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August 28, 2026 - Joshua 19 & Proverbs 13:1-4 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bybreating 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, August 28th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Joshua 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: I must confess that yesterday I had done some reading ahead.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I accidentally combined Joshua 18 and 19 in my summary yesterday, where I talked about the seven tribes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joshua 18 focuses primarily on Benjamin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here we start in Joshua 19 with Simeon and some of the other of those seven tribes and their allotments.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of the same things.
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  SPEAKER_01: It talks about the boundaries, uh, their allotments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember that that twofold way of deciding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh location was decided by lot, and size was decided by senses.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can read all about that in both Joshua 18 and 19 today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's what we see here in Joshua 19.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it ends in verse 51 by saying, These are the inheritance, the Eliezer, the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers, houses of the tribes of the people of Israel, distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they finished dividing the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs thirteen, verses one through four.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while a soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you were curious about what day we're on in the Lamp and Light Bible plan, today is day two hundred and six.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're curious, actually how many days we are working through the Lamp and Light Bible Plan, it's 313.
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  SPEAKER_01: So today is 206.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you've been with us every day, that's two over three is a fraction, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Congrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is that's two-thirds of the way, uh, a little bit over two-thirds of the way through the plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're almost there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna go all the way through first Kings this year, and then going into next year, we're gonna pick it up with 2 Kings and go through pretty much most of the rest of the Old Testament through the middle of Ezekiel, and then in year three.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're still with us in year three, we're gonna go from the middle of Ezekiel all the way to the end to Revelation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, if you remember, every year we will go through the entire body of the wisdom literature that includes the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we will go through that once a year in its entirety and keep reading a chapter a day and other parts of scripture as we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's just a fun update.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is day 206.
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  SPEAKER_01: And while we're giving fun updates, I just wanted to let you know, as a kind of a sneak peek, a preview, we are working on a companion app for the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the purpose of the companion app, it's meant to be very simple, but think of it as a digital version of the cards that we hand out for you to track the progress of your reading through each day in the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh it has a calendar view, it lets you actually read in the app.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, not many of you perhaps would want to do that, but you have the option to read it in the app, or you can read it in any other way that you choose, including a physical Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: But really, it keeps track of your progress, it tells you the percentage of the plan that you have done.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's other options like prayer requests and notes, and we'll talk more about it as we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I just want you to know that we're working on something to hopefully be a help and a resource to you to even just keep you motivated and encouraged visually.
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  SPEAKER_01: We love the check marks, we love seeing progress, and this breaks it down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so I have the app right here in front of me, and I can see in the old testament that we've been through 50 chapters of Genesis, 40 of Exodus, 27 of Leviticus, 36 of Numbers, 34 of Deuteronomy, and 19 of 24 in Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have got Judges, Ruth, first and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings to go, and I can see all of that right in front of me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we are 206, like I said, of 313 readings, and five of 11 books have been completed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that is going to be coming soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: And hopefully that'll be a good companion for you to just keep track of things and be encouraged.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll talk more about some features that I think are pretty cool and that we're excited about with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But let's get into the text today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 13.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tyler, talk to us about Proverbs uh 13.
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  SPEAKER_01: What things stuck out to you and were encouraging from Proverbs 13 today?
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  SPEAKER_00: An encouragement that I like to share that kind of pairs with our future study in the book of Hebrews.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking of Hebrews chapter 12 and the relationship between a faithful and loving father and his son.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh verse one of Proverbs 13 opens with this imagery of a son hearing uh a father's instruction and the comparison with a scoffer, someone who would clap back or talk back or mock or or jeer at someone and not listening to a rebuke.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the connection that I'm seeing here to uh to the New Testament, Hebrews chapter 12, uh in uh verses five uh and six, I'll I'll read that Hebrews passage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son whom he receives.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's good for us to receive correction, to be uh told we're wrong, to be rebuked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh a faithful and loving father will do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we're wise sons, if we're wise children of the Lord, uh we will accept um with humility, accept with with joy and have a perspective that when someone is trying to call us away from a danger, away from a dishonor, uh, away from sin, that is to our benefit, and that is for our good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when that happens, uh check your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't don't scoff, don't clap back at the one that's trying to help you, the one that's trying to correct you, and instead look look to the the love that is is being poured out in a way for for your uh for your benefit.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I love here it talks about a wise son hears his father's instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you can think back even to the opening prologue of Proverbs, Proverbs 1, 1 through 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we talked about the importance of hearing and its connection ultimately to humility uh that is necessary for growing in wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, how do we grow in wisdom?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do we pursue it?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, one of the ways that we grow in wisdom is by sharpening wisdom-producing listening and hearing, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer, on the other hand, does not listen to rebuke.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even what we'll be talking about this Sunday as we wrap up our study in Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: We spent the summer in Proverbs and we'll be wrapping that up this Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then next Sunday, Tyler will be preaching in the main service, and then the following Sunday, we'll get right back into the book of Hebrews, finishing up chapter four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but one of the things that we're gonna be talking about this Sunday is pride and how God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even from a wisdom perspective, uh, pride, of course, is a barrier, is a hindrance to wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: And pride does not listen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pride uh does not hear instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the wisdom here in Proverbs uh 12 uh 13, verse 1 a wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've already talked about this a little bit correction, how do you do with being corrected?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but we're gonna see that theme repeated throughout the Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then as we transition to verse 2, from the fruit of his mouth, a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: This also reminds me of chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_01: It talks about how the uh the the complacency of fools destroys them, and essentially it talks about their folly, they will eat their foolishness, and that's reiterated here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so from the fruit of his mouth, a man eats what is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your words have, as the proverbs say, the power of life and death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and those uh who love it will eat its fruits, essentially, is what the proverbs say.
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  SPEAKER_01: So from the fruit of his mouth, a man eats what is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a sense in which the way that we speak, the way that we try to be an encouragement, the way that our words align with the truth of God's word will produce things in us and around us that are good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And those things that are produced, it's kind of a reaping and sowing situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna eat that which is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the opposite is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: The desire of the treacherous is for violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just some more talk here, as we'll continue to see in Proverbs of how we use our words and the ways that we choose uh to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a question for you, Pastor Josiah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look to verse number three here in chapter 13, and I I think about the dangers of a gate.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dangers of a gate.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're good for keeping out enemies, but the question I have for you is what if the enemy is inside the gate and the gate is down?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is going on there?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we how can we look at this verse and see that um the the words or the things that are that are are kept in by our lips could potentially be revealing of something much more dangerous within?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I think um the the biblical wisdom, even going to Psalm 19, where it talks about uh the law of the Lord makes wise the simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the whole idea of being simple is the the imagery is basically having an open door in your mind that you are undiscerningly letting things come in and letting things go out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're intaking things that you shouldn't, there's no filter, there's no uh sense of uh rejection, rejecting things that are evil and receiving things that are good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think there's a there's a like to your point, with the the gate, if we're locking things inside that are evil, that are uh unbiblical, that are discouraging, that are well, whatever the case may be, um, there can be kind of an eroding effect uh in our own hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course that'll make its way out because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whoever guards his mouth preserves his life, and he who opens opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just some great wisdom there uh from Proverbs 13, 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking about the ways that we um would guard guard our mouths and the things that would come out.
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  SPEAKER_00: They uh the things that we intake are often a reflection of then again what would be reflected out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we're filling our mind, we need to be careful and cautious about what what we're pouring in, because eventually those things will will find their way uh back out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the last verse we have here today, verse four, the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the the challenge here is the the desires, but also the the work ethic that that is in comparison with what we what we long for.
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  SPEAKER_00: We might crave things that are for our good, but if we don't have uh a desire to uh to put the hand to the plow uh to to work and and still expect expect to be to be fed, um that that's a problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then on the other side of the coin, we see we see the soul of the diligent, the soul of the diligent, those who are paying attention to the details, being organized, um, those who might delegate well with great intention and forethought.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um those are the people that are going to be um not lacking.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're richly supplied, their needs are are met, and uh we look to God to to provide, to care for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also we we have a responsibility and a role to to work hard, to work hard for the Lord and to work hard to uh to make a living, to provide.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, our sustenance and provision comes from the Lord, but there is some role uh and our role and responsibility for us to play as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we are given over to being a sluggard, slothfulness, then it would make sense that no matter what we desire, no matter what we crave, if if if we're not willing to be diligent and working towards it, it's not just gonna appear.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's not how life works, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We we are commanded to work, whatever our hand finds to do, to do it with all of our might, whether we eat or drink, whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I love how it talks about the soul because there's that sense of your uh you could call it internal appetite.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is it being richly supplied by?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I always go to John 6, where Jesus says that he is the bread of life, whoever comes to him will never hunger.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a sense in which you can even be sluggish in your craving for the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a result, you're gonna get nothing, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a sense in which uh God draws near to those who draw near to him, and uh that we see that uh God can be found if he is sought earnestly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we've read verses like that already.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and so the soul of the sluggard, if we're not actively pursuing the Lord, there's a sense in which uh that this is also true of us.
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  SPEAKER_01: While the soul of the diligent is richly supplied, so drawing near to the Lord, spending time with him, um, intentionally seeking to grow in your worship of him, I think is another application that we can see here uh from Proverbs 13, verse 4.
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  SPEAKER_01: 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.