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August 13, 2026 - Joshua 6 & Proverbs 11 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Byboarding Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, August 13th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Joshua 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: None went out, and none came in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus you shall do for six days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priest shall blow the trumpets.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every one straight before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests and said to them, Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of ramshorns before the Ark of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to the people, Go forward, march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the Ark of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of ramshorns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord following them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The armed men were walking before the priest who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Joshua commanded the people, You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you shall shout.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he caused the ark of the Lord to circle the city, going about at once, and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the Ark of the Lord, and the seven priests, bearing the seven trumpets of ramsworms before the Ark of the Lord walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually, and the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the Ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp, so they did for six days.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city, and the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only Rahab, the prostitute, and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things, and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction, and bring trouble upon you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord, they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted, A great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
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  SPEAKER_00: But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all who belonged to her, as you swore to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her, and they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it, only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Rahab, the prostitute, and her father's household, and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive, and she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds the city, Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs eleven one through thirteen.
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  SPEAKER_01: A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
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  SPEAKER_01: When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.
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  SPEAKER_01: With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
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  SPEAKER_01: When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of gladness.
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  SPEAKER_01: By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Joshua 6 today, we have perhaps one of the most famous stories in all of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's up there with the flood, it's up there with creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these narratives in Scripture that we are perhaps more familiar with than others.
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  SPEAKER_00: The walls of Jericho coming tumbling down.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a song, Tyler, that you have sung before, I'm sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you sung it before?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Walls of Wall of Jericho?
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was a young guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you were a young pop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, there's there's a song about this incident.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is uh one of the Sunday school hall of fame stories in the Bible here in Joshua 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for good reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a dramatic display of God's power.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a dramatic display of God uh being true to his promises that he would deliver the enemies of Israel into their hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically here, of course, Jericho with their fortified walls and their fortified city.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they felt safe and sound inside those walls.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they felt impenetrable.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they felt unconquerable.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, we see that the army of Israel, even just with their priest and the trumpets and the Ark of the Covenant, walking around the walls, doing something as simple as just circling their city.
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  SPEAKER_00: God uses that to have their defenses destroyed and ultimately delivering that nation into the hands of the Israelites.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see God again being so true to his promise that he would lead them into this land, that he would give them victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why, even earlier in Joshua, uh, God says to fear not, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: For I am with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has promised to be with them, God has promised to lead them, to protect them, and he was doing just that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's exactly what we're seeing here in this story with Jericho and its fortified defenses being taken down as if they were nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this kind of reminds me, even in the book of Genesis, that question, is anything too hard for God?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we see here in Joshua chapter six is well, of course not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even something as seemingly impossible, if you think about it from the vantage point of one of the Israelites looking at these giant walls, these great defenses, and thinking to themselves, how are we gonna get in there?
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  SPEAKER_00: How are we gonna conquer this city with these defenses?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is anything too hard for the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, of course not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, he didn't even need to do anything uh from our perspective that required military strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what military strategy has been grab some trumpets, grab the Ark of the Covenant, circle the city seven times, and then on the seventh day, do it seven times in a row, and then your uh enemies will be delivered into your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's not a military strategy, uh, that's a heavenly strategy where God is showcasing his power and he is again being true to his promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just a great encouraging narrative here in Joshua 6 the reality of God continuing to protect his people, to provide for them, and to lead them into victory in the land flowing with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in our proverb today, Proverbs chapter 11, we see uh the wicked, the treacherous, the crooked, the proud.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on the other hand, the contrast is the humble, the righteous, uh, those who would put their their trust not in themselves, but in God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the the righteousness that that we are reminded of as we read this proverb is not our own.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we have the righteousness of Christ accredited to our account, we we can truly say, we will be delivered from the day of trouble in verse eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have an uprightness that that comes from Christ, verse six.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a truly uh a clean account before the Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a a blameless, a guiltless standing before our Creator God in verse five.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, we don't take uh anything from this world with us when we are to be judged.
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  SPEAKER_01: When our final breath is drawn, uh we stand with Christ's righteousness or our our wickedness, and God will will judge faithfully, and God will look to look to Christ and Christ's uh washing his blood uh on the uh on the one who has put their faith in him, and we will be declared uh worthy.
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  SPEAKER_01: We will be declared uh righteous in the sight of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is a great encouragement for for us to see today, and uh for those who are calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus for salvation, we are blameless in his sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one thing I want you to notice about Proverbs 10 and Proverbs 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can think back to yesterday, we talked about in Proverbs 10, kind of the through line being the consequences of character.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to put it another way, it's kind of like who the wicked are and who the righteous are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here in chapter 11, there's some continuation of that theme of character or the heart, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouse speaks, the control center of who you are as a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chapter 11 is essentially the destination of the righteous versus the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is really reminiscent to me of Psalm chapter one, where there's these two paths that are laid out the path of the righteous and the path of the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even at the at the end of Psalm 1, it talks about the way of the wicked will perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly kind of what we're seeing here laid out in Proverbs 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, specifically, there's a focus on the deliverance of the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, verse 4 is an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, notice that word deliver.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's going to be a repeated word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, anytime we see a repetition of a word or a phrase or an idea in the scriptures, that's the biblical author is drawing our attention to that reality or that topic.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, verse four, the righteousness delivers from death.
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  SPEAKER_00: We even see in verse six, the righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous treacherous are taken captive.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can see these two destinations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are wicked go in one direction, and they have one destruction, or a path that leads to destruction, and then those who are righteous are delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the continued repeated refrain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse eight, the righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse nine, with his mouth, the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, again, Jesus picks up on this in the gospels, but he describes it as paths and gates.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a wide path or a wide gate that leads to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a narrow path and a narrow gate that leads to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we're seeing here, articulated with different examples, even starting in verse one, of a false balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it says a false balance is an abomination of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's talking about scales that they would use to do transactions, usually that involved money.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you can see, you know, there'd be coins on one side, coins on the other, and they would be weighing it and seeing if the the weights were equal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it says a false balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's not true weight, if it's not truly what it is, if it's being represented in one way, but it's really another, that's an abomination of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a just weight is his delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's talking about the ways that the wicked will operate, the things that they do, the ways that they give themselves over to wickedness and their destruction that comes from that, but also the way of the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what you were talking about, Tyler, where we have a righteousness that is not our own.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have been given the righteousness of Christ by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5, 21, he made him who knew no sin to become sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Proverbs 11, again, it shows what happens to the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the repeated refrain.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also shows what happens to the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see a word repeated like destroys the treacherous, destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are going to death, they are going to a place of destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see this contrast, these two paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I think of Psalm 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I think of the wide path, the narrow path, the wide gate, the narrow gate, um, and all of these things again connected and find their sort of central point in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're either in Christ and have been given his righteousness, that leads to deliverance, or you are out of Christ and you've not received his righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, that leads to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so our hope is that for those who are listening, that you would have the righteousness of Christ by faith, and that you would experience the type of deliverance that even we see here spoken of in Proverbs 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a quick note about the Bible reading plan, you're going to notice we're going to start taking smaller and smaller chunks of Proverbs just to slow down and to kind of meditate on the different Proverbs that we will be reading.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, so don't be surprised or alarmed when we start seeing fewer and fewer verses.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all part of the plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we hope it's an encouragement to you to meditate on wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, that's rooted in the fear of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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