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June 19, 2026 - Numbers 29 & Psalm 119:129-136 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bybreeding Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Friday, June 19th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Numbers 29.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers 29 details the sacrifices and really the offerings that correspond with the different festivals.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have, or a feast, you could say, uh, the feast of trumpets, the offerings for the day of atonement, the offerings for the feast of booths, and it details how they are to be prepared, uh, when they are to be offered, and again the rhythm at which they are to be uh offered to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's numbers twenty-nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one nineteen, verses one twenty-nine through one thirty-six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The unfolding of your words gives light, it imparts understanding to the simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts, make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers twenty nine is a continuation of what we talked about yesterday with Numbers twenty-eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have a change of the guard from Moses to Joshua, and though there is a change in leadership, there is not a change in the covenant, and there's not a change in the covenant stipulations of the different offerings and sacrifices and feasts and festivals.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so Numbers 28 detailed some of the more regular sacrifices and the rhythms that they were to be given by the priests specifically, both weekly, monthly, or really daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh Numbers 29 is more broadly speaking of Israel and how they are to observe these feasts, the Day of Atonement, and the sacrifices and offerings that were associated with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's a continuation of some of that same uh theme that we were talking about yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, of uh though leadership is changing, uh, God's faithfulness is not, his covenant still remains, and he is still uh being true to his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as we continue to look at Psalm 119, there's just a lot of great nuggets here in this section today from verses 129 through 136.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, one of them I just thought of Tyler was verse 131.
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  SPEAKER_01: I open my mouth and pant because I long for your commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's this sense where we ought to come to God's word with this need and this hunger uh to be satiated.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think of the words of the apostles or the disciples and the gospel of John.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where else can we go, Lord?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where else can we go?
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  SPEAKER_01: You alone have the words of life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Tyler, I even think of a Psalm 19:11 that the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: This sense of those who are thirsty, they can come and drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those who are hungry, they can come and be fed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's how we should view consumption of God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: We should view it as life-giving, as satiating, as a necessity, a basic necessity like food and water, and and something that we ought to feast on each and every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I love this language.
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  SPEAKER_01: I open my mouth and pant because I long for your commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, we see that echoed other other places in the Psalms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, like a deer pants for water, so my soul longs for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so we pant after God, we pant after his word because I long for your commandments, it says.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that was something that just uh stuck out to me, and I was encouraged by here in this section of Psalm 119.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a great point and great encouragement to me, also, is that is just so true.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we need God uh to refresh us, we need God to sustain us each and every day through his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh something that stood out to me, PJ, uh, in this in this section is uh this word dominion.
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  SPEAKER_00: This word dominion stands out to me, and we we all are slaves to something.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are we're slaves to our sin or we're slaves to righteousness, and that's something that um over the course of my life has has been uh something that God has really taught me through and and led me through because uh we might not know it while we're in it, but when you're sinning in a habitual way, there's a rhythm and a cadence to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That sin has dominion over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're a slave to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in in contrast, we look to um the law of the Lord and we see that we can be slaves of righteousness when we have God's spirit and we're submitting to the word of God and the spirit of God, we can be those who are doing the work in full submission to God, doing the things that please and uh and honor Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is something that I think um we should really zoom in on and really check our hearts to see am I a slave to sin or am I a slave uh to righteousness today?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and even what you're referencing there is verse 133, keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's the sense of let no sin, no iniquity, no violation of God's commandments and precepts, let them not have dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a sense of them ruling over that, being ruled by our sin and our iniquity.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's praying actively, God, let no iniquity get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: This has some great parallels with the Lord's Prayer in Matthew chapter six, where Jesus instructs us to pray to to the Lord and ask, deliver us from evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: So very similar themes there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But verse 133 again is a great, we could call we said pocket psalms, we've got pocket prayers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 133.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm ready, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're praying, God, keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity or sin get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's something that we ought to just carry with us, a pocket prayer that we are actively praying to the Lord, dependent on him to rescue us from temptation.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think of the words of the apostle Paul, that no temptation is overtaken you, but such that is common to man, God is faithful and he will provide a way of escape.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think that's what the psalmist here is banking on.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why he appeals to the promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep steady my steps according to your promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: I keep my feet uh on steady ground and let no iniquity or sin get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be ruled by my sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: I recognize, as it says in Genesis 4, that sin is crouching at the door.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be ruled by it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to have dominion.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to uh be able to work and cultivate.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to even have self-control.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a sense in which we have, if we could put it in this maybe non-technical way, dominion over ourselves by the spirit, where we have self-control and we're not ruled by our sin or our flesh, but we're ruled by the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think of what Paul says in Galossians.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've done that a couple times.
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  SPEAKER_01: Galatians chapter five, uh, where he says, uh, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so um I'm just made up a new book there, Galossians.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can look it up, Galossians five, and uh read that and just find great hope and encouragement in the midst of temptation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's uh a great encouragement to me, PJ, and uh something else that stood out to me is the the final verse of this section, um, having to do with uh the psalmist who is filled with strong emotions to the point of tears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he says in verse 136, My eyes shed streams of tears because people do not keep your law.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is revealing of the heart of the psalmist, seeing people willingly choose a way that would be against God's law, against his righteous rule and his precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think about the people that are just so obviously sitting in a way that is just destroying themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about people that are struggling with substance abuse or um people that are are having no regard for uh for others around them, they're just making a complete mess of their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the people that aren't keeping God's law are people that are on a death march to judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that should do something in us, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: That should do something for the the person who once was described as verse 36, once was a person that is not keeping the law of God, whether we are super familiar with the scriptures or not, we should be praying for these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should be focused and and fixed on calling out to these people and saying, This way that you're going is not, it does not end well, turn back, turn back and be broken by the sin that we see around us in our, first of all, in our own life, broken by our own sin, turning from that, confessing that, and uh making it known to God and others to help us to to break the pattern of sin, but also um for the people that are in our lives, in our community, in our extended families that are not keeping the law of God and it's just ruining them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So continue to a challenge maybe for our church is to continue to pray that God would reveal sin in our own lives so that way we might further and greater uh just love the Lord and and hate our sin, but also for the people that are in uh in in this world that are just flat out rejecting God, rejecting his law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn back, please don't don't do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's still time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn back and uh let's continue to pray for these people that the Lord would save them out of their sin and save them into his kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that connects really well to our study of Hebrews 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the series was called Who is Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the answers to that was he is the king of righteousness, that he loves what is wicked, or I should say he hates what is wicked and loves what is righteous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: He hates evil, he loves righteousness, as it says that there in Hebrews 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we even talked about in that series how uh if we are in Christ, we should be growing in uh hating what Christ hates, as weird as that sounds, and loving what Christ loves.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see that here, this sense of um being overwhelmed by people who are just given over to their sin, who are given over to things that Christ is said to hate.
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  SPEAKER_01: He hates the wicked, the wickedness in the world, he hates evil.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh the psalmist here is broken by that.
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  SPEAKER_01: My eyes shed streams of tears because people do not keep your law.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, sin is lawlessness.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what the apostle John says in in 1 John.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he's broken by that because he's growing, growing in a love um for what God loves.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we want that for ourselves as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want our hearts to be aligned uh with uh the heart of God in that sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and so we see uh some great help here in Psalm 119, 131, this sense of panting after God's truth and commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 133, uh, keep steady, verse 133, keep steady my steps according to your promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let no iniquity get dominion over me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even Psalm 136, just the heart that we should have, my eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of just helpful, you could say, pocket prayers here in Psalm 119 for us uh to take with us, to be just consistently praying to the Lord to help us grow in, uh, help us love what God loves and hate what God hates, to have a healthy, holy hatred of sin and wickedness and a healthy, holy love for what is good and what is righteous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully that's an encouragement uh for you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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