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August 12, 2026 - Joshua 5 & Proverbs 10 · 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 Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, August 12th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their hearts melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel, at Gibeath, Haraloth, and this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flung with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you, and so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain, and the mana ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land, and there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, No, but I am the commander of the army of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I have come.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped and said to him, What does my Lord say to his servant?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua did so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs ten.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Proverbs of Solomon.
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  SPEAKER_01: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_01: A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wise of heart will re receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_01: The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.
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  SPEAKER_01: A rich man's wealth is his strong city.
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  SPEAKER_01: The poverty of the poor is their ruin.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
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  SPEAKER_01: The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
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  SPEAKER_01: When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
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  SPEAKER_01: The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
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  SPEAKER_01: The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
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  SPEAKER_01: The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
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  SPEAKER_01: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tyler, one of the things that stands out to me about Joshua 5, kind of immediately, the first verse really, is the response that these pagan nations have to seeing God work.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we have the kings of the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's an audience of these foreign pagan kings who are watching God perform a pretty miraculous miracle, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where the water dries up, they walk across the Jordan on dry ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the kings, I mean, I love how it says that there was no longer any spirit in them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like the just the the breath was knocked out of their lungs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deflated.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kind of almost I hear it in my head like the uh like the what are we gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're kind of even coming to grips with what they're up against, or I should say who they are up against.
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  SPEAKER_00: This God, the the great I am, is continuing to showcase himself as the one true and living God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course, we we see some parallels here uh to Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you remember the ten plagues and God uh sort of knocking down all the false idols one by one and attacking them, um, the false idols of Egypt and the false gods of Egypt and showcasing his superiority and his power and his dominion over all of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see something similar here, but now it's actually these kings who God is showing his power in this very grand way as the nation of Israel walks across the Jordan and they are amazed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says their hearts melted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so you can kind of almost even sense, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sort of reading between the lines here, but my my imagination is as I'm thinking about this sort of scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can sense these kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they've got some sort of uh collaboration between their kingdoms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they recognize there's a foreign party, a foreign, maybe an enemy uh coming across the water, and it's almost like they're hungry for blood, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they're just like, come and get it almost.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet they see God perform this miracle in a pretty uh incredible uh way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it says their hearts melted.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's almost like you can you can see the taunting and the jeering and their this the bravado and the the almost excitement for this battle of we're gonna win, we're gonna have victory, only for that to melt away as they see the grand glory of the Lord on display.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, that's not the only parallel that we see.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Egypt is mentioned several times in Joshua 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think uh we are as readers intended to be thinking about okay, what was the deliverance, the Exodus event uh from Egypt, and how does that parallel here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, God is delivering them into something rather than from something.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Egypt, they're being delivered from slavery, and here they're being delivered into the promised land, the land filling with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, they are going to be delivered from their enemies, they're gonna have victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but Egypt is mentioned several times, and even uh here at the end in verse 15, you know, we have this appearance of this person that's referred to as the commander of the Lord, and it says in verse 15, the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you're standing is is holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, where have we heard that kind of language before?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Sinai, right in Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Exodus chapter three, right, verse five, where the burning bush, where Moses sees the burning bush and he turns aside to see what's going on, to behold the sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a voice that that speaks to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, it's the Lord Yahweh, and uh it instructs Moses, the the Lord instructs Moses uh to take off his sandals because he's standing on holy ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we have a lot of parallels here uh to the book of Exodus and the Exodus event, and it's all kind of meant to showcase uh the the sovereignty of God, the power of God, the majesty of God, uh, and really to highlight the promises of God uh that he is keeping and bringing these people, bringing the nation of Israel and this generation into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and so it's such a great chapter, really just a vivid story here, lots of parallels with the the Exodus event in the book of Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I'll just say this in passing uh the commander of the Lord's army, I believe to be a Christophany, uh, which is a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we say pre-incarnate, when did the incarnation happen?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, if we're thinking in in terms of the Bible itself, it happened in the New Testament, uh, which was written way after the events here in um Joshua, uh, and you know, occurs years and years and years and years later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the incarnation is recorded for us in the Gospels, where um the eternal son of God takes on flesh, born of the Virgin Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so that happens later.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ is the eternal son of God uh taking on a sort of an appearance, a form.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in this case, it's the commander of the Lord's army.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, one of the reasons why I say that is because of the direct parallel to Exodus three, uh, Exodus um three, five specifically, where it says uh where God says to Moses to take off his sandals, he's standing on holy ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um something very similar is said here of the Lord's army, the commander of the Lord's army, take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: There seems to be the same level of authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this commander has the authority of the Lord, has the power of the Lord, uh, and uh has the ability to make something holy, uh, specifically the ground, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you're standing is uh is holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so um I take this as a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, there are other people uh that would believe this is just kind of an angelic appearance or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think there's arguments to be made, but uh, without going too much in the weeds, I would say this is a Christophany, it's a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've taught up on that before in other contexts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we'll leave um a video in the description so that you can see maybe a fuller argument as to what the the the angel of the Lord is as an example, or Christophany is more broadly.
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  SPEAKER_00: But just so that you know, that's my perspective here in Joshua 5.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a challenge for all the the students in pseudo ministry right out of the gate today in Proverbs chapter 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see this relationship and this imagery of a son and a father, um, a son and a mother, and and we can exchange son for daughter here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you are a son or a daughter, I'd like you to think about the way that you uh you bring honor and and bring um bring respect to your parents in the ways that you uh live your life, the ways that you respond to your parents' leadings, the ways that you respond to the directions that they they give you, the chores that they give you, the the expectations that they set out for for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you have siblings for you and your siblings, how you respond to them uh is going to honor them.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to honor the Lord, or if you choose the path of foolishness, if you choose the path that would reject uh wise counsel from parents or uh wise instruction from from leaders or from uh people that would be in your life uh who are more mature than you, you uh potentially have the ability to bring to bring sorrow, to bring heartache to your parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, as uh an older uh adult with with parents, I I can think back to times in my life when I was on both sides of this verse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there was times when I was acting foolishly, making poor choices and bringing sorrow, bringing uh grieving my parents in certain ways, and also times when I was honoring them and and making my parents glad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and so the a challenge for us today as we dive into just the first couple verses here in Proverbs 10, uh there's great, there's a punchiness to this uh to this chapter, and it's like I would look at it as uh the the top hits of uh of the Proverbs, the Proverbs of Solomon, uh very, very punchy this this chapter is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh if you just want to pull out any one of these verses and just think back to your life and think about how you uh want to live your life moving forward, uh there's some great instruction here for us and and great wisdom to be consumed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, is it is there a certain verse or uh set of verses that stand out to you, Pastor Josiah, as you read Proverbs chapter 10?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, just one of the questions I had was Um is there kind of a theme that runs through all of these different Proverbs?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, the these are like a collection of Proverbs, wives, wise sayings.
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  SPEAKER_00: So proverbs are not necessarily guarantees that you know it's not a formula that if you do this, then this will 100% of the time happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's sort of uh general rules uh that um you you can say um in a lot of circumstances, you know, wisdom would dictate if you speak in a certain way, then this will be the result, or if you live in a certain way, then this will be a result.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh of course, uh we recognize that uh that doesn't happen every single time, and and every it doesn't the outcome is not always the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's what a proverbs is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is a collection of proverbs, wise sayings.
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  SPEAKER_00: But is there a kind of a through line here that we can trace?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I would say uh the through line, in a sense, is you could call it the consequences of character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, when I say consequences of character, I mean for good or for bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: What results from your character, who you are?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, or you know, we could even put it in what we've been studying on Sundays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what is coming out of your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we see here is different kinds of dichotomies um that are directly tethered to your character, to who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we have speech, uh, we have um work, diligence, love, hate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so even as an example, uh, when we think about speech and the ways that we use our words that flow from our heart, out of the abundance of the heart, their mouth speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 11, the mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 13 on the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, verse 14, the wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 19, one of my favorite verses, when words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 21, the lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so you can see uh we have speech and the way that you use your speech, even either being wise or certainly foolish.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be um healthy and uh can build up, or it can be uh wicked and destructive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be holy uh or wicked, you know, this is dichotomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also have work and diligence, and we see different verses here talking about uh you know, verse 4 a slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who keeps sleep and harvest is a son who brings shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we have work and diligence, we have verses that talk about love and um hate, and how all of those are connected to either the wise person or the foolish person.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all of those things, all of those topics really connect back to character, who you are, uh that flows from your heart, the control center of who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about that before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even missionary Eddie Demo mentioned that as well, the heart being the control center uh of the person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Proverbs 10 is kind of just showing us uh what a wise person uh does, what he says, how he acts, how he lives, what he uh pursues, and what a foolish person does.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why they're all these are these are negative parallels, meaning uh uh something is stated positively, and then the negative parallel is stated right beneath it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so verse one a wise son makes a glad father.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a positive thing, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a negative parallel where they're they're being compared, they're being paralleled, uh, but they're opposites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh same thing in verse two treasure gained by wickedness do not proffer, profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of reverse.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a negative first, then positive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but we have these parallels, and it all comes back to who you are, your character, um, and you know what's going on truly in your heart, as we've talked about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see character kind of being the through line here in Proverbs 10, and these different categories of speech or work, diligence, love, hate, uh, even a sense of being fair, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It talks about uh at the very last verse, or maybe this is the verse one of chapter 11, but I saw it, a false balance is an abomination to the Lord, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But a just weight is his delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll talk about that more tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the whole idea is that who you are will work itself out and what you do, what you say, and the way that you live.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we want to be people, as it says in verse 27, that fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we want to be the people that fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be the people that walk the way of the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to have a stronghold that is the way of the Lord, uh, and we want to have our character be fashioned by the word of God and the wisdom that comes from knowing Christ.
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