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August 5, 2026 - Deuteronomy 33 & Proverbs 4 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible 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 Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, August 5th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, The Lord came from Sinai, he dawned from Saeer upon us, he shone forth from Mount Peron, He came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand, so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you, when Moses commanded us a law as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus the Lord became king at Jeshuron, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let Reuben live and not die, but let his men be few.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this he said of Judah, Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him into his people, with your hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Levi he said, Give to Levi, your Thummim and your Urim, to your godly one, whom you tested at Massa, with whom you quarrelled at the waters of Meribah, who said of his father and mother, I regard them not.
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  SPEAKER_00: He disowned his brothers and ignored his children, for they observed your word and kept your covenant, they shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law, they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the works of his hands, crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, they that rise not again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of Benjamin, he said, The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety, the high God surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Joseph, he said, Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath, with the choicest fruits of the sun, and the rich yield in the months, with the finest produce of the ancient mountains, and the abundance of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush.
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  SPEAKER_00: May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: A firstborn bull, he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox.
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  SPEAKER_00: With them he shall gore the peoples, all of them to the ends of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Zebulun, he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar in your tents.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall call peoples to their mountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: There they offer right sacrifices, for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Gad, he said, Blessed be he who enlarges Gad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gad crouches like a lion, he tears off arm and scalp.
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  SPEAKER_00: He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved, and he came with the heads of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: With Israel he executed the justice of the Lord and his judgments for Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Naptali he said, O Naphtile, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the Lord, possess the lake and the south.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of Asher he said, Most blessed of sons be Asher, let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is none like God, O Jeshun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Israel lived in safety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy are you, O Israel, who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive that you may gain insight.
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  SPEAKER_01: For I give you good precepts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not forsake my teaching.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get wisdom, get insight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not forsake her, and she will keep you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love her and she will guard you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The beginning of wisdom is this.
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  SPEAKER_01: She will honor you if you embrace her.
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  SPEAKER_01: She will place on your head a graceful garland, she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have taught you the way of wisdom, I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run you will not stumble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold on of instruction, do not let go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Guard her, for she is your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Avoid it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not go on it, turn away from it and pass on.
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  SPEAKER_01: For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble, for they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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  SPEAKER_01: The way of the wicked is like deep darkness.
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  SPEAKER_01: They do not know over what they stumble.
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  SPEAKER_01: My son, be attentive to my words, incline your ear to my sayings, let them not escape from your sight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep them within your heart, for they are life to those who find them, in healing to all their flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ponder the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not swerve to the right or to the left.
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  SPEAKER_01: Turn your foot away from evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Deuteronomy thirty-three, Tyler, is reminiscent of Jacob's blessings of his sons or the twelve tribes of Israel in Genesis forty-nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So very similar structure.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can think back to when we were in Genesis, I mean months ago at this point, where Jacob on his deathbed is pronouncing blessings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about how those were sort of prophetic pronouncements, or prophetic meaning uh kind of a foretelling of things that would ultimately become true of each of the tribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see something similar here with Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Moses is described as the man of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse 1, this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now remember, the way that Moses is described in Deuteronomy and reiterated in Hebrews is that he was a faithful servant in God's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw God face to face, he spoke with God face to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the language that is used, and that is indicating this kind of relational intimacy that God had with Moses, and even this kind of uh stamp that God placed on Moses to be the prophetic voice and mouthpiece for and on behalf of the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you look at the book of Leviticus or the book of Numbers, I mean, so often, specifically in Leviticus, I think it's something like 80% of the book of Leviticus is directly God's speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a quotation where it says, and God said to Moses, and then there are long sections of God speaking directly to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's ultimately what's meant by face to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: God knew him face to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all that to say that Moses was a servant on behalf of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the mouthpiece, he was a he was a prophet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, he was such a great prophet in Israel that it says there that there will be no one like him until uh one day in the future there would be one similar to him, even though he would be better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's ultimately we know Jesus to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, in Hebrews chapter three, Jesus is compared to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses was faithful in all of God's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is faithful over God's house as a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so Jesus is the fulfillment of um this greater prophet that would one day come.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's talked about even in Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all that to say, just as an introduction, and in Deuteronomy rather 33, uh, Moses, who's been this faithful servant in God's house, he's done what God has said.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's been the voice, he's been the mouthpiece, uh, he's been there ultimately since the beginning of Exodus, where God calls him in Exodus 3 specifically, uh, to lead his people out of slavery to the Egyptians.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, Moses protests along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's filled with fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: God brings him a helpmate, uh, or a helper, I should say, a companion in Aaron, and uh they ultimately are the ones that God has tasked uh with leading Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aaron is the great high priest, uh, Moses as the the prophet, as the one who's the the mouthpiece.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so here at the end of Moses' life, he is pronouncing blessings on uh Israel, and he goes kind of tribe by tribe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you can think back to Genesis, uh, where it talks about Joseph really and his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, just to point out, if you are kind of doing a count of all the tribes, you're not gonna see the names of the name of Joseph, you're gonna see his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's kind of what Moses is doing here in keeping with that tradition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but he goes kind of uh tribe by tribe and pronounces just various blessings, uh, even kind of starting with the tribe of Reuben, he has this prayer that the tribe will survive and uh will not die out.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's verse uh kind of six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh let Reuben live and not die, but let his men be few.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we have uh obviously the the tribe of Judah there in verse seven, uh, where it says, Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah and bring him into his people with your hands, contend for him and be a help against his adversaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a request that God would hear Judah's prayers and ultimately help them against their enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he walks through uh each of these tribes that again, they're they're blessings, but they're also sort of a prophetic, forward-looking uh reality that will one day in the future become the reality of each of these tribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see them um kind of live up to, so to speak, what Moses says here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see them experience even what Moses prays for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, because again, these are sort of prophetic pronouncements rather than just kind of hopes and wishes that Moses has uh for these tribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think these are um he's being divinely kind of inspired by the Spirit to say these things that in some sense will become characteristic of the tribes in a very similar way uh to Abraham, uh, or I should say Jacob rather, uh, at the end of his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of just interesting things going on here in Deuteronomy 33, but at the end of the day, it's Moses, this man that's been faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's at the end of his life, uh, just like Jacob, who was faithful at the end of his life, he says, uh, I recognize all along that God has been my shepherd.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can think about that back in Genesis, and he pronounces blessings on his kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see something similar here of Moses, who's been the servant that has been leading Israel up and up until this point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today, as we look at our passage in chapter four of Proverbs, we have some uh instructions uh from a father to a son.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Pastor Josiah, it we see this pattern of listen, look, pay attention, accept the words that I'm speaking to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I'm drawn to the the tenth verse here, where this father is speaking to a son.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear my son and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
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  SPEAKER_01: The things that you are going to learn, son, are gonna be the things that help you live a life that is honoring to God, that will prosper, and that will keep you in the the straight and narrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: They they will lead you into life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we think about the the words of wisdom that we have throughout all of scripture, all of God's words are are wise and true and just and we we glean wisdom from the scriptures like this father is speaking to a son.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold fast, he says, let your heart hold fast and keep my commandments and live, verse four.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we can easily, especially in our our year, 2026, there's so much information, so many people claiming wisdom, claiming insights, uh, advertising their ideas, marketing the things that they would want people to consume and buy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of the stuff just kind of comes in one ear and out the other, as we think of just the pace and the the frequency of what's being pitched and how often we're ingesting information.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what is truly wise?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is ultimately going to lead us to the heart of God?
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  SPEAKER_01: It it's we don't look no further than the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, this chapter is uh titled A Wise, a Father's Wise Instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it would be wise for us today to continue to mind the depths of the scriptures to gain the wisdom and gain the insight and not only just hear it, but but accept it and apply it as we seek to live a life that is going to be pleasing to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think one of the connections, even going back to Sunday, that we see here in Proverbs 424, uh, put away from you crooked speech and put devious talk far from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so on Sunday we talked all about wise words, how we use our words, how we are to think critically and prayerfully and discerningly about the things that we say and the reasons that we say them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see that kind of reiterated even here in Proverbs 4.24.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put away from you crooked speech and put devious talk far from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so as a part of listening to instruction, growing in fear of the Lord, of course, that's going to make its way out in your life practically in any number of ways, but one of them is how you speak, um, the way that you use your words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even the very next verse, verse 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so look look at all the kind of uh body parts, if you will, that are mentioned here in verses 23 and following.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep your heart with all vigilance, put away from you crooked speech, that's the tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your eyes look directly forward, uh, ponder the path of your feet, uh, then all your ways will be sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not swerve to the right or to the left, turn your foot away from evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so there's this basically from the the head, from your head to your toes, you are to obey the Lord, you're to fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I even think of the words of Ecclesiastes, where um Solomon's reflecting at the end, and this is the end of the matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fear God and keep his commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's really summarized well here in Proverbs 4, uh, where everything that you do, everything that you are, um is to be in submission to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are to look to him for ultimately uh what true wisdom is.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wisdom that is true wisdom, that's biblical wisdom, of course, is directly from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom comes from uh the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we grow in wisdom that by growing in our fear of the Lord, and then it's gonna affect everything that we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our speech, verse 24, the things that we look at, the things that we gaze at, verse 25, the things that we pursue, the paths that we walk, verse 26, and and then so doing and and following the Lord, not swerving to the left or to the to the right, um, there's there's peace and there's blessing in even think of what is said here uh in verse 22, for they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if we're attentive to wisdom's words, if we incline our ear to their sayings, um if we keep them within our heart, verse 22, they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's this positive effect and benefit that following wisdom that's grounded in the fear of the Lord has uh in our life that we need to uh expect and anticipate and uh really hope for as we submit ourselves to what God has said, as we ponder the path of our feet and do not swerve to the right or to uh the left.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is ultimately uh something that Israel struggles with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even we've been talking about in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy 31 and 32.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's this reality looking forward where God says to Moses, My people are going to swerve to the right and to the left.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses says, You guys have swerved to the right and to the left, even while I've been alive, how much more when I die?
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, a lot of their issues and struggle come from this reality that they don't ponder the path of their feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and as a result of that, all of their ways are not sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it says that, you know, as we read through the Old Testament, they do swerve, uh, they do turn away, and as a result, they don't experience what we see here in verse 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't experience life, they don't experience healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they experience the opposite judgment, uh, destruction ultimately at times, um, sorrow, so many other things as a result of their rejection of the fear of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, some some good things here for us to think about and ponder from Proverbs 4 and Deuteronomy 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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