351: Bob Carlson – Exhortation: Signal vs. Noise

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Welcome to good Chris Delphian
talks.

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I’m Levi.
I’m Chris.

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I’m Jason.
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joining us this week.
On this podcast, we select one

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That we previewed from
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beforehand as a personalized
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are sharing the talk.
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this week’s talk.
Hello, This is brother Chris

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Atwood back with a new talk for
you to enjoy this week.

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For this week, we’re listening
to an exhortation that was given

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earlier this year in Southern
California by brother Bob

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Carlson.
The title of the exhortation is

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Signal versus Noise and the
exhortation itself, the theme I

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thought fit very well to the
overall goal and objective of

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the Good Christadelphian Talks
podcast, which is the goal is to

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try to get the Bible into your
news feed to reduce the amount

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of noise in your life and
instead focus on the signal.

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Now Brother Bob is a sound
engineer and has taught and has

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helped in many ways both in our
ecclesia and other ecclesia in

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Southern California to set up
sound systems and all sorts of

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other things related to sound.
So he is an expert in the

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subject when he is talking about
it.

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But one of the areas that
Brother Bob and many other

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brothers over the years have
helped in is preserving and

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helping to do the audio at Bible
schools and Bible weekends over

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the years.
So I thought it was appropriate,

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given that I’m sharing this
expectation right on the eve of

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the North American Bible School
season, to especially thank all

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those brothers and sisters that
have faithfully over the years

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helped to set up the sound so
that everyone can be able to

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hear and understand the work
that all the speakers put into

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putting out those talks and also
those that.

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Over the years.
We’re responsible for tape

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replication so that we have the
tapes that I’ve been working to

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digitize to preserve the talks
from many, many years ago.

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And we’re able to still listen
and enjoy and in many cases

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sounds just as good as if it was
recorded today.

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So if you are out at a Bible
school this summer, one, if it

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happens to have a spectacular
talk, please make sure to send

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it in as a suggestion.
But also be sure to thank

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whoever is doing the audio
behind the scenes.

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Cause doing sound at an event
like a Bible school or a weekend

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is the type of job that nobody
knows that the someone is doing

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it unless it is going wrong.
So if it is going well and you

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don’t know who they are, that’s
probably because they’re doing

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an excellent job.
Be sure to thank them for what

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they’re doing.
That allows you to be able to

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sit and listen and enjoy the
work of whoever is up on the

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platform speaking at that given
moment.

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So with that, I’m going to turn
it over to brother Bob Carlson

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for his expectation.
That was entitled Signal Verse

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Noise.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
As I start out the new year, I,

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like many of you, kind of take a
review of what I’ve done and I

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then go through my files and see
what I need for taxes coming on

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up at the beginning of this
year.

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Yeah, great stuff.
And then I also then start new

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files.
I start the files for 2025.

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Of course, this always requires
me to make some space because

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everything’s already full from
everything.

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That’s over the course of the
past few years and my filing

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cabinets get full and I need an
exodus of some of these older

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files.
And this year required me to

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throw out quite a few older
files no longer in use.

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My wife’s treadmill has took
enough space of one of the

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filing cabinets, so I needed
even more room.

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Among those older files were
some of my school lecture

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materials from my educational
days where I taught at a local

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Community College.
I kind of find it hard to

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dispose of some of them because
they’re knowledge based but but

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not like I’m going to go back
into teaching anymore.

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They were just taking up far too
much space there in the files.

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But as I was going through them
and throwing them away, I came

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across one of my lexer sessions
that was titled Gain Structure

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Signal to Noise.
And I thought, aha, I think I’ve

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found something.
This can be my next exhortation.

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Yeah.
OK.

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And I, and I know before you
think I’ve totally gone off my

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rocker, at least more than I
already am.

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Let me get into the subject a
little bit before you think me

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totally crazy.
In the world of audio and music,

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we are always trying to have the
music and all audio programming

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free from any distractions that
would take us away from that

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audio programming or the music.
And what happens is, is that any

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type of distortion to the
original music or audio

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programming is totally unwanted.
Any introduction of something

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that was not in the original
music or audio is also unwanted.

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In short, anything that is not
part of the original audio or

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music is considered to be noise.
In contrast, we want the music

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to be totally easily heard.
We want it to be presented

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accurately.
It’s gain level should be well

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above the presence of any
possible noise.

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There’s a measurement for this
and it is called signal to

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noise.
Nearly all audio electronics.

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This has this measurement of
signal noise listed in its

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specifications.
The higher the measurement

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differential, the better the
audio electronics are.

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What does this mean?
In reality, the level of music

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is far above any perception of
noise that might be there.

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In fact, the music would even
mask any possible noise because

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it’s much higher in its loudness
level.

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An experienced audio engineer
knows his job is to turn up the

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signal, get rid of the noise.
Now some of you more experienced

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audio engineers and Bible
students can see where I’m going

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with this exhortation.
And you may already know where

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I’m going with this comparison
of how signal to noise may play

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a role in our spiritual walk in
this world that we live in

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today.
So let’s leave the college

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classroom and its materials for
a moment and turn to the Bible

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for its commentary on the
subject.

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So in doing that, I guess the
first thing we need to do

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explore what is the Bible’s
perception of noise.

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To my surprise, both the Greek
and Hebrew words for noise are

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contained within the Bible, and
not just a few times, but a lot

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of times.
Many times.

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What is translated noise just
means sound.

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Examples of this would be in
Naham 3 and 2, the noise of a

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whip and the noise of a rattling
wheel, or of galloping horses

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over clattering Chariots.
Or another example would be from

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Joshua 610.
Now Joshua had commanded the

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people, saying, You shall not
shout or make any noise with

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your voice, nor shall a word
proceed out of your mouth until

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the day I say to you shout, then
you shall shout.

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So many times the word noise is
not translated in a positive

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sense.
Matter of fact, many times it’s

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not translated positively.
It’ll come up as confused noise,

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loud noise.
Pass away with a great noise,

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tumult, or commotion.
After the uproar ceased, riotous

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persons, both Jesus and the
apostle Paul, were confronted

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with noise.
Sometimes translated as

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clamorous or excited multitude
trying to drown out God’s

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message.
Paul in more than one occasion

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set the city on an uproar.
However, sometimes we’ll see the

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translation of noise in a
favorable way.

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Not as many, but it’ll come up
as make a joyful shout, make a

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joyful noise, make a joyful
sound to the Lord.

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An example would be like a verse
I really like from Psalms 89 at

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15.
Blessed are the people who know

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the joyful sound.
They walk, O Lord, in the light

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of your countenance.
So from a Bible’s translated

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sense, you can make a joyful
noise or sound to the Lord, or

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you can make a confused tumult
or commotion that is not joyful

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to the Lord.
In fact, we see many times God’s

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contrast the loud sounds of
confusion with the small voice

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or near silence of God asking us
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Just like in the hymn that we
just sang.

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The Word of God throughout the
Scriptures makes an interesting

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contrast between loud noise of
the wicked in the quiet of the

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innocent or the righteous.
I would like to turn to the book

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in Prophecy of Amos, the 5th
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In this 5th chapter of Amos,
Amos prophesied during the reign

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of Uzziah over Judah and over
Jeroboam over Israel.

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It is it is call from God to
both Judah and Israel for

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repentance and putting in at
verse 12 of Amos 5.

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For I know how many of how many
are your offenses, and how great

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are your sins.
There are those who oppress the

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innocent and take bribes and
deprive the poor of justice in

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the courts.
Therefore the prudent keep quiet

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in such times, for the times are
evil.

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Seek good, not evil, that you
may live.

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Then the Lord God Almighty will
be with you just as you say he

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is.
Hate evil, love good, maintain

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justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty

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will have mercy on the remnant
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So here in this passage, the
Lord God is calling for justice

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and righteousness from His
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Things had gotten so bad that
even the courts of those days

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were evil, taking bribes and
oppressing the innocent.

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And Amos would declare the times
are evil.

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So he wants us to seek good, not
evil.

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So in keeping with our subject
of the positive signal and

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message of God over the
unpleasing noise that can drown

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out that message with noise, how
do we turn up the signal and get

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rid of the noise?
What noise and unwanted

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confusion can we remove from our
lives?

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And in contrast, what positive
signals can we turn up in our

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lives?
So let us take a moment to look

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through and read some of God’s
Scripture and see what might

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help us as to turning up the
signal and getting rid of the

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noise.
Now all of these Bible passages

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I’ll be reading will be taken
from the New King James Version,

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and there’s going to be quite a
number of them.

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So don’t feel necessary to turn
them all up as I read them.

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Our first reading will come from
the first chapter of Isaiah at

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verse 17.
Learn to do good, seek justice,

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rebuke the oppressor, defend the
fatherless, plead for the widow.

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Here the Lord through Isaiah is
pleading for the children of

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Israel to put away evil doings.
Just like the reading we just

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had in Amos, there’s a plea, a
legal plea to seek justice and

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defend the innocent.
And in the following verses it

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says, though your sins are like
scarlet, they shall be as white

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as snow.
Though though they are red like

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Crimson, they shall be as wool
if you’re, if you are willing

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and obedient.
So the message here is learn to

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do good.
King David would say in the

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Psalms, Psalms 3414, depart from
evil and do good, seek peace and

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pursue it.
And in Psalms 37, depart from

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evil and do good, and dwell
forevermore.

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Now King David was just echoing
what was instructed to the

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children of Israel back in
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In Deuteronomy 6 and 18, you
shall do what is right and good

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in the sight of the Lord, that
it may be well with you, and

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that you may go in and possess
the good land of which the Lord

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swore to your father’s.
And King David’s son Solomon

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would say in Ecclesiastes the
third chapter where he’s a where

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he’s talking about there’s a
time and a place where

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everything and starting at verse
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He has made everything beautiful
in its time.

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He has also set eternity in the
human heart.

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Yet no one can fathom what God
has done from the beginning to

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end.
I know that there’s nothing

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better for people than to be
happy and to do good while they

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live.
But years later, Jeremiah would

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write the Lord’s at the Lord’s
direction at Jeremiah 422 For my

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people are foolish.
They have not known me.

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They are silly children, and
they have no understanding.

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They are wise to do evil, but to
do good they have no knowledge.

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So this theme to do good didn’t
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We have only to turn to the New
Testament writers to see this

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message continue through the
time of Jesus and beyond.

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All of the following scripture
verses are addressed to the 1st

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century believers, both Jews and
Gentiles, to to the believers in

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Galatia.
He would say, And let us not

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grow weary while doing good, for
in due season we shall reap if

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we do not lose heart.
Therefore, as we have

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opportunity, let us do good to
all, especially to those who are

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in the household of faith, and
to the church at the

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Thessalonians. 313 But as you
grow, brethren, do not grow

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weary in doing good.
And to the Romans in the 12th

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chapter, verse 21, Do not be
overcome by evil, but overcome

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evil with good.
In Hebrews the 13th chapter,

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verse 16.
But do not forget to do good,

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and to share for what such
sacrifices God is well pleased.

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In first Timothy 6 at verse 18.
Let them do good, that they may

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be rich in good works, ready to
give willingly to share.

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And in John three, the first
chapter at verse 11, behold, do

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not imitate what is evil, but
what is good.

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For he who does good is of God,
and he who does evil has not

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seen God.
And in first Peter 311 let him

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turn away from evil and do good.
Let him seek peace and pursue

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it.
In Psalms 36 that I read from

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this platform 2 weeks ago, King
David would write an Oracle

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within my heart concerning the
transgression of the wicked.

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There is No Fear of God before
his eyes, for he flatters

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himself in his own eyes when he
finds out his iniquity, and when

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he hates.
The words of his mouth are

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wickedness and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and to

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do good.
He devises wickedness on his

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bed.
He sets himself in a way that is

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not good.
He does not abhor evil.

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And now lastly, in our flurry of
verses in James 417.

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Therefore, to him who knows to
do good and does not do it to

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him it is sin.
So from these pages of scripture

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we are seen and compelled by God
to do good.

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Yes, we may have to learn to do
good, we may have to bring to

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remembrance good, or increase
our ability to do good.

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But to do good is of God, and
not to do good is a sin.

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So we are to turn away from evil
and any form of wickedness.

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Paul’s letter to the Galatians,
5/19 he would write.

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Now the works of the flesh are
evident, which are idolatry,

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fornication, uncleanness,
lewdness, idolatry, sorcery,

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hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish

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ambitions, dissensions,
heresies, evil, murders,

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drunkenness, rivalries and the
like, of which I tell you

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before, just as I told you in
time past, that those who

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practice such things will not
inherit the Kingdom of God.

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These are the works of the
flesh, the ever increasing noise

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of the world that is around us.
So what is the good message in

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the signal of our Heavenly
Father?

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We are encouraged to do good.
But what might that be?

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Jesus in Matthew 25 would say.
Then the king will say to those

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on his right hand, Come, you
blessed of my Father, inherit

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the Kingdom, Prepare for you
from the foundation of the

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world.
For I was hungry, and you gave

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me food.
I was thirsty, and you gave me

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drink.
I was a stranger and you took me

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in.
I was naked and you clothed me.

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I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came to

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me.
And again Jesus in another

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parable of the good shepherds,
would actually say, do good and

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rent your aid to those even
outside the brotherhood.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.
This is to do good to both those

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inside the Brotherhood.
Your fellow brothers and sisters

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and those outside the household
of God.

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Now as we come to this memorial
table, we come here to remember

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Jesus and we look to Him to be
our supreme and perfect example.

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He was the stone that was
rejected by the scribes and

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Pharisees and the people of that
day.

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He has become the chief
cornerstone.

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Jesus would ask the scribes and
Pharisees which is lawful on the

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Sabbath, to do good or to do
evil, to save life or to destroy

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it.
Throughout his ministry he would

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come to do good, and by his
actions he would save life.

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And at the end he would remain
quiet in front of his accusers.

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With their loud voice they would
cry, crucify him.

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It had to be a deafening,
riotous uproar, so much so that

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Pilate would yield and give
Jesus over to be crucified.

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And Jesus, the one that did good
throughout his life, remained

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quiet, allowing God’s plan to be
fulfilled.

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A poem.
It is very sad the way things go

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when our spiritual fight starts
to fall.

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And in that fuzzy picture, God’s
writing stands out on the wall

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so clearly.
On the wall, send out the

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signals, deep and loud.
And in this place, can you

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reassure me with a touch, a
smile?

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While the cradle is burning,
while the world around us is

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turning to noise, the more that
it surrounds us, the more it

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destroys.
Turn up the signal, wipe out the

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noise.
Is mankind losing sound and

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sight of all those who can tell
me wrong from right when all

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things beautiful and bright sink
in the night?

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Yet there is something in my
heart that can find a way to

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make a start.
Turn up the signal, wipe out the

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noise.
As remembering him now, brothers

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and sisters in this memorial,
let us live our lives and turn

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up the signal and wipe out the
noise.

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