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August 25, 2026 - Joshua 16 & Proverbs 12:17-20 · 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 Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Tuesday, august twenty fifth, twenty twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua sixteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel, then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along Adaroth, the territory of the Archites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Jafflatites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth Horan, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_00: The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows The boundary of their inheritance on the east was Adarath Ador, as far as Upper Beth Haran, and the boundary goes from there to the sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the north is Mikmath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then on the east the boundary turns around towards Tanath Shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Genoa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it goes down from Genoa to Adaroth and to Naara and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: From Tapua, the boundary goes westward to the Brook Cana and ends at the sea, such as the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans, together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim, within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day, but have been made to do forced labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twelve verses seventeen through twenty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our text today in Joshua sixteen draws our attention all the way back to the book of Genesis in chapter forty eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where Jacob blesses Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Nasseh, and this is where he adopts them as his own.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse five of chapter forty-eight, we read, and now your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you in Egypt, are mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think about the twelve tribes of Israel and how they are given their land in Canaan, uh we think of the the two individuals who will not be receiving land.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, the Levites, because their inheritance is in the Lord, and two Joseph, because his sons will take his place, and he has uh the double portion, uh, the blessing from Jacob for both of his sons will be uh having an inheritance in the land in his place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a little bit confusing, it's a little bit tricky, but if we look back and we look to the context of the blessing that Jacob uh gives to his sons, and and as he describes the different sons at the end of Genesis, we we look forward to uh this blessing, this great nation that is growing and the fruitfulness of God's people as they conquer the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to our our chapter here today, 16, we see another pattern uh developing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all the inhabitants of the land that is given to Ephraim and Manasseh, uh, not all the inhabitants are driven out.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see some Canaanites who lived in Gezer, those those individuals have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day, this final verse in chapter 16, and they've been made to do forced labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we spoke about this briefly yesterday, but the the consequences of not not driving out uh the inhabitants, there's there's complications.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's in this disobedience, the people of Israel are gonna encounter different problems of various kinds as they uh live and begin to spread out and fill the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we'll we'll pay close attention to this development as we continue to read uh the Old Testament uh chapter by chapter and book by book and see how God's patience and his oftentimes his discipline with his people corrects them and uh ultimately encourages them to step forward in obedience and fulfill uh their duty in driving out uh the inhabitants of the land as God said he would.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we transition to our Proverb section and our reading this morning, we look to Proverbs chapter twelve and four verses here, starting with verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the courtroom comes uh into full frame as I read this section, where we open by looking at those who would speak the truth and give honest evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reality is we live in a world where not everyone tells the truth, and not everyone, whether it's in front of your parents, in front of your boss, in front of your teachers, in front of law enforcement, or in front of a judge, we can think of times when we have been in situations where people around us have not been honest, have not given an accurate account of what has happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we look to the following counter to this verse: a false witness utters deceit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever speaks truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness uh utters deceit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for a wide variety of reasons, to to save face or to uh seek to do harm to somebody else, to to fabricate or frame somebody else.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are different ways that someone would want to uh to utter lies, utter deceit, and to uh attain or achieve a certain outcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is uh this is ultimately going to be found out one day, in one fashion or another, your your sin uh will find you out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your uh your transgressions will be made public.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whether that's now here on this earth, or you think about the justice that we want to see happening, uh one day perfect justice will be carried out, and uh the uh the righteous judge will will judge fairly, will judge correctly, accurately, and and righteously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a confidence for us in that as we think about those who seem to be getting away with lying, fabricating, uttering uh deceit through a false witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, uh words have a power.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that that phrase is sadly just not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Words can hurt, words are are are painful, they can sting, they they are bitter and sour tasting when they when they land in in our ears.
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  SPEAKER_00: And verse 18 uh speaks to those who would use rash words.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are like sword thrusts, they're like they're they're penetrating jabs into into um our our minds, into our our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and the contrary, the tongue of the wise brings healing, knowing what to say at the right time, uh how you say it, all these things matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the words that we choose to use when we're surrounded uh by different challenges, uh we have an opportunity to use our words to bring healing and to bring those who are suffering, draw their minds, draw their hearts to the one that can bring them comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's our God, uh, the God of all comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we choose to tell the truth, we choose to do it in a kind way, in a loving way, we can uh often identify areas where people aren't thinking clearly or thinking biblically in a sense where they are finding their hope, their confidence, their uh their rest outside outside of God and and failing to find that comfort and find that healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we want to bring the scriptures, we want to bring the word of God into the minds of those who are are hurting, and and we combat we combat the the words of uh the enemy that would seek to uh dispense lies and and twist and divide, and we bring uh through the spirit, through the word, um we can share the words of God, and these are the words that truly bring healing, and they come from truthful lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of God, the word of God endures forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we are uttering his truths and his promises, these truths that we proclaim, they are eternal, and these are uh a healing and a balm to those who would would hear them and accept them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the contrary, a lying tongue is but for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are liars will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we we call and we cry out for people to to be made right with their creator, with their maker, and to stop speaking lies and to tell the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That pleases the Lord when when he sees people speaking the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is is pleased and his people rejoice when integrity and character and and a godly way of living is respected and upheld.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our final verse for today, verse 20.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to be the people who whiff on opportunities to plan peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: When was the last time that you planned a vacation or you planned a weekend outing?
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  SPEAKER_00: How fun was that?
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  SPEAKER_00: How how excitable were you when you looked at your budget, you looked at your savings account, and you decided we have the funds to do this, we planned, and it's here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The time to go and rest and vacation, to go see our favorite sites, to go enjoy our favorite food.
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  SPEAKER_00: The time is now when we're packing up and we're we're heading out for the weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and how much how much joy, how much satisfaction is found when we get to enjoy God's grace in these ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's make a habit, both you and I and our brothers and sisters in Christ, to to live out Proverbs 12:20.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who plan peace, have joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plan on making peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's reconciliation that needs to happen, if if you're if you're struggling with relationships, seek the Lord, plan for peace, plan to to make uh make things right.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you need to confess sins, if you need to go before a brother and make something right, or go before a sister and confess something, go and do that and and have peace and have joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is honoring to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we seek to um to honor him in the way that we steward relationships, encouraging one another, and and the way that we invest into um into the relationships that are eternal and those that those that would be worshiping God, those people in our lives that would be worshiping God forever and eternity, uh, moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why why delay in in seeking reconciliation?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why delay in asking tough questions that would put us on a level playing field with one another, where we see eye to eye, we know where we stand with one another, we we want to have have peace and we want to eliminate the opportunity that the the enemy would have to divide.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we do that by pursuing peace and and planning on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we do that, the scriptures say that we will have joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope that's 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.