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October 13, 2026 - 1 Samuel 9 & Proverbs 18:5-8 · 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 13th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zar, son of Beckerath, son of Aphia, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth, and he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he.
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  SPEAKER_00: From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Kish said to Saul his son, Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Ashalasha, but they did not find them, and they passed through the land of Shalim, but they were not there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they came to the land of Zuf, Saul said to his servant, who was with him, Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he said to him, Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that he says comes true.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now let us go there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what can we bring the man?
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  SPEAKER_00: For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do we have?
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  SPEAKER_00: The servant answered Saul again, Here I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, Come, let us go to the seer, for today's prophet was formerly called a seer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Saul said to his servant, Well said, come, let us go.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they went to the city where the man of God was.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
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  SPEAKER_00: They answered, He is, behold, he is just ahead of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hurry.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrificed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Afterward those who are invited will eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they went up to the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they were entering the city they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel, Tomorrow, about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people, Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen my people because their cry has come to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, Here is the man of whom I spoke to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He it is who shall restrain my people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, Tell me where is the house of the seer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel answered Saul, I am the seer, go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: As for the donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it not for you and for all your father's house?
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul answered, Am I not a Benjaminite from the least of the tribes of Israel?
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  SPEAKER_00: And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why then have you spoken to me in this way?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who have been invited, who were about thirty persons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, put it aside.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the cook took up the leg and what was on it, and set them before Saul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel said, See, what was kept is set aside before you eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed that you might eat with the guests.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul ate with Samuel that day, and when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then at break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, up, that I may send you on your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Tell a servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen verses five through eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, they go down into the inner parts of the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's reading we see in first Samuel 9 something so ordinary or a task so simple turning into something more significant than Saul could ever imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sent out by his father to go chase down some donkeys that were lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he is a man of great stature, of great looks, he is a tall man of a great uh a great beauty, a handsome young man, as our text says in verse two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this man goes out with his servant to go and find some donkeys, which ultimately he doesn't find.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone else finds them and brings them back to his father's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: But on this process, in this journey, he and his servant go out and have an interaction with a seer, with a prophet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this prophet is none other than Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel has a word from the Lord the day before telling him what was going to happen the next day when he would have this interaction with Saul and his servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they they have a meal together, and uh he uh encourages Saul to have a meal, to spend the night on a rooftop, and and through all this, it's all leading up to uh Samuel telling uh kind of cryptically that that Saul is going to be the next king, and he goes on to tell Saul as he goes, he has a word of the Lord to share with him uh as he departs, as they're going to the outskirts of the city, and and we'll see in tomorrow's reading, uh, an anointing will take place, and and Saul will uh will be anointed as king.
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  SPEAKER_00: But some highlights uh uh from this text, I look to verse 16 and see some promises here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saul is going to have uh a part to play in saving God's people from the hand of the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is going to restrain God's people in verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is not a good thing, as we might think of restraining someone who's doing something bad, that would be a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather, in this case, where it's more of a spiritual, more of a leadership uh position where Saul is not going to be a good leader, he's going to shut up to imprison or to to detain God's people, and and ultimately this is not a good thing for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a side note here, Saul has a level of respect for a man like Samuel, a man of God, and is following the customs of seeking after uh insights from God, from a seer, and bringing a sort of payment or offering to that to that prophet on upon meeting with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the servant is is offering the shekel and uh the fraction of the shekel, and uh Saul is saying, We have no more bread, our journeys uh depleted us of all of our offerings that we could give to this man in form of food or or gift, but uh they have this interaction with Samuel, and the the highlight for me is that God was speaking to Samuel, God is uh letting him know uh exactly the details of of what would come, and there's uh a meal prepared.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Samuel is going ahead uh proactively setting setting aside a choice uh portion for Saul to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's uh he's not going going astray, following after his own desires or his own plans, but he is uh in step with the Lord, and and God is still listening to his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see that in verse 16, and we see God speaking to Samuel, letting him know, and for him informing him in real time that this man Saul will be the king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um kind of a mundane task for Saul, an ordinary errand that his dad gives him turns into something uh extremely significant in his life and in the life of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um a takeaway for us today out of um chapter nine is uh listen to the Lord, uh look to be led by the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as far as the ordinary day-to-day tasks in life, seek to uh to obey him and seek to honor him with your life and the ways that you go about your your day-to-day tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're even though you're probably not gonna go chase down some donkeys that are on the loose, but you may have some kiddos that are uh needing wrangling at home, or you may maybe doing some mundane tasks at work that just keep stacking and stacking.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh nonetheless, there is uh great good that can come from just the ordinary tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can take this text and and think of the joys that are to come and even some unexpected uh outcomes that come uh as God uh accomplishes his purpose through ordinary day-to-day activities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's proverb section has our minds thinking about the fool, uh, thinking about words and how they're communicated, and uh what it is that motivates people, what what it is that they're going after.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our first verse uh in five, we see the it's not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look at that verse and isolate it, uh we we see God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see God not being partial, He He shows no partiality, He will judge uh with purity, with justice, and there is no way to uproot just judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so as we look to the second part, it's not good to deprive the righteous of justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not a wicked judge, he is just and good.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that he does, all that he says is right, and that is who he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's his character to be a good God, a a God full of justice, love, and mercy, and those who those who are righteous being deprived of justice, as I think about verse five, the the time leading up to the exile for Israel is described here in this verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are partial to the wicked, they're they're letting those who are doing evil and wicked things slide free, and those who are being uh persecuted or mistreated in any way, those those people aren't they're not getting what is uh justly due for their behavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're they're they're not being held accountable for their actions, and and God is not a God that is going to allow this to happen for forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: There will one day come a time when all people will be judged justly.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's going to be perfect justice instituted as each individual be will be held accountable for their actions at the end of their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll be judged for every thought, every word, every every act that they have ever done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and God is a God who hates injustice in any form that it may come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's in his character to demand justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will by no means let the guilty go free.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh praise God that we have a great advocate, a great representative that would take our place, to take our place that we uh justly deserved to be punished, to to die for our sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have the savior Jesus who gives us his righteousness through faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can have shelter from the judgment to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a great introduction to our Proverbs section as we look at um the fool here in the next couple verses, the fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating, a fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we we watch people just make foolish decisions and we can reflect back to things that we've either said or done and think to ourselves, if we would have just not said anything, if we would have just walked away, if we would have just just just let that slide, not not give a comment back for something that was said, or um if we wouldn't have sent that text or that email or that post, we would have saved ourselves so much trouble as the fool's lips are just walking, walking into conflict, walking into a fight, and the things that a fool says invites violence, invites a beating.
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  SPEAKER_00: So often we see people that are intoxicated making foolish decisions with their lives, and they're saying and doing things that they would not typically do when they are of a sober mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is this is so evident in our in our world today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about folks that are staying up late, drinking too much, going to uh going to establishments that'll be serving alcohol, and and in these situations, words, words slip and slide, and people get offended, and people are provoking one another, and that the it's a foolish thing to do um to to walk into these situations and and put yourself in a position where um there's just trouble all around.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a fool's mouth is his ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foolish decisions uh lead to foolish words, lead to uh just chaos, they they lead to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh verse seven says, a fool's mouth is his root ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, and and when we reveal in our insides, what's in our heart, what's in our mind, we can just look to look to the things that people are are saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we need to guard our hearts and guard our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And instead of just trying to find ways to not do uh something foolish and not do something that is going to invite uh violence or invite ruin, we can fill our mind and renew our mind with the word of God day by day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope you are uh getting encouraged as we read the Proverbs to continue to dive into the wisdom of God, into his word, and to fill your heart and mind with things that are pure, things that are good, things that are just.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our final verse here in verse 8 the words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down into the inner parts of the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they stay, they hang out.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of a whisperer, they are delicious, like delicious morsels.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're they're sweet to the tongue, sweet to the ears.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the whisperer is speaking things that they might not normally say out loud in public.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these things may be slanderous things or or lies or are things that they might be ashamed to say out loud in the in the public square.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of a whisperer um are softly spoken.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are like delicious morsels.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in a certain way, they kind of live rent-free.
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  SPEAKER_00: They go down into the inner parts of the body and they have an effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have an effect on the way we think, the way we speak, the way we act, the way we uh interact with people socially and how we perceive them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we need to just stop the stop the whispering words and and ask people to to speak uh just boldly, confidently out in public and not not behind closed doors or behind um behind people's backs.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to be honoring to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we hear some some whispers that are maybe uh intended to uh paint people in a negative light, uh just encourage them to go and uh and go and speak to that person face to face.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's if it's uh talk about someone in the body or someone out in in public, just just have a heart-to-heart conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, what what's what's the point of all these whispers?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's what are you we what are we trying to accomplish here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and is this honoring to the Lord's?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too easy just to let things slide, uh, let things that might be juicy or tasty morsels of of gossip or slander, whatever it may be, there's no place for that, but no place for that in uh in the Christian walk, no place for that in God's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh let our words today, this week, be be honoring to the Lord and take seriously verse 8 of Proverbs 18 and consider what we are ingesting and uh and really be careful with with how we use our words today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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