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August 27, 2026 - Joshua 18 & Proverbs 12:25-28 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Byweeting 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 Sandborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today's Thursday, August 27th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Joshua 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua 18 begins with the nation of Israel at Shiloh, where they set up the tent of meeting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even in the text in verse 1, it says, The land lay subdued before them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But verse 2, there remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Joshua gives some instructions for each tribe to essentially go to scout the lands and to kind of move forward in the process of securing their allotments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, the seven tribes are Simeon, Benjamin, Dan, Issachar, Zebulun, Naphtali, and Asher.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all of these are west of the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you remember, if you think of it this way East is Moses, west is Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there were these seven tribes that were receiving their land allotments.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was done in two primary ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: The location was determined by lots.
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  SPEAKER_01: We read about that in Joshua 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: But also the size of the location was determined by census.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you could say population.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think back to numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, there's been things that have happened there, but the census of each nation, or each tribe, rather, uh, determined the size of the allotment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So of course we have Judah, which is the largest allotment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then even East and West Manasseh, you know, on either side of the Jordan River, are also pretty sizable because they had the greatest size in terms of population.
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  SPEAKER_01: So those seven tribes, Asher, Naphtali, Zebulun, Issachar, Benjamin, Dan, and Simeon, they received their allotments uh through those two methods, uh, through lot and census here in Joshua 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see Shiloh, which is where they set up the tabernacle that is within the land allotment, the tribal boundary of Ephraim.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now remember, the two sons of Joseph, this goes all the way back uh to other places that we've read in specifically the the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Joseph, who has the two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they become a part of the 12 tribes of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we have Ephraim, where Shiloh is located, and that's where the tabernacle is set up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, we have read all about that in Exodus and Leviticus, and even in Numbers and Deuteronomy, for that matter, very pivotal in the life and worship of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I said quick summary, but that's the summary of Joshua 18 and all that's going on here for these specific tribes to receive their land allotments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 12, verses 25 through 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
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  SPEAKER_00: One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway there is no death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, one of the things that we've been talking about a lot here in the office with the staff is biblical counseling and specifically the sufficiency of scripture to actually speak to and address in meaningful ways, in needed ways, the problems and circumstances of man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if Proverbs 12, 25 doesn't get you going in that direction, I don't know what will, at least in terms of the Bible saying things, I can put it this way, in a relatable way, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Anxiety and a man's heart weighs him down.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's a vivid, it's a punchy, vivid way to describe the plight that we can often face of anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, if God created us, and this is God's word, God speaks about us, he speaks to us, then it would make sense that what he says, of course, is relatable, that it's true, that this is actually our experience, that the Bible is not antiquated or outdated.
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  SPEAKER_01: It actually is, um, as Hebrews 4.12 tells us, living and active and has something to say to us today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's something I'm sure that you, as you listen to this, you can sympathize with.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe not in the maybe clinical way that we often think of anxiety, general anxiety disorder and things like that, but just that that sense in your heart, that unsettledness, the the fear often that's associated with it, the nervousness, the um, you know, anxiousness, the anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: What does it do if not weigh you down?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, this is what the scriptures say.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I just I'm going on a little bit of a tangent here, but I want you to see that the Bible speaks to your life very directly, very relevantly, and very personally.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God, of course, understands uh you as he created you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and he not only just understands from a far-off ethereal kind of way, uh, he understands intimately because through the sending of his son, Jesus suffered and died on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_01: He endured suffering, he entered into our suffering.
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  SPEAKER_01: Surely he has borne our sorrow and carried our grief.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here in Proverbs 12, 25, we see just the word of God being so fresh, so relevant.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, think about your circumstances, think about your relationships, think about your money.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what does the anxiety surrounding those things do in your heart if not weigh you down?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's very relevant.
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  SPEAKER_00: PJ, I gotta interject here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a good word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, people can find all kinds of words all over the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: What some people might be looking to to different different means that are uh not satisfactory to encourage, to build you up, to make you glad.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of places that we're gonna be able to look to find a good word, but the words that bring life, the word of God, is the primary source that we go to to uh to see to see the truth of our lives and what will what will build us up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have a a couple verses here that have to do with encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: First Thessalonians 5 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are to encourage one another and build each other up just just as we're doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Paul's um charge to continue to build up.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's not a an off season, there's not a there's not a there's not a vacation season for encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to be building each other up day in and and day out.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as it's cold as long as it's today today.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're back.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're back today.
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  SPEAKER_01: As long as it's cold today, we must encourage.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's what the word tells us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the opposite hand of encouragement, and there's uh opportunities for our mouths to do the exact opposite, to tear down.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to run from that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Ephesians 4 29 says, Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouth, but only uh such as is good for building up.
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  SPEAKER_00: For what purpose?
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  SPEAKER_00: That it may give grace to those who hear, to to give them uh a proper orientation, give them a right uh viewpoint of their circumstances in light of what God has said in his written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we see here, I mean, we're gonna see this reiterated in other parts of Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think of the Proverbs, I don't remember the reference off the top of my head, but like apples of gold and settings of silver is a word fitly spoken.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's what we're saying here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's heavy, it's burdensome, it it lingers, it's like lodged in your heart, and you feel like you just you carry it with you, like you've got dumbbells in your backpack that you can't take off.
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  SPEAKER_01: But a good word makes him glad.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even as you were talking, Tyler, I thought of the the disciples with Jesus when they said, Where else can we go, Lord?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where else can we go?
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  SPEAKER_01: You alone have the words of life, and that's what God's word does.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think of even in Psalm 19, the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise is simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we want to speak and encourage one another with God's word and recognize that there's a very real thing that happens because God's word is living and active.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're dealing with anxiety of any form, whether you would say it's something that's regular or occasional, you need to recognize that a good word from the good word that will make you glad.
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  SPEAKER_01: God will speak to your heart through his word by his spirit to encourage you in times of anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: What other things kind of stuck out to you, Tyler, from our text today in Proverbs 12?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I have a jingle in my mind, PJ.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a jingle, the state farm jingle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a good neighbor, the word of God is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to be using the book to build each other up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where else can we go?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus has the words of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has written us a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the word become flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're speaking of Jesus, the savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: His word is here for us to lead us, to guide us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where else are we gonna go?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the one who is righteous is gonna use the words of Christ, the words of God, to to encourage, to guide, to help, uh, to build up, to correct, to rebuke at times, and that is good for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the opposite, the way of the wicked leads them astray.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you might you might think of this this wicked person, the way of the wicked, being like, yeah, just kind of pointing off in the distance, like, yeah, go go off that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the way I'm imagining this is a hand-holding kind of a guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, follow me.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a more intimate, more twisted, more wicked leading astray.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what the enemy would love to do, to divide, to pull you by the hand away from God's flock, away from God's word, away from God's family in order to lead you on towards the wide path.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the question, verse 26.
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  SPEAKER_01: What does a righteous guide need to illuminate the path?
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
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  SPEAKER_01: So one who is righteous is a guide.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every guide, you know, we always picture guides in dark places.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I think I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just I was gonna mention different uh movies, but I won't.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you think of a guide, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where you're going to different locations that are unknown, uncertain, and you can imagine sort of vividly, hopefully, uh, the need for a light, something to illuminate the path.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we see in the scriptures is God's word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, which again is why we call this Bible reading plan the lamp and light Bible reading plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, so here in verse 27, we see whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: So more conversation and instruction from God's word of the necessity of diligence and the need to resist being slothful, perhaps lazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we won't it says, whoever is slothful will not roast his game.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even think about uh you're not even gonna cook the thing that you need in order to survive, to have sustenance, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, in verse 28, in the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Tyler, you were talking about this before we were recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does that mean we can um never die that we're like cats who have nine lives?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, not we're not gonna we're not gonna die and and face judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna die and face the wrath of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we have life that is found in Christ, the one who was righteous, the only one, the only man, the only man God that uh lived a perfect life in perfect submission, obedience to the Father, fulfilling the law, not not trespassing once, not stepping off of the path, the narrow path, one time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of his ways and all of his thoughts and all of his behavior and all of his decisions were righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is this is Christ who can purchase us with his blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we are purchased by the blood of Christ, though we may die, we will rise again with him and in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the path that leads to to life is is to heaven, to be with God, to see him face to face and to dwell with him forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that in heaven, there is there is no death, there is only life because we are uh we are face to face with with the creator and sustainer of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And for a deeper dive on all things heaven, sign up for the equipping weekend coming up September 18th through the 20th.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about what it is, uh, what we will be doing there, where it is, uh, different questions that you might have about heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, we'll get answered from God's word and the hope that heaven is meant to provide and the the sort of motivation that is it is intended to have for us as Christians in our day-to-day life now, as we look forward to what God has promised then.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we hope that's an encouragement for you, and we hope that you'll sign up for Equipping Weekend coming up September 18th through the 20th.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.