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October 21, 2026 - 1 Samuel 16 & Proverbs 19:17-24 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamping 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 Wednesday, October 21st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord said to Samuel, How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel?
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  SPEAKER_00: Fill your horn with oil and go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will send you to Jesse, the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, How can I go?
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  SPEAKER_00: If Saul hears it he will kill me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord, and invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do, and you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem.
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  SPEAKER_00: The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, Do you come peaceably?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Peaceably, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they came, he looked at Eliab and thought, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the Lord sees not as man sees, man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesse made Shamma pass by, and he said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen these.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your sons here?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he sent and brought him in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward, and Samuel rose up and went to Rama.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let our Lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul said to his servants, Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the young men answered, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread, and a skin of wine, and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David came to Saul and entered his service, and Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor bearer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs nineteen verses seventeen through twenty four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Discipline your son, for there is hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not set your heart on putting him to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will not be visited by harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: First Samuel 16 introduces the new king of Israel, and we'll see in this chapter David anointed for the first of three times.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this first time, it's a private anointing with the elders and Jesse and his brothers, and of course, Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the next time we'll see him anointed is within his kinsmen, within the tribe, uh, within a local uh group of people in Judah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, the third time he is anointed, it's it's more broad, sweeping on a national scale, and uh King David is is anointed over all Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in our text today, we see Saul, his his mind, his body, his heart is tormented as the spirit leaves him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the other hand, we see the spirit of the Lord rush upon David after he's anointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he, the youngest of eight sons of Jesse, uh, is called out from the fields to uh to be declared the next king of Israel as the Lord calls Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it's time for you to stop grieving because there's a new king on the horizon, and I'm going to show you who it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the sons of Jesse uh from Bethlehem, also known as the city of David, King David from Bethlehem.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this chapter has me uh has me thinking back to the previous chapter where these these elders are concerned and they are asking Samuel, are you coming to us peacefully?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we've heard some stories about you chopping up this this king that that that Saul didn't handle uh the right way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you sure you're coming here on good terms?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we in trouble?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh no, and of course, Samuel diffuses a situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm coming here to sacrifice, I'm I'm here on on God's business.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the king of Israel, uh, the God's choice is is here, the one that is after his own heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to uh to anoint.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the horn of oil is ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David is both appealing both internally and externally.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see the first son of Jesse come by, and Samuel's thinking, this is the guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe he's he's looking at his stature, he's looking at his looks, maybe he he looks in a similar way to King Saul, and one after another, after another, the first seven are a no rejected, rejected, rejected all the way down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's the last son, the youngest son of Jesse, who is after the Lord's heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he looks to God and he fears the Lord after the spirit rushes upon him.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Saul is is tormented, Saul is uh is suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we we have to think back to the passages in Leviticus 26 that speak to the punishments for disobedience for God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verses 14 through 17, the the details of this failure to keep the the covenant is that God will visit his people with panic, with wasting disease and fever that that consume the eyes and with the heart and make the heart ache.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's gonna set his face against his people and shall be these people shall be struck down before his enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we look to the life uh the timeline of Saul, this is this is uh descriptive of a lot of his later years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Panic, enemies shall strike you down, and those who hate you shall rule over you, and ye shall flee when no when no one pursues you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel 16 to go on Deuteronomy 28 before God's people enter the promised land, uh, blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we're thinking back uh in verse uh verse 20 of chapter 28, we see that the Lord will send on uh on the people curses, confusion, frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and quickly perish on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me, turning away, rejecting God, uh disobeying God, curses, curses are coming your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's God's promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And later on in this chapter, verses 28 through 29 says say this the Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David is going to be a person that is called in.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's well known, and I think that's uh much to do with his heart for the Lord, but also the spirit that rushed upon him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna come and play uh songs for King Saul on his instrument, on the lyre, and it'll be a great service to King Saul as it will calm him, as it will give him uh refreshment from this harmful spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David is finding favor in the eyes of the king, and what a great opportunity for David to learn what it's like to be a king, and not always with the best examples.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's learning often what not to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in this time, as Saul's armor bearer, David's gonna have great training and leadership, great opportunities to trust in God and watch a king rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be tempered with God's spirit, and he's gonna be a trusted servant of the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's gaining a reputation for himself, um, and that uh of a positive reputation of high character and a love for the Lord, and it doesn't come without his trials under King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the ultimate, the ultimate compliment here is that when God looks upon the heart and he sees David's heart, he's choosing David because of his inner man, the way that he has a longing and affection for the Lord, and and that pleases God, and that is why he is chosen as the next king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna continue on today in Proverbs chapter 19 with eight more Proverbs, starting with those who lend to the poor and how God repays these people for their deeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're thinking about uh heavenly rewards, heavenly treasures being laid up to the person who is is given to.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing that as unto the Lord, and to the least of these.
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  SPEAKER_00: When and Jesus says in Matthew 25, you're actually you're doing it to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So an opportunity for us to take care of the people uh in our community, the people that we know, the people that are in great need, and and finding ways to to help them and support them and and lend to them, and also at the same time lending to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The discipline here in this next proverb in verse 18 has me thinking about the throes of parenting and how difficult and challenging it can be, and how God refines his people uh through the task and responsibility and the privilege of being parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disciplining your son, do that, for there is hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we can't see, uh we can't see past the immediate moment, and there is a great heaviness and a great load on our on our shoulders that we carry, the great responsibility of raising children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we we discipline more than we uh we discipline with the rod more than we uh than we instruct and teach, but nonetheless, we're teaching our children God's ways and and how to please him, how to obey him, and the reasons why we go about living the lives that we do as parents submitted to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's our responsibility to continue to discipline our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when these thoughts and these frustrations come up, you might not be thinking of literally putting your son to death, but just think about the hope uh and and continue to pray that God would reveal Himself in a salvific way uh to your child or your children.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like the guy that gets bailed out of jail just to commit more crimes or or to commit more um more wrath.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you when you pay someone's fines and pay and bail someone out, it's it's not a guarantee that they won't just go back and do the same thing again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a great caution to seek wisdom and discernment in the ways that we are helping other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 20 listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: This comes with teachability and humility, these are prerequisites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to advice and accept instruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: A humble and moldable heart is going to be able to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're not, if you're heart of heart, um, hard of hearing, you're not going to be able to gain wisdom to be able to use and spend and reinvest in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're speaking about the wisdom and truths that are found in God's word that are uh able to make us wise for salvation and wise to please the Lord in the ways that we conduct ourselves and live our lives in light of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a great reminder for us and uh and a help to just continually pray through all the things that we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have you have goals, you have plans, you have uh objectives to complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh ask the Lord to be in them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, welcome a brother and and pray about the plans that you're making together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go before the Lord and ask him to establish his plans, that his purpose will stand uh and ask that our our heart's desire and our our vision, our strategies would fall in line with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we uh agree with that second portion of verse 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: Better to have little um than to be someone that has more and just flat out lies, with withholds the truth, bends and manipulates the truth, gives a false witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so difficult to become uh close to a liar um that is in and around you because you just you can't trust them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to believe anything they say, and after a while, the things that you say are just falling on deaf ears.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the the person who is poor or even greater than that, poor in spirit are going to be people that you will see inheriting the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what is desired in a man is steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's we're thinking about the character and the attributes of God, steadfast, faithful, uh, always true and loving.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what we seek in friendships, in relationships in God's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: We desire to be a people that are known for our steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the love of Christ that overflows as a result of what God has done in our hearts through red regeneration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 23 the fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied, he will not be visited by harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The harm ultimately that is the worst is the harm that comes from not having Christ as Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though we may experience hardships, trials, even physical and spiritual mental troubles in our lives, we are secure if we are held in the hands of a gracious and loving God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So rest satisfied, not in what you can do or what what you can say, or or the as you age and you and you get towards the end of your life, how you can continue to be faithful and strive to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But look, look even further and consider the the God that has saved you, the God that has has drawn you to himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the God that won't let you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the God that we we can have great assurance in that he will uh complete the work that he started and and see us to the finish line.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord is what leads to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whoever has it, whoever has the fear of the Lord, whoever has this eternal life, we can rest satisfied in our Maker.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, verse 24: the sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and he's so sluggish that he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm not applying this directly to my children, but sometimes when they're on like a road trip or something like that, they might be falling asleep when they're younger in their car seats, and they might have a snack, or they might have something in their hand, and they literally fall asleep with food in their hands, and they're they're too tired to bring it to their mouths to eat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but in this in this case, we're not speaking about tired children, we're speaking about people that have extreme laziness, extreme sluggishness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these people will bury their hand in the dish and will ask for help to even bring it to their mouths.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can't even do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're too lazy, they're not willing to put forth the effort to even feed themselves, to help themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um we're trying to be a people that work hard through the empowering of God's spirit and through obedience to his word, that God would cause us to uh to work hard for for his name and to understand why it is that we that we give it our best.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's to bring honor and glory to the name of Christ, uh, and and to consider the good works that he has set before us, before the foundations of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's much to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just such a privilege and a an honor to to work hard for the Lord and and to give it our best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when we're tired, even when we feel like we have hardly anything left in the in the gas tank, physically or even cognitively, we can go to the Lord and ask him for help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this this verse is a great encouragement for me to to even identify areas where there's there's room for improvement, room to be more efficient with my time, to be more disciplined, and and to eradicate any and all laziness and and sluggishness in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a great challenge in these proverbs today as we look through these eight and uh just a reflection on the future and second king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're looking to King David and what what a a great great portion of scripture we're stepping into for uh the the rest of 1 Samuel and on into 2 Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all about David and and his life, and I'm just excited to be taking this chapter by chapter uh with you and uh finding encouragements and finding the plans of God revealed for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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