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July 27, 2026 - Deuteronomy 25 & Psalm 146 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, the Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, July 27th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy twenty five.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
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  SPEAKER_00: If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her husband's brother shall go into her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists saying, I do not wish to take her, then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face, and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house, and the name of the house shall be called in Israel the house of him who had his sandal pulled off.
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  SPEAKER_00: When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
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  SPEAKER_00: A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not forget.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one forty six.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: When his breath departs, he returns to the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: On that very day his plans perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry, the Lord sets the prisoners free, the Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will reign forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your God, O Zion, to all generations, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our psalm today has me thinking about those who can tend to struggle with fear of man or pleasing man or seeking to find the approval of certain people in their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this opening sequence of verses draws our attention to the one whose opinion, whose authority, and whose power uh has no competition.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the Lord, and he is worthy of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: It opens with praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 146 continues to say, Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my soul, I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as we draw a breath, we are to give credit and worship and praise to the one who deserves it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not men, it's not the created beings, not in princes, not in a son of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no salvation in anyone that is created.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, there is one man who, in contrary to verse four, when his breath departs, he returns to the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: On that very day, his plans perish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the the plans of the Lord, the plans of the eternal Son of God, Jesus, his plans do not perish, and they did not perish when he was buried in the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is risen, and there is salvation in his name.
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  SPEAKER_00: His name is Jesus Christ, the one who takes away the sins of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have a great and rich inheritance in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who uh who find the God of Jacob, who find Yahweh, the great I am, as their help and hope, they are blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the one who makes heaven and earth, we we think about John chapter one, and it all points to the man, the God man, Jesus Christ, the one who creates the earth and the heavens and the sea, and the one who is faithful to keep his promises eternally, because he is eternal, uh, the one who executes justice for the oppressed, the one who is taking care of those who are in great need, whether they are in need of food or in need of care or protection or uh restored health.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the God that exalts those who are humble, those who are bowed down, those who are lowly, they are the ones who who know, who know the Lord's love, his his tenderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's those who love righteousness that God draws near to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's watching over you even now, as you are listening to this podcast, he is upholding uh our very bodies, the very breath that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is sustaining us to this very moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the one that reigns forever, the one whose uh capital city on which he will sit one day, Jesus the Lord will reign from Zion, he will reign from Jerusalem when he descends over all generations, and he is reigning even now in heaven, and he is the one who is worthy of all praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we switch over, switch gears to our chapter, our chapter in Deuteronomy, we have more laws here, and as you look at the the titles or the superscripts of these different paragraph breaks, you might see one that says miscellaneous laws, and um some of these laws speak to how not to not to break up a fight by um by dishonoring a man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's uh rules in here about honesty and integrity when you're thinking about the different weights that you would use in in a market or the different measuring devices you would use to to deal out um portions uh of grain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um these are the rules that we see here for God's people that would set them apart from the other nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh one that is uh interesting to me is uh is the one here that draws our attention to uh Ruth, a chapter, uh a book rather that we concluded a couple weeks ago in our student ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, we're looking at the the leverett laws, the rules that would uh assist and aid um a family name to continue and persist.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a husband dies, his brother would uh carry on and continue that family line by uh by taking in his brother's wife and having a child, uh, Lord willing, with his brother's wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's opportunities here for that man to uh to sidestep or or not take on this responsibility, uh, though there is great shame that comes along with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see that here uh in verses eight, uh, nine, and ten, there's great dishonor, it seems, that goes along with a man that is not willing to take on this responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it shows just uh how uh how great an honor, how great a respect is due to a family lineage to carry on a family name and for a brother to uh to neglect that or reject that opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there is a sandal exchange, there is uh spitting, and there is a great um great shame that goes along um and dishonor uh here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some laws that we can look to that might seem odd in the year 2026, but nonetheless we see God's people being instructed on how to live a life that is uh pleasing, pleasing to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while we think these laws would never uh apply to us, we should check our hearts and and think about the laws that we do have today, and the ones that we uh within our local communities might say, uh, well, that law doesn't really apply to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you're living in in the state of Idaho in the Treasure Valley, you have uh governing powers that God has installed over you, over me, uh, and laws that we should abide, whether that's uh a speed limit, whether it is uh uh road signs or or different things that would uh cause us to to maybe roll our eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's rules all around us that God would have us follow that are not found in scripture, but as we think about the the ways that we can honor God by honoring and obeying the laws which are not sinful, which are lawful in our community, the ones that uh that reign over us, we have an opportunity to show the world that we serve a God uh that that reigns, his judgments and his justice uh is supreme.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for for the sovereign hand that he wields in places, whether it's a mayor, whether it's a governor, these laws and rules that are installed in the state of Idaho, these are laws and rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: While uh as long as they are not sinful, we are to follow and obey.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you think about obscure laws that might not fit, think about the laws that you might think twice about, the laws that might be easily broken or dismissed if they are uh in our time here in the year 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that's an encouragement to you as we continue reading the scriptures together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible SV.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.