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October 29, 2026 - 1 Samuel 23 & Proverbs 21:21-31 · 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 letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Thursday, October 29th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Samuel 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now they told David, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Cala and are robbing the threshing floors.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore David inquired of the Lord, Shall I go and attack these Philistines?
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said to David, Go and attack the Philistines and save Cala.
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  SPEAKER_01: But David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah, how much more than if we go to Cala against the armies of the Philistines?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David inquired of the Lord again, and the Lord answered him, Arise, go down to Cala, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David and his men went to Cala and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock, and struck them with a great blow.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David saved the inhabitants of Kala.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, had fled to David to Cala, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now it was told Saul that David had come to Cala, and Saul said, God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Cala, to besiege David and his men.
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  SPEAKER_01: David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the Ephod here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Cala to destroy the city on my account.
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  SPEAKER_01: Will the men of Calah surrender me into his hand?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will Saul come down as your servant has heard?
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  SPEAKER_01: O Lord, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said, He will come down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David said, Will the men of Calah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said, They will surrender you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Cala, and they went wherever they could.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Saul was told that David had escaped from Cala, he gave up the expedition.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David remained in the stronghold in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Zif, and Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: David was in the wilderness of Zif at Horesh, and Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said to him, Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saul my father also knows this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh in the hill of Hakalah, which is south of Jishamon?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desires to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul said, May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go, make yet more sure, know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.
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  SPEAKER_01: See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I will go with you, and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Moan, in the Arabah, to the south of Jishmon, and Saul and his men went to seek him, and David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Moan.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Moan, and Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David was hurrying to get away from Saul, as Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
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  SPEAKER_01: A messenger came to Saul saying, Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape, and David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty-one, verses twenty-one through thirty-one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scoffer is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, how much more when he brings it with evil intent?
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  SPEAKER_00: A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wicked man puts on a bold face, but the upright gives a thought to his ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are two main things I want to highlight here in 1 Samuel 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first, and perhaps the most obvious, is God's clear and decisive protection for David against Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saul, of course, has all of the resources of the kingdom at his disposal.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's got armies, soldiers, spies, all kinds of people looking for David.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we even see that there are people kind of playing both sides of the fence here who are telling on David, as it were, outing him, showing where his location is, or at least communicating that to Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet God, at every step of the way, continues to protect, to provide, and clearly uh to bless David in the midst of Saul's pursuit of him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, the other thing that I want you to see is David's continual pursuit of the Lord in everything that he does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before he moves, he prays.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before he attacks the Philistines to protect that land, um, Kayla, he he asks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before he moves on from Cala, after they've had victory over the Philistines, he goes to the Lord in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's Saul doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's Cala gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna give me up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna are they gonna out me to Saul?
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord, of course, gives him those answers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Saul's on his way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, if if you're here when Saul arrives, that they're gonna cough you up.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna hand you right over to Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so David continues to go to the Lord in prayer to seek direction, to seek guidance, to seek comfort.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just before he does anything, ultimately, he's asking the Lord, Should I do this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Should I go here?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going to happen to me there?
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  SPEAKER_01: And all along the way, David is prayerfully continuing to seek the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that's just a great encouragement for you and I.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, we may not face a similar circumstance as Saul uh seeking to take David's life or something like that, but we certainly will face trials, we'll certainly face temptations, struggles, heartaches.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think one of the things that we can learn from David at this point in this whole scenario is every step of the way ought to be covered with prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lord, what would you want me to do in the situation?
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  SPEAKER_01: Lord, how how are you working?
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  SPEAKER_01: Lord, how how what what steps should I take?
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  SPEAKER_01: What decisions should I make?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, ultimately going to the Lord again and again for comfort, for guidance, for wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, every step of the way, that's what we see outlined and really highlighted here so clearly for David and 1 Samuel uh 23.
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  SPEAKER_00: To pair with David's heart to seek the Lord, to trust in him, to seek his leading and his guiding.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I look at a couple different verses here in our wisdom literature today, verse 22 a wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can look at our resources and our abilities and our skill sets and trust in them, trust in the things that we have, whether it's uh the number of uh boxes of rounds that we have in our gun case or or the number of uh swords or chariots that someone might have.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wise man seeks the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He seeks the the guidance and the and the leadership of God, the protection of God outside of his own ability and resource.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to pair with that, verse 31, the horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see God's sovereignty and man's responsibility tied up in this verse here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're the skill sets that we do have, we're to steward, we're to home, we're to sharpen, uh, to make um make practice of when we think about battle or the different skill sets we would have at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, whether you're uh a firefighter, a law enforcement, you're uh in the medical field, we're we're doing everything that we can to know as much as we can, to practice as much as we can.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, we're asking God's help.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're asking for God's uh leadership, his guidance, his blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of it, whether we have success or not, we're going to look to the Lord to praise him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The victory belongs to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love here, even dovetailing what you were saying about God's sovereignty and man's responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, verse 30 of Proverbs 21 says, No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a comfort that that is, that there's no political system, there's no government, there's no opponent, there's no enemy that ultimately will prevail against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will accomplish his purposes that are good, he will accomplish and work out all things together for good to those who love him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I love the way that it's put here.
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  SPEAKER_01: No wisdom, no earthly wisdom, no amount of, you know, we we kind of hear this language today of um human history, like we've evolved beyond that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're more sophisticated, we're beyond that typically means you know, these sort of what would the the the broader culture would define as antiquated ways of thinking that that just happen oftentimes to correspond with biblical ways of thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that we think that we are beyond that, that we've grown in our understanding, in our sophistication, no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that should just be a great comfort.
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  SPEAKER_01: No armies that are assembled, uh, no, again, no political systems, no threats, no, no, nothing can avail against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: It makes me think of uh even what Paul says, if God is for us, who can be against us?
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now there's a number of topics addressed here in Proverbs 21.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, verse 25 uh talks about the sluggard.
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  SPEAKER_01: The desire of the sluggard is what kills him, for his hand uh refuse, his hands refuse to labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's this sense of his desire, doesn't really tell us what, but you can imagine a sluggard, someone who's lazy, slothful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, their desire oftentimes is for pleasure, for rest, uh, for oftentimes anything but hard work and diligence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this says the desire of the sluggard kills him.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's ultimately his destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's his Achilles' heel, for his hands refuse to labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we ultimately see in Proverbs and other places in the scripture, and of course, just experientially, that a lack of hard work, a lack of labor leads to disaster, financial ruin, it leads to a lack of being able to provide for yourself and for your family.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the wisdom uh literature has much to say, and even here, the desire of the sluggard, our desires, our frivolous desires, our pining for pleasure, those things can be detrimental to us if we're not hard workers and if we're not laboring in the ways that God has told us to, and that leads to uh provision and uh things like that, taking care of what we need to take care of.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the desires of the sluggard kill him, for his hands refuse uh to labor.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, another verse, so many times in Proverbs, uh we have verse after verse after verse of wisdom concerning our mouths and how we speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Proverbs 21, 23, whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, what a proverb that we need, Tyler, to remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: How often have we gotten ourselves in trouble because we're just thoughtless, we're careless with the way that we speak, the way that we use our tongues.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, that parallels really well with what James says, you know, how great uh a fire, a blaze, again, the tongue set ablaze the world and burn things down and be destructive.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we need to be those who are able to bridle our tongues by the help of the Spirit, the Word of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know this is something that the Lord is continuing to grow me in and sanctify me in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, I need to be careful with the way that I speak, the things that I say, uh, and the ways that I choose to use my words.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I want to be what Paul says in Ephesians that we ought to use speech and language that's for the purpose of building up, for edifying, for encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so often we are by just our flesh, again, just by being thoughtless, we can give ourselves over to this kind of speech that uh is troublesome rather than keeping us out of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just so many nuggets here in Proverbs 21.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anything else that stook out to you, Tyler, from Proverbs 21?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, one one thing that I was thinking about when I was reading the first verse here, 21, verse 21 is whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness and honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking of David, though he has mistakes, some grave mistakes that he makes, some sin issues that he has in his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he turns to them, he confesses his sin, he repents of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he he's a man of of high standing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He seeks to please the Lord, he he seeks to walk in ways of righteousness and kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking of the ways that he's we're gonna see this as the story plays out in the book of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, uh, the the kindness that he shows to Jonathan's offspring and the kindness that he shows to Saul in the cave when he has an opportunity to take his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's a fierce warrior side of David, but also he has a heart that's kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a he's a loving friend, he's a he's a loving leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though he does make some some evil decisions, he's some sinful decisions, he he confesses them, he turns from them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we assess the life of David as a whole, we we look at a man that is righteous, he's honorable, and and he's ultimately uh a man that we look up to to emulate in our Christian walk today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Certainly.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's referred to as a man after God's own heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh we we can again learn from David and we can humble ourselves similar to David in the midst of our trials, like we talked about in 1 Samuel 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every step of the way, go to the Lord in prayer, seeking his face, his will, his guidance, his wisdom, and trust that he will freely give it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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