Fear of God and Domestic Blessing
2026-11-06 · 3.975 MHz · 0600 PST
The Bible reading
Psalm 128
Today's Reading (KJV): Psalm 128
1Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. 2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. 3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
The study focused on Psalm 128, identifying it as an instructional psalm similar to Proverbs that teaches the cause-and-effect relationship between the fear of God and human conduct. The central thesis is that domestic happiness and national stability are direct results of fearing the Lord. The psalm outlines a progression of blessing from the individual to the family, and finally to the nation, emphasizing that a nation is merely a conglomeration of families.
Insights
- The fear of God is not contrary to love but is a love that is sensitive to the possibility of hurting the object of that love.
- Satan's primary assault is on the family unit, which is the foundational institution from which the church and nation are built.
- The olive tree metaphor in verse 3 highlights the long-term, intergenerational perspective of passing down the truth of God.
- Material blessing from fearing God is described as having food on the table and a roof over one's head, rather than wealth for its own sake.
- The message of the everlasting gospel in Revelation 14 includes the command to fear God, which is undermined by the philosophy of evolution.
- When people deny the true God, they do not become atheists but instead embrace substitute gods, such as humanism or nature.
Transcript
0:00N-7 PTT.
0:22All right, N-7 PTT, Jubal, good to have you with us.
0:27How are you doing?
0:28Yeah, doing good.
0:31Good morning.
0:32It's nice to hear you.
0:34We're ready to listen to the study today.
0:42All right, real good, real good.
0:44Yeah, you got a great signal, hearing you really well.
0:47Any prayer requests there, Jubal, that we can pray for you about?
0:49Go ahead.
0:55Not really.
0:56Many families on a vacation in Cabo, just, you know, they're about halfway down with their vacation.
1:06So maybe just prayers for safe travel would be great.
1:12All right, copy that.
1:13Appreciate that.
1:14So Al, KJ7QQH, a prayer request from Jubal, J-U-B-A-L, call sign November 7th, Papa, Tango, Tango.
1:23And his family is in Cabo, San Lucas, and he's asking for prayer for a safe trip home for them when the time comes.
1:31Copy there, Al?
1:32Good copy, Ben.
1:39All right, Al, KJ7QQH, thank you for that.
1:42All right, Al manages our prayer list for us, so he does a great job on that.
1:47All right, WV7MX here looking for check-ins.
1:50Please come now with your call sign.
1:51All right, and now we'd like to acknowledge Peter, KJ7B-A.
1:59Peter, see his show up there on the Utah.
2:01Appreciate you being there, brother.
2:03And we got you checked in.
2:04That's Peter, KJ7B-A.
2:06And Peter says good morning to everyone, and so good contact there, Peter.
2:18Appreciate you being there.
2:20All right, I don't see anyone else on the Utah at the moment.
2:26All right, any more check-ins?
2:28Please come now.
2:28All right.
2:36All right.
3:06That's net control for the West Coast Bible study.
3:09We've got about two minutes to go before our Bible study begins.
3:12We are looking for check-ins.
3:13Please come now with your call sign.
3:19WV7VZL, good morning.
3:22And good morning, Roger.
3:24WV7VZL up in College Place, Washington.
3:26Good to have you with us, brother.
3:27How are you doing?
3:30Well, we had quite a symphony program.
3:35It was highlighting all the powerful movie music, like Spider-Man and Batman and Space Odyssey.
3:54All the movies that I really haven't imbibed in.
4:00The music, I think, is better than the drama.
4:05But at any rate, it was quite a bit all about the love of power over the power of love, so to speak.
4:14But maybe that's too broad a stroke.
4:21It was powerful French horn music, and I really admired the brass last night.
4:30Anyway, that's what happened last night.
4:33Oh, yes, yes.
4:35Max answered a prayer.
4:38The family that I was concerned about, my next-door neighbor, they came through at the court case yesterday.
4:45And he was vindicated as being a non-abuser to his children.
4:53Over.
4:53Yeah, copy that, Roger.
4:58That's a good praise.
4:59Yeah, we prayed about that.
5:01And so, you know, those accusations are easy to be leveled, and they're hard to defend against.
5:07And oftentimes, those things are just viciously lodged in the context of a divorce or a family conflict.
5:14And praise the Lord that justice was done.
5:17So thank you, Roger, for reporting that answer to prayer.
5:20I'm glad to hear of that vindication.
5:23All right, WB7MX, looking for check-ins.
5:26We're about ready to start the net.
5:27Please come now with your clothesline.
5:37All right, this is WB7MX, net control for the West Coast Bible Study.
5:40We are going to begin our Bible study.
5:42We are in Psalm 128.
5:44That's Psalm 128.
5:47So turn there, please, in your Bibles.
5:49We're going to be reading that together in a moment.
5:51And then we're going to be discussing it.
5:53But before we get started with our Bible reading, we're going to open in prayer.
5:57And so, Ed, N6XOH, if you could please open in prayer for us today.
6:00I sure appreciate that.
6:01Go ahead, Ed.
6:03Sure.
6:03Let us pray.
6:04Dear Heavenly Father, we just come to you this morning.
6:07We ask that you bless the Bible study, that you watch over each and every one of us here,
6:13Lord, that you put your Holy Spirit in each one.
6:16Lord, give us wisdom and understanding as we search the Scriptures for the knowledge that
6:21you've put in this beautiful Bible that we have.
6:26Lord, I just ask you to be with Pastor Max as he leads out in this Bible study.
6:31I just ask that you be with him, too, with his class, and he's going back east there.
6:38And especially that you'll give him traveling mercies tomorrow night coming home.
6:43Watch over each one of us, Lord.
6:45Lord, we know you're coming soon, and we all want to be ready.
6:51So, Lord, I just ask that each one of us will be ready when you come to take us home.
6:57And I know all of us here are waiting for that day.
7:02Watch over us, Lord.
7:04Keep us all safe.
7:05And I just ask that you bless each one here.
7:09I ask these things in Jesus' name.
7:11Amen.
7:12N6XOH.
7:15All right, real good, Ed.
7:16Thank you for that.
7:17Appreciate the prayer and bring us to the throne of grace.
7:20All right, we're in Psalm 128, and I want to give a little introduction to the psalm before
7:24we actually read it.
7:27And, you know, the vast majority of the psalms that we've been going through are either expressions
7:32of prayer or else expressions of worship.
7:36Prayer and worship are the primary theme of most of the psalms.
7:41But there are a few psalms that are instructional.
7:45You think of Psalm 1, that's instructional.
7:49And Psalm 2, that's instructional.
7:51Well, they're expressly designed to teach us life lessons about human conduct and about
7:57human choices.
7:59And, of course, the outcome that that conduct and those choices produce.
8:03So, in that sense, these instructional psalms are like the wisdom literature of the Book
8:09of Proverbs.
8:11They teach us about cause and effect, and that good choices have good outcomes, whereas bad
8:16choices have bad outcomes.
8:19Well, our psalm before us today, Psalm 128, is an instructional psalm.
8:27It's designed to teach us the relationship between the fear of God and domestic blessing in the
8:33home.
8:34Specifically, it teaches us that domestic happiness in the home is a result of fear of God in the
8:40heart of those who dwell in that home.
8:43And so, the fundamental lesson here is the basis of domestic happiness is the fear of the
8:51Lord.
8:52Now, the reason for this is that someone who fears the Lord is someone who walks in the
8:57commandments of the Lord.
8:58And when someone walks in the commandments of the Lord, he's blessed by God in all that
9:03he does, and that includes the state of the family in which he lives.
9:07And, of course, as goes the family, so goes the nation, because a nation is nothing more
9:16than a conglomeration of many families placed together under a national covenant.
9:22And when family life is right in a nation, the national life is right in that nation as
9:30well.
9:30So, the conclusion and the teaching of this psalm is very clear.
9:34The fear of the Lord is the basis for blessing in the home, and the fear of the Lord is the
9:40basis for blessing in the nation, and without the fear of the Lord, you can't have either.
9:47So, the fear of God is the foundation of blessing in the home, in the nation, and in any situation.
9:55So, that's the lesson of our psalm today.
9:57And Joe, can I fix WXP, is going to read Psalm 128 for us.
10:02Joe, go ahead and read, please.
10:04Thank you, Max.
10:06This is out of the King James Version of the Bible.
10:09This is K-I-6-W-X-P.
10:12A Song of Degrees, it says.
10:16Blessed is everyone that fairest the Lord, that walketh in his ways.
10:21For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands.
10:25Happy shalt thou be, and it shalt be well with thee.
10:30Thy wife shalt be as faithful as vine by the sides of thine house, thine children like olive plants round about thy table.
10:42Behold, that thus shalt the man be blessed that farest the Lord.
10:47The Lord shall bless thee, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of the life.
10:58Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children.
11:02And peace upon Israel.
11:04K-I-6-W-X-P.
11:06Good morning.
11:07All right, real good, Joe.
11:11Thank you for that reading.
11:12Great job.
11:13All right, any comments on Psalm 128?
11:16Please come now at your call sign.
11:22Joe, would you be seven of these at L?
11:27Roger.
11:27W-7-B-Z-L.
11:28Please go ahead.
11:29Well, the older I get, the more I recognize that last statement.
11:39Indeed, may you see your children's children.
11:44Peace be upon Israel.
11:46Well, that requires peace, a level of stability and consistency, and it just involves a lot of grace from our great God in order for that to happen.
12:05And on this planet where the devil is, you know, steal, kill, and destroy, that is a marvelous promise.
12:16Over.
12:19Yeah, yes, it is.
12:20You know, since, excuse me, the family is the fundamental, foundational, original institution, right?
12:29God starts with the family.
12:30He starts with Adam and Eve.
12:32He has them married, and he says to them, be fruitful and multiply.
12:36After that comes the church.
12:39After that comes the nation.
12:41Both church and nation are made up of what?
12:43Families, right?
12:44The family is a foundational institution.
12:47And so Satan recognizes that.
12:49It stands to reason that his number one assault would be on the family, an effort to deconstruct it, an effort to destroy it,
12:57an effort to divert it away from being what God designed it to be.
13:03And we see a lot of that going on these days.
13:06And so to see your children and your children's children, what a blessing that is.
13:12To see that intergenerational love and communication and fellowship and the passing down of the truth of God to your children and to your grandchildren.
13:25So, you know, the Bible always has this long-term perspective, Roger.
13:31And part of that long-term perspective is not just living for myself, but living for my children, living for my grandchildren,
13:39having this intergenerational perspective of passing the kingdom of God down through the generations as God is pleased to open eyes and hearts to his gospel.
13:50Great comment there, Roger.
13:52Roger, thank you for talking about the continuity of families.
13:55All right, any other comment?
13:57Please come now.
14:00KJ7 PWM.
14:03Brian, KJ7 PWM, we got you checked in.
14:06How are you doing?
14:08I'm doing good this morning.
14:09I do have a comment on the, my reading this morning was in Exodus, Exodus 18, with Jethro coming to Moses and explaining to him that, you know,
14:26you can't be the judge of all these people.
14:28You need to delegate.
14:29But it actually flows into what we're talking about with the family here.
14:33Because he says, select capable men from all the people, men who fear God, trustworthy men, who hate dishonesty,
14:43and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
14:50And have them serve as judges.
14:54And so that flows into exactly what you're saying, where it starts with the family.
14:58And it actually, you know, goes, flows backwards.
15:03This goes backwards, right back up to the top of the government.
15:06And, of course, the family needs to be the trustworthy, God-fearing man.
15:13So it just goes with our psalm this morning.
15:15And I'm always impressed how the word works that way.
15:20Sometimes my personal study is totally matching something else that we're reading somewhere else in the Bible, such as this morning's psalm.
15:32Yeah, real good, Brian.
15:33Thank you for that comment.
15:34Yeah, and, you know, our psalm really emphasizes this issue of the fear of God.
15:39And we'll talk about that more as the Bible study unfolds.
15:43But you'll notice in verse 1, blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord, in verse 4.
15:49Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
15:52And, you know, that's what he was saying, his appointment over Israel, who what?
15:56Fear the Lord.
15:57And so we need to understand exactly what that means and what that looks like and, of course, understand the connection between the fear of the Lord and having righteous men in the nation, righteous men leading our families and righteous men building legacies down through the generation, both for the blessing of the family and for the blessing of the nation.
16:22And, and, of course, the blessing of the church as well.
16:26So, Brian, great comment.
16:28Thank you for connecting us with that passage in Exodus and providing that additional perspective.
16:33All right, other comments, please come out.
16:38WB-7 of EZL.
16:42Roger, WB-7 of EZL.
16:44Please go ahead.
16:45Well, I'm, thank you for, yeah, Jethro and his, his experience and the, the blessedness of having him in those 40 years in the wilderness.
17:02Just hurting, hurting, hurting sheep.
17:05Um, yeah, I think it was 40 years.
17:10Anyway, but, but I wish everybody could have had a taste of the grandfather and the son coming over and saying, your prayers were answered.
17:25They, they, I have not had such a, a wrenching experience with a grandfather that thought he was going to lose contact with his grandchildren just by a decision of the court.
17:41And, and, uh, Grayson and Melanie are, are able now to see their dad and grandfather.
17:52And they, from the agony to the incredible answer to prayers.
18:00So, I just really appreciate the prayers on this behalf of my neighbor.
18:07WB-7 of EZL.
18:10Yeah, Roger, we echo that gratitude as well.
18:13And, you know, Satan tries to tear families apart.
18:17And one of the ways he tears families apart is by people lying about each other and about what was said, about what was done.
18:26Uh, and so, um, you know, Satan comes to kill and steal and destroy.
18:31And a lot of that killing and stealing and destroying, uh, takes place, uh, in, in family life.
18:37And so, Roger, we rejoice with you in that.
18:40Uh, then I would like to acknowledge our other Bruce, uh, KD0EQK.
18:46Bruce, see you there on the Utah SDR.
18:49I'm glad to have you with us.
18:51That's Bruce, KD0EQK.
18:54All right, any other comments on our passage?
18:57Please come now.
18:59Comment.
19:01Please drop it.
19:02Comment, please go ahead.
19:04As Whiskey, Whiskey, 710 goes, we're talking about verse 1.
19:09I'm blessed.
19:10Blessed is everyone that fears the Lord.
19:15To me, fearing the Lord is to disappoint him.
19:17To not make him happy with what my life is becoming, that he would have me be.
19:26To not, not to let myself fall short of what he expects me to be able to be in his eyes.
19:35If I'm where he wants me, then I, that fear is exalted by him blessing me.
19:42Over.
19:46Yeah, Tom, great comment.
19:48Thank you for that.
19:49And that's Tom, uh, Whiskey, Whiskey, 7 Tango.
19:52Uh, Tom, we got you checked in.
19:53And thank you for the comment on the whole issue of the fear of God.
19:57Um, you know, the fear of God is a huge concept in the Bible.
20:02Um, and it's found from Genesis to Revelation.
20:05Uh, there are at least 200 occurrences of the fear of God in the Bible.
20:12And so it's everywhere declared to be a foundational Christian virtue.
20:17And it constitutes the very essence and soul of what godliness is and flows out of.
20:23And the fear of God is something that Christians ought to be characterized by.
20:28And so we read about it constantly in the New Testament.
20:31It's not just an Old Testament concept.
20:33And, uh, clearly, fearing God and loving God are not only not contrary to each other,
20:41they're complementary to each other.
20:43Because the fear of God is the fear of a love for God that is always sensitive to the possibility
20:51of hurting the object of our love.
20:53I mean, if you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, right?
20:56So you're careful and thoughtful about how you treat them.
21:00And so out of that love and because of that love,
21:03it seeks to carefully please the object of our love and avoids that which would offend it.
21:09So the fear of God is simply a love for God that is careful to not offend God
21:16and is conscious of a desire to please God.
21:19And so the fear of God is this affectionate reverence for God
21:25that makes us see God's smile as our greatest joy and God's frown as our greatest dread.
21:33And out of an earnest desire that we have to please God and out of a fear of offending God,
21:40we carefully conform our choices and our conduct to God's will.
21:46And that's really what is being said here in verse 1.
21:48It says,
21:49Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways.
21:54And so the reason we walk in his ways is because we have this affectionate reverence for God
22:00that has, as our chief desire, the desire to please him and to not offend him,
22:08to bring a smile to his face and not a frown.
22:12So there's a huge parallel between the fear of God and walking in the ways of God.
22:17And Tom, I appreciate you pointing that out and bringing that to our attention.
22:22All right, Tom, WW7T, great comment.
22:25Thank you for that.
22:26All right, any other comments?
22:27Please come down.
22:28YSI.
22:30Steve, W6YSI, we got you checked in.
22:33Come forward with your comment.
22:34Go ahead.
22:35Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that I got checked in.
22:37Sorry about it.
22:38I overslept.
22:40W6YSI, and I'm enjoying it all.
22:42Thanks.
22:44All right, Steve, copy that.
22:46We got you checked in.
22:47I'm glad you got some sleep.
22:48That is great.
22:49All right, any other comments on our passage?
22:51Please come down.
22:54K1, K0Y.
22:56All right, George, K1, K0Y.
22:58Go ahead.
22:59That song was just so full of blessings for family, for work, for everything,
23:04especially verse 3, the children, children like olive plants, round by table.
23:09All of the trees appear, it seems, all over the scriptures for a reason.
23:14It's one of the longest life plants that there is.
23:17There are some trees in that part of the country that are over 1,000 years old and are still productive.
23:23It's a perfect, perfect analogy for family extension and the continuation, the continuity of the whole concept here.
23:33K1, K0Y.
23:34Yeah, George, and thank you for that.
23:38That's part of the richness of scripture is the metaphors and the symbolic language that it uses.
23:44And so verse 3, thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house, thy children like olive plants, around thy table.
23:53And what George is pointing out here is that these olive trees, as he said, some of them live 1,000 years.
24:01And the idea here is the wife is likened to a grape vine that brings forth grapes, which, of course, grape juice or wine was what everybody drank
24:15because the water was not safe to drink, and so they had grapes and they had wine, and that's what they drank was highly diluted.
24:24They would boil it down and make a thick syrup out of it, and that's how they would store it.
24:30And then when they wanted to drink it, they would reconstitute it, and they would drink it that way.
24:36And then, of course, olive trees produced olive oil and olives to eat, and that was also a huge source of life.
24:45So both a man's wife and his children flourish like healthy plants that are full of rich fruit
24:53when the leader of that home fears God and leads that home in godliness.
24:59And so if you want to have a happy home, as a man, fear God and lead your wife and your children in the ways of the Lord
25:07and in the commandments of the Lord, and you will have a blessed home and a fruitful home,
25:13as it's described there metaphorically in verse 3.
25:16George, K1KOA, great comment. Thank you for that.
25:20All right, other comments. Please come now.
25:29All right, while you're thinking, I want to comment for a minute on verse 2.
25:43It says, regarding the fear of the man who fears the Lord, it says in verse 1,
25:47he walks in his ways, and notice the outcome.
25:51Thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands.
25:54And that's talking about material prosperity, okay?
25:57You go out and you work hard, right?
25:59And the labor of your hand produces income.
26:03And what you see here is the one who fears God is the one who is blessed by God materially.
26:10God looks out for his people.
26:12He cares for them. He feeds them.
26:14He gives us our daily bread.
26:17God is not a deadbeat father.
26:18You know, we all know fathers who won't go to work and won't provide for their kids or their wives.
26:24They're just lazy bums.
26:25Well, God isn't like that, okay?
26:28He is the father that feeds his children.
26:31And, you know, when we fear God and follow God and walk in his commandments, his blessing is on our endeavors.
26:38And he puts food on our tables.
26:41And that's one of the things that flows out of the fear of God is material blessing.
26:47It's not to say we're all going to be rich, we're all going to be driving Cadillacs, but it is to say that we're going to have food on the table and a roof over our head.
26:57And notice the last part of verse 2.
27:00Not only shall you eat the labor of your hands, it says,
27:03Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
27:07And, you know, happiness is not about having every single conceivable material blessing you could imagine.
27:15Happiness is being at peace with God by having the self-respect that comes from earning your own living and the clearness of conscience that proceeds from walking in the commandments of God and the way of God and the will of God.
27:32And so it is well with those who fear God, walk in his commandments, work hard, and rejoice in a right relationship with the Lord so that they have peace in their hearts and they have peace in their homes because the home is a home that puts God first and everyone follows what he teaches and everyone sees him as the Lord and the leader of their lives.
27:59So huge blessings all flowing out of the fear of God.
28:04All right.
28:05Any other comments on our song?
28:06Please come now.
28:18WB-7 VZL.
28:21Roger.
28:22WB-7 VZL.
28:23Please go ahead.
28:23Well, I was contemplating this verse 3.
28:30Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine.
28:34Well, we didn't have that many children.
28:38We're just grateful that we had one.
28:41And it took some hormonal help.
28:46So we are so, so privileged.
28:50But as far as vines, my brother and I were involved with grape vines and especially my brother getting them off the roof.
29:00They had been so tenaciously aggressive.
29:05And there were grapes that we were stepping on and so many grapes that we didn't hardly know what to do with.
29:13And so this fruitful vine is a wonderful metaphor, Max, as you say.
29:24It's great to have extra grapes around.
29:26Over.
29:28Yeah, I copy that.
29:30And, you know, the idea here is that your wife is going to produce children.
29:34And that's what it means here to be a fruitful vine.
29:37You know, you plant a grape vine or a fruit tree of some kind expecting to get fruit of it.
29:44And, you know, what a blessing it is when a man and a woman marry and God grants them off to children.
29:50And I know that oftentimes people have difficulty conceiving children or bearing children.
29:57And those are all the trials that we have as a result of the fall and the curse.
30:00And yet, nevertheless, most of us are able to have children.
30:05And what a blessing they are to us.
30:08How grateful we are that God has provided us with those little olive plants.
30:13It's interesting how the metaphors are mixed here, right?
30:16He talks about the wife being a fruitful vine.
30:19And then he talks about it producing olive plants.
30:23And the Bible does that quite frequently, right, where it switches the metaphor right mid-sentence to something else.
30:30And so the idea here is that of blessing, of fruitfulness, of longevity, and of delight.
30:41You know, when you eat grapes or you eat olives, it's like it just feels good to eat those things and to enjoy those things.
30:49And so a wife is a huge blessing.
30:52Children are a huge blessing.
30:53And these are the fruit that God gives to us as we fear the Lord and we walk in his commandments.
31:00Our family life flourishes.
31:03Family life is blessed.
31:04When a family has God at the center of the home, everyone is in submission to him.
31:10And we're all collectively following his commandments together.
31:14So, yeah, Roger, I have great bodies at my house.
31:17They're not on the house, fortunately.
31:20They are away from the house.
31:22But nevertheless, we really enjoy picking those, eating those, enjoying those, and seeing the fruit that God brings forth from that effort.
31:32And so these metaphors, agricultural metaphors, carry right on over by way of application into the Christian life.
31:42And so thank you for sharing your experience with us of grapevines climbing all over, bearing lots of fruit.
31:50And while it's not exactly where you want it to be, nevertheless, it pictures what our passage is talking about.
31:58Roger, WB7BZL, thanks for that comment.
32:01Any other comments, please come now.
32:02Thank you.
32:12All right, well, while you're thinking, I want to comment a little bit on verse 5.
32:30It says,
32:31The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion.
32:34Of course, Zion is the mountain on which Jerusalem is built, right?
32:38And Zion is used as a metaphor for the kingdom of God, the presence of God, the temple of God, the kingdom of God.
32:48So there's lots wrapped up in that term Zion.
32:52It also refers to a mountain of dirt on which the temple itself in Jerusalem is built.
32:58So it says,
32:59The Lord bless thee out of Zion, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
33:05So what's interesting is that the metaphor here switches from being, or not the metaphor, but the teaching,
33:14switches from being that of the individual, verse 1,
33:19Blessed is every one that fares the Lord, to the family, in verse 3, thy wives and thy children,
33:27and now to the collective community, Jerusalem.
33:32And the idea there is Israel, verse 6,
33:36Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
33:40So the fear of God not only should rule the life of the individual,
33:45it should not only rule the family, it should also rule the nation.
33:50And, you know, with reference to our nation,
33:53our nation only does as good as the families in it do.
33:57And to the degree that the families in our nation fear God and keep his commandments
34:03and run and rule the home in the fear of God and according to his will,
34:10only then will the nation itself be blessed.
34:13And when you see the chaos and the wickedness and the ungodliness that's happening in our nation,
34:19and especially in its leadership, what's the explanation for all of that?
34:23Well, the explanation for all of it is that our nation, our people, our leaders do not fear God.
34:30In fact, they live in open, willful defiance of God.
34:35And as we talked about previously on the net,
34:38when they threw Bible reading and prayer and the Ten Commandments out of the public schools in 1962 and 1963,
34:45here we are today justifying and promoting the worst kind of perversion,
34:54the worst kind of tyranny, the worst kind of economic policies,
34:59the worst kind of national destruction.
35:05And what did all that flow out of?
35:08It all flowed out of an abandonment of the fear of God.
35:13And the only solution to it is a national revival where, once again, the people fear God.
35:20That is, they recognize his authority.
35:23They recognize his sovereignty.
35:26They recognize the fact that there's going to be a day of judgment.
35:30And they recognize the fact that they need to become reconciled to this God,
35:34walk in the fear of this God, and keep his commandments.
35:37And so it's a return to Christianity and the fear of God that is the solution to all of the national evil
35:46that we see being done at the political level.
35:51And so the government is really a reflection of the character of the people.
35:57And so that's the reason why we preach the gospel, among others,
36:00is so that we can at least lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty
36:05because our rulers are basically ministers of God, living in the fear of God,
36:13and punishing evil as God defines it, and rewarding good as God defines it.
36:18So the fear of God is at the foundation of the individual's life,
36:22this is the foundation of the family's life,
36:25and it's at the foundation of the nation's life.
36:27And this is why, you know, we need to not soft-pedal the wrath of God,
36:33the doctrine of hell, the fact that there's a day of judgment coming,
36:40the fact that men are sinners and there are consequences to that sin,
36:44and they need to flee from the wrath that comes,
36:47they need to fear God and follow God.
36:49And what brings redemption in righteousness in the individual's life
36:55and the family's life also brings it in the nation's life.
36:58And that's why preaching the gospel is the solution to our national crisis.
37:05All right, any other comments on our passage?
37:08Please come down.
37:12WB7VZL.
37:15Roger, please go ahead.
37:16Well, I'm elaborating on what you are highlighting about the fear of God.
37:26That is certainly something that has its, well,
37:31one of the challenges of the fear of God is in the context of evolution,
37:38that there is a desire to not have any accountability to any higher power.
37:44And here I think of Revelation chapter 14,
37:51which you know very well,
37:55where you have pictured in verse 14 the coming of Christ, the Son of Man.
38:03And the Son of Man is a reference to the person that in Daniel 7 does have the judgment seen before him.
38:17And in the first angel, in verse 6 of Revelation 14,
38:22I saw another angel flying in midheaven having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth,
38:32to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people.
38:35And here's the message.
38:37Fear God, verse 7,
38:39You can see where evolution strikes designed by Satan to strike out a heart of any reference to the fear of God
39:03in the context of a message that I could believe from the context
39:10could be the present judgment of Daniel 7 going on now, possibly.
39:20So, getting ready for Christ to come.
39:24WB7 Visa now.
39:25Yeah, Roger, extremely well said.
39:30And thank you for bringing out that passage in Revelation.
39:34One of the things I mentioned in my opening statement is that
39:37this concept of the fear of God occurs over 200 times in the Bible,
39:41from Genesis to Revelation.
39:43And here it is in Revelation.
39:45What's interesting is that in Revelation 14, 6, it says,
39:49And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth.
40:00And so, here we have an angel preaching a gospel.
40:04Well, what is the gospel?
40:05What is part of what it contains?
40:09Well, it contains the message, verse 7,
40:12That is the gospel message.
40:27Now, it's not everything that the gospel contains.
40:30Clearly, the gospel contains a message about repentance,
40:35about faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior,
40:38and about redemption and reconciliation, forgiveness of sins, and eternal life.
40:43But none of that is going to be arrived at until the first part of the gospel is set forth.
40:50And that is, is that there is a God who is coming to judge.
40:55There is a God who, as you well said, Roger,
40:59made the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
41:02And that's one of the great lies of Satan, is that God didn't make it.
41:06And there is no God.
41:08This all just came about by natural processes of time plus energy plus chance,
41:14producing all of this order.
41:17So, what they're saying is that, you know, nothing produced something.
41:20And it all came about by natural processes that are undirected, unintelligent, and random.
41:28Well, the message of the Bible is completely different.
41:32So, yes, we don't believe for one second the science fiction of evolution.
41:40Because once you embrace evolution, then you abandon the whole idea that there is a God,
41:47that there is a day of judgment, that there is anything to fear from this God.
41:51And, of course, you also abandon all hope and meaning and purpose as well.
41:54But people seem to be willing to embrace the abandonment of hope, meaning, purpose, and destiny
41:59if they can just get away from this concept that there's a God who made me,
42:04that God has a will for me, and he's going to judge me as to whether I followed his will or not.
42:09So, we can't leave out from the gospel the message that God is creator
42:16and that a judgment is coming and that we are to fear this God.
42:21We're to glorify him and worship him.
42:23We fail to do that, and therefore we need redemption.
42:27Oh, and by the way, there's this wonderful Redeemer, Jesus Christ,
42:30who delivers us from our sins if we just repent of them
42:34and believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and as our Savior.
42:38So, yeah, we need to preach the whole gospel.
42:42And the whole gospel certainly involves, Roger, as you well said,
42:47the doctrine of creation, and it expressly repudiates the false teaching of evolution.
42:56And so, Roger, thank you for that comment.
42:59We really appreciate you tying this issue of the fear of God
43:03together with the gospel in Revelation chapter 14, verses 6 and 7.
43:10All right, other comments on our passage, please.
43:13KM5S?
43:15No, KM5S. Please go ahead.
43:18Yeah, I have a follow-up, and it's kind of an irony.
43:22The evolutionists don't want to recognize God as creator.
43:29They don't want to recognize his authority.
43:31But they claim that they are a higher authority.
43:35KM5S?
43:38Yeah, that's right.
43:39You know, when people deny the true God, they don't become atheists.
43:42They just embrace a substitute God.
43:44And so they wind up worshiping man, and the whole humanist manifesto is a manifesto
43:51about the exaltation and ultimate authority of man.
43:56And you see that in Revelation chapter 13, where it talks about the beast out of the sea.
44:02It says they marveled at the beast and said,
44:04Who is like the beast?
44:05Or who has power like him?
44:08And so you wind up worshiping government.
44:10You wind up worshiping false gods.
44:12You wind up ultimately worshiping people when you abandon the worship of the true and living God.
44:17So, yeah, evolutionists say, Oh, don't listen to God.
44:21Listen to me.
44:22I know what happened in the beginning.
44:25And I will tell you my version of Genesis 1 and 2.
44:31And you need to believe me and follow me as your God.
44:35So when we abandon Christianity, we wind up embracing Islam or we wind up embracing humanism or we wind up embracing nihilism.
44:47Man can't live without a philosophy of life, of origin, of meaning, of purpose, of destiny, of connecting with someone bigger than himself.
44:57And so people wind up worshiping nature.
44:59You know, Gaia becomes the god.
45:02And people talk about Mother Nature as though nature is that which gave us birth.
45:10And, of course, we reject evolutionism on scientific principles.
45:15I mean, scientifically, it makes no sense.
45:19And scientifically, it's fallacious as well as rejecting it on the basis of divine revelation, which is infallible and which is inerrant and which proceeds from the God who made it all.
45:33All right.
45:33Great comment there, Will.
45:35I think we're out of time.
45:37It is time for us to go to prayer.
45:41And so I appreciate all the comments.
45:45And the focus of our psalm is the fear of God being the basis for the individual's life, the basis for the family life, the basis for the economic life, and the basis for our national life.
45:57And so what we need to do is recognize that God is the supreme being, and we need to have a great care to listen to what he says, to live in a way that pleases him, and to avoid those things that offend him,
46:14and most of all, draw near to him through his son, Jesus Christ, who is our mediator and who is our redeemer and in whom we trust alone for the forgiveness of our sins.
46:29All right.
46:29WB7MAX here.
46:30I'm looking for any final prayer requests before ALKJ7QH leaves us in prayer.
46:36Any final prayer requests, please come now at your call sign.
46:44All right, AL, KJ7QH, go ahead and close in prayer for us, please.
46:51Well, thank you, Pastor Max.
46:52Good morning to everyone on the net.
46:54This is KJ7QH.
46:57Let's all come together before the Lord in prayer.
47:00Heavenly Father, thank you for this time together with you in your word.
47:05And we just thank you and are just so grateful that you're pleased to hear the prayers and praises we have for you today.
47:16We open today with our brother Jubal, M7PTT.
47:20And we join him in asking for safe travel for his family as they return from their vacation trip.
47:30For Eric, KJ7ES, they travel for him and his wife as they go to the Oregon Post this weekend.
47:38We've asked for a safe trip for them and a good quality time together.
47:42For Keith, KJ7NEB, we give praise for your help in finding a care home for his mom to move into.
47:51And we just pray that she will adjust well to the new flights and the new people there.
47:58And join our brother Roger, WB7BVL, in giving you praise for an answered prayer for a positive outcome in a court case of a friend and neighbor.
48:14We pray for our Pastor Max, WB7MAS, for the success in his ministry.
48:20May he say travel back from New Jersey tomorrow.
48:24For David, KJ7NEBVL, for his daughter, Brenda, who's battling breast cancer, and she's receiving chemotherapy treatment now.
48:36For David's pain relief from a folding disc that he has in his back, and for treatment to be effective.
48:44For our brother Jim and 7BKNE, for the success in another trip around the sun for him.
48:56And also, for prayers for clearing of the illness that's spreading through the report.
49:03He just hears the gospel there.
49:06For Steve W6YSI, prayers for guidance in the purchase of Steve and Leslie's new home in California, Jaystown.
49:20And also, prays that Leslie is a referral now to a vascular surgeon to find a source and a solution to her leg pain.
49:31For Jack, AK-60K, we join him in lifting up Peter, KP-6PP, as he deals with the flood deck into his home.
49:43For Glenn, KJ7UMW, we pray for him to have good sleep and release from his foot pain.
49:51For Rob, KB7CL, and Mark, KJ7PP, who have unspoken prayer requests.
50:00For Mike, N7G&B, we ask for his safety and success on his health hunting trip.
50:10For Al, N6MOT, we pray for his health issues of both Al and his wife.
50:18For George, K1KOY, he lost his wife Pamela to get her in July.
50:23And we pray for the comfort of both George and his family, and for all who are dealing with cancer.
50:31His granddaughter, Caitlin, is due to deliver his first great-grandson in mid-November.
50:39Any day now, we pray for safe delivery and a healthy baby for Charles.
50:45And 7B and his son, Trevor, passed with cancer on October 11th.
50:52And we just ask for peace and comfort for the family.
50:56For Dave, AI-7QQ, we give praise for Noah, a young man in David's prison ministry.
51:04He's now safe and attending church.
51:07Just pray that Noah will continue in your word and increase in faith.
51:11For Jerry, KG6J, we pray for his boss, Rochelle, if she's going through chemo and radiation treatments on her neck cancer.
51:21We're praying for treatments to be effective.
51:24We give praise that he's approved for more physical therapy sessions.
51:30And we pray that those sessions will continue to improve his back pain and give him relief.
51:37And also improve his balance.
51:41In fact, Alpha Alpha 5 Yankee, we pray for continued healing of his vision from his recent bed injury.
51:48And also, we pray for their neighbor, Nancy, who needs healing from cancer.
51:52And she also needs salvation.
51:55And we give praise that Nancy is showing great improvement.
51:58Also, for Jan Brokart, a diabetic, who has some of the flu removed, and is home now and improving.
52:09Her husband, Ken, is having heart orythmi issues.
52:14He's asked for some healing for him, too.
52:17For Mike, KI-7RSV.
52:20For his wife, Liz, who's fighting cancer, we pray for an effective chemo treatment.
52:25For our brother, Will, kylomite-5-moxtrot, we'll continue hormone treatment for this patient.
52:35We pray those treatments will be effective.
52:38And there's three minutes.
52:42For Keisha, as she waits for a liver transplant.
52:46It's been postponed since she's now stable.
52:49But we just pray that that time will come soon, and she'll be able to get perfect liver transplant.
52:55We pray for her as she goes through some stretches that she has in her life right now.
53:01And we pray for her salvation.
53:04Prayers for the success of the new Bible study that Will started attending.
53:10For Jeff, a.k.a. 60K.
53:12We pray for the thousands of Bibles being shipped out to all troops everywhere.
53:17And we pray for the need of three new chapels to be built on camp homes, and that that would be met.
53:32And also for you, God, to raise up those to manage them.
53:36We pray for Jeff as he prepares to travel on November 11th and meet with his publishers and share his best functions.
53:44For Tom, WW17, Tom is recovering from major spine surgery, and he's in a wheelchair.
53:53We pray that his physical therapy will provide release from pain and increase his mobility.
54:00We also pray that he'll be approved for a new power chair that he needs.
54:05For Pastor Jeff Blass, who has ulcerative colitis, we pray that the treatments that he's received will be effective.
54:15For Cody, TI7-TRF, for the healing of his Uncle Doug, he's a believer, a spearhead injury he has.
54:25And we pray for his ongoing treatment and recovery, and we pray that he's showing good improvement now.
54:34For Scott, TI7-YQT, his wife, Pam, has spare lupus.
54:40We pray that that will go into remission.
54:43We pray for his daughter, Kendra, with ongoing multiple chronic health needs.
54:48We pray for Mike, TI7-N, with stage 4 cancer.
54:51And we pray for the chemo treatment that started on September 26th, will be effective.
54:58For Mike, W7, and T.W.O.
55:02We pray for the salvation of Jaden, his grandson, who's immersed in rock and roll culture.
55:08And we pray for the remission of Mike's wife, Sherry's, Meniere's disease.
55:16For Jeff, he thinks it's okay.
55:18For Jeff's niece Haley, for her salvation.
55:21For Autumn, we pray for her to find a new place to live, for her mental stability and development of her social skills,
55:32deliverance from false theological beliefs, and for her salvation.
55:37For Carol, KK7-TPO, we pray for protection for Alice.
55:43Carol's seven-year-old great-granddaughter, among godly influences, is her home, and for her salvation.
55:50Well, that's what's on our list today, Lord.
55:54We just ask that you would be pleased to grant these prayers and praises we have for you today.
56:02And we thank you for your goodness and your mercy and your grace to each one of us.
56:07Bring us back here again tomorrow for more of you and your word.
56:10And mostly, we thank you for the gift of your son, Jesus Christ.
56:15And it's through that we pray all these things.
56:18Amen.
56:19This is KJ7QQH.
56:21Returning back to you there in New Jersey.
56:24Dr. Max, this is your sister.
56:26And that's control.
56:27All right, now, KJ7QQH.
56:32Thank you so much for that prayer and for leading us to the throne of grace.
56:35Really appreciate that.
56:36And now, we'd like to acknowledge Dave, KJ7WKI, Dave's size show up there on the Utah SDR.
56:43Thanks for being there as well.
56:44All right, this is WV7MX, net control for the West Coast Bible Study.
56:47I want to thank all the stations who checked in today and those who stood by to give us a clear operating frequency.
56:54We meet here seven days a week at 6 a.m.
56:57in order to read the scriptures, understand their meaning, message, and application,
57:01and then pray for grace and mercy to be able to live out what we learn
57:05and for God to meet the needs of those that are in our circle of fellowship.
57:09I'll be returning at 3-COTC now to regular amateur use.
57:12This is WV7MX.
57:14I'll be clear and standing by.
57:16Alphalfa5Yankee with this morning's joke.
57:22Alphalfa5Yankee, please go ahead.
57:25Where does today always come before yesterday?
57:34Why does today always come before yesterday?
57:38I don't know.
57:42No, it was where does today always come before yesterday?
57:48Tomorrow.
57:49Where does today always come before yesterday?
57:55Tomorrow.
57:56Maybe on one side of the international date line or something?
58:00I'm sure you've got a better answer than that.
58:02Go ahead, Beck.
58:03I think Roger keeps saying tomorrow.
58:08Dictionary.
58:10Yep.
58:11Whoever said dictionary, you got it.
58:16What was the answer?
58:19Dictionary.
58:23I don't know if K-Y-K-O-L-I.
58:24My mind just works that way.
58:28See how's it going?
58:31Hey, guys.
58:35Anyway, you all have a blessed day.
58:36Alphalfa5Yankee, QRT.
58:40Thank you, Beck.
58:41Appreciate that.
58:42Yeah, good mind there, George.
58:44Glad you got that one figured out for us.
58:46All right.
58:47WB7MAX here.
58:48Wishing 7-3s to Beck, Alphalfa5Yankee, and Sandy W7SAB.
58:53You guys have a great day today, and hopefully you'll make some more progress on that house
58:58and get ready to move into it.
59:00All right.
59:01WB7MAX here.
59:02Standing by.
59:03Anybody want to chat?
59:04Throw out your call sign.
59:05KJ7PWM.
59:10Okay.
59:11We have a double there.
59:12Brian, KJ7PWM, you go ahead.
59:17Yeah, I'm a little bit worried about the longevity of that joke,
59:22because kids today don't know what a dictionary is, and even my kids who know what a dictionary is
59:31probably never really used one.
59:34And so, as everything goes digital and you can search stuff, it's going to be hard for people to answer that joke,
59:42because what do you mean it goes before?
59:45It's random access, right?
59:46So, anyways, that's just...
59:49Yeah, copy that, Brian.
59:51Well, that makes good sense.
59:53Yeah, my kids all know what dictionaries were, and they all used them because we homeschooled them,
59:58and I didn't give them access to the Internet until they were 18 years old.
60:01And I might be criticized for that, but we did everything analog,
60:06and I think it really helped improve their thinking to not have access to screens,
60:12but to have to read and to talk and to write and to look up answers.
60:18Believe it or not, we got encyclopedias in our house,
60:21and they'd pull those things off the shelf and look up subjects and do research the old-school way.
60:30So, anyway, yeah, you know, even though we live in a digital age,
60:35I think it's really important for us to maintain that analog side
60:39and insist that kids not just learn off of screens, but that they learn out of books.
60:45So, back to you there, Brian.
60:49I agree with that.
60:50I agree with that, 100%.
60:51We did a lot of that with our kids, who are now in their 30s,
60:57but the grandkids are not allowed to have tablets,
61:02and they're not doing that sort of thing with them.
61:06They're doing analog learning, doing some homeschool with some of them,
61:10and it's just a comment.
61:13That was maybe more of a comment, more for worldly people and in general,
61:19but I can't believe that most people that are, you know, of our state bent are considering
61:30and taking care of analogs and offline stuff.
61:33I do my personal Bible study in a paper Bible with a paper notebook every morning.
61:42I do use the iPad to catch our psalm for the day,
61:49and I also just use that because there's a really good access to notes in there from different people.
61:56But, anyways, no, I agree 100%.
61:59It's just a comment that for the secular, normal people, that one is going to be hard to answer.
62:07Yeah, I copy that, Brian.
62:12Completely agree with you.
62:13I read a study the other day.
62:16It was a well-done study about how well people learn from reading off of a tablet or a computer screen
62:22versus how well people learn from reading a book, and the difference was dramatic.
62:27People who read from a book retained information far better, not just a little better,
62:35far better than those who read off of a screen.
62:38So, interesting study, and, you know, there's a lot to be said.
62:43I've got a library full of books, and, you know, when I'm studying the Bible,
62:48I way prefer to have an open book than to have it on a computer screen.
62:53So, Brian, great perspective.
62:55Thank you for providing that.
62:57And, yep, as the age changes, so do people's understanding of the world around them
63:03and the way they access information.
63:06It's going to have a huge impact on people's thinking, value systems, and decision-making.
63:13And I think as Christians we need to appear in the digital space.
63:16We need to fight the good fight on the Internet for the truth of the gospel.
63:25But I think that, yeah, we're certainly moving into a different age, you know,
63:32with the advent of the Internet, which was kind of like the Gutenberg printing press,
63:37and now with the advent of AI, which is just as big of a quantum leap.
63:43And, you know, I know God's in control of the future and what's going to happen,
63:47but this is going to, you know, dramatically transform humanity and the way they think
63:54and the way they gather information and how their minds and thoughts and values are shaped.
64:00But, you know, God's in control of that, and so we don't need to fear the future.
64:04We just need to move into it with the gospel, with the scriptures,
64:07and know that there's really nothing new under the sun
64:11and that the everlasting gospel is as valid today as it was 5,000 years ago,
64:18and it will be just as valid 5,000 years from now, if we're still here for that long.
64:25All right, WV7MAX here in conversation with Brian, KJ7PWM.
64:29Anybody else want to chat? Throw out your call sign.
64:32KM5F.
64:33Yeah, when I lived in Idle Falls, I had a collection of dictionaries,
64:44and some of them were pretty old.
64:46It was kind of interesting to look at the changes in the usage of words,
64:51because the words that...