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June 17, 2026 - Numbers 27 & Psalm 119:113-120 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bybreeding Plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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 Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, June 17th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then drew near the daughters of Zelephad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: The names of his daughters were Mala, Noah, Hoglah, Milka, and Tirza.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they stood before Moses and before Eliezar, the priest, and before the chiefs, and all of the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying, Our father died in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son?
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  SPEAKER_00: Give to us a possession among our father's brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses brought their case before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Moses, The daughters of Zephat are right, you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers, and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter, and if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers, and if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers, and if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsmen of his clan, and he shall possess it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abiram, and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zen, when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the waters of Meribah, of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who shall go out before them, and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of none, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make him stand before Eliazar the priest in all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he shall stand before Eliazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urm before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He took Joshua and made him stand before Eliasar the priest and the whole congregation, and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm one nineteen, verses one thirteen through one twenty.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hate the double minded, but I love your law.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are my hiding place and my shield.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope in your word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Depart from me, you evil doers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually.
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  SPEAKER_01: You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I love your testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_01: My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers twenty seven continues to show how God preserves his promise, his promise to make Abraham a father of a great nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tyler, you were mentioning this earlier, and his promise to protect and provide for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Moses, earlier, when we read about him striking the rock twice with his staff, rather than speaking to it as God commanded, according to the Lord, that was an instance where Moses was not upholding the Lord as holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as such, his punishment for that, his discipline was to not make it into the promised land with the rest of the rebels, with the rest of those who were quarreling and rebelling in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see, even though that's true, even though the main guy at this point, who's leading the people of Israel, who has been the voice of the Lord, relaying all of these commands, relaying all of the statutes and the precepts from God from Mount Sinai, even though Moses is not actually going to be the one to lead them into the promised land, even though he's been so prominent, even though, again, he's been the mouthpiece of the Lord in a pretty decisive and dramatic way up until this point, God is still providing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is still being true to his promise, and he's raising up in this chapter another leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's even Moses' request.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the heart of Moses here, where he says in verse 16, let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as a sheep that have no shepherd.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Moses is really praying to the Lord and asking, Hey, would you provide another man?
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  SPEAKER_00: Would you provide another leader that's going to lead the charge and help uh take care of the nation of Israel as a whole?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he likens that leader to a shepherd, someone that has a watchful eye over the flock, someone that has a tender heart towards the sheep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God identifies Joshua, the son of Nun, and says that he will be this leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though Moses is failing to enter into the promised land because of his hardened heart in that moment of rebellion where he did not uphold God as holy, God is nevertheless providing another leader, another man, Joshua, that will inevitably lead them into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just a sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it signifies the reality of God's protection and his provision for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even we see that as well in the inheritance laws that are detailed in verses one through 11 that God is protecting, God is providing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when there is a death with no sons, there's laws in place for the inheritance within that family to go first to the daughter, which, by the way, uh in ancient Near East culture, that would have been radical.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the idea of uh a man to die without a son, for all of his possessions and his inheritance to go to his daughter as a first sort of line of defense, um, was unheard of.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that was just something that did not happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so, even kind of showing the dignity there of both men and women, uh, so it's it specifies that the daughter would would be first.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, there's the the other family units that are listed there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it's just a great way, even to set up that if God's gonna take care of something like an inheritance from a physical perspective, from family to family, uh, he's certainly gonna take care of an inheritance from a spiritual perspective, which of course, in this context, includes something physical like land, but it also includes the spiritual reality of God blessing them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who curse you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna protect, he's gonna provide, he's gonna continue to multiply the offspring of Israel as he promised to Abraham so long ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see just protection and provision uh woven throughout Numbers 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately we see God identify a new man, Joshua, who's gonna be this new leader that leads them into the land that God had promised for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that I love, PJ, about the people that God chooses is the there often is this common denominator of a reverence and a fear of the Lord, a respect for God's law and his command over their lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I look at the the psalm passage that we have today, um, we see the the judgment and the consequences for those who would not submit themselves under the Lord's leading, under under his uh his holy commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um the double-minded is is someone who would be tiptoeing around, dipping and dunking, a la carting their way through life, picking and choosing what they want to adhere to in God's law and what and what they don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and uh we we see in James chapter one also this this double-minded uh character who uh doesn't fully love and submit themselves to the law of the Lord, letting it letting it reign over their lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh in contrast to the double-minded, there's the one who hopes in uh God's law, hopes in his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the hiding place, it's the shield, and it's such a great encouragement to see and remember for us today, God's word is the place that we find shelter and response to God's judgment, especially uh outside of the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the word that became flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is our refuge and he is our shelter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I I read through Psalm 119 over and over again, as I think about the Word of God, the law of God, Jesus is at the forefront of my mind as I'm seeing the words like shelter, uh, the words um like judgment.
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  SPEAKER_01: The God is going to judge the the wicked and the righteous one day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, it's just a great encouragement for me to continue to strive on and continue to just thank the Lord for the law.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank the Lord that it leads me in a way that would just please and honor God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and though we kind of see some similar themes and tones in Psalm 119, it's not something that should just be common and comfortable for us to be like, yeah, yeah, I've heard this before.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, hold hold on to this with your whole heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take take heed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like uh, like Ruth would be grasping onto Naomi.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't shake me, you you will not leave me.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is where I'm going.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna follow after the law of the Lord, and you cannot pull me away from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, one of the things that we see about this idea of being double-minded is in the scriptures what becomes welded to that is the adjective of being unstable, someone that's inconsistent, someone that is tossed to and fro by every wind and wave of doctrine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the psalmist here says, I hate the double-minded, those who are here one day and gone the next, those who are wishy-washy, who believe this, then don't believe it, who trust in God's law and then forsake it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are uh, you know, say one thing, do another.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the juxtaposition there is fascinating because he starts by talking about a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: A person is double-minded.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's people that are the ones who are indecisive and fickle and are unstable.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then he compares it to the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just put it in parentheses in my Bible that the law is steady, the law is constant, the law is reliable, uh, the the law is stable in that sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the contrast there is uh someone who is is lacking a sort of sure-footedness is double-minded, but the psalmist is finding great stability and something firm to stand on in the law of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is our perspective that we should have on the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: That if we're not rooted in the scriptures, if we're not saturating our minds on the scriptures, uh, we're gonna be the double-minded.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be here and there and everywhere in between, but we want to be stable and fixed and uh sure uh-footed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, even I think of Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That we are to trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not on our own understanding, and all of our ways acknowledge him, and he will make our paths straight.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will direct our steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, in that sense, that we we should have this almost healthy fear of we want we don't want to be double-minded, we don't want to be people that that seem uh again to do one thing in a situation, to do another thing in another situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we want to be steady, constant, and rooted in something that is fixed and immovable.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's why, again, even the the sort of the kickoff to the Psalms is Psalm 1 and the analogy is a tree planted by rivers of of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we want to be that kind of person, a person that's not double-minded, but someone that loves the the law and hopes in his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: He goes on in verse 114, you are my hiding place in my shield.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can continue to see this sort of commonality here: consistency, uh, safety, sure-footedness, confidence, all of those things are found in God's law and in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope in your word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, in a culture that's constantly shifting and changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would even say if you if you look at a lot of even the politics of our world, if you look at even some of the beliefs of our world, world, thinking about like um sexuality, gender identity, things like that, uh, what better word to describe that that sort of class of of ideologies than double-minded?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the rules are constantly changing, there's no short-footedness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's certainly kind of a sliding descent further and further into darkness and evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need something that's gonna stay the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, God's word stays the same because his word corresponds with who he is, his character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, his word is truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we we want to have our minds uh fixed on God's law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even thinking about uh what we read even just yesterday, that God's word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know where we are, a lamp to our feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we know where we're going, a light to our path.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole idea of God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, that's even uh the theme verse of this of this podcast, the lamp and light Bible reading plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and so we want to be people who love God's law, who hope in God's word, um, and that have this sort of healthy fear of being a double-minded person that's tossed to and fro by every wind and wave.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Paul warns about that in Ephesians 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: James talks about that in James chapter 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, don't look into the mirror and forget what you look like when you walk away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh be hearers of the word and or doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we want to be people that have something firm and fixed to stand on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, in a world that increasingly tries to undermine God's word, we want to say, no, this is something that has been true, something that believers have stood on for centuries, for millennia at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we want to stand with them on something that's sure and sure-footed and strong and steady and constant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's going to be the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, what a great encouragement to know that the God that we serve, the God that reveals himself in the scriptures, is the same yesterday, today, uh, and and onward into eternity, forever, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day.
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  SPEAKER_01: There won't be a single day that God's character is broken.
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  SPEAKER_01: He remains steadfast and true to his uh to his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's um we look at the the idols that are made by man throughout the old testament, and they're they're made out of created things, and they're created by human beings who change.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're so fickle.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're we we like one flavor of ice cream one day, and then the next, our new favorite is is something completely different.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh our our taste buds and preferences change over time.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I was uh when I was a child, I did not like mustard at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now it's the only thing that I want on a hot dog or hamburger on your ice cream, huh?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, you thought I was gonna make that connection, didn't you?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was wondering.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's that would be terrible.
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  SPEAKER_01: But no, in the future, that could be a reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: I might prefer mustard on my ice cream because I'm just my body, my taste buds are changing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but no, God doesn't change, his his ways are steadfast and true, and he doesn't waver from his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, promises made, promises kept, as you have said multiple times on this podcast, um, Pastor Josiah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that is something that we can we can hold true to and we won't be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can we can ride that out to the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can keep our eyes fixed and focused on on God and uh the ways that he makes his promises to us and we see them in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can we can not be put to shame because he is a God that follows through um every single time.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's not a single promise that he's broken.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can look to the scriptures in the old testament and and try to find a place where he makes a misstep, but he does not.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has revealed um his character and he is perfectly true to his word every single time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.