despair? Are you going to go to suicide?

You know, it reminds me of what... Jesus said in John chapter 6 to the disciples when he said to them, Will you also go away? And Peter says, Lord, to whom shall we go?

You have the words of eternal life, and we know and are sure that you are the Son of God, the Messiah. And so even though his teachings were difficult in that passage, you know, he was talking about eating my flesh and drinking my blood and those kind of things. And, of course, he's speaking symbolically, but many people said, oh, this is a hard saying.

Who can hear it, right? And it says from that time many of his disciples went away. Well, you know, hard things happen in our lives.

things that are hard to hear in God's providences and in God's dealings in our life. And the question comes, well, what are you going to do? Are you going to turn your back on God?

Are you going to get mad at God? Are you going to walk away? Where does that lead?

You know, is there any hope in that? And the answer is absolutely not. The only hope is in God.

There is no hope in anything else. And that's why we keep turning to him and turning to him and turning to him, even though it doesn't seem like anything's happening. We can be assured something will happen.

Because if we're not delivered now, we're certainly going to be delivered in the death and the resurrection and in the new heavens and the new earth where there's no more sorrow or crying or pain or death because the former things have passed away. So we're going to get deliverance. The question is, will we get it in this life, in the next few hours, days, years, decades, or are we going to get it in the resurrection?

But mark it down, we will get it. And that's why we don't turn our back on God, even in the darkest times, because these afflictions only last for a little while, but... The blessings last for eternity.

And why would we ever trade an eternity of blessing? Because we're upset because God isn't answering our prayers right now. All right, WB7NX here looking for comments.

Please come now if you're called to. Okay. WB-7, is it out?

Roger, please go ahead. I'm waiting if there is anybody else that would want to add, which was kind of shocking for me, and I suppose others I trust, that when... representatives of people who are dealing with national health issues, like the person in England or even here in this country.

corporate loneliness that seems to be like a cloud that shrouds our life on planet earth and in a sense the thinking people are the ones that suffer the most if you're naive and you don't think these thoughts then but but the corporate loneliness i i just can't imagine you know jesus in philippians chapter 2 totally emptied himself is the Greek word. He emptied himself from where he had been to totally, the most unselfish expression for us to have his place to reign with him, to be elevated, so he suffered corporate loneliness in a magnitude that no one individual can suffer over. Yeah, Roger, I appreciate you pointing out the issue of loneliness and the corporate loneliness.

You know, what's fascinating is that when Jesus saves us, he immediately puts us in a community. And of course. That's the community of the body of Christ, the people of God, as manifested in local churches, right?

And so as I look at the psalmist here and I see the loneliness he has, the isolation he has, and as we said, verse 18, lover and friend hast thou put far from me. and my acquaintances in the darkness. Verse 8, you put away my acquaintances far from me.

You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up and cannot come forth, which kind of lends credence to what Lee was... I mean, what...

Will was saying KM5F about the possibility of him being a leper but let's say that you know that's not the case let's say that it's just um because of his troubles everybody said I don't want any part of that and he walked away um You know, that's a very, very difficult situation to be in. But what I see people doing is intentionally isolating themselves from others by avoiding participating in community. Maybe they don't go to church.

Maybe they don't reach out to neighbors. Maybe they cut themselves off from family. Maybe they spend all their time on social media and playing video games and have no social life.

And then when trouble happens, there's no one there for them. So one of the things I try to do is make human connections everywhere I can, every time I can, every way I can, so that when I'm in trouble, I do have some people in my life I can turn to. You know, I see a lot of people choosing, for example, not to get married.

And, you know, I don't know what I'd do without my wife. Sometimes she's the only one who understands and cares. And, of course, some of us have lost wives or husbands, as the case may be.

If that's the case, let's... put down our phones and our televisions and our movies and let's make human connections so that we have people who are friends and acquaintances who can be there with us and for us when we're in our troubles. So, uh, Yeah, Roger, the loneliness that happens at our age, there's more people than ever, there's more means of connection than ever, and there's more loneliness than ever.

And that's because people are mediating their relationships through devices instead of face-to-face. I mean, here we are talking on the radio, right? This is a device.

I don't see you. You don't see me. And so we need to actually physically get together and have face-to-face relationships from time to time as we're able.

It's not with our friends on West Coast Bible Study, with others who are in our life or circle of fellowship. So, yeah, the loneliness that's here is something that we need to work at remedying by building relationships with God and, of course, with other people as well. Back to you there, Roger.

Yes, I'm on today's broadcast. I try to catch up with what Alistair Obeg is doing, Truth For Life. And today's feature was in Mark chapter, the beginning of Mark, when he deals with his first leper.

And he describes the definition from one commentary on leprosy in the broadcast. And it is extremely horrible to contemplate what it would be like to be designated as a leper. No contact with the community.

No worshipping community. No worshiping. I think it is as well as implying.

This sounds like it would be like the hell of being a leper. So, yeah, Alistair certainly has highlighted in his broadcast today, if you can catch it well, what you're talking about well. Back to you, Max.

Yeah, Roger, you know, I think perhaps the closest thing to that would be being in solitary confinement in prison where, you know, you're brought your meals two or three times a day. Maybe you're let out for an hour a day, but the rest of the time you just close in. It's just you and God.

And if somebody doesn't have God in that situation, they would literally go crazy, and I think they often do. So anyway, thank the Lord that he is always there, even if no one else is. We have to believe that by faith.

We have to keep reaching out to him, communicating with him, listen to him talking to us through the word. We talk to him through prayer, and even if it seems awfully silent, We have to believe by faith that he is there, he does care, and if we come to the throne of grace, we will find mercy and grace to help in time of need and due time. So I guess the lesson of our psalm is this.

No matter how bad it gets, keep turning to God, keep praying, keep trusting, and in due time, God will answer our prayers. So we pray until we get an answer or else until we die. But we never quit.

We never turn our back on God. And we never give up on the promises that he has made. You know, he said in Psalm 50 and verse 15, Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

And he doesn't say how he's going to deliver us, and he doesn't say when he's going to deliver us. But he does say that he will, and we can take that promise to the bank. And so we just have to be patient until he does.

And, you know, I have a friend who has a son with cerebral palsy, and the son's a believer in Christ. And, you know, we've talked about a situation, and I've told him, I said, you know, God is going to heal you. He's going to heal you in the resurrection.

Just keep faith, keep patience until then, and you will have this perfect body. that you'll be able to run in and do all the things that everyone else does. So those kind of situations maybe don't have a remedy in this life, but they do have a remedy.

And that remedy will come in 50, 60, 70 years, however long it is, which is really nothing in comparison to eternity. So let's not give up faith. Let's not give up hope.

Let's not give up trust. Let's wait on God. He will deliver us in due time.

And until then, we just keep turning to him and turning to him and turning to him morning and night, all day long, all the days of our life, until we have that deliverance that will certainly occur in the resurrection and may very well occur before then. All right, that's WB7MX. We are out of time.

It is time for us to go to prayer. Are there any final prayer requests before Al leads us in prayer? Please come now with your call sign.

All right, Al. KJ7QQH, go ahead and lead us in prayer, please. Thank you, Pastor Max.

Good morning, everyone. I'm at WB7MX. This is KJ7QQH.

Let's all come together before the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for today and thank you that you are our God that we can turn to in times when things just be hopeless. thank you that in your mercy that you would hear our prayers and the praises that we have to you today.

We thank you for those praises, those things that we have to praise you for. For the prayers that we have today, we begin with our Brother Lee, AL6. KG for a solution to the trouble he's had with the carburetor on his truck.

And for our brother Jerry, KG6J, he's going to be starting physical therapy on his back today. We're just praying for pain relief and improved mobility for him as he begins this therapy. We pray for our Pastor Max, WB7MAS.

We... give praise that he made the trip safely to Jeff's place in Rockland, California, and we just ask that you give him protection and safe travels as he continues home later today. for Keith and say, can you be, which is to ask for wisdom for he and his wife in making decisions, to find a place for Keith's mom, for here at KD7ES, for wisdom and grace in handling conditions at work, to go before him and give him patience, calmness, resolving the conflicts we face in there.

We give praise that his wife Tracy returned home safely from her trip and that she's feeling better from the illness she experienced along the way. For Gene, K7GWR, we pray for Laura, KD7RID, who's having health complications from a pacemaker implant. She's in the hospital.

dealing with that now, with that BOP with her during that time where she's dealing with that. Her back, alpha alpha 5 Yankees, we haven't heard from in a day or two, but we just joined him in lifting up Jan Burkhardt, a diabetic, and she's had some foot surgery and she's had part of her foot removed. We just asked if she would be with her as she goes through rehab and learning how to walk again.

For her husband, Kent, who's having heart arrhythmia issues, be with him and give him healing from that so that he would be a good support for her for my he said RSV we asked for his we looked up his wife Lynn fighting cancer and we prayed for effective chemo treatment for her for Mark KJ that was CBT we looked up his mom terminal in hospice care. And we pray for good quality of her remaining life and that she would have an easy passing and hope coming to you. We lift up Joe, KD7, QDL in Reno for wisdom of doctors seeking a treatment plan for his health issues.

We join Brian, K-7G-I-T, in lifting up J-4. Continue healing. We pray for Mike, W-7T-W-O, in healing of his rotator cuff.

He has a torn rotator cuff. And we pray for his wife, Sherry, in remission of this nerve. a nurse to see her granddaughter, Jocelyn, her salvation.

For Ed's N6XLH, his brother, Ma and his wife need to sell their house and Ed and has heart problems, and we just get afraid that the ablation procedure was successful to getting back into correct rhythm. They're going to Spokane to look at a couple of houses there to see if they would be successful in finding something that is appropriate for them. Or will, Kilo Mike 5 box trucks.

We pray for his hormone treatment and radiation to be effective in restraining and removing his prostate cancer. Also, we pray for his wife, Martha Pate, whose healing and recovery will grow in tow. For peace and comfort for the family of Ben.

who passed away and were praying for memorial service that's going to be happening on September 26th. For Jeff, aka Tocco, we pray for the thousands of Bibles being shipped out to troops everywhere and we just ask your blessing on Jeff's mission to help Jeff battle Satan's resistance to this mission. Please use those to save and sanctify the soldiers and all that they come to contact with.

For his daughter Heather who has lupus and his son's with MS. Her chest was fatty, healing from a broken wrist after a slip and fall. We give praise that the surgery went well and now is on a nerve block for pain.

We asked for a painless recovery and that that would recover well. She's got complete use of that hand. And for Carol, KK's out of the GPO, we joined her in looking up for cinnamon off-grid.

We're covering for back surgery. We give praise that the pain's reduced. And we give praise that the x-ray showed good progress is healing for Tom WW17 Tom's recovery from a major swipe surgery in a wheelchair now we're praying for his physical therapy to be effective in providing relief and paid for pain relief and increased mobility.

We're also praying that he would be approved for electric wheelchair. We're praying for the repair of his radio and setup. For that also, for 5-day heat.

we pray for the continued healing of his vision and healing of his head injury. Their neighbor Nancy needs healing from terminal cancer and salvation. We give praise.

that Nancy had a CT scan showing great improvement and we're continuing to pray for Kathy Vaughn as she recovers from a neck surgery. We continue to pray for Pastor Jeff Black who has severe ulcerative colitis. We pray for his healing through the medical treatment that he's receiving.

For our brother Cody, K-I-7-T-R-M, we joined him in praying for the healing of his uncle Doug, a believer with a severe head injury. Doug is back in the hospital with a brain infection. He's having to get an extra measure of healing for that infection.

We pray for his ongoing treatment and recovery. Hopefully we lift up. Cody's niece Zoe, whose need is salvation.

For Steve, W.S.Y.S.I. who transferred the sale of his home in Challens, California and for wisdom in making decisions about moving the new home into Orland County. And for his daughter Lisa, as she recovers from a neck and back surgery.

We just pray for the healing of that and give praise that these surgeries you had were successful. Give praise that there's good progress that's not there for The daughter of Steve's pastor does. Emma, a five-year-old girl, has been in the hospital for a couple of weeks with pneumonia.

Could you pray that she's doing better and may get to go home tomorrow? We're being anxious to hear how that's going and the reports there. We've asked that you be with her and continue her progress.

to be able to make that happen. First God, Katie's now in YQT. We pray for his wife, Pam, who has severe lupus, that it would go into remission.

We pray for his daughter, Kendra, with ongoing multiple... for chronic health needs. And now she has increasing arthritis in her hand.

We just ask that you give her release from that pain, that arthritis. We pray for Mike. Take A7N.

with stage four cancer we pray for chemo treatment starting september 26 to be effective for a brother kevin kb7 said we prayed for his daughter montemreo that she has a good business both days and we got the you would give her freedom to pay as she's experiencing, as she waits three months for a golf field surgery. For Brian KJ7PM PWM, we pray for Chris, for his salvation, and for him to be open to Brian. ministry.

Please also continue to pray for our Burn Ridge Christian Church that's still in search for a pastor and also for all other churches in need of leadership. We pray for the wisdom and spiritual protection for all pastors of all churches. We pray for the unsaved, unchurched in our community to hear and believe the gospel.

We pray for the silent multitude and those unanswered prayers of those people who listen to the West Coast Bible study that you, God, would meet their needs. And just lift up any all that are suffering throughout the world and just ask you to meet their needs as well. So that's what we have on our list today.

Until we meet again, just ask you it. protect and guide us keep us well and safe and walk in your way and on our path to your good will with that we thank you Lord for your goodness and your mercy and your grace to each one of us and mostly for the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ, through whom we pray all these things. Amen.

This is KJ7QQH, and I'll return it back to you there, Pastor Max, while I go untie my top. All right, thank you for that, Al. Really appreciate that.

KJ7QQH, thanks for leading us to the throne of grace. I just received a note from Jeff, AK6OK. He says they're shipping 15,000 Bibles this week.

So let's pray that as those go out, that they will be used by God to minister to 15,000 people that are going to be receiving those Bibles, reading them, and... either they would be saved or that they would be sanctified through the reading of those scriptures. All right.

Thank you for that, Jeff. All right, Ted. This is WB7MX, 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 a.m. in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning, message, and application, and then to pray for grace and mercy today.

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. WB7MX. Roger, WB7VZL, go ahead.

So this is Jeff's station, and nice 20-over signal most of the night. It was beautiful, over. Yeah, we've had a beautiful band today.

It's been amazing. The noise floor is extremely low here, and I'm really glad to hear that you're hearing the station well, and I'm grateful for that. It's a little different handling this station, but it seems to have worked well.

The difference here is that I'm talking on a desk mic as opposed to a hand mic, and I'm having to listen to myself over a speaker while I talk, which is a little bit weird. But apparently you guys can't hear what I'm hearing. so that's interesting but yeah it's a little disconcerting to hear your own voice about a second after you're speaking as it comes back to me through the Utah SDR so that was a little strange today but other than that it's a wonderful station and um the noise for is just almost zero here which is amazing so i can hear everybody really really well back to you there roger my uh so yeah this is wb7 means that that was wb7 max that is amazing too you know i I kind of think anybody in California to find a quiet spot.

My, how did that happen? Over. I don't know.

These guys know how to chase down RF and eliminate it. They've had problems in the past, but they figure it out and get it dealt with. So if you saw the number of things that are hooked up in this office and that are running and humming and doing all their things, I'm thinking, how do they isolate stray RF?

But they've sure got it figured out. So That's what happens when you're an electronic genius, I guess. Over.

Yeah, there are some that are just amazing. I've had some thoughts about that with Scott, with all the translators that he maintains and oversees and keeps up with. MPA, you know I mean that's quite a world that he has maintained and established and maintained yeah this is a world that I'm not part of but I did spend actually yesterday making sure that I've measured and and getting ready to raise a dipole for an elderly ham.

I mean, here I'm 75, but he must be at least 85. Maybe he's approaching 90, but he is a ham. had been in missions in China, Hong Kong, for ages before, of course, it went back to China.

But he is located here about 10 miles away and has the place for a full-length dipole. and I was measuring it out in the gorgeous weather we're having right now, measuring it out with a 100-foot tape, getting it ready to ultimately hopefully get him back on the air. He hasn't been on the air for ages.

So anyway, you know, and during the prayer, Al's prayer, I keep hearing about Tom and, oh, my God, May those prayers be answered. May there be some Christian hams in the Montana area, are there, that will kind of do what I'm doing for my elderly John, that he can get back on the air, especially with his disability. Maybe we can make more of a concentrated communication to some of the hams in his vicinity that can answer that prayer, too.

Anyway, I really am in awe of what Jeff's got going there from your description. and such little noise. That's what I put up with.

That's why I appreciated your signal this morning or Jeff's station because it is so wonderfully strong and the audio. The audio is very nice, Max. And yes, it is disconcerting to hear that echo.

And I know sometimes Jeff has actually had to turn it down because when he was running the net, we'd often hear that. And so he'd turn it down some, even for his own sake. That's a long transmission.

WB7, visit out back to you. WB7, I'm out. Yeah, Roger, real good.

Yeah, Berg W7RKD is the one who told us about Tom WWs. 7T, I think it is. In any event, he knows the guys who know that guy, so hopefully they'll make some arrangements for that and get helping him get his antenna back up.

But yeah, I'm going to have to be replacing my antenna towers. They're made out of Douglas fir poles and they're starting to rot at the bottom. So I did buy some metal tower pieces and I've got to get those set up and installed and all that.

Fortunately, I'm young enough to be able to handle that pretty much myself, so looking forward to that. I also need to get my loop antenna up, which means I've got to climb some trees and hang some pulleys and all those wonderful things. So when I get home, hopefully I'll have some time to do that before winter sets in.

All right, Roger, real good talking to you. Appreciate that. All right, WB7NX in conversation with Roger, WB7VZL.

Anybody else want to chat here? Throw out your call sign. Scott?