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November 5, 2026 - 1 Samuel 29 & Proverbs 23:21-29 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob 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 letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, November 5th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 29.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Ephek, and the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is then Jezreel.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Akish, the commanders of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Akish said to the commanders of the Philistines, Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for for days and years?
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  SPEAKER_00: And since he deserted to me, I have found no fault in him to this day?
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  SPEAKER_00: But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the commander of the Philistines said to him, Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances?
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul has struck down his thousands, and David is ten thousands?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Achish called David and said to him, As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign, for I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, the Lords do not approve of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go back now, and go peaceably, that you may not displease the Lords of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David said to Achish, But what have I done?
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  SPEAKER_00: What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord, the king?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Akish answered David and said, I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, You shall not go up with us to the battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your Lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs twenty-three, verses twenty-one through twenty-nine.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Buy truth and do not sell it.
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  SPEAKER_01: By wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let your father and mother be glad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let her who bore you rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_01: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: For a prostitute is a deep pit, an adulteress is a narrow well.
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  SPEAKER_01: She lies in wait like a robber, and increases the traitors among mankind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who has woe?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who has sorrow?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who has strife?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who has complaining?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who has wounds without cause?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who has redness of eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, first Samuel 29, Tyler, we were just discussing this, is maybe not as jarring as you would initially expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it just seems like a a normal conversation of sorts, where of course the Philistine commanders would have some skepticism.
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  SPEAKER_00: David is a sojourner in their land.
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  SPEAKER_00: They know who he is, they know kind of what role he's had in the prominence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly, uh, we were kind of joking earlier.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do they know this song from the women that were parading in the streets about Saul striking down his 10,000s and David is or his thousands, and David has 10,000s?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's clearly clearly word is spread quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they know who he is, and uh you can imagine just from a human perspective and in the the heat of war why they would not want him riding in the battle with with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so that seems all somewhat ordinary, but but really when when you got when you get into the ex exchange, specifically as uh Akish is talking to the commanders and and kind of going to bat for David, and then ultimately he submits to to the lords as they're referred to there, the lords of the armies, and goes back to tell David, hey, sorry man, like you can't come with us, they don't want you to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then the exchange of essentially, you know, Akish saying and kind of holding to the to what his what he thinks is David's character has been nothing but flawless up until this point, he's been nothing but truthful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even David is kind of like, we were just saying, kind of acting like a wounded puppy here, like, what did I do?
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't do anything wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, when just if if you remember just a few chapters ago, when David was going and raiding different towns, the Amalekites and others, and the text actually tells us that he kills everyone so as to not leave any kind of witnesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when Akish goes and asks who he raided, he he lies.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just flat out tells them uh different different kinds of people that I think he was trying to satisfy uh Akish with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and Akish, of course, of course, ends that chapter specifically by talking about how uh David uh has become a stench uh in the eyes of his people, and he feels like David now because he's essentially attacked his own people, which he lied about, but has attacked his own people, now he's going to be in service and in debt to the Akish for for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's been a lot of deception, a lot of lying happening between David and Akish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, it seems like here in chapter 29, Akish has no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you when you have that context in your mind, it really it's a painful chapter to read.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it feels like, and I was just saying this to Tyler, it feels like you when you're watching a movie and you know that one of the main characters is about to be betrayed, and you know, as the audience, you know that, but the the character in the movie doesn't know it, and you just want to yell at the screen, no, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm not saying Akish is some main character or or some good guy, but uh at the very least, he he thinks that David is a man of integrity and has been nothing but truthful to him, and he's speaking to him as such.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it David even says, Hey man, what have I done?
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  SPEAKER_00: I I've been an integrist this whole time when when there has been deceit, when there has been things that David has done that he has intentionally hid from Akish.
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  SPEAKER_00: So really interesting, and you were even mentioning this uh earlier, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like God clearly is on display uh here, kind of protecting David from uh entering into and engaging in some some morally heinous things and protecting him, keeping him from engaging in this in this kind of conflict, which I think would have been ultimately bad and devastating.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then also there's it's like God's sovereignty in that kind of juxtapose with David's dishonesty that is being being really highlighted in a kind of um inverse way, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's being highlighted by how articulate Akish is about the honesty and integrity and goodness of David when we all know uh man he's not been that to Akish.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's he's not he's not been kind of the the perfectly stand-up guy uh that he's being made out to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's a painful chapter to read in that sense, and it continues to show us the flaws in David's character.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh, of course, that doesn't mean that that David is down and out by any means.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's gonna, we as we know he's gonna become the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's uh an important covenant that's gonna be made with him in 2 Samuel 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of things are gonna happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's gonna play a really prominent role in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is gonna be born from the line and lineage of David, but I think the scriptures intentionally go out of their way to show us, man, that the best of men in the in the scriptures, as the saying goes, are men at best.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so David here is being touted as this really honest man, specifically in his relationship with Akish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh he certainly has not been that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's just a reminder of the graciousness of God to use even the most broken of individuals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, of course, we know about Bathsheba and we know about other things that David does that are not right before the Lord, but nevertheless, someone who's broken like that, the mercy of God, the grace of God can um can still transform them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and God still can love even that kind of person as we would categorize them in our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so it really highlights the depth of God's grace and mercy and uh is encouraging in that sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, just a perplexing chapter to read uh for me as I was reading 1 Samuel 29 today.
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  SPEAKER_01: PJ, as we look to our wisdom literature today, the stock market and investing is on my mind because we're gonna see some language here about buying and selling and what to do with truth, what to do with uh the direction and the wisdom and the insights and the understanding that comes with God's word and uh the the stock market uh fluctuates the world economy, goes up and down and up and down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and uh a white wise investor to say, hold, hold on to your stocks long term, write them out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't be afraid of the dips and and the uh the spikes and the volatility that can come day to day, week to week, but look your look uh look onward, look forward in the trajectory of the year after year uh gains that are are made over the the decades and put your put your money there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I want to draw our attention to the the stock that we can buy in the scriptures, in the the truths and promises that are everlasting that go beyond this life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're you might be able to to hand your uh your savings, your retirement, your investment portfolio to somebody else.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't do that with your salvation.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as we look to the the text today, Proverbs 23, verses uh 23 and 24, by truth and do not sell it, by wisdom and understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: The father of the righteous will gladly uh greatly rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in this in a certain way, like my mind is drawn to investing into souls, investing into eternity with the the the currency that is what are we using as a transaction?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we're using God's word to uh to invest in the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's God that does the work, it's a spirit that accomplishes that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the the resources that we have, the text of the scripture, we get to uh to invest in it in a way, purchase it, save it up into our minds and into our hearts and and not sell it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't give it away.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't look at it as a resource that is depreciating because it's always appreciating.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're looking to God's word to always uh be a buyer and not a seller, always looking to store it up, to save it in our minds and in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and through that, God will uh accomplish his will, accomplish his work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And through that, we will become more like Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as we think about the truths of the scriptures, we we always want to be buyers, always want to be consuming it, always want to be working hard to gain it, uh, to store it up in our minds and in our hearts, and trust that God's gonna uh use that that pursuit, use the spirit and the word uh in our lives to to grow us and to refine us um into the the the image of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and what what better thing to invest in than something that um has eternal dividends in that sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, um, this is what I think Jesus is talking about, where we don't lay up treasures for ourselves on earth, where Ross uh or moth and rust can destroy and thieves can break in and steal, but we lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven, things that uh are of eternal value, things that are ultimately uh worthwhile.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here in verse 26 of Proverbs 23, it says, My son, give me your heart and let your eyes observe my ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just another clarion call from the Proverbs, uh, from a father to a son, of just, hey, listen, listen to the instruction, heed the way of wisdom, uh, stay on the path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and even we see just this earnestness uh of the of the father pleading with his son.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you really see um training up a child in the way he should go happening even within the Proverbs, because we see a father just talking uh to his son, trying to relay wisdom, pass on um the things that of course are honoring to the Lord that's that's based in the fear uh of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, the the warning right after that, verse 27 for a prostitute is a deep pit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you fall in a narrow well, good luck getting out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's you're stuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's kind of the the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be dark and and um cold and wet and uh just everything that would be discomforting and uh troubling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and so his his point is hey, listen, don't fall for the the temptation, don't fall for uh the adulterous woman, don't fall for the lust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh as much as it might seem appetizing, it's it's um it's a deep pit, it's like a narrow well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so just another uh example of a father pleading uh with his son.
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  SPEAKER_01: One last encouragement that I am taking away from this section today is the way that we interact with our our parents, uh the way that we um show respect and regard and honor to our fathers and our mothers and just reflecting on on my life and the ways that my parents uh took took great lengths to to put safeguards up for me, uh, to warn me, to give me cautions, don't go be be discerning about who you're hanging out with, or what are they really wanting to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what is what is your motivation in going and hanging out, going to these places, hanging out with these people, and always trying to draw out the intentions of my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I I look to the the verse here at 22, don't despise your mother when she is old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh care after your parents, continue to show them honor and love and respect.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the people that raise you.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are with all their flaws, with all their bumps and warts and the different things that come along with parents, parents had we make mistakes, and there's no parent that is perfect here on earth that is able to raise up a child perfectly without flaw or mistake or sin against their children.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the the thought here is you know, it's such an easy thought to just say, uh, burn the bridges.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm done with this.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've done me wrong, just kind of keeping this running list of ways that we'll never be like our parents.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if we really think about it, our surely our our children are aware of our shortcomings as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there and oftentimes we would need to apologize, and rightly so to our children to show them, you know, I I'm tasked to raise you in a certain way that honors the Lord, and I don't do that perfectly all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I fall short and I need to apologize.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in the way I'm thinking about parents in general and how uh the job is not easy, but like the calling is high.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to be people that are pointing people back to Christ, pointing people to our Father in heaven who whose plan for salvation was perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: He did not uh did not fall short, did not does not stem by any means by by sending his son to take the cross for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we think about just the the imperfections of earthly parents compared to uh to God, we we can surely find ways to to criticize.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh my my charge today is seek reconciliation, seek forgiveness, seek clarity, be open to having conversations uh and be humble about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't go into confrontation, shaking your fist and wagging your fingers, explaining all the ways um that that you've been wronged as as a child growing up.
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  SPEAKER_01: But consider the difficult task of parenting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if you are a parent, you understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure you're like me, like, oh man, I I had had no idea what my parents were going through when they were raising me, but now I'm starting to see it uh as it's coming full circle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh we think about our fathers, we think about our mothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to continue to show them honor, continue to show them love and respect and and care for them as they age.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh by doing so, we're showing all our children um just uh the grace of God that that comes with parenting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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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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