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October 10, 2026 - 1 Samuel 7 & Proverbs 17:26-28 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob Reading Plan, where you're 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 Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Saturday, October 10th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the men of Kiriath Jerem came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they consecrated his son Eliezer to have charge of the ark of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath Jerim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said, Gather all Israel at Mizbah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they gathered at Mizbah and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizbah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now when the Philistines heard that the people people of Israel had gathered at Mizbah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines, and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the men of Israel went out for Mizbah and pursued the Philistines and struck them as far as below Bethkar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizbah and Shin, and called its name Ebenezer, for he said, Till now the Lord has helped us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel, and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life, and he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizbah, and he judged Israel in all these places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel, and he built there an altar to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 17, verses twenty six through twenty-eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise.
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  SPEAKER_01: When he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we see in 1 Samuel 7 really is reminiscent of what we saw kind of in the pattern laid out in Judges, where of course the Philistines are have at this point for many years been occupying, have been domineering over, controlling, ruling over Israel as a whole because of their disobedience, because of their covenant unfaithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we saw something similar in the book of Judges, where there were these nations, there was the enemies of Israel that would get kind of rise up against Israel, and they would cry out to the Lord, the Lord would raise up a judge, he would deliver them, and that cycle would continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here, something similar that we see in 1 Samuel 7, where there does seem to be a genuine national repentance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is leading the way, he's directing the nation to cry out to the Lord, to seek forgiveness, to even recognize and to name their sin for what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, if you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the asteroid from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see this seemingly genuine repentance on a national scale where they've just they've been worn down by the Philistines being an occupying power, and they are moved to repentance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, again, Samuel plays a key role in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it does seem to be genuine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, they're they're going to continue the pattern ultimately of unfaithfulness in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for now, there seems to be a genuine repentance that leads to blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord does bless the nation because he causes the Philistines to essentially be confused and ultimately conquered by Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He drives them out of their lands and even the territories that they occupied.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says that Israel recovered them, and ultimately they in all the days of Samuel that they never were an issue again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God blessed their repentance, he looked upon their contrite hearts, and he did not despise them as a nation, and he blessed them as a result of them turning from their foreign gods and turning back to him with all their heart, as Samuel says there in 1 Samuel 7:3.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just a good reminder of kind of the pattern that we've seen both in Judges and we've seen it in other places as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this continuing cyclical pattern of Israel failing, being unfaithful, God being merciful even in the midst of failure, and uh delivering them and blessing them from in this in this case from their enemies, from the Philistines specifically.
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  SPEAKER_01: And something that stands out to me uh as I think about the people of Israel going to Samuel and asking him to go to the Lord on their behalf.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're looking to a man that has a reputation, uh man that's walking with the Lord, a man that's been faithful to uh to obey, though Samuel's not a perfect man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he sinned just like you and I, but they're going to him uh to to ask him to cry out to the Lord that that uh God may save us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we we transition over with that theme of someone who is uh godly and walking with the Lord to one who did it perfectly, who was God and who is God, and the righteous man who only did good, and that is Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And to impose a fine uh on a righteous man is not good, that's that's wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: And to strike the noble for his uprightness, that that has Christ written all over it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That has Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was struck, he was beaten down, uh, he a crown of thorns was pressed into his head, and uh he was he was wrongly accused.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was put on trial for for doing good, for not sinning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um that that draws our attention just to the cross and our our need for someone to be our representative, someone to take our our place and intercede for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what Christ does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he declares us righteous, he declares us innocent, um, as we have faith in his name.
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  SPEAKER_01: So whoever whoever believes in him has has this gift that's given him by um by God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's the faith that we have that um is going to save us, and it's the faith in the object.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we have this thought of you just gotta have faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: Faith in what?
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  SPEAKER_01: The faith has to be anchored in something that is immovable, and that is the rock of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we we look to Christ and we think about uh just the way that we would treat other people in this proverb.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's wrong to look at people that are doing the right thing and and go after them, uh to impose a fine on them or to mistreat them in any way, to strike them uh for what they are doing and and how they're seeking to please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these last two verses here, verse 27 and 28, they both kind of get to the idea of wisdom showing itself in your words, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So in verse 27, whoever restrains his words, and to put it in the the words of James, puts a bridle on his tongue, has knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he who has a cool spirit and is not given over to anger, be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and he who is has a cool spirit is a man of understanding, a man who, of course, is showcasing knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in verse 28, something similar where wisdom works its way out in our words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise because of what we just saw in verse 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who restrain their words, who are not given over to saying something haphazardly or sticking their foot in their mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we often like to say uh in a modern sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even if someone is a fool, even if they are not marked by the fear of the Lord, if if they keep their mouth shut, you know, to say it a little bit more aggressively, it says they're considered wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, what a just great principle for us of recognizing that controlling the tongue is so difficult that it's indicative of wisdom and intelligence and ultimately godliness, even if that's not the case, even if even if someone is a fool, even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise because of how difficult it can be, of course, to bridle the tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such a small member that such sets ablaze uh a wildfire, as James talks about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, some really good reminders here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you were thinking of a quote uh that that kind of encapsulates this, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were you thinking of?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the the quote uh seems to be attributed either to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln, but the quote uh goes like this better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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  SPEAKER_01: So keep it shut.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just think a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just think.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think think a few times, think three times before you're gonna say something for like uh I feel a little impulsive right now, feel kind of uh kind of riled up inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: That might be a good indicator for you to just stop and think and and and wait before you speak, uh and really assess the the motives of of what you're about to say, what's fueling fueling the words and if it's pleasing to God or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: We wanna we wanna let uh our our words be be a balm, an encouragement, something that's gonna uplift and instead of tear down.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of time in our modern culture, and there's some appropriateness to this given some of the circumstances that we find ourselves in broadly as a culture here in America, but we often think most about having the right thing to say in the right moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we think less of having just the commitment and the wisdom to say nothing at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's kind of what we're seeing here in Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is a time and a place to keep silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a time and a place to hold your tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so often I think we're more focused on when to actively speak, which can we need wisdom for that as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I think sometimes we lack the balance of maybe we shouldn't speak at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think Proverbs is a good corrector for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for us, where it helps us to think, okay, yes, I do need to speak the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to, you know, fight for that which is right and good and righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also need to know when to hold my tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to know when to stay silent, and I need to know both of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And wisdom, of course, can discern and can kind of bifurcate when it's good to speak, when it's good to not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we need both of those muscles worked and not just one over the other, of course, because we could take this too far, or maybe we should speak and we're given to over to fear or something like that, and we're silent when we shouldn't be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, the opposite, I think, is more commonly true when we speak more than we ought to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, where words are many transgression is not lacking, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think that's what I think of here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think too that it the audience is what comes to mind, like who you're around.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you might have something that's good to say for one person, something that's meaningful uh to draw their attention to, whether it's a correction or encouragement, but it might not be best for more than one person uh at one particular time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh wanting to correct someone in front of others isn't always the the best move.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it is the best move uh to draw and encourage people to do that to stop sinning or or to uh to encourage um uh righteous behavior, righteous living, but uh to to correct someone, uh we look to the scriptures one-on-one with a brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and if that brother isn't listening, you know, you can bring another brother as some accountability um involved.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the timing and the audience matters a whole lot uh as we think about what we're gonna say and how we're gonna say it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh our our words should should always be fueled by love for one another, especially within the household of God, uh, fueled with love and and compassion, uh seeking to uh to unify always and not tear down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so may the Lord give us wisdom to know when to speak, when not to, and the balance of those things, because wisdom uh, of course, uh shows itself in both of those things, where whether we speak in a certain context in a certain way, or whether we hold our tongue, may the Lord give us the wisdom we need to know the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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