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May 2, 2026 - Leviticus 15 & Psalm 94 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light by Breeding 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Saturday, May 2nd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leviticus 15 details all the specific laws and the procedures for bodily discharges.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now these bodily discharges are connected to sexual intercourse, and there is specific rules and regulations and even amounts that they are to be unclean, things that they are supposed to do, even the things that they touch, the bed that they lie on, all that's detailed here in Leviticus 15, talking about again laws concerning bodily discharges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth, rise up, O Judge of the earth, repay to the proud what they deserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: O Lord, how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked exult?
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  SPEAKER_00: They pour out their arrogant words, all the evildoers boast.
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  SPEAKER_00: They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.
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  SPEAKER_00: They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they say, The Lord does not see, the God of Jacob does not perceive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understand, O dullest of the people, fools, when will you be wise?
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  SPEAKER_00: He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
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  SPEAKER_00: He who formed the eye, does he not see?
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  SPEAKER_00: He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
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  SPEAKER_00: He who teaches man knowledge, the Lord, knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the Lord will not forsake his people, he will not abandon his heritage, for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who rises up for me against the wicked?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who stands up for me against evildoers?
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  SPEAKER_00: If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I thought, My foot slips, your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can the wicked rulers be allied with you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who frame injustice by statute?
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  SPEAKER_00: They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God, the rock of my refuge, he will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord our God will wipe them out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tyler, you know what I was thinking about when I was reading Leviticus 15 today?
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  SPEAKER_01: There I I just can't I can't help shake just thinking about reverberations of creation in all of these laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, think about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even here in Leviticus 15, which is about bodily discharge, it talks about sexual intercourse, how if a man and woman lie together, they're to be unclean until evening, they are to wash, all these different things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, uh sexual intercourse is God's design.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's He's the one that created it, He intends it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's obviously how children that are a heritage from the Lord come about.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this is again just sort of a it's a I think twofold.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a a reminder of the reality of the curse, that things that were intended to be good and that were intended uh for blessing and were intended uh to maximize the glory of God and the enjoyment of humanity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now those very things represent uncleanness before the Lord rather uh than magnifying the glory of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we see that with childbirth, which what we just read about a couple chapters ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see that even with uh the act necessary to see a child conceived, uh, our skin that that makes me think of obviously leprosy in Leviticus 14, that makes me think of their nakedness in the garden, that then their skin, their outward appearance gets covered by an animal, what they eat, the the animals that are unclean, uh the things that they eat, the places that they dwell.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you remember that even the skins in their houses, it's like every part of creation, God puts them in the garden.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: God gives them every plant-yielding seed, all of the things for them to eat.
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  SPEAKER_01: He tells them to be fruitful and multiply, he gives them a place to live, food to eat, uh, a job to do, dominion, uh, having children, and all of that is sort of re kind of capitulated in these laws in one way or uh another.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think there is that one side of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said there's a twofold sort of, I think, intention and I think even reverberation of Genesis 1 and 2 and 3 through all of these laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: One is the reminder of the curse that uh childbirth is now something uh that is um marked and marred with sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it it makes uh the woman unclean because of blood and other things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's the obviously the the a male son, seven days, 33 days, a female, uh, 14 days, 66 days, like something that was so good and a part of God's design before the fall now is one of the very things that represents separation, represents uncleanness.
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  SPEAKER_01: The food, again, that they consume, uh, something that was a provision for Adam and Eve in the garden, now is something that represents separation and uncleanness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, even the good act of sex uh between a husband and a wife, something that was good from the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was present before the fall and represents now separation and uncleanness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think there's that echo of the curse that we're seeing here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but the other side of that is it feels like to me, as I'm reading this, it's just it's like God is charting a course back home.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the the feeling that I get.
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  SPEAKER_01: This sense of unclean, unclean, unclean, unclean, but this this desire and this pursuit for his people to come back, to be made clean, to be purified, to be forgiven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we'll talk about even the day of atonement, obviously the sacrificial system.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's there's this course that God is charting to go back to the garden.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, we've even been talking about that in in Hebrews, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where it talks about one day we will fully reign with Christ because Jesus is the new Adam who leads a new humanity.
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  SPEAKER_01: He succeeds where man fails, he lives where man dies, and he ultimately is the one that ushers in this new humanity that does, in fact, fulfill the dominion mandate that was given all the way back in Genesis chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just feel it in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel this course being charted of restoration, reconciliation, and even something strange like these laws concerning bodily discharge and semen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, uh, why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are they here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, you can see that in verse 31.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the tabernacle, the dwelling place of God, the place where they could approach the Lord in some sense, of course, through the veil, through the great high priest, through a mediator.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but the place of God, uh, that there was this separation if you were unclean, stay far, far away.
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  SPEAKER_01: You weren't allowed to come in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that's again the the whole idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh what's that uh that children's book, The Garden, the The Curtain and the Cross?
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you read that before, Tyler?
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  SPEAKER_01: The because of your sin, you can't come in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have you heard that rhyme?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't recall that the specific lines to that book, but I'm familiar with the title.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it basically kind of walks through what we're talking about right now, starting in the garden and the cherubim with the flaming sword put in the garden, and God sort of saying to humanity, because of your sin, you can't come in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's essentially what we're reading here in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's just the graciousness of God through through some of the weirdness from our perspective, again, uh, we we are so far removed from what's happening here in Leviticus 15, 14, 13, 12, the things that we've been reading that it could be hard to wrap our heads around.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you got to see just the broader redemptive focus, the idea that God is charting a course where that reality of because of your sin, you can't come in is no longer true because in Christ the veil has been torn into.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can be made clean, we can be washed that white as snow by the blood of Christ, and all of that, the seeds of that are here in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you see bodily discharge, of course, that's connected to procreation, that's connected to even the relationship between a husband and a wife, which is now strained because of the curse and sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's there's a dual out, like a double-edged duality, double-edged sword duality here where it says uh there is this again, the reminder of the curse.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's the ache that you feel, but then also the hope of God's charting a course home and he's leading his people, uh, of course, in this context, more directly to the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And for us, he's leading us to our eternal rest in Christ that Hebrews talks about.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I was just encouraged reading Leviticus 15, and I couldn't help but again just connect those dots of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is uh creation language.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's all the creation things, whether it's a a marriage, relationship, a sexual union, uh, eating, dwelling, all the things that we see, uh, the covering of our skin, now that obviously the infectious diseases of leprosy, it all goes back to the garden.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we're seeing is again God charting a course uh to be with his people, or he even himself says, I will be your God, you will be my people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in Revelation, what does he say?
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  SPEAKER_01: Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we we see all of that here, of course, in the shadow kind of way, looking forward to ultimately Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the tabernacle is, in a sense, for the Israelites at this point, is the dwelling place of God with man, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's and it's in this imperfect way, it's in this way that points forward to the perfect, more full, complete, uh, which is Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: But something like Leviticus 15, which again is strange from our perspective, I think points us backwards to the garden and forwards to the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love how you said God leading us, leading us home and providing for uh for us all along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking about this uncleanness.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's been very much on my mind uh as we have been reading Leviticus, unclean, unclean, unclean.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do this, you're unclean.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do that, you're unclean.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have uncleanness in your home, this is what you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all the while I'm thinking, fresh water, Mount Sinai, what where are we getting where are we getting this fresh water from?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're on a peninsula surrounded by sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where how are we gonna wash yourselves?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are you how are you going to obey God's commands when he's calling you to get fresh water?
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  SPEAKER_00: Go wash yourself, go bathe yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we were just talking before we started recording.
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  SPEAKER_00: God provided a way for water to be had in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses strikes the rock uh at Mount Horeb and water flows miraculously out of the rock, and God is providing for his people for um their for their livelihood to sustain them.
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  SPEAKER_00: To we all need water, um, but also to obey him, to fulfill the commands of becoming clean and cleansing themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God is providing all along the way uh as we are very much an unclean people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we see that looking back to Leviticus, and as we think about the the ways that God calls us to be made clean, uh you you touched on it, the the nail in the coffin is the blood of Christ is the final answer to our uncleanliness, to our wickedness, to our sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and oftentimes we we want we want a solution for for the here and now that that goes beyond God's provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the psalm today, Psalm 94, uh oftentimes when we are wronged, when uh we want we want something to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want justice, we want to, we want the clap back, or we want the um we want to make the wrong right in our own power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we we open the psalm and see that that vengeance, it's the Lord's, the Lord, the God of vengeance in verse one, oh God of vengeance, shine forth, uh, rise up and judge the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and I've been in a position where a couple times in my life, like I I feel injustice is is being done, and I feel the strong need to write it in my own way within my own power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and we we know from the scriptures that vengeance is the Lord, it's not ours, it's not our responsibility to enact justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will uh will judge perfectly one day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we we look at the the characters here in our psalm, those who are proud, those who are have arrogant words pouring out of their mouths.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm thinking back to James chapter four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um boasting is evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: James is saying, um you boast in your arrogance and all such boasting is evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: We uh we long for the day for for people to stop finding their hope and their sustenance and their confidence in and of themselves, and for a world that is perishing away.
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  SPEAKER_00: We our hope and our desire as Christians is for people to make their boast in Christ and what he has done on the cross and and stop just looking at themselves as wise, stop making gods to worship in and own in and of their own hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we want the dull people, the fools uh of the world to look to the Lord um who disciplines and corrects mankind and shows them that He He is the one who establishes the earth, He is the one that sustains life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who are we, James 4 again?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're we're just a mist.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're a vapor that is here one day and gone another.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 11 and Psalm 94.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh mankind is is a breath, and we're we would do well to just remember that day by day, considering our finite nature in light of the eternal and all-powerful God that we serve.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I love verses 12 through 15 that talk about how blessed the man is who receives discipline from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug for the wicked.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the Lord will not forsake his people, he will not abandon his heritage, for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a perspective to have, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessed is the man whom is disciplined by the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh that that's a place where that's a spiritual reality that we have to sort of, I think, pray ourselves into.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, how many of us could say with with sincerity, in the middle of being disciplined by the Lord, that I am blessed?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but that's the perspective here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law.
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  SPEAKER_01: In other places, we see in Hebrews, for example, it talks about God disciplining those whom he loves and shows an analogy of a father disciplining his children and uh his children respecting him because of that discipline and that instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see here in Psalm 94, blessed is the man whom you discipline, oh Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we even in those times of correction, uh, those times of the Lord teaching us something, refining us, yes, perhaps even disciplining us uh from the perspective of scripture, that qualifies us for being blessed.
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  SPEAKER_01: That qualifies us for being people that are uh favored by the Lord, loved by the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even think of Hebrews, that that kind of puts it uh the those who are trained, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: The peaceful fruit of righteousness is yielded by those who are trained by this discipline.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I just desire that that we would have that kind of trust that you were talking about, Tyler, of uh God is the God of vengeance, God is the one who judges, he is the one who teaches man knowledge, uh, the Lord knows the thoughts of man.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are but a breath, he is constant, he will remain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and even in the in the midst of discipline, even in the midst of correction from the Lord, uh, all discipline seems harsh in the moment, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hebrews tells us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but but the perspective here of Psalm 94 is that discipline leads to blessing to those who are trained by it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I just think there's a lot, a lot of great things in our text today, Psalm 94.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I even kind of had this thought where you were talking and wrapping up Leviticus of like, man, it's almost like, when are you not unclean, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I I think that's the feeling.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everything from literally just if if I go, not to be crass, but if I go have sex with my wife, like I'm unclean, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like there's there's the even sort of the day-to-day reality of just living, there's uh it seems these opportunities, or that's a not perhaps not the best word, but uh these opportunities to to be unclean before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I get I think it just that's the curse, just being echoed, reverberated.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, something good like being in a physical relationship with with your spouse uh makes you unclean before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something that he designed, something that he said was good, something that he intended for good, uh, and for his glory because of sin, because of the distortion of the fall, has become something that represents separation and uncleanness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I feel that sense of just man, like when when when are we ever clean?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're people of unclean lips.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we can't get we can't get clean.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we can't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Isaiah 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that that reference there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I think that's that's the part of the point, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're you're reading Leviticus and you're going, man, it is anyone ever clean ever?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's kind of the point, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, and that's it's showcasing the holiness of God, really, in the sinfulness of man.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's drawing people uh to the Lord, our need for holiness that is foreign to us because we just in our day-to-day living, even are unclean, we are separated from the Lord, and we need the grace of Jesus Christ, uh, his righteousness, his perfection, his purity for us uh to be made holy and blameless before him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's just Leviticus is really sort of encouraging me in some ways I didn't anticipate, to be honest, Tyler, in some really rich ways, where I'm just thinking about the beauty of how scripture is all woven together, how Genesis 1 through 3 clearly is just the backdrop of Leviticus, and uh it's it's such a beautiful thing to see.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, reading here in Psalm 94 of just uh different Israelites kind of crying out to the Lord and their different ways of doing it, their different prayers, such encouraging things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully that's encouraging to you uh today, and that you you feel this sense of God is in the details, that God is the judge over all the earth, he never misses on his pronouncements, he never makes their wrong call, he never lets the guilty go free.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, apart from justice being served, of course, in Christ we can go free because Christ paid the penalty.
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  SPEAKER_01: The justice was truly served, but vengeance belongs to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we hope that's an encouragement 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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