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August 26, 2026 - Joshua 17 & Proverbs 12:21-24 · 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 26th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Joshua 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: To Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.
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  SPEAKER_00: And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Ebiazar, Helik, Azrael, Shechem, Hefer, and Shemeda.
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  SPEAKER_00: These were the male descendants of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their clans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Zalophahad, the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters, Malah, Noah, Hogla, Milka, and Tirzah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They approached Elieazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan, because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Mikmatha, which is east of Shechem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of In Tapua.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the land of Tepuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tepuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the boundary went down to the brook Canah.
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  SPEAKER_00: These cities to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea, the land to the south being Ephraim's, and that to the north being Manasseh's, with the sea forming its boundary.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Isakar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth Shion and its villages, and Ibliam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Indor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanak and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megido and its villages.
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  SPEAKER_00: The third is Napath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one law and one portion as an inheritance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Although I am a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua said to them, If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Parasites and the Raphaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us, yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Bethshon and its villages, and those in the valley of Jezreel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a numerous people and of great power.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not have one allotment only, but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twelve, verses twenty-one through twenty-four.
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  SPEAKER_01: No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
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  SPEAKER_01: A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.
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  SPEAKER_01: The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tyler, I don't know about you, but the Proverbs have been really rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I actually love I've said it before, but I love the pace that we're going right now in Proverbs, even though it's just four at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so much to chew on, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're they're meaty, they're very pointed, and they're necessary.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're what we need, they're humbling, they cause us to pause and reflect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in Proverbs 12, verse 22 specifically, I love this juxtaposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what's so fascinating to me, Tyler, is what's being compared.
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  SPEAKER_00: So lying lips, of course, is a reference to our speech, our words.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's it being compared to?
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who act faithfully.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have words and actions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, what's the connection there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I see this really as talking about the way that we live our lives and even potentially hypocrisy being a part of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you say one thing and live another thing, that is lying.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a form of lying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that is an abomination to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but those who act faithfully, who say the truth and live the truth, they are his delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can lie not simply by our words, that's often how we think about it, not simply by our lack of words or our omissions.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can also lie by the way that we choose to live our lives, especially as Christians, as we bear the name of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we are claiming the name of Christ, think of first John chapter one, for example, if you say you have fellowship with him while you walk in darkness, you lie and do not practice the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think that's an an exposition of what we're seeing here in Proverbs 12, 22, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're saying one thing, but your life is looking like another thing, and you're acting in in a completely different way than what is honoring to the Lord and what is revealed and commanded in his word, you're a liar.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he says, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it doesn't it's not only that you say the truth, it's that you live the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those people that say the truth and live the truth are the Lord's delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I was to ask you, Tyler, do you want to be God's delight?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would I would say yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would love the Lord to to see my life and and to uh to to nod his head or to smile, if you will, and and say, like, well done, good job, keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and yeah, to to be someone who is uh on the other side of like disappointment or uh a headshake of like, oh, what is he doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like that, that to me makes me feel so small.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, we want to live faithfully for the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, if we want to be the Lord's delight, what do we do?
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  SPEAKER_00: We act faithfully, we say the truth as then we proclaim it, we reiterate it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not inventing it, we're not trying to be novel with it, we're just saying what God has already said, we're affirming what God has declared, and then we're living it, we're acting it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those kinds of people are the Lord's delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such a such a rich verse there to even think about, okay, holistically, outwardly and inwardly, does our life match up with God's word?
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord, by the way, is not just something we profess with our lips, it's something that we embody with our lives, with our actions, with our words, with our thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what we're seeing here in Proverbs 12, 22.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and as we continue on in the Proverbs, there's this nugget after nugget uh that we could just continue to to unfold or unpack and and we can look here to the uh the next verse, verse 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools uh proclaims knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's funny to watch people uh in our world today boast and brag about the things that that they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you if you watch a courtroom case, um you might every once in a while find someone who's actually proud or kind of like feeling a certain kind of uh excitement for the things that they have done and they have no regard for for their life or for the lives of others.
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  SPEAKER_01: And going to prison for for their the duration of their time on earth is is no problem, doesn't bother them, or at least it may seem face value.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and that's what I think about as the uh we look to verse 23 here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The heart of fools proclaims folly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so what?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's gonna happen next?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna put me away, you know, you're gonna lock me up for the rest of my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and on the other side of that, that the prudent man, uh, the prudent man conceals knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that's me, my at first be like, oh, okay, prudent concealing knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of knowledge do we conceal?
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  SPEAKER_01: PJ, maybe you can help us uh unpack that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, concealing what kind of knowledge?
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  SPEAKER_01: What what is the proverb here uh speaking to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Can we get our minds around this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think the the principle is essentially this that not everything needs to be said in every circumstance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you know this if you uh are married or if you have children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there are certain things that you don't say to your children, even if those things are true and accurate, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you think about just even fighting with your spouse, you're you shouldn't do that in front of your children, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in that sense, you're you're concealing, not because you're being a hypocrite or because, but but there's a prudence to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's not everything that would even be considered true uh needs to be said in every circumstance.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think a prudent man essentially knows when to speak, when to say something truthful, uh, and when not to speak, not to lie, not to withhold the truth, uh, but just the prudence of knowing what circumstance requires, I guess you could say what truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think you can parallel that even with the New Testament where Paul talks about speaking the truth in love.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's uh a prudence that that goes with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you don't just do it, uh, you don't speak the truth in love, perhaps, let's say in a crowded room, uh, when maybe you do, I guess, depending on the circumstance, but prudence is knowing the difference of when to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps maybe it is a crowded room, perhaps it's one-on-one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, someone who's prudent conceals knowledge until you know it's appropriate.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the heart of fools, you know, there's no filter.
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  SPEAKER_00: They just proclaim folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're just gonna, whatever comes into their mind comes out of their mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And oftentimes it's foolishness and it's done in a foolish way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think the proverbs here are giving us just some great wisdom of hey, even something that might be true and accurate and good doesn't necessarily mean that in every circumstance it's a good thing to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so a prudent man conceals knowledge, and that's something that I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm growing in, you know, sometimes I want to just lean in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but there are times when we you take a beat, you you wait for another kind of environment, maybe you wait for the one-on-one, whatever the case may be, a prudent man conceals knowledge, and that's something that's good and godly, and something that we need to have in our repertoire, so to speak, of of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to know when to say something and even where to say it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we conclude our proverb uh verse 24 here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The hand of the diligent will rule while the slothful will be put to force labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, thinking about just uh the ways that we grow and mature and the skills that we attain through hard work, the skills and and the knowledge, the understanding of the jobs that we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you think about a work, a workplace, you you might be promoted.
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  SPEAKER_01: You might grow in in responsibility and grow in an ability to delegate and to lead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what we see here in verse 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: The hand of the diligent will rule.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those who are are diligent in in the work that they complete, doing it with excellence, doing it with great detail.
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  SPEAKER_01: To these people, more responsibility can be entrusted, more responsibility and um and authority can be handed over because they they can handle it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we cannot say that about those who are uh who are slothful.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're they're lazy, they don't take action.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will sit on their hands and and the forced labor, the the tasks that they can handle are typically a little more manual, more simple in nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: And not to say that those jobs are to be looked down on um in and of themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all have to start at some level of a of a job, whether it's an entry-level job or um or something that's a little more mundane, but uh the the forced labor job here is that which is uh mundane, it's it's repetitive, it's uh something that uh requires maybe a lower uh skill set, a lower understanding, and and typically is much more uh strenuous than forced labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think about our text in Joshua, that the Canaanites who who remained in the land were were forced into tough labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were um to be the the slaves of the people that were inhabiting the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh though we don't we don't condone slavery in the year uh 2026, and we don't we don't look to the the people here in our world as um we we don't see them as um a possession or an object to be put into action because all all humans are made in the image of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in in this situation, this context, the forced labor could could look like, well, I I have a debt, I I need to pay it, and there's no other way to to uh offload this debt than to commit commit myself to slavery, and now um I have a master, and they're gonna tell me what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So for for those who are um maybe in a lower role, don't feel like you're you're in a forced labor situation because of your slothfulness, but maybe you do sweat, you do work hard at something that's maybe more um more physically demanding, and that is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to work hard at a job.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's not get those two things twisted or or uh or or mixed up in any way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and just to quickly say something about verse 21, uh it says, No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some of you that read that are going, Well, I would be considered in the category of righteous because I've been made righteous by Christ, and I feel like much ill has fallen upon me, whether it's my health or uh my circumstance or the pain or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: How could this be true?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think of uh Psalm 23 as an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this this is a proverb that looks beyond the earthly horizon to something that is eternally true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, in Romans 8.28, all things work together for good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a sense in which even Paul talks about to live is Christ, to die is gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the scriptures, we have this category of even though we we will suffer, and even at the men's retreat in October, that's what we're going to talk about suffering in the Christian life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, surely goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, God works all things together for good to those who love him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we see here kind of laid out in the proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: No ill befalls the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the face of eternity, to live is Christ, to die is gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: So ultimately, what are we losing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we when we have Christ, we have everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why even later on in Philippians chapter three, Paul says, I count everything as loss for the sake of knowing Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see here that reiterated in a poetic kind of way, no ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked, of course, are filled with trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there's the way that seems right to a man, but its end is destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's some great encouragement there from Proverbs 12, 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Podcast.
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