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November 6, 2026 - 1 Samuel 30 & Proverbs 23:30-35 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sandborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today's Friday, November 6th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Samuel 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negab and against Ziklag.
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  SPEAKER_01: They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire, and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great.
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  SPEAKER_01: They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.
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  SPEAKER_01: David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoim of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters.
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  SPEAKER_01: But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God, and David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, bring me the Ephod.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Abiathar brought the Ephod to David.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David inquired of the Lord, Shall I pursue after this band?
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  SPEAKER_01: Shall I overtake them?
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  SPEAKER_01: He answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.
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  SPEAKER_01: So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Basor, where those who were left behind stayed.
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  SPEAKER_01: But David pursued, he and four hundred men.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Basor.
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  SPEAKER_01: They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David, and they gave him bread and he ate.
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  SPEAKER_01: They gave him water to drink, and they gave him a piece of cake of figs and two clusters of raisins, and when he had eaten his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David said to him, To whom do you belong?
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  SPEAKER_01: And where are you from?
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherithites, and against that which belongs to Judah, and against the Negab of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band?
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said, Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who mounted camels and fled.
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  SPEAKER_01: David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken.
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  SPEAKER_01: David brought back all.
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  SPEAKER_01: David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him and said, This is David's spoil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Basor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when David came near to the people he greeted them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children and depart.
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  SPEAKER_01: But David said, You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who would listen to you in this matter?
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  SPEAKER_01: For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall share alike.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: When David came to Ziklach, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negab, in Jatir, and Aror, and Sithmoth, and Estema, and Rakal, and the cities of the Jermelites, and in the cities of the Kinnites, in Horma, and Boroshon, and Athak, and Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty three, verses thirty through thirty five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine, do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, and goes down smoothly.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
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  SPEAKER_00: They struck me, you will say, but I was not hurt.
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  SPEAKER_00: They beat me, but I did not feel it.
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  SPEAKER_00: When shall I awake?
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  SPEAKER_00: I must have another drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: First Samuel thirty marks an interesting turn in David's you could call it leadership.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would say that we're we're starting to see David's rise to what he'll ultimately be the king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot of positive things that happen in 1 Samuel 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, it doesn't start positively because David returns home to Ziklag to find his his whole his whole camp burned, and all of the women and children have been taken captive, and all of essentially their resources and possessions have been plundered.
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  SPEAKER_01: But really, what it does is there's this sort of divine opportunity that God gives to David to showcase some some of his leadership chops, if you want to call it that, and uh to make some good decisions, and even at the end to kind of mediate some conflict between uh the soldiers that went and the soldiers that stayed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh so I think it's kind of a foreshadowing of the kind of king that David would become.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we know, of course, that that David doesn't do everything perfectly, and and we'll we'll read about that more in first or 2 Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is a we can kind of start to feel uh the rise in okay, David's gonna be the new king.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can feel it even in the narrative here, and um, so he he positively he's got victory, and um he juxtaposed that with Saul and a lot of Saul's just losses and a lot of things that have happened under Saul's leadership, and so it very clearly is showing the favor of the Lord in the life of David.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and really we kind of see uh Saul his thousands, David his ten thousands here on display because he goes and uh it literally says he brought back everything, like he didn't leave anything behind, nothing got lost, nothing was um you know irreparable, if you will, nothing was unreturnable, if that's a word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, David was able to go and to retrieve everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he he is heralded as uh a great leader, a great warrior, of course, and then mediates that conflict.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he even sends gifts to you know elders and and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's it's very positive.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's pointing towards David's victory, the hand of the Lord being on David's life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, we're starting to see kind of the rise of David into power because for a lot of first Samuel, he was kind of in the slums and uh you know, in the caves and just hiding and on the run, and Saul was pursuing him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so now we're starting to see um come out of that, and uh ultimately we're gonna watch as David becomes the the next king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of good things happening here in 1 Samuel 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, that again showcase the sovereignty of God, his good hand of providence on David, and uh really showcase some positive things even in David.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have we've seen some negative things, his dishonesty, his you know, his lying to Achish and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here we see some more positive things and even his prayer before the Lord about um should I go and and pursue this band or should I not?
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  SPEAKER_01: And waiting on the Lord for his next steps.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see kind of a positive, just the Lord um directing him and David uh relying on him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so a lot of good things here in 1 Samuel 30.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I one thing that I like to highlight about 1 Samuel 30 is is David's uh pursuit of the Lord and his, like you said, Pastor Josiah, his waiting on the Lord and seeking to be in step with the Lord, waiting for direction and guidance and the promise given to David, pursue for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's guaranteed this will happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go and do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting for the green light from the Lord, and he goes and does that.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 18, promise fulfilled.
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  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Nothing, uh, nothing was missed in verse 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything was recovered that the Amalekites had taken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, all the family, not no, not a son or a daughter nor spoil was um was not brought back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that that's just an encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says he's gonna do something against all odds.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a situation like that, you would think surely there's harm done to family, there's there's death involved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but but the Amalekites didn't, and the Lord, the Lord's hand was clearly on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's such an encouragement to me just to continue to trust in the Lord's promises and to believe what he says he will do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and as we look over to our wisdom literature in Proverbs 23, we're wrapping up here with the last handful of verses, and it begins with uh with addressing wine, the desire for wine, uh drunkenness is addressed here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to mixed wine, or would be diluted wine, which requires more consumption to become uh drunk and lose that that uh soberness about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't don't be enamored, don't stare at it, don't, don't desire it uh with an unpure, improper desire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles, when it when it grabs your attention in the cup and goes down smoothly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um I'm just drawn to like what we what we can do, be um, be a person that's fixed in a similar way to how a drunkard would look at wine to be enamored by it, to to be allured by it, to look to the Lord and do the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and be filled um by by the wisdom, as we often see in the the Proverbs, filling our cup with wisdom and drinking that down versus something that would uh impair our understanding and dilute our uh our ability to make sound judgments.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we look to this passage here and just see the caution that God gives about um about being sober and not being a drunkard.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as we we see the outcome of of those who give themselves over to strong wine or a lot of diluted wine, in the end, it bites like a serpent and and stings like an adder.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's uh a lost touch of reality uh that comes with a lack of soberness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we we need to be careful um to to handle wine or to handle any kind of alcohol with with a sense of of wisdom and and a right standing before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to honor him uh by the way that we interact with uh the common graces that he provides.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and the Bible never explicitly condemns alcohol um in general, but it certainly condemns abuse of alcohol, specifically in the form of drunkenness that is very clearly categorized as sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here in the Proverbs, I mean it describes and no uncertain terms um what you will be like, what you will experience, and even verse 33, your eyes will see strange things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like there's a there's a kind of the reality of alcohol, of course, like you were just saying, Tyler, can alter your state of mind, can can lead to improper judgments, um, being unsound, unsteady, and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your eyes will see strange things, and part of that is you know, things that may be, things that may not be, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And and it'll be hard to tell the difference because of the the state uh of your inebriation, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so um that's part of what's discussed here, and your heart utter perverse things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and so when we're controlled, not just by wine or alcohol, but really anything, there's this sense of our heart is just being ruled by our appetites, being governed by uh what we want.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've talked about this uh back in the summer with uh being satisfied in Christ, a heart that is satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we want to be filled with the right things, we want to be controlled by the right things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And specifically, as Paul puts it in Ephesians, we we don't want to be drunk with wine, we want to be controlled by the spirit, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So the question is not whether or not you're being controlled, the question is what is controlling you?
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  SPEAKER_01: So as a Christian, we ought to be controlled by the spirit, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: The love of Christ, as Paul says, compels us, um, of course, by the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so you're either controlled by the spirit and the things of God, or you're controlled by your own appetites that could take the form in this instance of alcohol.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just need to we need to be wise, we need to practice discretion and prudence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, of course, there's implications of even the weaker brother, as Paul describes them in Romans 14, of uh even who we drink, potentially wine or alcohol around, could could be something that could be destructive and unwise.
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  SPEAKER_01: We just need to make sure that we're we're trying to think biblically, that we've got a good biblical head on our shoulders, and uh we don't we don't we don't want to condemn what God doesn't condemn, uh, but we also want to practice great caution and um we want to practice just great discernment and wisdom and and ultimately whether it's an over-indulgence in alcohol or something like wine or or any other kind of over-indulgence, uh, we want to make sure that our appetites in every way, whether it's mental or physical or otherwise, uh, are under the governing of the Spirit of God and are in full submission to the word of God and are seeking to honor God and exalt the name of Christ in the way that we live.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there should be kind of a grid that we think through when we when we do certain things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, even continues, and as if 33 wasn't clear enough, it says in verse 34, you'll be like the one who lies down in the midst of the sea, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like one who lies on the top of a mast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just imagine, you know, I've I've been on a giant cruise ship before in the middle of a in the middle of a storm where the the boat is just like tilting side to side and you're kind of walking, you can't walk in a straight line down the hallway because of the angles of the ship.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's kind of like you're you're laying down, you're at the top, and you're just you're swaying and unsteady and unstable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we don't want to be controlled by by things um that that uh are you know, in some sense, uh our gifts from the Lord, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just food as an example is all is also talked about in the Proverbs as something that we can overconsume and be controlled by and worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we don't be we don't want to be controlled by those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want we want to see them in their proper place.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to handle them um ultimately in a way that is expressive of the fear of the Lord, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so um, yeah, these last this this last little section of Proverbs 23 is all about alcohol because it's it's a big deal and and drunkenness is a big deal and it's destructive and and it can ruin families, it can ruin marriages, it can ruin lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we know people uh you know in society uh driving under the influence causes uh much harm to families.
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  SPEAKER_01: Families have been ruined because of um an abuse of alcohol and just um giving in to drunkenness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we we want to make sure that we're we're being wise, that we're honoring the Lord, that we're seeking to fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Proverbs 23 is a great way uh to just kind of keep those things in check, heed these warnings, respond with just obedience and submission.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think of what even Ecclesiastes says, this is the end of the matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fear God, keep his commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, keep the commandments, don't be drunk with wine, don't be a drunkard, um, seek to honor the Lord with even what you consume.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Paul says that 1 Corinthians 10 31, whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and if we do that, it's going to be for his glory, but also for our good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's that's the hope that we have in uh something that we certainly want to pursue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible reading podcast.
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