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October 3, 2026 - 1 Samuel 1 & Proverbs 17:1-4 · 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 Saturday, October 3rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel one.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a certain man of Ramathim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was El Kanah, the son of Jeroam, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuf, an Ephraith.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had two wives, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Penina.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Penina had children, but Hannah had no children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were priests of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the day when Elkanah sacrificed he would give portions to Penina, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, but to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her because the Lord had closed her womb.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it went on year by year.
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  SPEAKER_00: As often as she went up to the house of the Lord she used to provoke her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And El Kanah, her husband, said to her, Hannah, why do you weep?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why do you not eat?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why is your heart sad?
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I not more to you than ten sons?
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  SPEAKER_00: After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose, and Eli the priest, was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly, and she vowed a vow and said, O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.
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  SPEAKER_00: As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hannah was speaking in her heart, only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman, and Eli said to her, How long will you go on being drunk?
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  SPEAKER_00: Put your wine away from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Eli answered, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Let your servant find favour in your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They rose early in the morning and worshipped before the Lord, then they went back to their house at Rama, and Alcanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her, and in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, I have asked for him from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow, but Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, As soon as a child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there for ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elkanah, her husband, said to her, Do what seems best to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait until you have weaned him only.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the Lord establish his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him, and when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three year old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh, and the child was young.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they slaughtered the bull and they brought the child to Eli.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, Oh my Lord, as you live, my Lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I have lent him to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord, and he worshipped the Lord there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs seventeen, verses one through four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
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  SPEAKER_00: A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to mischievous tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: The book of first Samuel begins to start a transition in the time of judges, as Samuel, who we see being born at the end of the first chapter, will be the final judge of Israel and will uh begin to, as we see the line of Saul and David and their and their their reigns in Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the time of the judges is coming to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we see Samuel operate in a handful of different ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will be a prophet for the Lord, and he is the prophet next after Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see uh Samuel, um his his mother Hannah calling out to the Lord, she is barren uh in this chapter and is being tormented, is being oppressed and uh and scoffed at, and she's being beat down year after year uh by her rival, uh her uh her husband's other wife is mistreating her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Penana is mistreating her year after year, and it's wearing on Hannah, and she's calling out to the Lord in this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: We look to verse 10, O Lord of hosts, uh, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's taking this moment, calling out for the Lord, uh, not not in a selfish way, not for selfish gain, but but for for the Lord to be glorified, the Lord to be honored through her affliction.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's committing uh whatever son the Lord would provide uh back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was she's committing whatever son that she gives, and she's making a vow, uh, and her husband Elkanah is is going to affirm that vow as we see later in this chapter, that this son uh is going to be committed to the Lord and service of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and we see a very valiant life, uh, as we will continue to see chapter by chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: By chapter three, we're gonna see Samuel as a uh as a young man hearing from the Lord, and uh the on-ramp into his adult life is is quick here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so hold on tight as we get through chapter one and and two in first samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see the the kind of character, the kind of man that Samuel is and and who he is in uh the the people of Israel, the tribes of Israel, and who he is as he stands for, uh for God's for God's word, his law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And pretty quickly we'll see him telling the truth to Eli and telling him some pretty hard things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll get to that here in a couple chapters, but uh first Samuel it is is really opening up uh the line of kings that Israel will see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's ending first Samuel is gonna be ending the the line of judges, and as we look to uh look to the the kingly line of David and and Solomon after him, as we work through the the Old Testament here, we're gonna see God's faithfulness to his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see faithful men.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna start to see a turn here in the in the books of first and second Samuel, which uh originally were one scroll, but as they were translated, they they were divided as they were too big, too, too long to fit on one scroll.
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  SPEAKER_00: So look at the books of 1 and 2 Samuel as as one book in their uh in their original writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as we think about this this work, 1st and 2nd Samuel, we don't know the author, we don't see any evidence of an author declaring its it's as we do in the New Testament, like Paul would address his uh his readers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see these books nonetheless as uh divinely inspired by the Spirit of God, and and we see these books as we work through them as great encouragements to us as they they point to the line of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look to the end of 1st and 2 Samuel, uh these books will take us all the way to the month of December, to the first week of December.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh the fall is going to be spent uh in the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, though we don't know the author, we do know King Saul and King David and the ways that God is working through his servants to draw God's people back to himself by establishing faithful leaders that who are not perfect, they're not flawless, they do uh draw near to God, they do cherish and value and revere his word, they do fear the Lord, and and you'll see the people of Israel as we get through uh the the end of 2 Samuel will see God's people drawing near to him and following after uh after the faithful leaders that that God installs and establishes for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we start a new chapter in the Proverbs, we are in the first four verses of chapter 17, and the first verse here draws my attention back to the first few chapters of first Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we see, better is it a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
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  SPEAKER_00: Better to have some stale bread with peace and unity and order than the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disorder, chaos with with feasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we look to Eli and his failed leadership, his his inability to see uh Hannah in her distress, calling out to the Lord, and he he sees her as a drunkard, as a woman who was um given over to alcohol or a strong drink or wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh but we see in his own life and his own failed uh leadership as a father, uh overseeing his sons as priests, there's a lot of chaos and there's great um great judgment that comes through the through the mouth of Samuel as God calls out to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see that in the first couple chapters of first Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So better to have a dry morsel with quiet, with peace, with order in your home than a house full of feasting, with strife, with chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 2, a servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see this comparison between someone who is serving a family, a a servant, a steward, someone who is hired or uh is maybe potentially uh working off a debt to serve this family who's who is wise, who is uh not foolish, who doesn't act shamefully, who's acting honorably.
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  SPEAKER_00: This person who, although is not part of the family, is serving the family, this person will rule over a son who is within the family and is acting shamefully, and and that servant will uh share, there's there's a benefit, there's a gain to this servant who's dealing wisely.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna share in the inheritance as one of the brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna be treated as someone who is uh biologically one of uh one of the offspring of this family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this isn't uh this isn't a 100% of the time guarantee that if you're serving uh serving a family and and you're acting wisely, you're gonna share in the inheritance um of that family.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not what this is saying, but there's some some truth and some wisdom spoken here as uh it's better to be someone that's lowly and that's humble, wise, um, and just faithful rather than someone who is who is part of the family and just acting a fool, acting wickedly, acting shamefully, as uh this draws dishonor and and draws a negative name and gives a negative reputation to this family and the family's name.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the next two verses of our section today in Proverbs, draw our attention to refining and the heat and the different things that go on in our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh a crucible is for silver, uh, where you would refine and purify over the over the furnace or in a kiln.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the furnaces for for gold, for for purifying, for for drawing out the impurities.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as the heart, the inner man, it's the Lord that draws out the impurities.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the Lord that knows what's going on inside the man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and through different trials, through different treasures, and through different uh lengths of time, God is is showing us what's going on inside of our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's drawing our attention and he knows.
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  SPEAKER_00: God knows what what resides inside the hearts of man and mankind, and he tests the hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he knows how uh how his people will respond.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in his in his wisdom and his knowledge, God is going to purify and refine his bride, and it's the Lord that tests the hearts, it's the Lord that is going to put people through the flames, through the fire to refine them, and it's for his glory and for his people's good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, verse 4 an evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is important for us today because people matter, and the relationships that we establish, the people who we associate with, who we fellowship with, really does matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: God cares about the people that we place ourselves around and fellowship with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 4 draws my attention back to Psalm chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law.
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  SPEAKER_00: He meditates day and night in this final verse here in our section today, verse four, it draws the attention to who the evildoer is listening to, who he's paying attention to, who he's given his ear towards, and the liar, the liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are um wanting to manipulate and bend the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can I get away with this?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can I pervert justice?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can I manipulate the system of judgment that God has installed?
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  SPEAKER_00: A liar gives ear to mischievous tongue, to swindle, to manipulate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh that that's not the way of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way of the Lord is is is honesty and integrity and character that would be the following after God's God's law, God's commands.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, God hates a liar.
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  SPEAKER_00: God uh is only true.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the source of all truth, and he wants his people, he wants you and I to engage uh directly, intentionally, honestly, and in a way that is holy and set apart, that would point people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, whether we are in trouble or not, we're gonna be telling the truth, drawing attention to the one who has commanded us to live a life uh set apart in honoring to our king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope you are encouraged by our readings today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much uh for joining us in the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.