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August 6, 2026 - Deuteronomy 34 & Proverbs 5 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading 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 Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, August 6th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy thirty four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisga, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negeb and the plain, that is the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to him, This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, I will give it to your offspring, I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Paor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But no one knows the place of his burial to this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died.
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  SPEAKER_00: His eye was undimmed and his vigor unabated, and the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: None like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs five.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge, for the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword, her feet go down to death, her steps follow the path to Sheel.
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  SPEAKER_00: She does not ponder the path of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others, and your ears to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, or incline my ear to my instructors, I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets, let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be intoxicated always in her love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman, and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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  SPEAKER_00: For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths, the iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have come to the end of another book, the book of Deuteronomy, with the final chapter being chapter thirty-four, and here we see the death of Moses as the promise that God gave to Moses due to his anger when he struck the rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is his consequence, this is the discipline that God is uh handing down to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is able to see the promised land as as a mercy from God and yet not enter in.
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  SPEAKER_00: God shows him from the top of Epizgah, the one of the highest peaks there on Mount Nebo, and he sees the land of Canaan, the land that was promised to his forefathers, to the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there he is able to see with clear eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see that though he was 120 years of age, his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: He was still a strong and a capable man, uh, with clear sight, and uh the people of Israel had not a prophet like him, nor after him, and there was none uh no one like him for all the signs, as we see in the final a couple verses here in Deuteronomy 34.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: For the signs and the wonders that God sent Moses to do, he was a prophet of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the mouthpiece um of God for the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the man who carried the tablets of stone that the Lord uh used for the the ten commandments, and uh as the the Lord used Moses to lead his people through the wilderness, uh he showed God's power and his steadfast love and faithfulness as uh he used Moses and uh for all the mighty and powerful deeds that terrorized the people of Egypt, it was a great sign and a wonder for the people to see Yahweh, the God who would deliver his people and uh lead them through the wilderness, though they did grumble and the first generation did fall in in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is still faithful, he is still a God that follows through with his promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this chapter, we see uh a great time of mourning, 30 days of mourning, as they reflected on the time they had with Moses, and many of them uh much younger than Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is speaking of uh Joshua and Caleb and their generation, the the second generation that would enter into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this book concludes with uh a reaffirmed and ensured a visual inspection of for Moses of the promised land and uh a great encouragement for him, though he was not able to enter, it was a mercy of the Lord for him to put his eyes on the promised landscape of the land of Canaan, and what a great encouragement that must have been.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'm sure a tearful moment for Moses uh on the mountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, we also see in this um in this chapter, if Moses is dead, he surely didn't write this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this was written by Joshua or someone else, but uh this chapter speaks to no one knowing the the burial place of Moses as it as we can infer that it was God who uh buried Moses.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: There wasn't any uh formal funeral, uh however there was a period of great mourning for a great leader.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: And as we reflect on the book of Deuteronomy, in conjunction with the handful of opening proverbs, uh the wisdom shared often to the son or sons uh in this chapter is to to remember, to listen, uh to keep discretion that that it would uh prevent someone from falling into their folly and to keep a sound or cave careful judgment with self-control.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the opening verses here have a reflection of the book of Deuteronomy as a whole, as the law is retold to the people of Israel before they are to enter into the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, there are constant charges and challenges to a son uh personified uh a woman as wisdom for for a son to take hold and listen to the wise words of a father, to be attentive, as we see in the opening verse here in chapter five.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, be attentive to my wisdom and incline your ear to my understanding, a father who is who has been there, who has done that, who has some active and working knowledge based on his time uh living on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 2 that you may keep discretion and your lips may guard knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're guarding knowledge and when you're keeping discretion, you have a a mindful eye looking forward to your decisions and what would come afterwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a a defense and a protection against the adulterous woman, um, the woman who would seek to seduce and destroy uh a marriage, a life, uh uh a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh there's a great caution because uh when you don't have discretion, you are acting out on impulses, acting out recklessly, carelessly, and foolishly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this father is calling his son to keep discretion so that he would remember and to consider his actions and what would come uh afterwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the in the second chunk of of verses here from seven to fourteen, it goes from a son to sons, uh sons, multiple sons, listen to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't depart, don't stray, don't wander, don't deviate from the words of a father's mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep your way far from the adulterous woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay far away, don't go near to her house, don't uh uh don't even even get a glimpse of the place that she she would be staying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the outcome of ignoring this wisdom uh would be to reject the words of a father, reject the wisdom that a loving father would cautiously share with the son to prevent him from uh a life that is uh consumed with groaning, a life that is uh consumed with uh with with pain, with suffering, with utter ruin, uh as we see in verse 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and the contrast is what not to do, uh, we see followed here, what not to do, we see what should a a young man, a son, do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh a young a young man should enjoy the wife of his youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This young man should be intoxicated with the love of his bride, with his wife, the wife of his youth, and described here as a lovely deer, uh, a graceful doe, and and this son should not be intoxicated with a forbidden woman, someone who's foreign, uh, an adulteress, someone who um would only cause great pain and and sinful heartache in the the life of a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stay uh in a uh relationship that is monogamous, stay in a relationship where there is satisfaction in God's design to be enjoyed.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a blessing to be um to be satisfied by the wife of your youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the wisdom coming from uh a father to a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this proverb concludes with an acknowledgement and a focus on the thoughts, the ways, the actions, the words of mankind, for a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nowhere we can go or escape, nowhere we can hide away to be outside the knowledge or understanding of the great I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and this God, this Yahweh, he ponders all the paths, he understands, he knows, he makes level the paths of a man who would seek to honor the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and the iniquities of the wicked man um are contrasted with the wisdom of this father, the iniquities of a wicked man ensnare him, tie him down, trap him, and he is held fast down by the cords of the sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dies for a lack of discipline.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's just natural consequences that come from a life that is promiscuous, a life that would be uh ignoring the wisdom of a father here uh from a wide variety of diseases, and as we conclude this chapter, uh great folly, great foolishness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a a relational um a relational perspective here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The great folly, the the lack of understanding and wisdom and respect that a son would give to his father is a cause for him to be led astray, to not walk in the narrow path, in the path that would bring him God-honoring delight, God honoring satisfaction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the the reminder again, as we can consider the chapter uh and the conclusion of the book of Deuteronomy in 34, the the results of careless sin for Moses, it was anger and disobedience to Yahweh striking the rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: The consequences are now Moses is not able to enter into the land that is promised.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the promise here uh the is for the son that lacks discipline.
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  SPEAKER_00: What what is the consequence?
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  SPEAKER_00: He dies uh because of the great folly, because of the the the ways that he is not taking heed of his father's instruction and wisdom, and he's led astray.
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  SPEAKER_00: So great uh encouragements for us to to see God's design here, to remember and to reflect that even though uh man may sin, uh we look to the life of Moses and we see the the vision that he had, the literal sight that he was given by God to see the land of promise, a mercy from God, though we will stumble and fall in this life, no doubt.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: We have uh a God that is full of grace and mercy, and we we often get far more than what we deserve in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we taste uh just every common grace that God pours out into our lives, we're we're reminded constantly that we serve a good and loving God who is steadfast, uh, who is faithful to his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we conclude the the final verses of our proverb today, uh we see the destruction that is uh that is near, that is assured when we do not heed the the a father's wisdom and uh interact in ways with the world around us that would seek to only serve our own satisfaction and impulses.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is great danger, there's great sin and great destruction that comes from that, though there is great uh a great charge here for us to see God's design and the satisfaction that is found in his design for marriage.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, thanks so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass bible sv.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your death.