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August 7, 2026 - Joshua 1 & Proverbs 6 · 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 Friday, August 7th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, Moses, my servant, is dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the wilderness in this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, to the Great Sea towards the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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  SPEAKER_00: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not leave you or forsake you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses, my servant, commanded you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have I not commanded you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Be strong and courageous, do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Rubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, Remember the word that Moses, a servant of the Lord, commanded you, saying, The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all the men of valor among you shall pass over, armed before your brothers and shall help them, until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave to you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they answered Joshua, all that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go, just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses, whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him shall be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only be strong and courageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs six.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give your eyes no sleep, and your eyelids no slumber.
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  SPEAKER_00: Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to the ant, O sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer, and gathers her food in harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
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  SPEAKER_00: When will you arise from your sleep?
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  SPEAKER_00: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
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  SPEAKER_00: A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly, in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him, haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bind them on your hearts always, tie them around your neck.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you walk, they will lead you, when you lie down, they will watch over you, and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the commandment is a lamp and a teaching, a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes, for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes and not be burned?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
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  SPEAKER_00: So is he who goes into his neighbor's wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: None who touches her will go unpunished.
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  SPEAKER_00: People do not despise a thief if he steals, to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if he is caught he will pay sevenfold, he will give all the goods of his house.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who commits adultery lacks sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who does it destroys himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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  SPEAKER_00: For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will accept no compensation, he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin a new book, a book that is not penned by Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've spent the majority of this year working through the Pentateuch, working through the books of Moses, the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think back to uh both he and Caleb returning back from uh the scouting trip to survey the land of Canaan, and only these two men came back and were courageous to uh give a report saying the Lord is with us, who could be against us?
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  SPEAKER_00: We got this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a great charge here that we see again be strong and courageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see it multiple times uh to be strong and courageous, to trust in the Lord, to be uh a strong man who is looking not into his own strength, uh a courageous man who does not look at his own skills and abilities, but looks to God for hope, for strength, and for uh for courage.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this opening, a commissioning of Joshua, uh we see this call and response to people here um calling to Joshua at the end and the answer saying, Joshua, you're a man, and just as God uh commanded us through Moses, so we will with you, Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, whoever rebels against your commands, Joshua, whoever rebels against you ultimately rebels against God and will be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the concluding verse here in Joshua chapter one says, Only be strong and courageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is very much on their minds because they're gonna need a lot of strength and courage as they follow the leading of the Lord as king after king, city after city, and people after people fall before them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this book will show us uh how how and where and why the the land uh of Canaan is conquered and distributed and assigned to the people of Israel as God has promised over the past five books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look over to our Proverb reading for today, we are in Proverbs chapter six, and we see uh a superscript practical warnings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see in this chapter more charges to a son to avoid adultery at all costs and giving the the charge to um to a young man to be one who works hard, to be wise, to be someone who is dealing with with your words wisely, and specifically speaking, as we look to the first five verses of chapter six, being wise with your commitments financially, not putting out your pledge for uh a stranger, not putting out a a yes to cover uh as a co-signer or uh to become ultimately a co-deadtor, in that this is a father uh challenging and charging his son to go to the neighbor, go to someone who would be um assigned or or linked up with you and have them plead with them and urge them to pay off their their debt if they have found themselves in a situation that is unwise and caught up with the debtor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we think about Joshua and his entrance into leadership, it is said that he was full of the spirit of wisdom, and uh the proverbs are just oozing with wisdom, and from a a father speaking to a son, uh we we see the the pleadings of a father to uh to work hard uh to continue to persist and uh live in a in a way that is above reproach, uh contrasting the worthless and the wicked and the speech that comes from these people and the behavior that they have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we want to avoid um being manipulative, avoid uh and run away from any kind of crooked speech as we see here in Proverbs 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a list here from uh verse 16 through 19 detailing the things that uh a Lord hates, and they are opposite of God's character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we see that there's a lying tongue, there is uh shedding of innocent blood, there is uh wicked plans, there are instances where people are being allured by evil and running towards it, people who breathe out lies and those who would sow discord or seek to be a divisive or a disruptor of unity among brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you just think about this list, the list is uh it's reasonable for the Lord to hate these things because he is the opposite of all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is uh God is one who speaks only truth, he is the source of all truth, and he is one who defends the innocent, not seeking to lay hands on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um in addition, there's uh one who would run to evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a person who the Lord hates, and the Lord is holy, he is set apart and the opposite, uh, the opposite of evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a uh a warning here from a father uh to look at this list, look at the things that the Lord hates and run from them because they are an abomination to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as this chapter concludes, we saw yesterday the warning warnings against adultery, and we see this the practical wisdom who can who can get entangled with this kind of woman and not be scorched, cannot be uh someone who is burned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we know that if we if you play with fire, you do get burned eventually.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the caution and the the pleading of a father to say, stay away, go away, run as far as you can from an adulteress, and uh those those who do commit adultery, this father is sharing with his son, that you you are clearly lacking sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's it's you are going, it's you who are the man who are going to be destroyed, and it's you who will have to live with the wounds of dishonor and disgrace because your reputation is is permanently damaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: And throughout the Proverbs, we're going to see continually the the warnings and the challenge that a father would give to his son to stay far away from the adulteress.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll continue on in this tomorrow in chapter seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: The adulteress is addressed once uh again, and a wise person would see the blessing and the gift that uh a wife is, and the the joys that are to be had in submitting to God's plan and enjoying the wife of your youth, as we looked at yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a man like Joshua, a man like Solomon, or a son that's going to heed the wise words of his father, is going to be filled with wisdom to see the ways of the Lord as good, as pure, as just and as precious, and follow after them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks 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 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.