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October 28, 2026 - 1 Samuel 22 & Proverbs 21:11-20 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light By Breating Plan, where you 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 Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Wednesday, October 28th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Samuel 22.
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  SPEAKER_01: David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adulum.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul gathered to him, and he became commander over them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there were with him about four hundred men.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David went from there to Mizbah of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother stay with you till I know what God will do for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the prophet Gad said to said to David, Do not remain in the stronghold, depart, and go into the land of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the Tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, people of Benjamin, will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, that all of you have conspired against me?
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  SPEAKER_01: No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse.
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  SPEAKER_01: None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait as at this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then answered Doag the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, and he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul said, Hear now, son of Ahitub, and he answered, Here I am, my lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he is risen against me to lie in wait as at this day?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Ahimelech answered the king, And who among all your servants is so faithful as David?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who is the king's son-in-law and captain over your bodyguard and honored in your house?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all of this, much or little.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn and kill the priest of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the servants of the king would not put on their hand to strike the priest of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the king said to Doag, You turn and strike the priest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Doag the Edomite turned and struck down the priest, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen Ephod.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Nob, the city of the priest, he put to the sword, both man and woman, child and infant, oxen donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
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  SPEAKER_01: But one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priest of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul, I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stay with me, do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: With me you shall be in safe keeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty-one, verses eleven through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: The righteous one observes the house of the wicked, he throws the wicked down to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
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  SPEAKER_00: A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath.
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  SPEAKER_00: When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but terror to evildoers.
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  SPEAKER_00: One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the traitor for the upright.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, to kick off the podcast today, I'm going to read a question that came in on the Lamp and Light app.
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  SPEAKER_01: A question that really connects to what we talked about on Sunday, Hebrews 6, 1 through 8.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'll read it and then we'll try to dive into answering it the best that we can.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the question is: I have a cousin who grew up in the church, parents and ministry.
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  SPEAKER_01: At one point in his life, he prayed and proclaimed to be Christian, but has since walked away from the church and from his faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: When prompted, he says he's no longer a Christian, but still lives on the fringes of the church.
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  SPEAKER_01: He sends his kids to a Christian school and will volunteer to help the church if they need it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll go to events at the church and other such things.
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  SPEAKER_01: In reference to Hebrews 6, 1 through 8, it seems as though he lives in a limbo between bears fruit and thorns slash thistles.
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  SPEAKER_01: If his life does not bear fruit of faith, is he out of salvation?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or is God holding on to one whom he has saved despite a deep backsliding slash turning away?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, this is a very important question, a very personal question that I know many who listen to this are wrestling with, have wrestled with, know someone that fits into this category.
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  SPEAKER_01: And really, these are the kinds of questions that test our theology in a sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is it that we believe, and how do those beliefs measure up to these kinds of circumstances and situations, and how do we view these biblically?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one thing that I want to clarify on the front end is that just because someone professes to be a Christian does not necessarily make them so.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this cousin of the person who sent this question is, uh sent this question in, uh, though they might have made a profession of faith as a younger individual, someone who was involved in the church and seemed by all accounts to be a genuine Christian, that does not necessarily make someone a genuine Christian.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think the parable of the soils gives us categories for this where the seed of the gospel goes out and there's four different responses.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of those responses is immediately receives it for joy, springs up fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when the sun comes up, uh it's is scorched because its root uh was not deep.
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  SPEAKER_01: It had no root.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it withers away through the the heat of trials and really just the temptations of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't think that's saying that someone has a genuine faith and then it gets taken away because of trials and temptation.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it's just saying that there can be an appearance of fruit that someone can even externally be excitedly uh, you know, embracing things that regard the gospel and the Christ, at least mentally to some degree, but that nevertheless proves over time to be untrue based off of the fruitfulness or lack thereof.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's how the parable of the sower ends by saying the one who, of course, receives the seed and bears fruit 30, 60, 100 fold.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as it connects to Hebrews 6, Hebrews 6 is doing something very specific to a very specific audience.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like we talked about on Sunday, it's very nuanced.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's not necessarily trying to answer this specific question as much as the author of Hebrews is intending to encourage his audience that he believes to be Christians to keep pressing on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, with that said, uh, one of the things that can be really difficult is we need to distinguish between what I call kind of presenting apostates.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's just the the short term for those who have rejected Christ, either either truly or at least externally.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we have presenting apostates and then we have permanent apostates.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a permanent apostate, of course, is someone that would fit into the category of verse eight of chapter six of Hebrews, that they are burned, that they're not actually in Christ, that they don't actually bear fruit 30, 60, 100fold.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a result, they meet their end, which is judgment and destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's a permanent apostate.
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  SPEAKER_01: A presenting apostate, on the other hand, I think of something different and can be really difficult to distinguish.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think of as an example, I would say that Peter, the apostle Peter, was in some sense a presenting apostate in the scriptures because what does he do?
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  SPEAKER_01: He actually out loud to other people denies Christ and he does it three different times.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, of course, over the you know, over the the next however many uh days or weeks or whatever, he he gets um he gets restored by Jesus in the end of the gospel of John.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh I say presenting as in he wasn't uh in the faith and out of it, then back in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it was just something in that moment of doubt and that moment of suffering and that moment of temptation and fear, he was overcome uh by those pressures externally, and he uh externally denied Christ, though I don't think that and even in that moment didn't make him a genuine believer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so presenting can can be very much what you're describing here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Someone that has in quote unquote walked away from the faith, quote unquote, right now is is not a Christian or wouldn't consider themselves as such.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, what's really difficult about that is this the scriptures don't give us timelines.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't say, well, Peter only denied Christ for three days or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so his wasn't true apostasy, it wasn't permanent apostasy, it was just presenting apostasy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whereas if you go four days or five months or three years, it just doesn't give us those kinds of timelines.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's where I was saying at the beginning that our theology can really be stretched, especially about you know, eternal security or genuine salvation and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that the scriptures does tell us is that ultimately we may not know the eternal state or condition of someone's heart, but of course God does, and that will be made known at the end, where there's a separation, the sheep and the goats, the wheat and the chaff, and that'll make it clear once and for all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, in the meantime, though you may not know this person's eternal status, uh, the scriptures do tell you that you have really no confidence to believe they are saved.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's kind of the whole point of first John.
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  SPEAKER_01: I write these things to you that you may know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's writing to believers uh as well, first John.
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  SPEAKER_01: I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wants them to have great confidence and assurance.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of that get connects to in his writing, at least there in 1 John, to obedience to love of God, love of brother, um, and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this person, this cousin of yours, that seemingly has no love for God, seemingly has no love of brother, at least in the way that is defined there, obedience to Christ and his commands.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, first John one would say very, very strongly, 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_01: So even someone that claims Christ, but their life doesn't match it, uh, is a problem, according to John.
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  SPEAKER_01: So at the very least, you you should have great concern over the status of this person's soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Though you may not be able to make a definitive judgment, you look on the outward appearance, God looks at the heart, that'll be made clear ultimately in the next life.
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  SPEAKER_01: God judges and he judges impartially and justly and fairly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you should have a great concern, and so that there's no confidence that you can have that they genuinely are saved.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I wouldn't give you the the all the alternative confidence that you could say definitively that they're not.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm saying it's it's difficult because we don't have timelines.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't have, well, if they say this or do this or don't say this or don't do this over this amount of time, uh, then for sure, definitively you can say you're not a Christian.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I would say it would be right to think of them in your mind and even in your prayers as someone who needs Christ, someone who needs Christ, whether it's being brought back to Christ and being uh, you could say, warmed again by the love of Christ, or someone that really, that their eyes are truly blind in the fullest sense that they're dead in their trespasses and sins, and they need to be made alive.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whether it's one or the other, they need Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you got to be thinking to uh to them in your prayers, in your conversations, hey, you need Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if Hebrews chapter six, one through eight, again, doesn't give a definitive, it's not really used as that, as the author's writing to his audience.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not trying to give them a sort of litmus test or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's trying to encourage them to keep pressing on and really warning them of, hey, anyone who rejects Christ, anyone who stays uh who tries to find some alternative route to God apart from Christ, their end is destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of his whole point.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, all that to say, I can't get a definitive answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the status of this person's soul, and neither can you, but you can certainly, uh, with the presenting evidence, as it were, or fruit or lack thereof, you you should have no confidence in their salvation, though you can't make a definitive judgment.
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  SPEAKER_01: You certainly have no confidence, and you in your heart and in your prayers, you're saying, God, would you please open their eyes?
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  SPEAKER_01: They need Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trust in Christ, believe that Christ is uh what you need, that he is the bread of life, he is your living water, he is eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Believe in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, Hebrews 6, 1 through 8 is not the definitive answer to this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, there's lots of scripture that needs to be held in tension.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the and the difficult part of this is again, we just don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't know on this side of heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ultimately, God does.
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  SPEAKER_01: God knows the the status of this person's soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whether or not he's holding on to one of his, I couldn't say.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, but that will be made clear once and for all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in the meantime, we urge to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: We urge for people to look to Christ, we urge for people to repent and trust in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what it sounds like needs to happen here uh with your cousin.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully that's helpful and uh an encouragement, uh, even though again, Hebrews 6 isn't uh the definitive grid to view that through.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it does uh for Christians give us that sense of motivation and confidence to keep moving forward, to keep our eyes on Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's really what the author of Hebrews is trying to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as we turn to 1 Samuel 22, Tyler, um David's having a he's having a tough time, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you were doing the last couple of days, so you've been able to kind of trace what's been happening here with David.
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of stuck out to you here in 1 Samuel 22 uh as David's continuing to be on the run?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I see I see David re responding uh in a different way here where he's he's seemingly taking some more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh if we look to verse three, um uh he he's pausing, it seems, and he's taking taking an assessment instead of acting hastily.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he's he's looking like he's acting more decisively, more patiently, um, and uh trying to seek what is uh best next steps will be in light of God, till I know what God will do for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He seems like he's looking back to God for for uh a leading and a guidance instead of uh trying to lean in in his own understanding and and lying his way through a difficult situation here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he has a bunch of people um that seemingly uh are whether they're disgruntled at their situation or at King Saul, they're looking to David as someone who's gonna protect them and lead them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and as we looked to the previous chapter, Noeg, he's gonna do some horrific things in this, and Saul tasks him to do so.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to slaughter 85 of the priests and and their families.
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  SPEAKER_01: Innocence, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Terrible, terrible thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and David at the end of this chapter is taking accountability, like this, this is this is something that has come to pass, and I have a part in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he says, I knew that day in verse 22 when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul, I have occasioned the death of all the persons in your father's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see David learning some extremely painful lessons, learning, learning the the hard way.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is that's an understatement, but uh just the imagine being David in the situation and and uh hearing the news of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are people that he knew, surely, people that he had had seen, people that he's uh he's had a first name basis with, and and they're dead because of the wickedness of of King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, in in a certain sense, uh he he's linked his decisions, his lies are attached to this as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one thing that I want to point out is we can get kind of into the mind and heart of David from another place in the old testament.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 142 is titled uh the superscription is a maskle of David When He Was in the Cave, a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want to just read this so that you can kind of get a sense of what what David what was going on in David's soul and in David's heart in the midst of all this going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David says, With my voice I cry out to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now remember, he's in the cave of Adulum, he's being persecuted, uh, he is of course his life is being threatened, and Saul literally wants to destroy him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so with that in mind, he says, With my voice, I cry out to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: With my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pour out my complaint before him, I tell my trouble before him.
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  SPEAKER_01: When my spirit faints within me, you know my way.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap from me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look to the right and see, there is none who takes notice of me.
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  SPEAKER_01: No refuge remains to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one cares for my soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: I cry to you, O Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I say, You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
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  SPEAKER_01: Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bring me out of prison that I may give thanks to your name.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's just a great window into the heart and really soul of David in the midst of this persecution.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really, he's got nowhere else to turn.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he turns to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: He cries out to the Lord with my voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I cry out to the Lord, with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David, in the midst of all of this persecution, in the midst of his life being threatened, in the midst of being on the run, he turns to the Lord with great faith, with great hope, even in great agony, and prayerfully is saying, Lord, would you provide mercy?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would you deliver me from my enemies?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would you do what only you can do?
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  SPEAKER_01: So just a great encouragement for us, perhaps in the midst of our affliction, temptation, stress, trials.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take a page out of David's playbook here in Psalm 142, turn to the Lord, cry out to him with our with our voice, plead for mercy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And always remembering what Hebrews 4 teaches us that the throne of grace is open to receive mercy and grace to help in time of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's just a great encouragement here from Psalm 142 and uh from 1 Samuel 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look over to our wisdom literature, Pastor Josiah, one verse stood out to me, um, and that's verse 17 in chapter 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has to do with pleasures uh that this world may offer, and they're all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the verse reads, Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the scriptures tell us and give us many warnings about the pleasures of this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were talking about the the parable of the soils, and the one of the the soils that is spoken there speaks to the thorns choking out with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's seemingly so many distractions in this life that would that would vie to just secure our attention and pull us away from the path that that we're on as we pursue the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the the one who loves the pleasures of this world will be a poor man.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so many ways to be entertained, left, right, and center.
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter which way you turn, there's something trying to get your attention, trying to pull you into, to tingle the mind, to stimulate you to um to grab and and hold your attention and your affections.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the verse goes on uh to speak to the the things that we would uh ingest, the things that we would use to make ourselves look a certain way or smell a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the the scriptures also speak to the modest life, the life that lives for for the future life and not for the here and now, and uh and the prayers that go along with um with uh the heart of a man that would be seeking his own pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um James speaks that your your prayers are not answered because you're asking improperly and you're asking for selfish gain uh to to entertain your own pleasures.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: And uh that's a a conviction for me just with the amount of screen time or the amount of um hobbies or the different things that could pull my attention away from my responsibilities, away from the good works that God would have for me.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: There's plenty of things to put your hand to to work on, quote.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: But what what are the things that are going to have eternal value, eternal uh worth?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: And those are the things that are on my mind this morning as I'm thinking about this verse.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, as I'm looking to verse 15 here in Proverbs 21, it says, When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but terror to evildoers.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now, of course, you can think of this in the context of a court of law or within a system of justice, really of any kind, where justice being doled out is an occasion to rejoice for those who are seeking justice and would be an occasion for for terror to those who are receiving the justice.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this made me think of just because on Sunday night I opened my door and I found a flyer on the door handle that was basically saying say yes to to proposition one.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you're not familiar with that, hopefully you are, but it's really about uh expanding Idaho's abortion laws, making things more accessible in the name of privacy and and access and things like that.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was uh a plea for making sure that that gets passed through.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: And honestly, I I think here, uh Proverbs 21:15, this is an issue of justice.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Proposition one, uh, we ought to, as Christians, we ought to preserve life, and and we should see just the the to be honest, if I can be blunt, the insatiable hunger that the culture has uh for quote unquote access and willingness and ease and privacy uh to commit something so heinous as taking a life in the womb.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we should see that as an issue, issue of justice.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so our responsibility uh as Christians is to get involved in that in a very simple way, like voting uh for against Proposition one.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: And we should see that if that gets dropped.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: And hopefully as that as that passes through, uh, we should see Proverbs 2115 working out in the world when justice is done.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: It is a joy to the righteous, it's a joy uh to preserve life, it's a joy to fight uh for what is right, but but terror to evil do evildoers.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, you could even think of the the kind of response.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm using terror, perhaps evildoers more broadly here, but the response to those who just so desperately want to be able to do whatever they want without any repercussions, the response that they'll have if if and when proposition one doesn't pass.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so I want you to think of Proverbs 21:15.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: When you think of that, and and I think you you ought to think of it as justice needs to be done, life need lives need to be preserved.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't give a rip about your access or your security or your preferences, right?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Biblically speaking, I don't mean you'd be harsh, but I mean this is a serious thing, and justice needs to be done, and it should be a joy, it says to the righteous, right?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: But terror to the evildoers.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: So just think about that.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that's um just something that's on my mind with the current you know season that we are in and with voting and things like that.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Early voting's happening now.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we should think about justice.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we ought to fight and uphold for what is good, and uh even the response that we inevitably will see if uh and if it gets shot down will be kind of terror to the evildoers, crying out, lamenting, uh, because they cannot continue in their wickedness.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: And that's something that we ought to uh rejoice in.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
• 24:57
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• 25:02
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• 25:05
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