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October 20, 2026 - 1 Samuel 15 & Proverbs 19:9-16 · 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 hearts, 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, October 20th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, 1 Samuel 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, therefore, listen to the words of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus says the Lord of hosts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now go and strike Amalek, and devote to destruction all that they have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaiim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites, and Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havila as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt, and he took Agag, the king of the Amalekites, alive, and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Saul and the people spared Ag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen, and of the fattened calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word of the Lord came to Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night, and Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, and it was told Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed be you to the Lord, I have performed the commandment of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, What then is this bleeding of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spare the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to him, Speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul said to Samuel, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction, but the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams, for rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also the glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man that he should have regret.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he said, I have sinned, yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me that I may bow before the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag, the king of the Amalekites, and Agag came to him cheerfully.
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  SPEAKER_00: Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past, and Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel went to Rama, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul, and Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul, and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs nineteen verses nine through sixteen A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever keeps a commandment keeps his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who despises his ways will die.
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  SPEAKER_00: In first Samuel 15 today, we're going to see God deliver some basic instructions through Samuel to King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: These instructions are not complicated, they're not complex, they're not convoluted, they're not anything other than clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Basic instructions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go and completely wipe out, completely destroy, devote to destruction the Amalekites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go take them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't spare anyone, not even a child or an infant.
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  SPEAKER_00: As as heavy as that sounds as you read this, not even a child or an infant should remain alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the words of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is because the Lord did not forget, he remembers the treatment that the Amalekites gave Israel as they were fleeing Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul has a mission to accomplish.
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  SPEAKER_00: He rallies a formidable army that can handle the job, and they spare the choice animals, they spare the king, King Agag of the Amalekites, and this is disobedience point blank.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Saul rejecting the words of the Lord and doing what he sees as proper and an honoring to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's some some influence that we're going to see here that plays into this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to see the fear that Saul has from the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel's going to confront him, and it takes a long time for King Saul to admit that he sinned, admit his shortcomings and his wrongs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel's saying, Oh, you you obeyed the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are the sounds of these sheep?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are the sounds of these animals cruising in?
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought you said you're you just you obeyed the Lord, King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he backpedals a little bit, and oh, that's the the people, the people took the spoil, the people took the sheep and the oxen in verse 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, King Saul, who's leading these people?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's you, brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Samuel's looking to this man like, did you did you tell him to that did you tell him what the Lord said?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's your leadership that failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it grieves and angers both God and Samuel for King Saul to disobey and reject the words of the Lord and not completely destroy and devote to destruction all the animals and all the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul's explanation is these choice animals that we spared and this king.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna try to obey the word of the Lord in a better and different way.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna sacrifice these animals that we didn't destroy, and and God's gonna be pleased.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that I dream up my my playbook here is the mindset of King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's going to please God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my playbook.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your your play is good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna call an audible at the line of scrimmage here.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what's gonna happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we see that Saul is swayed by the fear that he has from the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 24, Saul says to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is this is a a prime example of man pleasing and it's humbling as we think about the Proverbs, and and we'll get to this proverb in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one that comes to mind that that I've been chewing on uh is Proverbs 29, 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul is not safe, Saul is anything but safe when he's straying away from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's in danger, grave danger, and the kingdom will be ripped from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The kingdom, like Samuel's skirt of his robe, is torn, and God is saying, This kingdom of mine that you're leading, it's gonna be taken from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be given to a neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the future chapters, this neighbor is is David.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul's sin is exposed, his disobedience and rejection of God's command is exposed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of this chapter, we're going to see Samuel uh finishing the job and uh taking out, literally chopping to pieces King Agag.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a sorrowful chapter, and we see on a couple occasions God saying he regrets that he had made King Saul over Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is an example of anthropomorphism where we're giving human characteristics, human traits to uh something that is other than human, someone other than other than a human being.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God is spirit, he sent his son to become a man, fully God, fully man.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the words here are going to help us have a better understanding uh that that God is is grieved, God has uh God is sorrowful over the decisions of his creation, the decisions of of the king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the the scriptures, in Numbers 23 and 19, we can remember that God is not man, that he should lie, or son of man, that he should change his mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Has he said and will he not do it, or has he spoken and he will not fulfill it?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a handful of instances that we can see that when God says something, it's going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no backtracking, there's no there's no uh-oh's, there's no mulligans in God's economy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ezekiel 24, 14 says, I am the Lord, I have spoken, it shall come to pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not go back, I will not spare, I will not relent.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to your ways in your deeds, you will be judged, declares the Lord God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when when judgment is coming, God is is going to deliver justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: When God's people are disobedient, he corrects them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a immutability about God that He He doesn't change, He is the same yesterday, uh, today, and and forever, ongoing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not subject to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we we can look at these verses here in this chapter and think, man, this is did God make a mistake here?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, he didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is uh King Saul is a response and a judgment to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were demanding a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's gonna give them what they want and show them that they were wrong for it, that that it was a sinful desire.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think back to the last couple chapters of Genesis, we we think back to the blessing of Jacob at his death, and when he's listing his sons, he gets to Judah and in verse 10 of Genesis 49, he says, The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul is from the tribe of Benjamin, not Judah.
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  SPEAKER_00: King David is from the tribe of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this this lineage that would ultimately lead to Christ is going to be coming through the tribe of Judah, and this is a ruling tribe, the scepter is representative of authority and rule and governing.
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  SPEAKER_00: King David is of the tribe of Judah, and from David, from his offspring, will come the Messiah, the Savior, the King of Kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we see just failed kings over and over throughout the Old Testament, where this is just this is the beginning, the tip of the iceberg here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to see uh king after king, not every single king, but there's a lot of lot of kings that are making many foolish choices throughout the monarchy of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we we have to look forward and think, man, there's there's a better king coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's a perfect king coming that will one day establish his reign and reign forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_00: His his reign will have no end.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the king as we we look to this chapter and see a failed king, a disobedient and and proud and self-seeking, fearful king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we we see the sinfulness of King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even looking forward to David, he's also a man that that has sin in his life, but we look even further to the coming Messiah, uh, the Savior King who who is flawless, who is perfect, uh majestic in all his ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that should encourage us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be encouraged today as you're looking at the just the failures of of uh the first king of Israel, maybe even the failures of your life, and just look to the cross, look to the king who who died uh in your place, who paid the debt for your sin and is alive and risen and is reigning even now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So an encouraging and also discouraging chapter for us all in one, kind of a bittersweet thing to see such a an utter failure from King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh looking forward, we we see the hope and we rejoice in the the king who is who is reigning uh even now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first verse in our proverb portion today, our wisdom literature, has us thinking back to the words that King Saul just shared as we read 1 Samuel 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: A false witness will not go unpunished.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Saul was lying.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was even potentially even self-deceived as a thinking that he actually was doing the right thing, but no, he he lied to Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was trying to cover his tracks and produce a side quest of actually showing that his disobedience was actually an honor to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's uh that's just displeasing and sinful to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this next proverb in verse 10 has to do with a status and responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not fitting for a man who is irresponsible, a fool to live in luxury and have such great resources and wealth, because that will just ultimately get squandered or used in a foolish and wicked way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, and much less for a slave, speaking of a uh authority or responsibility, for a slave to rule over princes, uh someone who does not have leadership skills or ability to delegate and lead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh a slave is not going to rule over princes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the Christian walk is is not void of conflict, and oftentimes conflict seems like it's our shadow.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just kind of always there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and what a great reminder for us to just to squash it, to seek to to unify and seek forgiveness and reconcile and unify.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, thinking about uh Pastor Charlie's uh sermon on Sunday and uh just the the great encouragement that he uh gave to us and even the the front lines of of church discipline is just the one-on-one interactions, the everyday, uh, the everyday conversations within our church, we can we can be a people that are overlooking offenses, that are forgiving, that are drawing to mind the things that we've been forgiven for.
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  SPEAKER_00: The list goes on and on and on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we've been forgiven much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and God is calling us here to it's it's for our good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's sensible, it's it's to our benefit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna please him to be slow to anger, to be a person with a really long fuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna take a whole lot for us to get to that point to be angry and and praise the Lord for great friends and and church family to to call us out.
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  SPEAKER_00: If if we're known well in our community, people are gonna notice when we're not we're not our normal selves, when when there's anger, something festering uh inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: People are gonna notice that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a great responsibility uh for us to to kind of tease those things out and ask the hard questions and and seek to be a people that are encouraging um encouraging the process of uh evaluation and just reflection of our own thoughts and our own hearts and and identifying anger before it blows up and to confess that to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's our glory to look over an offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord for the forgiveness that is available through the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our offenses are are erased, they are forgiven, wiped clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Christ's righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like the dew on the grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: This kinetic energy that is just ready to be unleashed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, ready to be unleashed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is powerful, it's destructive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it can it can cause great harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kings have great resources and great armies to to dispense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, it's it's in contrast here, this favor of a king is like the dew on the grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might not be great for uh a baseball game to have dew on grass, but to to have uh cool cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moisture underfoot on a hot day, and you know the day is going to be hot, but in the morning time there's a refreshment, there's a peace, a renewal that comes each day, and this favor from a king is like dew on the grass.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 13 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a wearing down both from the the foolish son and a quarreling wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's destruction and ruin that can come to a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I say I read this uh as I read this verse as a father, this is charging and encouraging me to be to be a dad and a husband that's investing into my children, investing into them to show them the way, to show, to show them there's many, many ways to ruin yourself, many ways to be a fool, but there's a way that is honoring to God, that is straight and narrow and pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and as dads out there, we got to be uh men that are encouraging our sons and daughters to see just the wisdom and goodness of pursuing a life that is pleasing to God, that is often difficult and not free of challenges, as those are promised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trials are coming our way left and right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but God is gonna do much through those.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be a father that is um that is prayerfully instructing our children, instructing your kiddos at home to to see the goodness of God and uh and pray for their salvation, pray that they would they would become wise for salvation um and uh trust the Lord, um the spirit and the word to accomplish that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's a responsibility for fathers here.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wife's quarreling is a a continual uh dripping of a rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got to be peacemakers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we look back up to verse 11, and it's uh it's to our glory to overlook offenses in in the marriage relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both men and women, we can we can be uh as men quarreling too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that we don't want to be just a repetitive distraction and uh people who are antagonizing our spouses.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if there's an opportunity to to confess sin, an opportunity within a marriage to to address something that is bothering you, don't let it go on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let it be a continual dripping of rain, but rather draw it to the attention of your spouse with humility, with patience, with with kindness, and and consider um God in prayer as you go about just the the everyday conflicts that can happen uh as the flesh um rears its nasty head.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can we can have an opportunity to uh to demonstrate forgiveness and and the patience and long suffering that the spirit gives to us as we have renewed hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 14 house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are both provisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: A prudent wife is from the Lord, house and wealth are inherited from fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord gave to Adam from his side uh a wife, and it was a good thing, it was it was not good for man to be alone, and we we praise God for uh for prudent wives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm even thinking about Proverbs 1322 here.
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  SPEAKER_00: A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether that be a house or or different um different savings or investments, whatever that may be, I'm I'm looking at this proverb here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The things that are are an inheritance to children, um, and and the gifts that God gives are are both good.
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  SPEAKER_00: How good it is to have a prudent wife, that is such a great blessing to have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 15 slothfulness cast into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer from hunger.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lazy just keep getting lazier, and they're not putting their hand to the plow, and their their sluggishness and their lack of activity or work just begets more and more laziness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the idle person will reap what they sow.
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  SPEAKER_00: No work, no eats.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna have a meal on your plate if you're not earning a wage for yourself, if you're idle, lacking the determination or the effort, the discipline to work at a job or you're losing jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this is the the outcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hunger comes to those who are um suffering from just idleness, from laziness, from slothfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and going on going on to our last verse here, verse 16 whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who despises his ways will die.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we have to be thinking about the commandment that draws us to repentance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Repent and believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's not a if you want or consider this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a no, this is how you obtain salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You repent and believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way to keep your life is to take hold of Mark chapter one and verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says this the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Repent and believe in the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's only one way that a man can have life everlasting, and that is in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compassbiblesv.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.