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October 30, 2026 - 1 Samuel 24 & Proverbs 22:1-10 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Friday, October 30th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Samuel 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of the wild goat's rocks.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave, and the men of David said to him, Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
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  SPEAKER_01: And afterward David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said to his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my Lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing as the Lord's anointed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David persuaded his men with these words, and did not permit them to attack Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul rose up and left the cave to went on his way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, My Lord the King.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David said to Saul, Why did you listen to the words of men who say, Behold, David seeks your harm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some told me to kill you, but I spared you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said, I will not put out my hand against my Lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand, for by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord judge between me and you.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
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  SPEAKER_01: As the proverb of the ancient says, Out of the wicked comes wickedness, but my hand shall not be against you.
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  SPEAKER_01: After whom has the king of Israel come out?
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  SPEAKER_01: After whom do you pursue pursue?
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  SPEAKER_01: After a dead dog, after a flea.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord therefore be judged and give sentence between me and you, and see to it, and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David?
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said to David, You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you have declared this day have you dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me with the Lord when the Lord put me into your hands.
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  SPEAKER_01: For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe?
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  SPEAKER_01: So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David swore this to Saul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty two verses one through ten.
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  SPEAKER_00: A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rich and the poor meet together.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is the maker of them all.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Train up a child in the way he should go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
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  SPEAKER_01: Put yourself in David's shoes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Tyler, we've talked about this before in other environments, specifically with Joseph and his brothers, and other other occasions that we've seen already for people to desire vengeance for being wronged.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what a perfect example of that, or maybe an opportunity of that here in 1 Samuel 24, where of course Saul up until this point has been literally hounding David, has been coming after him for the sole intent of murdering him, of taking his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David for a while now has been on the run.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not had a home, he's not had the comforts of uh just the the amenities that I'm sure he enjoyed in the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now this opportunity presents itself where the man that's been inflicting this wrong and this injustice on him is vulnerably put literally right in his crosshairs, and he has the opportunity to enact vengeance.
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  SPEAKER_01: And not only that, he's got a chorus of men behind him championing that he would do just that, saying, Hey, David, take the shot.
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  SPEAKER_01: David, this is your opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what do we see happen?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, David, of course, he ultimately decides not to take Saul's life, but instead, he takes just the corner of his robe and he uses that as a way to win Saul back, at least in this moment, to win him back.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's called son by Saul and to show hey, you uh were moments away from potentially your your life uh being lost and taken.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you had been delivered into my hands.
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  SPEAKER_01: You didn't know I was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had every opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_01: I chose not to.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're the Lord's Lord's anointed, you were God's chosen king of Israel at this point in history.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, how how could I do such a thing?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I took this piece of your robe to show you my intent, to show you the kind of man that I am, the character that I have.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what an incredible display of humility, of trust in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because ultimately, David doesn't know if he comes out waving this piece of his garment, if Saul's just gonna give the order, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then in there, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're outnumbered.
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  SPEAKER_01: Outnumbered.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who knows if it would even matter, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, of course, we do see Saul is moved by uh David's actions here, but there's no guarantee in David's mind, he doesn't know that that's what's gonna happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't know that he's gonna win him with his actions and the little speech that he gives, kind of you know, giving an exposition of all that he was doing and all that he could have done.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Saul, uh, for from if you're David in the cave and you you cut off a piece of his robe and you're coming out, you got to be thinking your heart, your heart rate's got to be elevated that Saul could still take my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think he even kind of acknowledges that here in 1 Samuel 24, that hey, even if even if his life is taken, he himself was not willing to commit what he considered a wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even though, again, the guy that he was going to potentially take his life and was encouraged to by the men in the cave with him, the guy from our perspective deserved it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because he was after him and he was persecuting him and he was pursuing him and trying to take his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, what a great example of forgiveness, of ultimately just an unwavering trust in the Lord in the midst of an uncertain situation and an uncertain outcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not like David was like, Okay, Lord, tell me what's gonna happen before I walk out of the cave.
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  SPEAKER_01: At least on this occasion, we did see that in previous chapters where he was like, Hey, are they coming?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna give me over?
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  SPEAKER_01: But here he doesn't he doesn't ask that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just walks forward with faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knows the right thing to do, he does it, and he entrusts himself to the Lord as he goes out there to have this conversation and try to win Saul uh back.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are you thinking uh through Tyler when it comes to 1 Samuel 24?
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  SPEAKER_01: What was encouraging to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm looking at the the heart of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's I'm imagining some kind of deep emotional feeling inside where his his heart was struck.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's potentially considering what he could have done, what what could have been.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he didn't he didn't kill the king of Israel, and instead he he was merciful, he was he was seeking to love the king, honor the king, who is not honorable, who's not showing him love, but he he goes before and shows honor to the king, shows a kindness and love to the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in turn, Saul is acknowledging his wrongs, uh, whether it's to the heart or just face value to admit that he uh maybe he's maybe he deserved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't we don't see that in in Saul's words, but we do see that he's saying, You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, where I have repaid you evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he goes on to ask that he would you know spare his offspring, spare his children from from King Saul's perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we do see that later on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we do see King David honoring uh Saul's offspring uh and not not wiping them out, showing kindness and and love to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um a common uh story that we would hear growing up, uh a story that we we teach here that I've taught um at a Compass Bible Church before, um one that your your children will surely just be in awe of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, how could David do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I would never those kind of things when our children are just not understanding um just the magnitude potentially, but we see that we see ourselves where in David David's shoes.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I'm David, I'm probably taking the shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm taking yeah, given over given over to the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: So at least at the very least, we can sympathize with the you can imagine that the temptation that David felt, I'm sure, uh, to rid himself of his persecutor, of up until this point, his his enemy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Saul's not done, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that there's more that's gonna continue to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we seem to see some level of repentance, but I'm not sure it's genuine because Saul um continues to go after David in the coming chapters.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh one of the things, of course, that you should take away from this is just a deep trust in the Lord, uh a remember, a remembrance of that vengeance belongs to the Lord, and and David really believed that and lived that out.
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  SPEAKER_01: And with this opportunity to take Saul's life that he passed over, I think what he did was he showcased the kind of character that he had and really the name that he desired for himself and among the kingdom, and ultimately, more importantly, before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that gets me to Proverbs 22, verse 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if we want to parallel this to 1 Samuel 24, David desired a good name before the Lord, before his countrymen, rather than the riches of even being free from persecution.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, riches, of course, can mean any number of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just using that kind of analogously to 1 Samuel 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: That you could consider a lack of persecution, a lack of someone threatening your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a kind of richness that he could have had that was available to him, uh at least in some extent, in the cave.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said, You know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm I want a good name.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to do what I think is gonna honor the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do what's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh favor is better than silver or gold, favor with the Lord, of course.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we see that this also uh has an effect of favor in the eyes of men as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that that kind of stuck out to me just as a connection between 1 Samuel 24 and Proverbs 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I can dovetail PJ on that verse 4 of Proverbs 22, the reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh David is a man that doesn't die in battle, he dies of old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a man that is respected and honored, he's he's a man that has has wealth in the kingdom, he's he's a reigning king over Israel, a humble king, uh, and a king that is spoken about when we look to the scriptures, a man after God's own heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: He fears the Lord, he seeks after him and he follows him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and a great example for us to see that here as we look to our Old Testament uh chapter in 1 Samuel 24, and as I continue on down the line here, uh I want to drill in on verse six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, look to how we are to be interacting with with those who are younger than us, our our offspring or children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's and that's what we want to be uh instilling into our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to to show them the way that they should go, show them, model for them the fear of the Lord, how to go about uh obeying, how to go about praying and asking God to lead, searching and mining the scriptures for for direction and and insights and wisdom to live this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we think about children that that grow up and mature, and some do continue on in the fear of the Lord, some some don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, um when we stand before the Lord, we're not responsible for the outcome of our children's decisions whether to follow the Lord or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're we're uh held in assessment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you faithful to raise them up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you faithful to teach them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you faithful to show them the truths of the scripture?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's what we will be held accountable for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and while not every proverb happens exactly the way that it presents, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not like a promise that every single situation, every single child, every single time is going to walk the road of fearing the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is this sense of you can take this promise, this proverb, um, this wisdom of, okay, if you are diligent, if you're prayerful, if you're pointing them to the Lord, if you're seeking to train them in the fear of the Lord, you can have a degree of confidence that the Lord and his faithfulness will uh cause them to continue on uh in that path.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you've seen that, like there's even been you know secular studies that have been done where it talks about the faith of parents being passed on, not as if it's it was some substance that you know we can hand them, but just living it out, showing the reality of the genuineness of our faith has a deep impact on future generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that can be one of the hallmarks of a child continuing in the way uh of following the fear of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think what a great encouragement here in Proverbs 22, 6 that to just seek to diligently train up a child.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, not necessarily being overwhelmed or consumed with the ultimate path that they choose, because that, like you said, Tyler, is not necessarily your responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your responsibility is to be faithful with the time that you have, with the the opportunity that you've been given to be someone who trains and equips and points them to the fear of the Lord, and then just trust perfectly that the Lord and his sovereignty by his spirit will help them to continue on in that path.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, in the gospel, embracing Christ, getting saved, uh and all those different things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just a great, great reminder there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Podcast.
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