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October 24, 2026 - 1 Samuel 19 & Proverbs 20:11-20 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Plan, where you 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 Saturday, October 24th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jonathan told David, Saul, my father seeks to kill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore be on your guard in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I learn anything, I will tell you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, because his deeds have brought good to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For he took his life in his hand, and he struck down the Philistine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You saw it, and rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul swore, As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was war again, and David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the lyre.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and escaped that night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Mikal, David's wife, told him, If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So McCall let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
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  SPEAKER_00: Macal took an image and laid it on the bed, and put a pillow of goat's hair as its head, and covered it with the clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she says, He is sick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goat's hair at its head.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul said to McCall, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Macall answered Saul, he said to me, Let me go, why should I kill you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was told Saul, Behold, David is at Naioth and Ramah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing his head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Saku, and he asked, Where are Samuel and David?
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  SPEAKER_00: And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth and Ramah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he went there to Nioth and Ramah, and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Nyoth and Ramah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus it is said, Is Saul also among the prophets?
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs twenty, verses eleven through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
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  SPEAKER_01: The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bad, bad, says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Plans are established by counsel, by wise guidance, wage war.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, do not associate with a simple babbler.
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  SPEAKER_01: If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, at the time of recording this, it is seven o'clock on Friday evening, the night of the men's retreat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Tyler, so far it has been an encouraging time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why don't you just tell us a couple of highlights, things that you've been encouraged by, things that you've seen just even among the men, things that you would love to just share with those listening.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, two things.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the first is the uh the amount of encouragement during our our free time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I've just been uh in interactions um with some men, hearing how they're growing, hearing how they're challenged by uh the sermons that uh that you're preaching, Pastor Josiah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and uh on the side uh from that, the discussion times, though the build, the building up of one another and discussion times has been very rich.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we we prayed for uh fruitful discussion times at our prayer night on Wednesday evening, and God is already answering that prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've heard of uh more than one life group sharing just great encouraging words about um men being honest and vulnerable and sharing things with with depth and with sin with sincerity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and and the other thing that I've um I'm encouraged by is uh the intentionality of faithful brothers to pursue deeper relationships with one another during free time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've I've been interacting with a certain group of men, but kind of in in the background, just watching men one-on-one getting pulled aside, having having deep conversations and and all for uh the building up of one another, the sharpening is happening here at Men's Retreat 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been an encouraging time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I would even say in my life group, we've probably had the richest discussions maybe we've ever had as a life group in the last two discussions that we've had.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so just a great, encouraging time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so far, just to catch you guys up on what we've discussed uh last night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, the recording of this is Friday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh Thursday night, we started and kicked off the retreat and the sessions by asking the question where is God in suffering?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we really talked about uh the tension that we can often feel, the tension, honestly, that the scripture kind of places us in by talking about God reigning over our suffering and being in control of all things, while also simultaneously never being attributed evil, and of course, never tempting anyone towards evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not the author of evil, God is uh completely holy, perfect, just, and good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that tension is what we see in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: We looked at the life of Joseph, we've talked about Job, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: We looked at Heman from Psalm 88, even the life of Jesus, and just saw that tension of God being uh in control, reigning over our suffering, and even in the particulars of it, but also uh him being good, of course, and his character being on full display.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we were challenged uh to view our circumstances through the filter of God's character and not view God's character through the filter of our circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's something that oftentimes trips people up in their suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what we talked about on Thursday night uh this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, it's Friday at the time of recording this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: We asked the question uh what is God's purpose in suffering?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there a purpose in suffering?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we talked uh a lot about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, there is a purpose, uh, many purposes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We actually had eight that we tried to unpack from scripture that are spoken of very plainly of what God is doing, how he's working.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've been using this image of a forge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, God is the blacksmith, and we are the metal that's being fashioned and formed and shaped and ultimately refined.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the question that we kind of started with was what is God making?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is he fashioning?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we talked about this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we are just a few minutes actually from our last session of this evening, our third out of four, and we're gonna be talking and answering the question: what help does Christ provide in the midst of our suffering?
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  SPEAKER_00: So the men are gonna hear really three things tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna hear that the help that he provides is a past dealt with through the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He provides, of course, a present help and comfort, and he provides a future certainty, a future that is guaranteed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so those three things I think the scriptures weave together as this tapestry that is intended to be uh encouraging and uplifting to anyone who's in the midst of suffering, realizing that Christ's end to end in the gospel, end to end is the medicine, is exactly what our souls need to find the comfort, to find the help in the midst of our trials, so that we can, along with James, rejoice when we fight we face trials of various kinds.
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  SPEAKER_00: So continue to pray tomorrow morning, Saturday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess the time of listening to this, we will be talking about how to help others through suffering, kind of walk alongside other brothers and of course just other people in general in their suffering and to do that well and biblically.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the arch, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're that we're walking through.
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  SPEAKER_00: We started with where is God in suffering?
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  SPEAKER_00: We asked what purpose he has tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna ask what help Christ provides, and tomorrow we're gonna ask how do we provide help to others by being the hands of feet of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So please continue to pray, pray for the Lord to do great things for hearts to be changed and moved and encouraged and strengthened and built up and for the Lord to be glorified.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here in 1 Samuel 19, Saul continues to try to kill David, and he actually makes a uh a false promise in verse six.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's kind of it seems really suaded, at least for some short amount of time, by his son Jonathan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul swore, as the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then pretty much the very next verses, he's trying to put him to death, and he's grabbing a spear and he hurls it at David, and it's you know embedded into the wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul continues just to be angry, Saul continues to pine after killing David, taking his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this chapter continues to showcase God is in control and God is working in the midst of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, God is protecting, he's using people like Jonathan to provide protection, even uh Samuel the prophet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think of even verse 20.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing his head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord clearly is at work in the midst of just this whole mess of a situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul being again uh given over to his own evil desires, his own lust for power, his own lust uh for prideful recognition in the kingdom, perhaps status attributes it to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but nevertheless, uh David is being protected.
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  SPEAKER_00: David continues to elude death, and Saul, try as he might, has no power or sway over the life of David because God ultimately holds his life in his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a great encouragement here from 1 Samuel 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we take a quick look at our Proverbs section today, or wisdom literature, we're gonna kind of pick and choose uh a verse or two each time we go as uh the number of verses are increasing as we're walking towards the end of the book of Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the one that looks at me square in the eyes this weekend is verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And specifically, when I'm thinking about knowledge and in my understanding uh of God and his purpose for me and for his family, the this children of God in suffering, the time that we have this weekend, especially to grow in my knowledge, and as the men of this church, to grow in their knowledge of how to suffer well, how to be a brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're looking at that tomorrow, how to how to build someone up, how to be there for someone who's suffering, and the ways that we are being equipped and trained in order to uh to honor God through how we suffer in different ways, how how we're being refined by uh by the forge of the trials of this life, and and just knowing that God has a purpose in and all is a great comfort to me as we look to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we look to the one who uh who took the place for me, took the suffering that I deserved.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I have no I have no um judgment to fear, I have no punishment to fear because Christ dealt with that already.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh that that encouragement for me is is a precious jewel.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's of high, high value, uh more valuable than than gold in abundance of costly stones.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is it is something highly sought after, the knowledge of God and his ways, and that's always going to satisfy, always going to comfort me, and always is going to bring him glory through it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Proverbs 20, 11 really stood out to me, Tyler, as kind of a parenting verse for us to kind of help discern what's going on in the hearts of our young children.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a child, what's going on in their heart, and even we even talked about in the verses prior that the heart of a man is deep waters, but a man of understanding draws that out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this parallels it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even a child is exposed, their heart is exposed by the way that they act, the things that they do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, what they love, what they value, what they uh ultimately hope in will be exposed, exposed by their conduct, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just a great parenting verse to think through uh the things that our children do and what it is exposing about their hearts and of course what they love, what they hope in, and what they trust in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a good parenting verse just to kind of meditate on and think about your own kids in light of Proverbs 2011 and seek to just faithfully parent uh with the grace of our 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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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.