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June 2, 2026 - Numbers 14 & Psalm 119:9-16 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  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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  I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  Today is Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026.
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  Listen intently to God's written word.
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  Numbers 14.
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  Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night, and all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
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  The whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt?
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  Or would that we had died in this wilderness?
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  Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword?
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  Our wives and our little ones will become a prey.
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  Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
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  And they said to one another, Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.
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  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
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  And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephune, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes, and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, The land which we passed through to spied out is an exceedingly good land.
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  If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
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  Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bred for us.
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  Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us, do not fear them.
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  Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones.
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  But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people despise me?
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  And how long will they not believe in me?
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  In spite of all the signs that I have done among them, I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
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  But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them, and they will tell the inhabitants of this land, they have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
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  Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.
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  And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation.
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  Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt until now.
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  Then the Lord said, I have pardoned, according to your word, but truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers, and none of those who despise me shall see it.
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  But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
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  Now since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
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  And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me?
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  I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumbled against me, say to them, As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you.
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  Your dead bodies shall fall in the wilderness, and of all your number listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb, the son of Jeffanah and Joshua, the son of none, but your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
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  But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in the wilderness, and your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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  According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.
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  I, the Lord, have spoken.
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  Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me.
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  In this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.
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  And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land, the men who brought up a bad report of the land died by plague before the Lord.
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  Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua, the son of Nun and Caleb, the son of Ajephana, remained alive.
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  When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly, and they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, Here we are, we will go up to a place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.
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  But Moses said, Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord?
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  When that will not succeed, do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies, for there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and ye shall fall by the sword, because you have turned back from following the Lord.
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  The Lord will not be with you.
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  But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.
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  Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them even to Horma.
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  Psalm one nineteen verses nine through sixteen.
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  How can a young man keep his way pure?
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  By guarding it according to your word.
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  With my whole heart I seek you.
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  Let me not wander from your commandments.
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  I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
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  Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes.
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  With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
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  In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
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  I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
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  I will delight in your statutes, I will not forget your word.
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  As I hold both of today's passages in my mind, I I see a few connections, and my heart is reminded of the ways that I forget, and the ways that I have gone astray.
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  And as you read the first four verses of Numbers chapter 14, maybe you were thinking like I was thinking about this passage in Isaiah 53 and verse 6.
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  And the way that the Lord is leading his people into the promised land is not the way.
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  As we look at the poor report from the ten spies, this way is uh of fear, and this way is of uh of dread and uh insecurity.
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  Is this God that has been faithful?
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  Will he remain faithful?
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  Is is his uh law and command, are his statutes still good for me?
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  And that is the test that the people of Israel who rebel.
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  This is a section that they fail in this in this way.
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  They failed the test to believe and continue to remain steadfast and fixed on God as He leads them into the promised land.
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  And in a certain way, Israel wished for a life and death.
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  Uh, in the text, we see this, on their own terms, to fit their own preferences.
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  And they even said, Let us choose a leader to go back to Egypt.
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  And the things that they feared uh actually would would not come true in a certain sense because they're they're fearful that their wives and their little ones would become prey to the people of Canaan.
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  As we look back to the final verses of Numbers chapter 13, they are fearful of the people here in the promised land that they sought out and passed through for 40 days.
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  They were scared, and the reports from Joshua and Caleb are inverse of what the other ten have brought back.
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  Their words were the land which we passed through to spite out is exceedingly good land, better than expected, you might be thinking, or it exceeded our our expectations.
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  God had promised us good, and in my mind, I did not even imagine what this land could look like.
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  This is what Joshua and Caleb have in mind, and their plea for the people, their heart for the people who are grumbling is this do not rebel in verse 9.
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  Only do not rebel against the Lord and do not fear.
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  Don't be scared, don't be scared of these people because they are bred for us, and that's some imagery.
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  They're bred for us.
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  We're gonna consume them, they're ours for the taking.
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  Why?
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  Because the Lord is with us.
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  We have protection, and they do not.
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  Protection is removed from them, do not fear them.
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  And the whole congregation responds to this strong encouragement from some godly uh and courageous men, and they grab rocks to stone these two, and as they grab the stones, the glory of the Lord appeared, as we see in verse 10 at the tent of meeting.
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  So, this is this is a sight to see angry, murderous Israelites about to take the lives of two faithful men, and all of a sudden the glory of the Lord appears.
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  What a sight that must have been.
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  And uh, Moses' appeal for forgiveness, Moses' uh cry in his heart for the Lord, remember your purpose for your people and for your namesake.
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  We are to glorify you.
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  Don't forget what you said, Lord.
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  As if he could, he couldn't forget, but he's his plea, Moses is saying, Um, Lord, pardon the iniquity of this people, please.
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  Uh be true to who you are, in in the best sense of that phrase, be true to who you are, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt unto now.
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  And the people of Israel wanted to uh to start fresh, erase what had happened, their deliverance, and and go back.
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  They wanted to start over um back in Egypt and and Moses' heart and his plea as he intercedes for the people ultimately for us points us to the better Moses, uh to the Lord Jesus Christ, who intercedes for his people, who goes to the Father and says, forgive them, and uh and the Lord so so kindly and lovingly and graciously does with all of his mercy, he does forgive.
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  Um, so we see just the the natural consequences of this grumbling and murmuring people.
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  They get what they wanted, they will die in the wilderness.
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  They get what they asked for.
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  And uh verse 29, it's pretty graphic here.
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  Your dead bodies shall fall in the wilderness one by one, uh, till the very last person who is grumbling, uh, from the age of 20 years and upward, you all will die.
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  Um, but your children will get to see the promised land.
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  But this children will also, the this the second generation will suffer because of the faithlessness of their fathers.
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  So there's a lot happening here in Numbers 14.
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  The ten are are struck down, only two of the spies will live, the faithful two, Caleb and Joshua, and for every day that the spies spent in Canaan, we see one year of wandering for uh that second generation.
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  And as that 40-year period progresses, one by one, the people that grumbled, um, that re that rebelled against the Lord will die.
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  And and there's a courageous group here at the end of this chapter that say, our our our hearts are ready now to obey you, God.
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  Here we're we're ready to go now.
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  We're gonna go take on this people, we're gonna go into this land, take these Amalekites and Canaanites on, but the Lord is not with them.
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  They will ultimately, at this last verse, they die, and uh they they reject God's direction once again when God tells uh his people to turn back and go uh by way of the Red Sea, uh go back into the continue on in the wilderness.
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  But they, this group at the end of this chapter, decide to go into the valley lands and take on without the Lord, without the ark, without God's blessing and his presence, they ultimately suffer defeat.
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  And as we look today to our portion of Psalm 119, uh there's a lot of connections of seeking out God's commands, seeking out his leading, uh, and finding rest and delight, and just cherishing uh the precepts and the statutes of the Lord.
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  And if only those people who rebelled would have done exactly this that we see here uh in this section, they may have lived.
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  And uh this this heartbeat of keeping God's word close.
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  There's some shepherd and sheep imagery here as uh sheep uh wander from time to time.
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  The shepherd will go, uh faithful shepherd will go and bring back uh the wandering sheep.
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  My in this opening verse in verse 9, the question proposed how can a young man keep his way pure?
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  Well, it it comes through um a heart that is fixed and focused and submitted to the king with a whole heart seeking after the commands of the Lord so that wandering does not occur, a storing up of God's word in the hearts.
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  I'm I'm seeing imagery of uh a storehouse or some kind of a place where you would uh stack and and gather a harvest.
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  Um, it's overflowing.
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  And if you open the barn doors or the open the silo, uh it would be just full of the commandments of the Lord, uh, ready to dispense, ready to spill out of the mind out of the mouth.
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  And uh there's a joy and a happiness here also, as we see in the Lord.
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  Blessed are you, O Lord.
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  There's a joyful um teachability um here in verse 12.
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  Teach me your statutes.
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  Uh the one who is seeking godly counsel, godly instruction is going to be the one who is meditating on the precepts, and the one who is delighting in the statutes of the Lord.
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  And uh, if you've ever um heard a song playing and immediately lyrics start pouring out of your mouth, you understand this principle here.
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  As you meditate, as you store up God's commandments in your heart, you are able to recall them, you're able to apply them when needed.
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  And you delight in those in those song lyrics, maybe you delight in in the experiences that you might have had in the past, and that is why, in a blink of an eye, your mind can recall lyrics that you might not have thought of, not not have sung in in decades, but your mind can easily retrieve them and and apply them.
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  So this is this is the heart of the psalmist today.
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  Uh the psalmist who is striving to keep his way pure, his mind and his heart is just fully saturated with God's word, delighting in the statutes and the promises of God, so that he will not forget.
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  He will not forget.
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  And that is something that we can all struggle with from time to time, forgetting.
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  And uh, how do we combat that?
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  How do we win the battle for remembrance?
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  It's filling our hearts and our minds uh day by day with the word of God.
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  And that is the remedy, that is the solution to a wayward heart, a heart that is forgetting.
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  It is fixing uh our mind, fixing our hearts and our gaze on the hope that we have in Christ, the one who has redeemed us, the one who intercedes for us, and the one who has purified us with his own blood.
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