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August 11, 2026 - Joshua 4 & Proverbs 9 · 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 Tuesday, August 11th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them, saying, Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priest's feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, who he had appointed, a man from each tribe, and Joshua said to them, Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When your children ask in time to come, what do those stones mean to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waters of the Jordan were cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up the twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the Lord told Joshua, and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant had stood, and they are there to this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people passed over in haste, and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests passed over before the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.
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  SPEAKER_00: About forty thousand ready for war passed over before the Lord for battle to the plains of Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses all the days of his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Joshua, Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua commanded the priests, come up out of the Jordan, and when the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priest's feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho, and those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal, and he said to the people of Israel, When your children ask their fathers in times to come, what do these stones mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then ye shall let your children know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground, for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, so that all the people of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars, she has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also set up her table.
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  SPEAKER_00: She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is simple, let him turn and hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: To him who lacks sense she says, Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leave your simple ways and live, and walk in the way of insight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever cracks a scoffer gets himself abuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
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  SPEAKER_00: For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you scoff, you alone will bear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman folly is loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is seductive and knows nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She sits at the door of her house.
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  SPEAKER_00: She takes a seat in the highest places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to him who lacks sense, she says, stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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  SPEAKER_00: In similar fashion to the crossing of the Red Sea, the crossing of the Jordan River is on dry ground, and this time the people of Israel have the Ark of the Covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this passage, we see the Ark of the Covenant somewhere in the midst of the Jordan with the priest holding it, standing still on firm ground as the people cross in haste.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the command that Joshua gives, one man from each tribe, twelve men in total, picking up a stone on his shoulder for the purpose of creating a memorial, a place where the children and the children's children shall return and ask their parents, what is this all about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me the story, Dad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me the story, grandpa.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened here?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened in this place?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why did you do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why are these stones stacked in this place?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has me thinking about the ways that God has provided for me in my family, the ways that God has providentially brought me from job to job.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's different ways that I can thank the Lord for what he's done in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it it becomes more clear and clearer as time goes on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I look in the rear view and see God's grace in my life, the way he has provided for me, the way that his name is being made great through the different trials, through the different ways that he has uh led me through my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure that many of you who are listening to this podcast can reflect and think back in uh the recent months, the recent years, or maybe back to your childhood to see the ways that God has sustained you, the way that God has been faithful to you and has uh drawn you uh to himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a great reminder for us as we look to the people of Israel as they cross the Jordan, as the the men of war are ready to uh to to lead, to march on into the promised land that will be given to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: People after people will fall before them, and uh God is in the midst of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is the one who is to be feared, to be exalted, to be high and lifted up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is for that purpose that uh the people of Israel are are gathering these stones, one from each tribe, one man, and Joshua is uh constructing this monument, this memorial, uh, from these memorial stones to remember what God has done so that in verse 24, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and that you may fear the Lord your God forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the purpose of constructing this monument.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to go beyond that, I'm I'm thinking of personally the different milestones and and monuments uh that I can look back to in my life, whether it's a home that God provided or um uh a job that I didn't think that was was possible, whether it was uh a place for my wife and I to stay when we first got married, or uh a job that I I thought was out of my out of my league, or a kind provision from the Lord and in ways that were so unexpected, I can think back to uh different different vehicles, different places that we lived, and even different friendships.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that uh I I reflect and go back to the ways that God has approved that He is mighty and He is strong and He is the one who sustains me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, in the proverb that we are addressing today, Proverb uh Proverbs chapter nine, we see the this contrast between two women, wisdom versus folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: The details are clear here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the one the message is similar, but the outcome, the results of following either wisdom or folly uh will take you to either life or death.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see in verse six, wisdom calls out to the to the simple and says, Leave your simple ways and live and walk in the way of insight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And conversely, folly calls out to the simple and says, Whoever is simple, let him turn in here, and to him who lacks sense, she says in verse 16, going on into 17, stolen water is sweet, and the bread eaten in secret is pleasant, and that is referring to uh the seductive adulteress who would be calling the the man into her home to to commit adultery, to to drink water that is not from his own cistern.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we conclude the proverb in verse 18, and there's a grave message here for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this man does not know that the dead are there, the dead are in in the home, in the secret place that this seductive woman folly is trying to draw him into.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the final line says that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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  SPEAKER_00: The guests who would follow, follow the way of folly, end up in destruction and Sheol in the pit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their calls, both wisdom and folly, are similar, but the outcomes are gravely different.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the man who is uh content and satisfied with uh the wife of his youth is going to find life, and the man who is pursuing after the seductive woman, folly, uh, falls into destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here today we have another reminder that the way of wisdom is life, and the way of foolishness and wickedness uh begets death.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is the fear of the Lord and following in line with his wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is insight and this is life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for the wise man, for those who would uh be blessed with God's wisdom, there is still more to be had as you continue on living a life that is following after him, submitted to his way and his teaching, and also the righteous man, there is still an increase in learning that can result if you continue the path uh that is straight and that is narrow, and one that is looking to the wisdom that is not found in the hearts and minds of man, but in the mind of the creator, the the Lord, the creator God that we see in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh another reminder for us delight in wisdom, uh delight in uh preparing your day, fixed and focused on God and and his truths found in the scriptures, and not leaning on our own understanding, but leaning on the knowledge of the holy one.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where we gain our insight, that is where we gain our perspective to live a life that is set apart, that is holy for God, that is bringing him much honor and glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh what an encouragement that is that he welcomes us, uh his children, into this, into this path to follow after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us today 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.