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October 6, 2026 - 1 Samuel 3 & Proverbs 17:9-12 · 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, October 6th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, 1 Samuel 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was no frequent vision.
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  SPEAKER_00: At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, Here I am, and he ran to Eli and said, Here I am for you called me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he said, I did not call.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lie down again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he went and lay down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord called again, Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel rose and went to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he said, I did not call, my son, lie down again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord called Samuel again the third time, and he arose and went to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, Samuel Samuel and Samuel said, Speak, for your servant hears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
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  SPEAKER_00: On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house from beginning to end, and I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel lay until morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son, and he said, Here I am, and Eli said, What was it that he told you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not hide it from me.
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  SPEAKER_00: May God do to you, and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him, and he said, It is the Lord, let him do what seems good to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all Israel from Dan to Bersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord, and the Lord appeared again at Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs seventeen verses nine through twelve Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let a man meet a she bearer robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: In first Samuel three we see the Lord calling out to Samuel, calling him into his service, and uh it's a a great moment of of awe and wonder as we see the Lord working in the life of a boy, a boy who would become a man one day and would uh fulfill his service to the Lord and speaking accurately and speaking the truth of God, his words, not altered or manipulated or changed in any way, speaking the words of God to his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this chapter, we see a judgment called out upon Eli and his household that will not be covered, that will not be atoned for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is due to Eli's refusal to correct his sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: His sons were blaspheming God, as we see in verse 13, and he did nothing about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did nothing to stop them, he did nothing to prevent them from continuing on in their wickedness, as we looked at in chapter two of first Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in contrast, we see Samuel speaking the words of God, not shining down, shying away, even though he was scared, he spoke the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He spoke exactly what God had told him uh as he lay in his place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the opposite side, uh Hofne and Phineas were doing the exact opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were doing what they wanted, not following after the rules and regulations that God would have for his priests.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did not fear the Lord, they did not know the Lord, and they were uh acting according to their own plans and their own agenda, where Samuel is speaking uh the plans, the words of the Lord God, and that means judgment for Eli and his house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a surprising response from Eli here is uh, well, it's the Lord, let him do what seems good to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it kind of seems casual uh at after these words are shared, it's the Lord, let him do what seems good to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's what he always does.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord always does what is good, he always acts justly, he always acts with with uh with love for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when his people are being uh mistreated, when they're being led astray by by um servants who are acting wickedly, God is just to remove them, and that's what we will see in the following chapters of 1 Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: God does not tolerate this kind of wickedness in his house, he doesn't accept idolaters, money changers, or adulterers in his house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we think about the way that Jesus will drive out the money changers, and the way that there's no one uh allowed in God's house in his presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're thinking about heaven here in this example, that are unclean, that are sin stained, and and those who who are there are only pure, only forgiven, and only uh righteous, uh the righteousness that comes from Christ the Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in this chapter, we see the the origin story and the as it unfolds with Samuel, uh God calling out to him at night, um, the judgment pronounced to Eli and his family, and we see the Lord appearing again at Shiloh, again at Shiloh, where the Ark of the Covenant currently is, and he's revealing himself to Samuel, sharing his words that he would share them with whom God directed.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I was reflecting on our Proverbs section today, I was thinking about the different ways that I have been forgiven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, the grace that God pours out on my life through forgiveness, through the blood of Christ that washes my sins and uh presents me righteous before God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've I am forgiven by God and am acceptable in his sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for those we sin against, we need to pursue reconciliation and forgiveness for those in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: James would say about brothers bringing them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever brings a sinner back from his wandering and will save his soul from death will cover a multitude of sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes offenses are uh are made by those who are walking away from God, who are targeted at believers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we call people out on their sin and address it respectfully, lovingly, tenderly, and graciously, we can uh play a role in the lives of others to win them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's ultimately not us saving his soul, but it God uses his instruments, his tools in this life, and oftentimes it comes through people, comes through his word, it comes through the spirit to bring people back and draw their attention to their offense and to their need for forgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whoever covers an offense seeks love, and that's exactly what Christ did.
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  SPEAKER_00: He came to um to seek and save the lost, to share his love, uh love displayed on the cross for sinners who are in desperate need of forgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Greater love has none than this, that someone would lay his life down for his friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it takes a lot of humility to go to a brother or a sister and say, Hey, uh, what you said, what you did, uh, it wasn't okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I'm the first to admit, confessing your own sins, taking the plank out of your own eye, and just modeling humility and a tenderness in these situations, it goes a long way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whoever covers uh an offense seeks love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the other side of the coin, he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the matter of this offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever is repeating or take it for granted this covering or this forgiveness and continues to ascend and offend in a similar way, of course, it's gonna cause division and separate close friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's uh that's only a natural thing where trust is broken, uh seemingly respect is lost for the um for those who who are offended against when you don't take their uh forgiveness or their their covering seriously, you just continue to offend and repeat the matter, it's going to do damage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: This rebuke, this correction, this uh hey, turn back, stop doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we did not see uh Eli rebuking his sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we saw him do nothing, but the rebuke uh goes deeper into a man of understanding, the man who understands God's law, who understands God's purpose for correction, uh, for for training and righteousness, for reproof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's uh ways that God has designed relationships to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we see uh a need for correction or for rebuke, we need to take advantage of that opportunity with with tact and timing and pray that the Lord would work, pray that the Lord would give other people that we're gonna be interacting with understanding, humility, patience, a graciousness that would be able to accept uh the the kind words uh of a rebuke and and to do that in a loving way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the contrast of this verse here in verse 10, then a hundred blows into a fool, one rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding, and then a hundred blows.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like you are trying to beat the sense into someone, but just doesn't quite make it below the surface because the fool is set in his own ways, stubborn, arrogant, and it's this person does not have understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the the rebuke for a man of understanding will have an effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: One rebuke will have an effect, it will go deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's work and ask God to help us to be people of understanding that would be able to receive correction and training and teaching and not to uh give in to our selfish desires to be foolish and do things in our own power and in our own strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rebellion, rebellion, that's what Hoffney and Phineas were doing, and the evil man seeks only rebellion, doing what they want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we think about um Satan and the fallen angels, these evil, evil beings that rebelled against God, an evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's there's a sowing and reaping parallel here where a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's him?
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  SPEAKER_00: The evil man who seeks only rebellion.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so the opposite of rebellion is submission, submission to God, submission to the Spirit, submission to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we do that, we operate within his design, his grand plan for our lives to make us more like himself, more like Christ, and to bring him much glory with our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our final verse today, verse 12 let a man meet a she bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's one of the last animals that I would ever want to see in the forest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mountain lions are pretty high up there as well, wolves, but a she bear, these things can climb trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's really no escape from a she bear.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna chase you down, and they're going to do great damage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this illustration here of such a violent and uh a powerful animal is drawing our attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's better, it's better to meet a she bear than a fool in his folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fool who is in error, who is disconnected with reality, uh misaligned with the truth, and and is unreasonable all together.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might have been thinking that it is safer to meet a fool in his folly, but this proverb is drawing our attention to just stay away from the fool in his folly, stay away from she bears, um, and stay away from the fool in his folly, those who are not able to be reasoned with, those who are insisting on their own way, and those who are not submitting their lives to Christ the Lord, those who would want to find their own way, their own path into their own heaven that they imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in a world where people would look to the Bible and those who would follow God as fools or as foolishness, we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 18, that the gospel appears as folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So continue to to pray at church family for for those who who you know in this world that are not aligned with King Jesus, they're not submitting to the King, they are not forgiven of their sins because they have not repented and turned, placing their faith and hope in Christ Jesus for salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Continue to pray and continue to pursue those with the love of Christ that they might turn from their sin and declare him Lord of their life.
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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 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.