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October 27, 2026 - 1 Samuel 21 & Proverbs 21:1-10 · 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 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 Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone and no one with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then, what do you have on hand?
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the priest answered David, I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the young men have kept themselves from women, and David answered the priest, Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vessels of the young men are holy, even when it is an ordinary journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: How much more today will their vessels be holy?
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  SPEAKER_00: So the priests gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord, his name was Doeg, the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then David said to Ahimelech, Then have you not here a spear or a sword on at hand?
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  SPEAKER_00: For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the priest said, The sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the Ephod.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David said, There is none like that, give it to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Akish, the king of Gath, and the servants of Akish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did they not sing to one another of him in dances?
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul has struck down his thousands and David his ten thousands?
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  SPEAKER_00: And David took these words to heart, and was much afraid of Akish, the king of Gath.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Akish said to his servants, Behold, you see the man is mad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why then have you brought him to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do I lack madmen that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence?
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  SPEAKER_00: Shall this fellow come into my house?
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs twenty one verses one through ten.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He turns it wherever he will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Haughty eyes and a proud heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lamp of the wicked are sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
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  SPEAKER_00: The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is better to live in a corner of a house top than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: The soul of the wicked desires evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: His neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: In first Samuel twenty-one, we see another snapshot of David's life on the run from King Saul, and he is going to interact with Ahimelech the priest, and as he does so on the run, he's hungry, surely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's asking for bread, and he's asking for provisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's looking for a sword or a spear or something to defend himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's an Edomite there at this time, uh, a a leader, a lead shepherd of King Saul, uh, the chief herdsman of King Saul, and he is going to be a man that is going to ultimately report back his account of this interaction with David and Ahimelech.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David is going to lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gives Ahimelech a false story, a false narrative of why he's there, what he's doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He could clearly just tell him that he's on the run, he's hungry, he needs protection, he needs some provisions, but he he tells a bold-faced lie to Ahimelech, and he doesn't tell them the truth, which ultimately puts him in danger as uh as whether he knows or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: This man, Doeg, is loyal to King Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's gonna go over and report back, and there's gonna be a great uh great slaughter in this following chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be horrific and awful, and we'll get to that tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here, David is lying, he's not telling the truth, he is going to be continuing on the run.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he flees again and he's running, and he he has uh an interaction with a Philistine king in Gath, this King Akish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's going to put on a show.
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  SPEAKER_00: He might be method acting right here and right now, and acting like a madman on the spot once he realizes that he's in danger.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're they're aware of this giant slayer, this man who has songs written about him, about how many, how many foes he has slain down.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see this line here again.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're aware of the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul has struck down his thousands and David his ten thousands, and he is much afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see in verse 12, and he puts on the show of being insane.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's drooling, he's making markings on the gates, and this king is like, get this guy, get this man out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I already have enough problems and troubles.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't need another, another uh crazy guy in my town.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get him, get him out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, he's gonna want to be here in my house, and uh we got no time for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we we see this interaction with a David and a Philistine king, and ultimately we we have to reflect back and think what is it that God is doing to protect David?
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  SPEAKER_00: We look back to chapter 19 of 1 Samuel and how God has protected David, the the spears that miss uh David in in Saul's house, the the different servants that are trying to secure him, to to tell of his location, to secure uh a position, so that way King Saul could kill him.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has uh spared his life up to this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's protected him all along the way and in threats of danger.
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  SPEAKER_00: David has uh put his hope and faith, his trust in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the irony here is that in Gath, this is the the city, the town where Goliath is from, and he's scared of what Saul can do, he's scared of what this king of the Philistines can do, and he's not putting uh his eyes and his mind, his heart upon the Lord to call out to help from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's uh making decisions in and of his own intellect, his own strength to to cover and to protect himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's speaking lies in order to protect himself, to get what he thinks he needs to survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately, he's his decision making, his uh lack of uh honesty here is going to put some people in some grave danger in the following chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see David and just a snapshot of his time on the run, the the bread of the presence that he receives, and the sword of Goliath, a token, a memento that surely should be for David a reminder of God's faithfulness, his protection, and his provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look over to our time in the Proverbs, kings are very much present here again in our reading today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the first verse, we see a king's heart being spoken of.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a stream of water in the hand of a of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He turns it wherever he will.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this verse brings back memories of me making sand castles and playing in the water on the beach when I was a child with my siblings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would uh scoop up the water and the sand, and we would build little uh drip castles as the sand of the water would just fall out of our fingertips, and we would build little little castles, little buildings with it in the sand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm that this reminds me of how I had the control, I had the power to put that sand in that water wherever I wanted it to go, and that is no different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, in in the real life for real people, God's ability to turn and his sovereign rule over mankind.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what God does, he has control, he has authority to turn a king and to lead a king in in whichever way that he desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see that in um Israel's exile, the the the Assyrian king that is turned, his heart is leaned and bent towards Israel to remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see that in the previous chapters in 1 Samuel, God causes King Saul to prophesy instead of enacting murder against his anointed, his chosen David.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's ways that we can look and be thinking in this world, there's no way that this could be happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is out of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is going on in our world today?
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  SPEAKER_00: But no matter if what kind of level of authority you have in this world, whether you're uh the wealthiest man in the world or the most powerful man in the world, or you have great resources and and and positioning and connections, these people can be led like a stream of water, guided by the hand of the Lord, whenever, however, and ultimately it's it's for God's purposes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is a sovereign ruler, he is Lord of all.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the second verse here today, we think about what people do and how they operate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: You think about the ways that people make decisions, the way they rationalize, the way they make moves in this life, they do what is going to bring them benefit.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they operate in a way that best serves them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the these decisions are made from relatively good morals, which would align with God's heart, and they might ascribe it to just doing the right thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, the the right things, the the pure and just things are always aligned with God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes people will uh not acknowledge the creator, the author of these rules, and come up with these just do what's right, follow your heart, and that's a dangerous place to be for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: But every way of a man is right in his own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people would not be seeing the law of the Lord, not submitting to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would be creating their own laws, doing their own things, and creating their own structure to operate within.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord weighs the heart, the Lord determines and judges intentions, he decrees what is proper, upright, pure, correct, and just and he assesses the motivations, the intentions of mankind.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows the source of the actions that lie within the heart that are unspoken, that are hidden from plain sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: God knows our every thought, every thought of mankind, every intention, every desire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing is hidden from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows and evaluates the innermost parts of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's best for us to align our hearts, our lives with him, with his word, with a life that would be pleasing to God, for his way alone is right, his way alone is just.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to continue this idea, to do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's about the motivations of the heart to please and obey the Lord, to to accomplish obedience is to accomplish righteousness if it's aligned with the law of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Making and or determining right versus wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: This we like to make up these frameworks in our own mind, what is right, what is wrong, what is just, what is what is unjust.
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  SPEAKER_00: But to get a clear and perfect picture of that, we need to look to the scriptures, the author, uh, the creator of mankind and and the rules that pertain to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to obey, to do righteousness according to the Lord, to act justly according to the Lord, is more acceptable than sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: To check a box, to just do the things, to go ahead and lay another an animal on the altar, show up, check the box, go to church, do the things that are required of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not what the Lord desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: He desires what is acceptable to him is um obedience from the heart, to to to do righteousness according to his design, his plan, his blueprints, his word, his written word that we have in our hands today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So an encouragement for us, continue to follow in the light of first Samuel 15, 22, to obey is better than sacrifice and and listen than the fat of rams.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be a people that are looking to God's word for direction, and for it is a lamp to our feet, it's a it's a light to our path, and we're going to find uh great satisfaction in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though the the world might scoff, the world might say, I have my own desires, I have my own way that is right in my own eyes today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we cast our eyes to the scriptures, uh, to the Lord that made us, the Lord that saved us, and the Lord that is going to lead us in a life that is pleasing to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So through the the weariness of work, through the the patience testing days at home, whatever the case may be, where whatever you are going to do today, do it for the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seek to obey him with gladness and joy in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask the Lord that he would protect you from grumbling or complaining, and know that ultimately he is in control.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what's going on in the world today, what rulers are in, what rulers are out, the Lord turns the hearts of kings, and he does so and turns them whichever way he desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks so much for joining us again today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compassbiblesv.org.
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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.