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September 3, 2026 - Joshua 24 & Proverbs 13:21-25 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sainborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Thursday, September 3rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Joshua 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua 24 is the conclusion of both the book of Joshua and Joshua, the leader of Israel's life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so what we see here is his final words, where he gathers the people at Shechem for a covenant renewal and walks them back through Israel's history and God's faithfulness and then makes an appeal.
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  SPEAKER_01: After he does all of that work, he challenges them to choose this day whom they will serve, whether they will serve truly and fully the one true God of Israel, or if they will serve the false gods of Egypt and other surrounding nations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the chapter concludes with the details of Joshua's death and burial, and even the bones of Joseph are talked about in verse 32.
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  SPEAKER_01: As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamer, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money.
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  SPEAKER_01: It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's a connection to something that happened all the way back in Genesis 50.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 13, verses 21 through 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, today is a special day because we are wrapping up another book in the Lamp and Light Bible reading plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is our sixth book.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have completed Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and now officially Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as is our custom, we want to just take a few minutes to reflect on the book of Joshua as a whole, the stories that we read, the truth that we learned, and even the picture of God that we saw clearly displayed in the book of Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Tyler, as you think about our time in Joshua, all the battles, all the wars, some of the struggles, some of the sin that we saw, even with Achan, some of the foolishness with the taking on of the Gimeonites and being deceived because they did not uh seek counsel with the Lord, everything in between.
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of has stuck out to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: What has encouraged your heart as we've gone through the book of Joshua together?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm gonna reach back to chapter four and the the imagery of the waters being stood up uh in the Jordan River and the memorial stones being carried and the Ark of the Covenant and those the priests would be holding it, carrying it, standing in the middle of the Jordan, waiting for uh for God's um promises to come to pass as the people are entering into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's a great reminder for me to just to trust and follow the Lord where He's where He's leading and to remember that His His promises will in fact come to pass, no matter how long we wait or how long Um How long we uh we just see maybe instances of uh I guess opportunities to to doubt or disbelieve.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like there's plenty of those opportunities out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemy would love to love to do that to cast seeds of doubt into our hearts, but just to remember that God is faithful and that God is God is for us and he goes before us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one of the sentiments that comes to my mind when I think about Joshua as a summary is I'm sure you've heard this before, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Someone would say, We are living in the days that we prayed for.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you've ever heard that, or certainly you could understand what that's trying to communicate.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we even at South Valley, in a lot of ways, we are literally living in the days that we prayed for because we have been praying uh for this church plant.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have prayed for many aspects of this church plant, and God has in real time answered those prayers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, in a lot of ways, uh, we are living in the days that we prayed for.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think of that in connection to Joshua, because in the book of Numbers, there's the census taking place, there's the reiteration of a lot of the laws and the tabernacle and the priestly roles and things like that, and really them preparing to enter into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can imagine that the book of Numbers is almost the waiting season that's filled with prayer and anticipation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the book of Joshua is them living in the days that they prayed for and God answering those prayers, God delivering on his promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so as they literally uh walk across the Jordan and they begin conquering the different cities that are standing in the way of God's promises, they are right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh as we've even talked about the summary of Joshua is all came to pass, not one word failed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's just a helpful summary for me to think about Joshua as the nation of Israel are living in the days right now that God promised, that they anticipated, and you got to believe that they prayed for, as they had so many ups and downs.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can think about the 40 years in the wilderness, uh, even the sin of Peor that's mentioned from the book of Numbers, some of the plagues that have happened, even to the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: They got struck with disease, and uh, there's been all kinds of things, even about the bronze serpent in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and here they are in the land, enemies conquered.
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  SPEAKER_01: They I love how even it talks about in Joshua 24, where Joshua's kind of reiterating essentially everything that has happened up until this point and all the ways that God has provided.
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  SPEAKER_01: In verse 13, uh it says, I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a great way to just even talk about the provision of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, you're occupying cities right now that you didn't construct.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are eating from trees and plants that you did not plant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that is such a a great analogy of the Lord's provision, not even an analogy, it just is what happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: They crossed the Jordan River and they are blessed by things that they didn't labor at.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and that's just uh the way that the Lord chose to bless the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a result, Joshua's called to them in verse 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is a great book, again, where we see Israel living in the days that they were praying for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel living in the days of the fulfillment of God's promise, at least uh in the sense that we see here, where God gives them rest uh in the land, even that we've talked about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Earlier in the week, that connects to Hebrews chapter three and four.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, of course, David talks about that in the Psalms as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: He looks forward to another day of rest later on.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that's just a great in my mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers is the days of preparation, the days of prayer, the days of anticipation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua is the actual unfolding of those promises and seeing them come to life and them experiencing the blessing and the richness of seeing God be faithful and true uh to his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we shift gears from Joshua to our Proverbs section today, um, I'm thinking about the first generation that fell in the wilderness, and I'm thinking about um the judgment and the discipline uh and and God's God's role as uh as father in his loving correction, his loving um chastisement that he would he would deal to to his children in the way that we as parents, uh we as um children of God receive discipline and how good it is for us to be reminded of the ways that uh that we're not obeying God and the ways that we need to correct and and change course in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm looking at verse at 24, and that was one that I as I reflect on my high school years, uh, one that was shared with me in uh a verse that that I I hold on to as I think about the the discipline that my children need and and the discipline that that all of our children need, uh including us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um we we would do well to to receive and and to cherish the discipline from the Lord and and know that it's for our good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I I look back up the up the page to verse 21, uh disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um sinners can be looked at uh in a couple of different ways, sinners being those who literally sin, who break the law of God, but also those who uh who are outside um the outside of God's people be Gentile uh nations or gentile people sinners.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you could look at that word in a couple different ways, but in either case, if you're not following the law of the Lord, uh you're breaking God's law, you are sinning against him, and and what comes as a result is is disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and it comes in a host of different ways, heartache, uh relational strain, um, just personal, uh personal internal conflicts, uh struggling with your own emotions and your own desires and um striving to have and and and lacking in in your pursuits.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um 21, verse 21 is is speaking to uh just the the different ways that uh disaster can come to those who aren't following the Lord and and seeking to pursue him and obey him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as uh as a result of those who do, uh there is good, there is blessing that comes, there's a reward that comes from knowing that that you are you are stewarding God's word, you are taking his law, his commands in uh in and doing your best to to trust him, to pursue those, knowing that they're they're good, even though internally sometimes we don't uh we don't agree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we don't want in our in our nature, in our flesh, to uh to pursue God's um God's commands for us, what he would call good to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't agree with good, but it it's it's a discipline that comes to us when we disagree and we we choose our own path.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh the good that comes to us is is a blessing as we look in the rear view and think of the ways that God has has blessed faithfulness and obedience in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: PJ, as we look at our text, um, verses 21 through 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, what verses stand out to you and what are you encouraged by today?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was looking at verse 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers wants.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this, of course, overlaps really well with what we talked about a few weeks ago in our Proverbs series from Proverbs 23, where it talked about the uh drunkard and the glutton and those people that are given over to even much slumber that leads them to poverty.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so within that sermon, we talked about having a satisfied heart, uh, not being governed by appetites that are oftentimes insatiable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we see that here as well in Proverbs 13, 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, I always go back to that silly analogy of our heart uh being a little pac-band that's just wanting more and more and more and more, and we eat all the dots, and then what happens?
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  SPEAKER_01: More dots appear, and more and more and more and more.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's what we see here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the wicked are is are those who suffer want, the belly of the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we we want to be people that are richly satisfied, of course, in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we want to be people that uh have our appetites, even potentially for good things, uh, be governed by God's word, God's spirit, and not be given over to those things, even good things like food is a good thing, um, sleep is a good thing, but those things can rule our lives uh in ways that are not helpful or healthy, in ways that do not honor uh the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's just a great encouragement that we see there uh in verse 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, what's interesting about verse 23, the follow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, follow uh essentially is the idea of a of a field that's been plowed uh but left unseeded.
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  SPEAKER_01: So think of, you know, I'm not a farmer, so I'm not you know an expert in all the the different, you're more of a farmer than I am, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I know the concept of letting the land rest, and that's even built into the Mosaic law with the the seven years and the year of Jubilee and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh but that's what it's talk about, the follow ground, the the land that's resting of the poor would yield much fruit, and that's the whole point of leaving ground unseeded is to let it rest so that it can be healthy and produce much fruit in the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it says here, but it is swept away, that that future opportunity is swept away through injustice.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it doesn't specify what the injustice is or necessarily how it's all going to come about, but there's this sense of uh something that's being taken away in an unjust way uh from this demographic that that is poor, that already is in need of something, and yet injustice takes what they do have uh and steals it, robs them of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's just a it's a very vivid uh analogy, I think, of the the wicked um reality of injustice in the world and and how people who are governed by their own selfishness or greed uh can be harmful uh to others.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the fallow ground of the poor would would yield much fruit, uh, but it is swept away uh through injustice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's just a a good proverb to meditate on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, there's a lot of different language there that maybe we we wouldn't we don't use um in terms of the ground and and all that kinds of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's a helpful thing to think about uh just even the reality of uh injustice and how God cares very much uh that we do things with with equity.
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  SPEAKER_01: He cares about that, that we do it with with integrity and honesty, and we're not selfish and we're not greedy, we don't do things for sordid gain.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that that's a great proverb for us to meditate on today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Excellent.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh to conclude our time in the proverbs today, we look to verse 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh there's uh uh I see a twofold thing here, both uh laying up uh for yourself treasures in heaven where uh moth and rust don't destroy, where we're seeking to uh invest into our children, uh and then in a certain way, investing into our our children's children through them as we seek to grow them in their love and affections uh for God's word, and to as we prayerfully um ask that God would save our children uh through the the work of the gospel and through those who would disciple both in and out of our homes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but also there is uh a financial stewardship element here where we're not living for today, we're not we're not spending all of our all of the entire uh check that we make on the here and now, but we are saving away, we are investing, we are um we are diligently saving for the future uh and investing into uh not just our children, but uh our grandchildren perhaps and and the the generations of believers that would come up behind us um as we think about like church planting and and pe people often ask, like, so so when's the building?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is it gonna be?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I I we're not even having those conversations.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And but as I think about the church, uh the church in general, the the global church, believers on planet earth, I'm thinking about the the efforts that are being put, um, the efforts that are being uh invested into future disciples, future, future pastors, future believers um around the globe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and that's something that we should be paying attention to.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's something that we should be doing in our own homes, investing into our children and their spiritual well-being being, as well as modeling um financial stewardship, modeling, and this is how we take care of our finances, and this is how we save uh for the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, again, hopefully you are being encouraged by just our slow walk through the proverbs and you're prayerfully seeking to apply what we're seeing in the proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's such great wisdom, timeless wisdom for us today.
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  SPEAKER_01: But thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible SV.org.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.