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August 10, 2026 - Joshua 3 & Proverbs 8 · 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 Monday, august tenth, twenty twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does not wisdom call?
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  SPEAKER_00: Does not understanding raise her voice?
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  SPEAKER_00: On the heights beside the way?
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  SPEAKER_00: At the crossroads she takes her stand, beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals, she cries aloud, to you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man, O simple ones, learn prudence.
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  SPEAKER_00: O fools, learn sense, hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, for my mouth will utter truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the words of my mouth are righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take my instruction instead of silver, in knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil, pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength, by me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just.
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  SPEAKER_00: By me princes rule, and nobles all who govern justly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
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  SPEAKER_00: I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ages ago I was set up at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water, before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world, when he established the heavens I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, O sons, listen to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed are those who keep my ways, hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors, for whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, but he who fails to find me injures himself, all who hate me love death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Shitam, and they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the end of three days the officers went through the camp and commanded the people, as soon as you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in length.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joshua said to the people, Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua said to the priests, Take up the Ark of the Covenant and pass on before the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord said to Joshua, Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as for you, command the priests who bear the Ark of the Covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua said to the people of Israel, Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua said, Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Barazites, the Gergeshites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Behold, the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man, and when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people, and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped into the brink of the water, now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarathon, and those flowing down toward the sea of Araba, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off, and the people passed over opposite Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: This past Saturday, I was able to go out with a friend and spend some time standing in a river.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were in the middle fork of the Boise River above Arrow Rock Reservoir, and as I look to our passages today, I'm thinking of the way that God worked and continued to show his faithfulness and his presence and his commitment to the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking to Joshua chapter three, and am in some ways thinking this is a kindness from God to continue to remind his people that he is with them, he is going before them, and he will deliver the victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in a similar way that the first generation, those who would be fleeing uh Egypt in the Exodus, walked through the Red Sea on dry ground, the people who are entering in the second generation are entering the promised land by walking on dry ground across the Jordan River, and the waters are being stood up, the flow is ceasing, and the the riverbed that the water would normally be flowing over is firm and solid, and the people of Israel are able to walk through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as um Moses led the people uh out of Egypt, Joshua is leading God's people out of the wilderness, out of the wanderings, and into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a great promise is given to Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is going to be God's leader, and he is he has been chosen from all Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as God was with Moses, God is telling Joshua, so I too will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great encouragement that must have been to hear if you are Joshua in this position.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as he's thinking about the future uncertainties, one thing is certain in his mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is with me, God is for me, and he will give the victory, he will go before me, and he will provide without fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is such strong language in verse 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua said, Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you, that he will without fail drive out from you all these peoples.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a list there in verse 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: What an encouragement, what a great confidence that Joshua had as he's communicating, he's delegating, he's leading God's people, directing them into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a great pause point for us as we reflect on God's faithfulness, his goodness, the way that he has been patient, uh never failing in his uh steadfast love and faithfulness to his people, and again, showing them signs and wonders that this God is worthy of worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: This God is continuing to remain and uh dwell with his people as he's leading them onward into the land of promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when I was fishing with a friend, this did not happen, and uh I'm I'm glad that it didn't because I would be terrified if this happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd be running out of uh out of the water as fast as I could.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh nonetheless, as I was in the water this past weekend, spending some quality time trying to catch some fish, uh I was thinking about uh all the different ways that God has shown his power, his might, his favor, uh, and his leadership towards his people using water so far in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was a great encouragement to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look over to our Proverb today, Proverbs chapter 8, uh, it just ties so well with uh the ways that we've been learning and growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even uh yesterday, as Eddie Demo uh preached out of uh Proverbs, uh we were so encouraged to just remember uh God's uh faithfulness, God's wisdom in this world, and uh through God's wisdom, we see Christ, we see the the story from from garden to garden, uh from tree to tree, as Eddie was sharing, and we see God's plan in the in the full breadth of scripture as we have it in our hands, and we see Christ on display, it's his glory, it's it's his wisdom that he gives that leads to life, and there's more wisdom to be had as we look to the scriptures here today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh wisdom personified, uh and we see uh oh a woman being personified as wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are great things to be uh gleaned here today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I love that as Eddie shared, we live in a um in a world that is abounding in information and knowledge, but we live in a world also that is lacking wisdom and specifically uh spiritual wisdom, spiritual insight and understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this this chapter uh is a great reminder for us to know that the greatest treasure, the greatest wisdom is to to know God and to be uh known by him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at the the ways that wisdom is being possessed by God and being wielded um and being used like a master workman.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is wisdom, and it derives from its origin is the creator.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a great encouragement to see that a life that is submitted to it to God is a life that is going to be full of blessing and blessing that is poured out uh by God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This closing stanza here, the last five verses draw our attention and another caution to us to to reflect and think on will you pause and think?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will you pause and listen to the wisdom that God is sharing in his word?
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately, as we listen and and pay attention to God's wisdom as as he shares in his word, we will find life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those who love the Lord, those who belong to the Lord are the ones who are watching daily at the gates, waiting beside the doors, those who are going to be listening, tuning in, uh turning the pages of the scriptures to hear instruction and to be wise, so that way they don't neglect it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in turn, there is blessing and there is wisdom and uh insight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one more bit of encouragement as we conclude today in chapter eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd like to uh to zoom in on verse 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom belongs to the Lord, it's his possession, it's he who wields it, who exercises it and uses it for his good pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, when we uh store up and treasure this wisdom from the Lord, we see that wisdom has possessions in and of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom has counsel, wisdom has sound, sound wisdom, insight, strength, empowerment, righteous influence, and authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look to this chapter, we we see that as we submit to God's wisdom, submit to his plans, we can be wise, we can be strengthened, we can be encouraged, and and we can have uh the scriptures do what they do best and shape and mold us more and more into the image of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh while many of us might not have great riches in in this world, if we have the scriptures stored up in our hearts, we have the fruit of wisdom that is better than gold, better than fine gold, and the yield is better than choice silver.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh if we have the riches of God's word stored up in our hearts, we will be spiritually wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not spiritually poor, and that is a wonderful place to be as we consider the ways that God encourages us, strengthens us, and equips us for the works that He would have us to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks again 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: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.