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October 16, 2026 - 1 Samuel 12 & Proverbs 18:17-20 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Play, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, might, 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 Friday, October 16th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, 1 Samuel 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have made a king over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or whom have I defrauded?
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  SPEAKER_00: Whom have I oppressed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Testify against me and I will restore it to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said, You have not defrauded us, or oppressed us, or taken anything from any man's hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they all said, He is witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now therefore, stand still, that I may plead with you before the Lord, concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that He performed for you and for your fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they forgot the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hand of Siserah, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they fought against them, and they cried out to the Lord and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Asheroth, but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies that we may serve you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord sent Jerubal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us when the Lord your God was your king.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked, behold, the Lord has set a king over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it not wheat harvest today?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will call upon the Lord that he may send thunder and rain, and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil to ask for ourselves a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to the people, Do not be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart, and do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty, for the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen, verses seventeen through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and a quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is satisfied by the yield of his lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: Above chapter twelve in my Bible, I see a superscript, and it reads, Samuel's farewell address.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we might be thinking, Well, where is he going?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're seeing that he's old and he's gray here in verse 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel won't die.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he won't he won't die until 1 Samuel chapter 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what what's happening here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is Samuel's farewell address concerning his position as leader of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about his parents earlier in this book, uh, commit him over to the service of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from all accounts, in this chapter, we see verses two through five, Samuel is opening up his life and calling people to identify an area where he has misstepped, an area where that Samuel has sinned against a brother or a sister within Israel, and there is no response.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one can say to Samuel that he has wronged them, he has taken something that didn't belong to them, he hasn't uh accepted a bribe, and he hasn't defrauded anyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is a man who is like you and I.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he has given over to temptations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we see in this chapter that Samuel is a well-respected man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is a man that uh people will go to uh to ask for prayer, go on our behalf to the Lord, ask, ask him for mercy, ask him to to spare us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is the final judge before the era of kings, and this is his stepping down, if you will, handing over the baton of leadership to the monarchy over to King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we see here in this chapter, and he's drawing Israel's attention back to God's faithfulness, drawing um memories back from the stories that were passed down from from father to children, from father to children of what God did in Israel, how God delivered your fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see this uh this phrase over and over again uh from verse six onward here to verse eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brought your fathers up, your fathers, then your fathers cried out, who brought your fathers out of Egypt?
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is drawing attention to God's faithfulness, God's provision, and how God has spared them and and rescued them out of the hands of their enemies through mighty men and through the through the different judges, through um, through different uh opposing leaders, God has been faithful, he has delivered them, and he is calling Israel to remember and obey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look back to the Lord, serve him, don't rebel against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we see.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this if you obey, blessings, good things will come in verse 14, verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the other hand, if you don't obey, if if you rebel, if you rebel against the commandments of the Lord, then then it's gonna go poorly for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's calling the people to listen, listen up, focus in, be still, open up your ears and stand still.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see that twice here in verse 7 and in verse 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's really hoping that Israel is is gathering up their minds, gathering up their hearts to remember what God has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget the great things that the Lord your God has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: See the great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's calling their attention to something that God will show them as a sign that he is still their God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is still the one that has chosen a people for his possession.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this chapter, we see a storm that is predicted, and Samuel calls this in up from the Lord to bring in thunder and rain during the harvest time, and the people are afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are confronted about their evil that they do in front of the Lord by desiring a king and re and rejecting the king and leader that God was over them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they're they're rightly afraid, they're rightly fearing God's judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel is calling their attention again to say, look, you have done evil, you have rebelled, but he's still here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't turn to the left, don't turn to the right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep pursuing God, keep chasing after him, keep following him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna lead you, he will show you the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel, his role will change here.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to speak on behalf of the Lord still, he's going to instruct uh the kings, he's going to anoint David, and he he's going to be a man that is still involved but in a different role.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he promises to continue to pray for God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 23 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great statement from a leader within God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I stop praying for you, that's sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's sin against the Lord and you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's going to continue to instruct the people of Israel in the good ways of the Lord and the right ways, the proper ways that would bring uh honor to their God and continue to remind them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember your maker, remember the God that chose you, remember the faithfulness of Yahweh to your forefathers, and don't rebel, don't reject him.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do, you'll be swept away, you and your king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's how we we get to the end of chapter 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: This transition of power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel stepping down, he's calling them to remember, he's making vows to continue to promise, promise Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to pray for them, he's going to do his part and intercede um on their on their behalf.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to go to the Lord and ask for ask for God to be faithful, to to continue to be true to who he is, how he's revealed himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this this great reminder, this great contrast here.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you again, if you obey, if you obey the voice of the Lord, if you refuse to rebel against him, it will be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't, you're gonna be swept away.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord and his hand will be against you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um obedience and blessing and disobedience and and judgment, you'll be swept away.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will be against you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 17 of Proverbs chapter 18 is bringing some memories to mind of times where my one of my children are are running to me, pleading their case about how one of their other siblings has wronged them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something is not right.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's injustice in the house, and and they are distraught, they're upset about it, they're passionate, they have strong emotions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And verse verse 17 is is reminding me, I have a tendency to believe the first person that comes in and tells me of the wrongs that that are happening in my house until another sibling comes and tells their side of the story, comes and examines him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We in my house, we we call our children to tell us the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We call our children to to be honest before God and before uh before their siblings and before um both Sadie and I.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this this proverb is is uh is convicting as well because we we need to be a people that are speaking uh with with purity, with honesty, uh, so as to reinfor reinforce this that when someone says something, we we believe them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to to go against this uh this proverb where we are the person that goes and or rather reinforce this proverb, the person who goes and and tells their side and then is contradicted with the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to be on that side of uh of a conflict or of a dispute of any kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: We uh even if we're wrong, even if we're we're sinning, we want to be bringing an accurate and right case, an accurate retelling of the details of what has happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh your reputation is on the line uh and your uh your word, your your character is revealed in how you go about pleading your case.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh honor the Lord, even if it puts you in a negative light, tell the truth and and honor him uh with your words, with your mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 18 the lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in our world today, we have these things called smartphones.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh at times when I was uh younger in my college years when friends were disagreeing on what late night establishment, uh, food establishment to go to, we would use a randomizer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would uh spin the wheel, if you will, the wheel of fortune, and decide which breakfast burrito spot we are gonna go to uh after the game.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though we don't we don't use that in in my house anymore, it's reminding me that even in the situation where someone would be rolling dice or trying to find a way to make a decision by casting lots, it's ultimately that God uh is in control, the sovereign is even determining the outcome of how uh dice fall on the ground or how how a wheel spins on a game show, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it decides between powerful contender.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, this is something that was common uh in Old Testament and even New Testament times until Pentecost, until the Spirit of God came.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um this is something that that happened when uh the Roman soldiers were were arguing or bartering, bartering for the the clothing that Jesus was wearing, and even for the replacement of Judas, they were casting lots to make um to make this decision um between powerful or respectable contenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is something that we don't use as much today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if it is, it'd be more for fun and play, not to actually uh seek the will of God, but even uh even in this uh verse, it reminds us that that God is sovereign and he's in control, and we have his spirit dwelling in us to help us discern in our modern day decision making in the year 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 19 a brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a difficult thing to reconcile after you've maybe uh hurt, offended, or burned a brother in a social setting.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's more difficult uh to reconcile and rebuild that conversation than it would be to um to enter a fortified city, to breach strong city gates or walls.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and if you've ever had to, uh whether it's a sibling or a loved one in your church body, had to reconcile or make things right, confess sin to one another, it does take time to repair and rebuild those relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does take time to to humble yourself and to um to rebuild what was torn down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and and along with these offenses are is often quarreling.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about those those offenses uh at times socially.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quarreling is is a an ingredient at times there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh what quarreling is it's related here to the bars of a castle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it it holds something in or keeps people out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's uh it's a way of um it's a barrier, it's it's a way to keep people safe, but also to trap people in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So quarreling, like the bars, there's a there's a distancing, there's a separation relationally as we think about quarreling and associate it with bars of a castle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our final verse today in Proverbs, verse 20 from the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach is satisfied, and he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach is satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_00: You and you can take this in a negative effect uh as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're if you're if your fruit of your mouth uh is is negative, you're there's not going to be satisfaction.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's not going to be um a way to to find benefit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the positive side, if you are um using your words, using your communication uh to build up, to to enhance, to um to make a good profit, honestly, there there's a satisfaction and a joy that comes within that when you're using your words, using your intellect in a way uh that is God honoring.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's satisfaction by the yield of of the lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: What comes as a result of your investment, of your of your toil, of your sowing, the yield of God honoring communication, using your words in a in a way that's pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The yield is it is encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: The yield is going to be uh building people up, um, exhorting people to to pursue God.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna see God working in a way that is powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's going to be honoring to Him as we we seek to use great caution, be selective with our words, often listening more than we speak, and the satisfaction that comes from having a guarded tongue and seeking to please the Lord with our thoughts and the thoughts that leave our minds and out of our mouths as as words as we communicate with one another.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be um at the end of our day satisfied and encouraged and and content with how our words honored God, how they represented us, how they represented Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So consider the things that we're saying, the things that we're we're choosing to uh to speak, for these things matter greatly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh what you sow is what you reap.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether your words are good or bad today, what you say can can tear down or or can bless, there's great consequences uh for the words that we choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh choose to to benefit others, to honor the Lord, and to to be satisfied and content in what you choose to say today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compassbiblesv.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.