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October 12, 2026 - 1 Samuel 8 & Proverbs 18:1-4 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, October 12th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 8.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second Abijah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were judges in Bathsheba.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: They took bribes and perverted justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them, according to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then, obey their voice, only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots, and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers, he will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys and put them to his work.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the people of Israel refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Samuel, Obey their voice and make them a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel then said to the men of Israel, go every man to his city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eighteen verses one through four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire, he breaks out against all sound judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you heard the expression be careful what you wish for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this chapter in 1 Samuel 8 could be titled Be Careful What You Demand.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see the trail that would ultimately lead to King Saul in this chapter, and the people are not satisfied with Yahweh as their king.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're looking for someone to represent them in battle, someone that would be compared to the different rulers and leaders of the nations surrounding them or even dwelling within them, the ones that they did not drive out, the Philistines, the ones that would be a thorn in their side and continually harassing Israel, the ones who were not driven out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the people are calling for a king to reign over them, to be a judge, a king to be over them and to judge them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this comes from some failed leaders that are implemented by Samuel.
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  SPEAKER_00: His sons were judges over Israel, and they were seeking their own pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were seeking what satisfied them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They weren't walking in the ways that Samuel led them and instructed them, and instead they were going after personal gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were taking bribes and perverting justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were taking advantage of people and it got the attention of the elders of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And after this, they call Samuel to give them a king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samuel calls out to God and God responds in a surprising way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Essentially, he says, They're gonna get what they're demanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though it's not best for them, though the the rulership and the and the leadership and the kingly duties that I have been over Israel, they have forgotten, they have discarded, and they no longer value.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're looking for a man, a fallen man, a sinful man, to lead them, someone who would be like the leaders and kings from the surrounding nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this chapter details what exactly will happen when this king is installed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This king is gonna take advantage, he's gonna have his own way, he's gonna take take what he wants, and he is going to take the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in verse 17, we see that Israel will be the slaves of this king.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the consequences, the outcome of this will be a cry out to God because of this unsatisfying king.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna call out and cry out to God, but the Lord will not answer in that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we see in this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the foreshadowing of a king that won't be good, that won't be a man of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord grants Israel's request, and this chapter concludes with Samuel telling the people to go back to their own cities from where they came.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today we start a new chapter in Proverbs, the 18th chapter, and we'll look at the first four verses, starting with the person that is going to isolate and separate themselves from accountability, from community, from maybe even a congregation, someone who's seeking their own desire.
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  SPEAKER_00: This person is going to be void of sound judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to push against, they're going to be someone who is lacking accountability and lacking that encouragement, that sharpening, and they're going to be self-focused, self-focused on their own desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: And anyone that might come to share, to check in, this proverb saying that the people that keep to themselves, isolate, avoid interactions, they're gonna they're breaking out, they're gonna they're gonna push against sound judgment as um as wisdom might try to come in and persuade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so the importance here of a church body, a community of believers, uh, we can see that just that's the opposite of what we see here in verse one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, people that are well connected, well knit together in in the tapestry of the church, and people that are looking for the a sharpening, looking for insights, welcoming people into uh to speaking into their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse two, we see the fool taking no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is a one-way valve.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's only out, it's only my thoughts, my opinions, uh, the words that you need to hear from me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the fool is not taking any excitement or any pleasure, any worth in people who would try to help them to understand, help them to see maybe the errors or the blind spots that they may have.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fool takes no pleasure in outside help, in understanding, uh, understanding that comes from the scriptures primarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's the the word of truth that's going to help sharpen and fix the mind on what is right and true and godly, uh, but the their own opinions are going to be what rule and they're going to be uh expressed, and that's what matters most to the fool, the very self-focused.
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  SPEAKER_00: And verse three wickedness when it comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when wickedness comes, this attitude of pride, uh attitude that thinking people are beneath you or are not worthy of your your focus, your attention, your respect, there's there's a haughty attitude that is also connect in in connection with this, where you have this superiority mindset where people are beneath you, and uh it's also infused with disgust or dislike for uh for others.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with it comes disgrace, uh dishonor, all kinds of uh sinful entanglements and uh challenges that would uh prevent you from living a life that honors God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's you have to tease out the sin, tap into the root, and and find where this uh this comes from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, the the pride and the sin of man is is bound up in a wicked and fallen heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the that's the the status quo par for the course for this world is is wickedness, is contempt and dishonor with disgrace.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what we see in the news, this is what we see in the court systems, and this is uh what we see in people that are pursuing their own way, their own way to bring satisfaction to themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's often full of wickedness and uh and sin that just does not please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And final verse today in verse 4 the words of a man's mouth are deep waters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our final verse of our Proverbs section today, we're comparing the words from a man's mouth and the fountain of wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fountain of wisdom being the word of God, the truth of the scriptures, and we see that the man's mouth, the words from it are deep waters.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we cannot see to the bottom, we cannot see uh all the things that are below as it's deep.
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  SPEAKER_00: The light doesn't make it all the way uh down to the depths, and these are deep waters, and there's some connections here and some concealment that may be entangled in this imagery where you would know what's on the surface, but what's underneath is uncertain, hidden, uh murky in the depths of uh of the zones of water that might not be getting as much light.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those who would be speaking, uh the words of man are deep waters, and in contrast, the fountain of wisdom, a bubbling brook, something that has uh water flowing, there's motion to the water, there's movement, and the the depth of this uh this body of water is much more shallow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's a spring coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there is uh a clean, pure water coming from uh a brook, water that you would prefer much more prefer to to drink, uh not not drinking water that you can't see the bottom of, or where uh a bubbling brook might be uh clean and pure and clear and maybe you know water with uh with rocks and stones and and things that would be filtering out the the impurities as as it is moving along.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh when you're when you're backpacking or when you're up in the in the mountains in the alpine lake areas, you're gonna want to source water that is flowing and that is moving rather than water that is uh deeper and stagnant and just uh full of mystery that you might not know what's at the bottom, what might be uh contained in larger bodies of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh some some nuggets of wisdom for us today as we consider God's word, right living in God's created order, as Pastor Josiah describes often as he describes the Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully we can gather some things here and glean some nuggets of wisdom and truth and apply them, uh, consider them, chew on them as we meditate on God's word together today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass bible sv.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.