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August 1, 2026 - Deuteronomy 30 & Proverbs 1 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Saturday, August 1st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word, Deuteronomy 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If your outcast are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you, and the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it, and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers, and the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you, and you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statues that are written in the book of the law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all of your soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not in heaven that you should say, Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it, neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?
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  SPEAKER_01: But the word is very near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: See I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if your heart turns away and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare you today that you shall surely perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
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  SPEAKER_01: I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and holding fast to him, for he is your life in length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs one The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel, to know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, inequity, to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and penance for your neck.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they say, Come with us, let us lie and wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Sheol, let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the pit.
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  SPEAKER_00: We shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder, throw in your lot among us, we will all have one purse.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, do not walk in the way with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes away the life of its possessors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice, at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, at the entrance of the city gates she speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
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  SPEAKER_00: How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you, because I have called and you refuse to listen, have stretched out my hand, and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, then they will call upon me, but I will not answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will seek me diligently, but will not find me, because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices, for the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease without dread of disaster.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that's really stuck out to me, Tyler, in our reading of Deuteronomy, is I I couldn't help but think of all of the different ways that Jesus, particularly in the Gospels, says things, alludes to, or even directly references from Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even if you think about the Sermon on the Mount, a very famous sermon, a section there in Matthew, Matthew 5, 6, and 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really begins with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says he goes up this hill and he takes a seat and he begins to teach.
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  SPEAKER_01: He teaches his disciples, and of course, there was a great crowd there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, there's some functional practicality to why he did that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He sat, uh, maybe to have a sort of acoustical amphitheater kind of environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: But really, sitting was associated with uh position of authority, uh, a teacher, a rabbi.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's no accident that Jesus goes up a hill and and sits, because I think it's meant to, in some ways, draw our minds back to this whole thing, this whole story that we've been reading about Israel and Mount Hora, Mount Sinai, Moses giving the law, and in these instructions, and particularly in Deuteronomy here in chapter 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: These instructions are essentially do this and live.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do this, and you you will be blessed, and there will be flourishing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly even what Jesus sort of talks about in the Sermon on the Mount.
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  SPEAKER_01: He talks about that with the Beatitudes, as we call them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are those who are poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bless, bless, blessed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he goes specifically through some of the laws that are very prominent in the old covenants, specifically outlined here in Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then, of course, as I've mentioned several times already, he ends by talking about being a wise man that builds his house on the rock because you listen and you do, you obey.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so all of that just has such great overlap to what we're reading here in Deuteronomy 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even thinking how the chapter ends, you know, he gives all of these, Moses is is giving all of these warnings, you know, if your heart turns away, this is verse 17, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them.
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  SPEAKER_01: I declare to you today that you shall surely perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you reject, if you do not hear, that it's gonna end, it's gonna end not in life, but in perishing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, what does Jesus say in the Sermon on the Mount?
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  SPEAKER_01: Those who hear these words of mine and do them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so often in the gospels, Jesus says, hearing they do not hear, seeing they do not see.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and so we we have all these great parallels and allusions uh between the old covenant and the old testament law, and Jesus himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, a big theme that he's addressing in the Sermon on the Mount is I did not come to abolish the law of Moses specifically, but I came to fulfill it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there it says in Deuteronomy 30, 17, if you turn away, if you go towards false worship of false gods, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then in verse 20, uh verse 19, going into verse 20, therefore choose life, choose life that you and your offspring may live loving the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what does it mean to choose life?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it means in verse 20, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him, for he is your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even that makes me think of Paul.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Christ, who is your life, appears, this is Colossians 3, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: For he is your life in length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can hear you that even sort of that language in Psalm 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And part of that is what we are seeing here in Deuteronomy 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, those who are genuinely disciples of Christ, those who genuinely love the Lord, they do what he says, they obey his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I know that's something that we've talked about uh several times over the last couple of days, but that's that's the theme here that's being reiterated again and again and again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, specifically in chapter 30, there is a promise and a provision of restoration.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if Israel is to reject God, is if Israel is to one day be scattered, there's a promise that if they turn back, if they obey, that God's going to um restore them, he's going to replant them, if you will, in the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of the beginning of chapter 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, he talks about they may be scattered, even if uh this is verse four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh if your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's basically saying, as far away as you can possibly get, uh, if you choose to obey, if you choose to remember the covenant, if you repent from your idolatry, the Lord will bring you back as a nation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, this is a prophetic pronouncement that we know ends up happening because Israel, at least in in uh certain senses with the different captivities, the Babylonian being the main one, uh, they get scattered and they're among different nations and they're far away from their lands, but they ultimately get brought back.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we read about that in Nehemiah and in other places, but Nehemiah with the rebuilding of the city walls.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and we ultimately believe that in the future there's going to be a kind of a full-scale restoration, I would say.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh what Paul references in Romans 11, all of Israel being saved.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is kind of all being the groundwork being laid here in Deuteronomy 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all connected and bound up in God's promises, his covenant with his people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and of course, that the choosing of life here is connected to loving God, obeying God, holding fast to what he has said, hearing uh what he has instructed, and and doing the things uh that he has commanded.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what great uh wisdom and obedience come um when we uh look to God to to help us follow after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're starting a new book today, Pastor Josiah, the book of Proverbs, the Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, King of Israel, the wisest man uh to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh even the wisest of men are still broken and fallen, as we'll see in the life of Solomon as we continue to study the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have the very first chapter here, and it begins with uh with wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is wisdom?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's to know and to fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what knowledge is.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, and fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: It comes from God, it comes from uh the Lord, the the creator of the universe, the the creator of mankind, the one in whose image we are made.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we continue to to enter through uh this book here and and continue to study these proverbs, we're gonna see just nugget after nugget after nugget of uh insight, just practical ways that we could be uh living out and following uh sound counsel, sound wisdom as we seek to obey God and seek to follow after uh after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for us to to think of ourselves as simple might be good for us as we as we see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh at times I can be simple, I can be dull of mind, I can uh I can be immature, but as we continue to depend on God, uh seek his way first, seek his wisdom that he's pouring out through the scriptures and adhere to them, well, we can mature and grow and be more um more like Christ uh as a result.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I can even see kind of connections and some great overlap with what we were just talking about in Deuteronomy 30, this whole idea of choosing life or perishing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of the paradigm in in Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you do this, you will live.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you don't do this, you will perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see that exact sort of framework in Proverbs as a whole.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a way that seems right to a man, but its end is destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even in the opening verses here, sort of the prologue of the book in Proverbs 1, 1 through 7, it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it gives kind of an excursus, an immediate excursus of the necessity of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: We talked about this uh a few weeks ago in the main service.
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  SPEAKER_01: I jokingly coined it the tour de fool, where if you lack wisdom, it can destroy your life in a thousand different ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we kind of see that here in verses eight and following with the this father giving instructions to his son, telling him to remember and to not forsake his mother's teaching.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and all of that, by the way, you can see kind of the the connections to Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember the covenant, remember what I've said.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't miss it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not forsake my my teachings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we recognize in verse 10 uh that sin is crouching at the door.
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  SPEAKER_01: It so easily entangles.
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  SPEAKER_01: My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
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  SPEAKER_01: If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without reason, like Sheol, let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the pit.
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  SPEAKER_01: We shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder, throw in your lot among us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We will all have one purse.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my son, do not walk in the way with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold back your foot from their path.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's this warning in this plea: do not go down that path.
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  SPEAKER_01: That path does not lead to life, that path leads to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And ultimately, that's exactly what is said in verse 32 of chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But whoever listens to me, hear Deuteronomy in this, will dwell secure and will be at ease without dread of disaster.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that how what we just read in Deuteronomy?
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  SPEAKER_01: If you listen, you will dwell with the Lord, that kind of language that again we were quoting even Psalm 23, I will dwell in the house of the Lord uh forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's there's this idea of if you're fearing the Lord, you're gonna obey the Lord, you're gonna do things in the way that He has commanded, the way that He intends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um it says, if you listen to me, the Father talking to the Son, you will dwell secure.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's safety, security, comfort, and you will be at ease without dread of disaster.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited to get into the Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna take larger chunks kind of at the beginning, and then as we get into more of the shorter uh Proverbs that are kind of collections in the later chapters of the book of Proverbs, we'll slow down and kind of just meditate and mull over some smaller chunks of the book of Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just excited to get into that practical aspect, that practical wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that's what we've been studying on Sundays.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh at least we started in in July and we'll continue through August, just going through Proverbs and such great wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: And remember that's kind of binary reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: You listen to what God says, you fear the Lord, it leads to life and blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You reject what God says, you you do not fear the Lord, you puff yourself up with pride, that leads to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's really uh kind of how Proverbs opens and it and it shows that in a in a number of different ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to talk about uh folly, it's gonna talk about wisdom, and they're gonna both be personified.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like they're kind of dueling in Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wisdom is personified as a woman that's often crying from the streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: Folly is uh personified as this foolish person that is ultimately just doing things that are destructive and harmful and that are not honoring to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So looking forward to diving deeper into Proverbs as we continue to read through it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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