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October 15, 2026 - 1 Samuel 11 & Proverbs 18:13-16 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our 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 Thursday, October 15th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, 1 Samuel 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Nahash the Ammonite went up to besiege Jabesh Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days respite, that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the messengers came to Gibev Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and Saul said, What is wrong with the people that they are weeping?
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  SPEAKER_00: So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh, and the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
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  SPEAKER_00: He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
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  SPEAKER_00: When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said to the messengers who had come, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the next day Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck down the Amnites until the heat of the day, and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the people said to Samuel, Who is it that said Shall Saul reign over us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bring the men that we may put them to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Saul said, Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal.
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  SPEAKER_00: There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen verses thirteen through sixteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
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  SPEAKER_00: An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
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  SPEAKER_00: The eleventh chapter of the book of First Samuel details the pinnacle of Saul's leadership as king.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was privately anointed and declared king, but now in our chapter today, we're gonna see Saul publicly declared king in front of the nation as a whole, uh, immediately after a decisive victory over the Ammonites.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there the details here are gruesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: This king, this Ammonite Nahash, he went up and besieged Get Jibesh, Gilgal, and and the people are saying, Make a treaty with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're we're done, we're done getting beat here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's let's work this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Nahash is saying, Sure, let's do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, except I'll need all of your right eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna gouge them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people of Israel's response here, this this response just boggles my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they go to this guy and is saying, Hey, uh, let's let's think about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we can't go and find someone to save us, then we'll let you gouge our eyes out.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll then we'll give ourselves up to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh if there's no one to save us, we'll we'll go and do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The juxtaposition between such a gruesome threat and such a bizarre uh cordial response here of like, well, first let us see if we're gonna have someone to stick up for us, and then we'll get back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That just it's almost laughable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and we have to be thinking back to 1 Samuel chapter 10, verse 1, when the Lord says of Saul, and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, here are the enemies right before them, and here comes Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people are weeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul's not sure what's going on, he's uh behind the oxen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh apparently he's plowing the fields, he's he's working uh as a king, which is odd.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's declared king publicly uh in this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's in the field, it's not something that a king would be doing, and the spirit of God rushes upon him after he hears these threats from the Ammonites, and this is a righteous anger.
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  SPEAKER_00: The spirit of the Lord is upon him, and he is he's heated, he's he's jealous for the the safety and protection of his people, and this wicked, wicked man is making threats of violence towards him and his people, and he's not having it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he gets all the the nation, all the all the men together, and he's gonna do something about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 300,000 of Israel, uh, 30,000 uh specifically from Judah, and and they're gonna go do battle early in the morning and surprise these Ammonites and send them running, literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're scattered, not two, two of these warriors are found together because they are so utterly ruined and they're running for their lives literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the the response to this decisive victory is Saul addressing men that would say, Who was it that was saying at the end of chapter 10, how can this man save us?
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  SPEAKER_00: These worthless fellows, as we see in verse 27 of chapter 10, these men that were despising him and and bringing him no presents.
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  SPEAKER_00: These uh, these men after this victory are saying, Hey, where are these guys?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are these jokers?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna put them to death now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were disrespecting our king because he just delivered us, he did what we what we hoped he would do, what we were asking for, a king to go and fight our battles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is Saul, and we have the victory today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul's response is No, no one's dying today, not a man shall be put to death, and he's giving the Lord glory here in verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: For today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's giving God the credit, he's looking to him as the leader of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Samuel comes onto the scene and saying, Let's let's go worship, let's go get our our a rightful place and reorient ourselves and renew uh ourselves here before the Lord, and they go and worship and sacrifice, they make peace offerings, and they give uh they give the Lord what is rightly due to him in the way that he prescribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel, uh Samuel is leading, Saul is being merciful and gracious, and and this is this is what we want to see out of a king of of God's people, um, kind, gracious, merciful, showing great leadership, uh, directing and and uh going to battle, going to protect the the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as the dust settles, there's there's a moment where he could have said, I need my respect now, and we're those guys that were talking bad, those worthless fellows, let's bring them out, let's make a spectacle of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those people who who are denying, uh denying me, who is who the haters bring him out, let's let's put them to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Saul Saul is saying, let's let's let's focus on the Lord here because it's him, it's it's it's Yahweh that that helped us win today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Yahweh that deserves the glory, and we will sacrifice and worship him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love how this chapter concludes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only do they rejoice, but they rejoice greatly.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's energy and enthusiasm, there's zeal behind their worship, and and God is glorified and honored in this in this decisive victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they they put the Ammonites uh where they should be.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were they they should have done this uh originally, pursuing and driving out the inhabitants of the land, and and God is giving them the victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh an encouragement, uh the pinnacle or the the zenith, if you will, that the peak of Saul's leadership, his role as king, he's publicly um honored publicly leading in a way that's giving God the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh this is uh this is a high point in the life of Saul, and it it's gonna start to slide.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here in this moment in chapter 11, we're gonna recognize uh Saul's righteous anger.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's going to empower him, going to give him the ability here uh to lead well, uh, to have a righteous anger, a jealousy for for the Lord and for um the way that the Lord's people are treated.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one's gonna go and and disrespect God's people this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna have it, and then God is glorified uh in this righteous anger, as we see in verse six.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a high point uh for for King Saul, a high point for Israel uh so far in this book, and uh a great way to to look at this is just the the the unity between uh both King and Samuel here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both Saul and Samuel are on the same page wanting to do what is right before the Lord after a great victory is given to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I have a question for us all to think about as we dive into the Proverbs section of our reading plan today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in Proverbs chapter 18 and verse 13 draws to my mind my time on the road and in the ways that uh we cruise around town, whether we're commuting to work or dropping off kids at uh practice or taking them to school or going and getting groceries or getting errands and whatever the case may be when we're behind the wheel, driving in our cars or trucks or whatever it may be, and someone cuts us off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that can that could very quickly cause some frustration, cause some some thoughts to go in your mind, and and this proverb has me thinking about the way that we use our words and the ways that we can cut off people before we're done listening, before we're done hearing what they have to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame uh giving giving mankind two ears and one mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've probably heard this before.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's because we need to listen more and speak less, or something along those lines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this man or this person here that's uh spoken of, let's just call him a he he assumes he knows all the details before the person is done saying them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a little there's a bit of a pride or a bit of um a bit of foolishness in in him as he's not wanting to hear or assuming that he knows what will be said next.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's an answer given before the full story is delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's his folly, it's his shame, and we put ourselves in in uncomfortable and in difficult, foolish situations when we are um when we're doing this, when we're giving an answer before we hear the whole story, when we're uh choosing to cut people off, uh choosing to assume that we have the full picture before it is fully uh painted for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our next verse a man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's the weather changing in the fall and the winter are uh just around the corner here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The colder temperatures are uh are making themselves known in the evenings, and I'm loving it, the crispness in the air.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with that comes uh the cold and flu season, unfortunately.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the time of year that people get ill more often.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the runny noses, I'm sure you might be seeing some of your kids have the sniffles or a cough or whatever it may be.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the man's spirit, a man's spirit, a man's inner self can endure sickness.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can recover by God's grace and the way that he heals us and brings us back into uh good health.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord for the ways that he does that in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but if we look at this from a different perspective, a crushed spirit, who can bear?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are you going to go to?
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  SPEAKER_00: What doctor is gonna go and help you with your crushed spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: And hopefully you have some people in mind when you're thinking, well, I know, I know who can help me with my crushed spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know who's gonna encourage me, who's gonna draw my head up, lift my eyes to to where I need to focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: This person you may be thinking of is gonna draw your attention to the scriptures to find where your hope comes from, whether you're mourning or where you're you're grieving, or um, there's this unexplained anxiety or or depression you're wrestling with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh a crushed spirit, who can bear that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh oftentimes we we can't get out of uh a funk, if you will, we can't get out of our own depths of uh of our emotions or anxieties, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's this there's this contrast, the body, the the outer man and the inner man.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is the inner man going to recover?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's an answer that is pointing us to the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is going to help restore our souls?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's going to bring us back and renew our inner man?
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  SPEAKER_00: That is that is the Lord, that is the good shepherd who is going to restore our our souls, who who's going to lead us, uh direct our thoughts and our minds onto a hope that is unshakable, a hope that is found in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 15, moving on here.
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  SPEAKER_00: An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: So knowledge is the pursuit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have the the intellectual heart still wanting and still going after more knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the ear of the wise, so we have the intelligent and the wise, they're both going after knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people that you would look to who are the wisest or have the most intelligence in your life, if they love the Lord, and if they are a humble person, they're going to tell you, there's just so much that I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I might have some knowledge, I might have some understanding and some wisdom to share, but there's still just so much, so much to be known.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's reflected here in this proverb, verse 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: The God-fearing person who is humbly walking with their creator is going to acknowledge and recognize that there's still more to love, more to know, more to pursue, uh, more to understand about the world, the and the creator that made it, and and how we can more closely follow him, know him, and love him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So verse 15 kind of is painting this picture of a hunger for more, uh, a satisfaction in God that just creates more hunger, a more desire to uh to know and and to and to fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our last proverb, verse 16, the man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this has flavors and and uh and hints of of bribery.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man's gift makes room for him, it gives him a seat at the table, uh, sweetens, it sweetens an entrance.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it puts him before people of of greatness or or influence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we want to be pursuing people in in the context of of loving them and encouraging them uh if they are in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if they're not in Christ, we're looking to love them and to evangelize to them to draw their attention to uh their need for salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we're thinking about relationships, our social dynamics, and how we can honor Christ in them, um assess your heart, think about what what you're doing and why, why, why you're going and potentially giving a gift or thinking about delivering a gift to someone, is it is it for some kind of return?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it for some kind of selfish gain?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and and how how are you going about um pursuing relationships?
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  SPEAKER_00: What what's your what's your chief goal behind them?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's I think what this proverb is is causing me to ask of myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what are you doing and why?
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  SPEAKER_00: A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the greats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now there's there's ways that we can have connections and network and um thinking about looking for a new job, how you're going to uh go about getting in front of the right people, uh, getting in front of the right panel, the right interview.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but let's consider how we can we could do it with integrity, with honesty, and and and not look to uh to purchase our way or bribe our way into relationships or a certain status uh with the people around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's uh treat all people with dignity, with dignity, and and treat people with the love of Christ with a heart that is not manipulative, but a heart that is pure and upright and and seeking the good of all those around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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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.