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August 24, 2026 - Joshua 15 & Proverbs 12:13-16 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, August 24th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Joshua 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this chapter, we see the tribe of Judah and all the land and the borders and the boundaries that would be within this large territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are geographical features and cities and boundaries that are wrapped up in this chapter, and this is just a promise for in specific details given by God to Joshua, and essentially giving the tribe of Judah the deeds and the legal rights to specific regions in the southern part of the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twelve verses thirteen through sixteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've heard the term eminent domain, you would understand and know that it is the power that a local government has to enforce essentially your loss of space or your loss of land to take private property for public use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, in this context, in our modern world, it's it's a thing that um would make our heads tilt and leave a sour taste in your mouth, especially if you are a homeowner or a business owner and you are losing space, you're losing land, and and that gets me thinking about the inhabitants of the land of Canaan and how in God's uh sovereign plan and his supreme power, he is taking property that ultimately belongs to him, though the people might think in the land of Cana that they have a right over their personal space, but this is God's land, and he is going to be securing it and handing it over to the people of Israel as they drive people out, as they take take city after city, and as they are engaging in battle with these people and driving them out of the land that God has promised them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But not all of the peoples of the land of Canaan, specifically in Judah, the southern portion, will be driven out quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a a timeline that gets stretched out for Judah as they do not engage, they do not put their foot on the gas to actually drive the Jebusites out.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't follow through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we don't see anywhere in the books of Moses that a people will be partially driven out, we look forward to the reign of King David, and as he identifies the Jebusites still in 2 Samuel chapter 5 as inhabitants of the land, they are acknowledged as people that are still in need of being conquered or driven out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And until they until they are driven out, there is still conflict, there is still war, and that is ultimately why uh King David is not able to construct the temple that he desires to build for the Lord because of the battle and the conflict and the war that wages while he is uh ruling, and there is still work for for God's people to complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a uh a reality where God is going to ensure a victory and say that he will be driving these people out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and and on the other hand, we see uh man's responsibility and the action required to physically um put pressure on on the inhabitants through aggression uh to move them out of the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in our proverb today, we look at four more verses in chapter twelve of Proverbs, and we begin with an evil man and how he is caught up or ensnared by the transgressions of his lips, uh, the things that he says, the things that he plans, the accusations that he makes, the lies that he tells, um, the wickedness that spews out of his mouth is ultimately damning him and and causing him trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the other hand, the righteous man escapes all this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um maybe he is often telling the truth, maybe he is often encouraging, maybe this man is is often doing the opposite of what the evil man is doing and honoring the Lord with his mouth and speaking truth, and that's a natural consequence, of course, as someone who is uh a truth teller making an accurate uh call, an accurate description of reality, not lying, not bending the truth, those people are trustworthy, and those people don't find themselves in the same troubles that those who would be lying, those who would be plotting and and sinning with their mouth, and how they would uh how they would be caught up, and that is the description of uh the evil man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our next verse as we continue to keep our focus on on what comes out of the mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, verse 14 speaks to the fruit of his mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh from the fruit of his mouth, a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hands comes back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's consider the things today that we are saying, the encouragements that we uh are are building up with, the the directions, the planning, that the things that are are pleasing and are good and right, they are satisfying, and there's not a a sense of um a fear of being caught that's hanging over our heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I know when I was teaching, I would tell my students, if you if you break no laws and you're telling the truth, there's no there's no reason for you to live in fear and in paranoia.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you're sowing seeds of of wickedness, you reap wickedness, and that can come through um even just simply look living a life where you're looking over your shoulder, trying not to get caught for the things that you have done that are uh breaking the law, infractions against the rules of our society.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you're living a life and working uh in an honest way, you don't have to fear, you don't have to be um marinating in in anxiety as you think about what potentially could happen if if you're found out and the things that would come back to you uh are good, the work that that you would produce, the the labor, uh it comes back to you, and often that looks like an honest wage.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our final two verses today, look to the fool and inspect the fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in contrast, we see the wise and the prudent.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the fool is right in his own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sees only with the blinders of foolishness what could possibly go right for him, all the good that is happening uh in ignorance and not not being aware, not having insights of uh the destruction and and the chaos that can come from just making uh poor choices, as this person might be lacking self-control or uh lacking patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the contrary, we see the wise man listening to advice, looking outside of himself, asking wise counselors probably to say, Hey, does this make sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: He'd be the kind of person who is asking counselors for for wisdom, for insights, for advice to to live a life that is uh full of insight, full of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this requires humility, it requires uh the person to say, I don't have all the perspective and insight that other people have, and it would be to my benefit to uh eliminate my pride, embrace humility, and ask for help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and lastly, our verse 16 the vexation of a fool is known at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's easy to find and identify the things that would perturb, that would anger, that would fluster uh a fool, the the things that would be easily identifiable, these things are are made known to all and quickly for the person um who is who is the fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those those things that get under your skin, the things that that irritate you, these things rise to the surface quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those who have have restraint, those who are prudent ignore an insult, that's not easy to get under their skin, it's not easy to irritate them because they have a sound mind, a sound understanding of who God is and who they are in relation to their maker, and uh they see past the schemes of those who would try to get a response out of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're in a challenging situation at work where you know you're gonna be tempted to to be angry or to lose your um to lose your cool, to you're tempted to to act impulsively.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh ask the Lord for help, ask him to uh to give you peace, uh, to give you uh patience and to to overlook insults, to overlook those who would seek to get a response out of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope this is an encouragement today as we seek to honor the Lord with our lives, as we seek to uh apply these bits of wisdom from the Proverbs and find where they fit in the puzzle of our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope this was an encouragement to you today as we inspect God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible SV.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.