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October 23, 2026 - 1 Samuel 18 & Proverbs 20:1-10 · 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 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 Friday, October 23rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul eyed David from that day on.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul had his spear in his hand, and Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, I will pin David to the wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: But David evaded him twice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him, but had departed from Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand, and he went out and came in before the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful all of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul said to David, Here is my elder daughter, Merab, I will give her to you for a wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Saul thought, Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David said to Saul, Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the time when Marab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel, the Mahathalite, for a wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Saul's daughter, Mikal, loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul thought, Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore Saul said to David a second time, You shall now be my son-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul commanded his servants, speak to David in private, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then become the king's son-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David said, Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and I have no reputation?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the servants of Saul told him, Thus and so did David speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires no bride price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before the time had expired, David arose and went along with his men and killed two hundred of the Philistines, and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul gave him his daughter Macal for a wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Macall, Saul's daughter, loved him, Saul was even more afraid of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul was David's enemy continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out, David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 20 verses 1 through 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
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  SPEAKER_01: The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
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  SPEAKER_01: The sluggard does not plough in the autumn.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will seek at harvest and have nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find the righteous who walks in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.
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  SPEAKER_01: A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who can say, I have made my heart pure, I am clean from my sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time of recording this, it is 6 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: on the first night of our men's retreat.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, we are just about to get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got kind of dessert and coffee that's going to kick things off at about 6:45.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I would just ask if you're listening to this, that you would pray for this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please pray for the men that have come up here to Faith Heights in Donnelly to have just a great, encouraging couple of days.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful venue that we're at.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are probably 30 to 40 yards away from the water right now as we record and just uh beautiful scenery.
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  SPEAKER_00: And hopefully I'm praying an encouraging time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to be talking about the topic and the theme of the retreat is refined, really focusing on a theology of suffering that prepares us for potential, maybe even guaranteed, dark days ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to make sure that we as Christians have a great, firm grasp of what the Bible says about suffering, trials, difficulty, and be equipped for when those days come, not to be shaken overly so, but rather to have just a sure and steadfast anchor in our souls that's grounded, of course, in Christ and his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: So please pray with us for tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, of course, this is tomorrow at this point, but pray for uh just everything that's going on this weekend for the men to be built up and encouraged for great just fellowship, great life group conversations after the sessions, and everything in between.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would love your prayers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we get into 1 Samuel 18, this is an interesting chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see David and Jonathan's friendship kind of at the beginning of the chapter uh being highlighted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It talks really in these very vivid terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse one, as soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is going to be important because Saul, of course, we're beginning to see some of the first fruits of the poisonous well, if you will, where Saul is uh not a huge fan of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's filled with envy.
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  SPEAKER_00: David is successful.
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  SPEAKER_00: David, uh, even the the women of the city, I don't know what compelled them to do this, but they're going around town saying Saul killed his thousands, but David killed ten thousands.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, for a a man uh that is it seems given over to envy fairly easily, that uh that's not what he needed to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was surely a chart topper, number one in all of the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everything he did, it seemed like every decision David made, every uh task that David was given, even by Saul the king, uh, turned to goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he was a great warrior, he was a great champion, he was a great servant, he was known as uh someone who was noble, he had great character, and he was well renowned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that caused Saul to be angry, and we start to see that kind of unfolding here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul kind of goes back and forth between anger and fear because he recognizes that the Lord is with David.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's repeated several times in this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is with David, and of course, uh the friendship that David has with Jonathan is gonna continue to play a part in this developing narrative.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know the stories we've we've already been through the Psalms and the Lapon Light Bible reading plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you know that David eventually goes on the run.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that David hides in a cave, we know that Saul uh intends to take his life on several occasions, even in this chapter, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: He takes the javelin, he wants to pin him to the wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of that works out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gives them an impossible task, uh, where he says, I want you to go get a hundred foreskins, foreskins of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the whole point in his heart was he wanted him to die in battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, David, being the golden child, he comes back not with a hundred, but times two ultra fire foreskins and makes Saul uh even, you know, there's multiple schemes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, what if I give my daughter, uh, then that'll trip him up?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if he gets a hundred foreskins?
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  SPEAKER_00: That'll trip him up.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if I throw a javelin into his chest and pin him to the wall, that'll trip him up?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, all none of it, of course, works out because the Lord is with David very clearly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul sees that and is again just going back and forth between anger and fear, recognizing that the hand of God is clearly protecting David and is blessing him in everything that he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just some important things to note here, of course, of Jonathan and David, their relationship, but also just the the boiling and rising tension between Saul and David that'll continue to unfold in the chapters to come.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we transition to our wisdom section, we're in a new chapter, Proverbs chapter 20, and a few verses that that stand out to me, and I'm just encouraged by uh verse seven the righteous who walks in his integrity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there's just a quick chop to blessed, blessed are his children after him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a parent, as as a son, as a brother, I'm I'm thinking about the ways that I'm I'm living my life uh in purity, the way that I pursue personal holiness and just the eyes that are watching me, the eyes that are learning as I'm growing and learning, uh, to follow after the Lord, to to honor him with my life, um, and the the heritage of faith that I hope is a gift given to my children uh one day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the lessons, the quiet time, the family devotion time that we have as a family.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just praying that the Lord will use that and and God would would bless and grant salvation to my children, just trusting the Lord with the outcome of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, another verse that stands out to me is uh is just having to do with conflict.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems like there's this conflict all around, whether it's uh in-laws, your own parents, people at work, there's there's conflict everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our world loves a good bit to a good piece of information to gossip about, something to disagree on.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's people always looking for a quarrel, time to an opportunity to to get at it with somebody and verbally spar with someone and try to jab at them and just wear them down.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's an honor for a man to keep aloof.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh doesn't matter to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's something to squash, I'm gonna squash it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this man is aloof from strife.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a way that we can um just stay in uh in our own lane and and find ways that are gonna build people up and find intentional ways to encourage people that we're gonna be aloof from strife and and not lean into that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So lean into encouragement and and lean into to building people up today.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I was reading this, Proverbs 20, verse six brought me back to our second sermon in the set apart series.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you can think back, uh this is of course the men and the women both went through the same series, but it was holy, faithful, zealous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that we talked about for the men at the beginning is Proverbs 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here in the Proverbs and throughout the scriptures, a faithful man is someone that the scripture places a premium on, but there's also this sense of that being a rarity, that the faithfulness, sincere faithfulness is something that is rare and something that is precious.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that, of course, we want to strive to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be faithful men and women, we're gonna be faithful husbands and fathers, we want to be faithful workers, we want to be faithful in all the things that we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, the ultimate way to be faithful, we even talked about this with the men, is to tether our faithfulness to God's ultimate faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: His never, his faithfulness never changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't wax and wane, it doesn't ebb and flow, but of course, ours does.
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  SPEAKER_00: We may be faithful one day and unfaithful in the next.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so for us to be faithful men and faithful women, this thing that is precious, the character that God ultimately is looking for, uh, we we need to anchor our faithfulness and tether it to the Lord's faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is always faithful, he never breaks a promise, he's always true to his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so many great things here in Proverbs 20 in these first uh 10 verses as we begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to continue walking through the Proverbs together.
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  SPEAKER_00: But thank you so much for joining us today on 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.