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November 4, 2026 - 1 Samuel 28 & Proverbs 23:11-20 · 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 South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, November 4th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel twenty eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war to fight against Israel, and Achish said to David, Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.
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  SPEAKER_00: David said to Achish, Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Achish said to David, Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Rama, his own city, and Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Philistines assembled and came and camped at Shinem, and Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly, and when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul said to his servants, Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a medium at Endor.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they came to the woman by night, and he said, Divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman said to him, Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?
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  SPEAKER_00: But Saul swore to her by the Lord, As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the woman said, Whom shall I bring up for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Bring up Samuel for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and the woman said to Saul, Why have you deceived me?
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  SPEAKER_00: You are Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king said to her, Do not be afraid, what do you see?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said to her, What is his appearance?
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe, and Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed his face to the ground and paid homage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul answered, I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me, and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, Why then do you ask me since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moreover, the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul fell at once, full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night, and the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, Behold, your servant has obeyed you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, therefore, you also obey your servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me set a morsel of bread before you and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He refused and said, I will not eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words, so he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it, and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they rose and went away that night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty three verses eleven through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_00: For their redeemer is strong, he will plead their cause against you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not withhold discipline from a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Shuol.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
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  SPEAKER_00: My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's passage in First Samuel twenty-eight is an unusual one, an unusual chapter that has David serving the a Philistine king, who this king, Akish, makes David his bodyguard for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, we're gonna see some fear from Saul as he's uh trembling at the sight of these Philistine armies that are encamped against him in Gilboa.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're also gonna see, which takes up the bulk of this chapter, Saul's pursuit of a medium to give him direction since he's not hearing from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, since the Lord has has removed his spirit from him, King Saul is pursuing unusual means and means that are not approved by God to seek out help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ironically, he's going to seek the help of Samuel, who will remind him that the Lord has left him, and his neighbor David is the next king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this same message from Samuel, he informs King Saul that he will not be living very much longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, Samuel tells Saul that he will die the next day, and not only King Saul, but also his sons along with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The end of this chapter has Saul exiting via the darkness of night just as he arrived in disguise, seeking a medium who would tell him, looking into the spiritual things, looking into the darkness, to try to summon supernatural powers in order to see uh to see the future, to see to gain insight into what would happen next for him if he was to gain victory or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a speculation.
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  SPEAKER_00: But is King Saul going to trust the Lord or is he going to use his own devices uh fueled by the fear of man in order to gain some kind of peace, comfort, and confidence?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a foolish way to go about it, but that's how we see King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately, he gets the worst news that he could get.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's told that his life uh is going to come to an abrupt end.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all this, all this is because that he has not obeyed the voice of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we're thinking back, the the the Amalekites that were supposed to be completely destroyed, he does not obey God and allows the king to survive and and takes plunder, livestock involved that he also does not destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so because of this disobedience, the the Lord removes his spirit from King Saul, if we're thinking back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also we think forward to the next king of Israel, the one who's been anointed but not installed yet as king over Israel in an official sense uh of office.
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  SPEAKER_00: But King Saul here is nearing the end of his life, and a David in an unusual situation, uh serving uh on the run, serving as a form of bodyguard to this Philistine uh King Achish.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are nearing the end of the book of First Samuel as a whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, ultimately, in this original writing, these books will be one larger book.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, they don't fit on the same scroll.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's why, again, we have the two books, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and as we continue on into 2nd Samuel, we look more into the beginning of the reign formally of King David in the second chapter of 2 Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we consider our wisdom section in our Bible reading plan today, has our passages have much to do with children, with discipline and correction, and also what can happen as a result of using discipline, using the rod, and the the second half of this section speaks to the ways that a father is made glad, and a father continues to plead with his son, to listen, to follow and obey the ways of the Lord, to follow after them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see the beginning here: apply your heart to instruction and your ear to the words of knowledge, to the words that would come from the Lord, that would lead and guide and please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how do we correct?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we correct a child and show them the proper way to go?
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  SPEAKER_00: The scriptures tell us to not withhold discipline from a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: If if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from shield.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this isn't a one-to-one correlation where if then um every time, but this is a general, like God-honoring uh nugget of wisdom and a proverb to follow as we seek to show and correct our children when they sin against God and when they sin against uh other people, we see that showing them the way is a kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a love for them and a love for God as parents to obey, not to withhold discipline, but also to in those moments apply knowledge, show, show the reason why we're doing what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: As parents, we want to obey the Lord, of course, to to discipline our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the process of disciplining them, explaining why it is that uh we're correcting them because we love them, because we want to see them, heed the words of wisdom, heed the uh, and obey the instructions um from a parent.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we see children that are growing and maturing and and Lord willing responding to the scriptures um with faith and repentance, we're going to see glad parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what tears of joy will come when a parent gets to see and witness uh regeneration, a transformed heart that no longer loves wickedness and loves the ways of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 15 in our uh Proverbs sections today says, My heart will be glad too if your if his son's heart is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the ultimate, the climax of wisdom is the wisdom that leads to salvation, but the biblical wisdom that is always pointing uh the listener, the reader, the the viewer of scripture to to glorify God, to bring praise to his name through obedience, through um adoration and the fear of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The innermost being of this parent will exult when your lips speak what is right, when you are agreeing and affirming that when a child does this and is accepting, receiving these instructions from God as the delivery vessel as a parent is transferring those bits of knowledge and wisdom that would lead to a child's understanding of what it is the fear of the Lord is, but also to hold him in high regard, to worship him with not only your words and your thoughts, but the actions that come alongside a life that is submitted to God and so thankful for the gospel, and that this is application for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Christ is risen, his work is complete, and we we don't need to be fearful of being cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to be fearful of being separated from the the goodness and the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely there is a future for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord helps them and delivers them, he delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they take refuge in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is our hope in life and death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our refuge is in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our refuge is in the God who sent his son to take our place, to receive the wrath that we deserve, the punishment on the cross, the death that we deserve to die because of our sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ took that for us, and we will not be forsaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will not be cut off from the goodness of God because Christ was stricken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ was the one who took our place and our hope is surely in him, our future is secure in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to fear because our hope is a tangible uh hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not it's not a what if, it's a uh a sure, uh, a sure sal uh salvation, a sure foundation uh that our hope is is established upon.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh as we consider the ways that we learn from the fear of man and in the book of first Samuel, and the the ways that parents and and children are to respond to wisdom, to respond to directions and commands from the Lord, we look to the scriptures and we look to the God that wrote them and to fear him, to love him, and to commit our our lives to following after the God that made us, uh the God that uh foreknew us, and the God that saves us and will keep us uh faithfully to the end until we are standing face to face with him because of what Christ has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement to us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks again 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: 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.