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October 31, 2026 - 1 Samuel 25 & Proverbs 22:11-20 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler SAM board.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Saturday, October 31st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of 1 Samuel 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 25 opens with Samuel's death and showcases all of Israel's mourning because of his death.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at this point, David is still on the run from Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the seeming repentance that we saw in the last chapter was not genuine and seems to be worldly and uh did not bear fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David is still on the run, and he's in the wilderness of Peran, and his men have been protecting the flocks of Nabal.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of a wealthy, but he's considered a harsh and foolish man from Moen, whose name actually means fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is during the sheep shearing festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: David sends 10 young men in the midst of their work.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can you can kind of even feel long day, maybe hot sun, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he sends 10 men to ask Nabal for whatever provisions he can spare.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Nabal insults them and dismisses David ultimately as a runaway servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David gets really upset.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last chapter, he was gracious and uh did not want vengeance, but uh gets some food in the mix, and here he is really upset, and he arms 400 men and swears to wipe out every male in Nabal's household by morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's this interesting story of uh Nabal's servants telling Nabal's wife, Abigail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and ultimately the Lord uses some unlikely figures in this chapter to bring about some level of peace, uh, or at least the absence of direct conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the chapter kind of concludes with uh David marrying uh two different women.
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  SPEAKER_00: One was the wife of um Nabal, and David also married Ahinoim, and uh his first wife, Mikal, uh, was given by Saul to another man, so it's kind of messy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, a lot of things going on here in verse uh Samuel 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: But really the key themes that we're gonna see is uh restraint in a sense, uh leaving vengeance to God and the temptation not to, which of course echoes David's sparring Saul in chapters 24 and uh in chapter 26, but ultimately we see a contrast between wisdom, uh folly, um, and God using an unexpected peacemaker, Abigail, to keep his anointed from sinning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 22, verses 11 through 20.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
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  SPEAKER_01: The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
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  SPEAKER_01: The sluggard says, There is a lion outside.
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  SPEAKER_01: I shall be killed in the streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit.
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  SPEAKER_01: He with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth or gives to the rich will only come to poverty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips, that your trust may be in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have made them known to you today, even to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, Tyler's first Samuel twenty-five is an interesting one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um it shows in some ways, I think, some chinks in David's armor up until this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: David has been heralded both by Saul, the kingdom, and we've even even seen great examples of David responding to the persecution of Saul well, with a trust in the Lord, desperate dependence on him through prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but of course, every character in scripture is human, uh, has moments where they give into the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think we see here David doing just that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he's just kind of had it with Saul and with the long day and the insult uh from Nabal or what what else is going on here, but he he wants vengeance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh at least that's what he wants initially.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he he gets his men, they start sharpening their swords, and they're they're getting uh all all uh geared up and ready to to wipe out this whole family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh along comes Abigail, a shrewd woman, an unlikely peacemaker, that in secret brings the the provisions and the food and the resources that David initially requested.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a result of her shrewdness, and as a result of her kind of taking the reins and acting wisely, even contrary uh to her own husband, uh, the Lord brings about through her actions uh some some level of peace, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where uh at least there's not conflict that David intended, and they don't go to battle like he intended.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, uh her husband's response is uh is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he actually it seems like he has some kind of heart attack, his heart gives out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were just talking, I don't know if if that is signifying by the text that he was so angry with his wife, or he I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but he literally dies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the text describes him as a fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: He acts in a foolish way, and it seems like he meets the end of a fool, even in his death, like uh like his whole life is kind of marked with with folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and his wife uh is kind of heralded even in an unexpected way in this chapter, uh, as someone who does something that brings about good that the Lord uses uh to bring about something that is good, uh, even though there's some weirdness with David marrying her and then marrying another woman and uh some of those things that that kind of strike us as strange.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the Lord clearly uses Abigail uh to kind of keep David from shedding blood, from seeking vengeance in his own hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so now we've got two chapters.
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  SPEAKER_00: One where the where David uh had the opportunity to kill Saul and he decides uh not to, and he just takes the corner of his garment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here God uses someone else and something else, Abigail, um, to stop that desire that he had to take vengeance into his own hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a continued theme uh that we have seen, and we'll continue to see that even in chapter 26 um as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one of the contrasts that you'll see in this chapter specifically is wisdom and folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, wisdom seems to be, in a sense, I'm gonna say personified, uh maybe a better way is exemplified uh by Abigail, where she's she's not just being foolish, she's not being selfish.
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  SPEAKER_00: She uh goes and gives the food, she talks to the servants, she does the things that that are good and that bring about something that is good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you can see that ending, you can see folly, uh, which is exemplified, of course, by Nabal, and uh his end is uh destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of just interesting things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were you thinking, Tyler, as you were wrestling through uh 1 Samuel 25?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was looking at David's intent and David's heart for vengeance and just watching watching the ways that God uh pours out his grace uh onto David's life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's he has helpers, he has people, um, he has a spirit upon him, of course, that doesn't depart from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh we we see Abigail as a kindness and a grace from God to help him not sin, to help him uh to check himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I think just of the people that would call out into my life, um people that would bring sound wisdom or kind of be the speed bumps of my heart to kind of slow down and think about things, consider, go to the Lord in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we we see a man, like you said, who's not without sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: His in his heart, he had he had already committed that sin, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: If we're gonna look at the words of of Christ, it's the anger and the intent and the desire of a man uh towards his brother that is that is equal to that of actually carrying out the act of murder.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that that hatred, that that rev the revenge need that David would have towards Nabal um is is snuffed out um by by someone kind of pumping the brakes, coming and intervening, the shrewdness of Abigail and the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that reminds me of something that we read today in Proverbs 22, verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see some of that in 1 Samuel 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just a straight line, it's a little bit messier than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, when we start factoring in David's murderous intent and then marrying Abigail and marrying another woman, like it's not just David just is an exemplar in every way of wisdom, but certainly there's wisdom displayed, and again, exemplified by Abigail, uh, that the Lord uses in an unexpected way to bring about reconciliation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh but again, we see here in Proverbs 22, incline your ear, hear the words of the wise, apply them, and it will be pleasant.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something that that pleasant that will happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll have a pleasant experience, pleasant relationships, pleasant business dealings, you could say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, even uh the lack of conflicts that is brought about oftentimes with uh control of our words is pleasant, and that's that's of course uh a byproduct of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we can see that pleasant things happen in 1 Samuel 25, namely, uh 400 men don't go and and take lives unnecessarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a pleasant thing, and uh wisdom rules the day uh in that sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's a helpful uh just even parallel that we can see in uh Proverbs 22 and in uh first Samuel 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: As I'm almost done with with our work day here in the office, PJ, I'm thinking about verse 13 uh of our text today, and it has to do with the sluggard and it has to do with work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I had to take an assessment of my own heart, of my own, my own mind the the past week or so, and and think about what are the things that would be excuses or things that would be uh a rationalization that I would use to to put something off, to to not engage with work, to not go after something with all that I got.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the lions out there in the in the streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lions and tigers and bears and all these other things that may be dangers or threats to my comfort or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, the yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the things that that could be dangerous out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's there's murder in the streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not safe in the public square.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not, I'm just gonna huddle, huddle in my my home and lock the doors and and put myself on this couch and in front of the screen and just not do a single thing other than just numb my mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, uh this this text is is bringing to mind um a desire that that God has instilled, I think, in all those people to to work hard and earnestly for the Lord, to give it all you got, uh, to give um your best effort, your your best time, your your best thoughts and intellect into what it is that God has put before you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um try to improve things, try to make things better, try to be more efficient, spend your time more wisely, more diligently, and steward the resources that God has given us well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what comes to mind when I look at Proverbs uh 22 and verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the other verse that stands out to me is verse 15, speaking about discipline and the rod when it comes to children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Folly is bound up in the heart of a child.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we see foolishness and folly in our first Samuel text today, and some kids just don't ever grow up out of their folly, it seems like even grown men can be foolish and uh and have folly rule rule their themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: So folly is bound up, uh, attached to, firmly secured to the heart of a child.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and what does it take to break that apart or are free or lift or carry that foolishness away?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the discipline.
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  SPEAKER_01: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's, of course, with with love, with kindness.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not angry, it's not bitter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh as parents, as we uh are often tested, our patience is grown, our long suffering is is put to the test when we think about just the the task and duty of of raising children um the Lord's way with with love, pointing them to the gospel, pointing them to why it is that we're disciplining, uh, pointing them to who really received the ultimate, the ultimate punishment for their for our sins.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christ didn't sin, but he took the sins uh of mankind, that that they wouldn't have to face the punishment and judgment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this that reminder of that spank on the backside is a a fraction, a speck of of a taste of of uh of the judgment and the wrath that Christ took.
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  SPEAKER_01: A speck is even an overstatement.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh I'm thinking about the Christ's sacrifice, um, our parents' uh parents' responsibility, and and the children that, Lord willing, will will not turn out to be fools long term and they will receive the instruction from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, even the way that it's worded there, folly is bound up in the heart of a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes me think of like the mental image is a ball of rubber bands that you kind of just one by one are trying to take off and untangle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I mean, obviously you're you're trying to uh train them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord and just prayerful that the Lord would would keep them on that path.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the reasons why we do that and are committed to that is because folly is bound up in the heart of a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's a job of of parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a great opportunity, it's a heavy responsibility, um, but one that we entrust uh to the Lord and uh seek to be faithful and um follow his word and his commands and trust that that will be ultimately good for them and something that will uh produce something that is pleasant, like the wisdom that we were just talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Podcast.
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