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July 31, 2026 - Deuteronomy 29 & Psalm 150 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Friday, July 31st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 29.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders.
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  SPEAKER_01: But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have led you forty years in the wilderness, your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.
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  SPEAKER_01: We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of the Manassites.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, for the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed, and you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: One who, when he hears the word of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven, and the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, When they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick, the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the nations will say, Why has the Lord done this to this land?
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  SPEAKER_01: What caused the heat of this great anger?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then people will say, It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the god of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land as they are this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one fifty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise him in his mighty heavens, praise him for his mighty deeds, praise him according to his excellent greatness, praise him with trumpet sound, praise him with lute and harp, praise him with tambourine and dance, praise him with strings and pipe, praise him with sounding cymbals, praise him with loud clashing cymbals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we are shifting into a the kind of the third movement of Deuteronomy, because remember it started with the speeches of Moses there at the beginning, and then in the central section of the book that we're just finishing, uh it was a lot of the laws that were being reiterated, and now Moses is speaking again, and he will continue really to speak until ultimately he dies at the end of this book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but Deuteronomy 29 is the covenant renewal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, of course, we have the covenant first instituted at Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai, where Israel was at the base of the mountain and Moses was up on the mountain with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that's where we first get the Ten Commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's where this covenant is first instituted.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now it's been years and years and years because we had the wilderness wandering generation who wandered for 40 years and whose bodies fell in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now this is the second generation, and so there's a sense in which this covenant is being renewed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses, uh speaking for God here, God commanding him to speak the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses, it says in verse one uh he is basically gathering the nation of Israel, everyone young and old, and reminding them of the covenant that was made first at Horeb or Mount Sinai, and saying, Commit this day to this covenant and remember the curses, because we've just got got done reading through the chapters that detail all the different curses.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the the altar that's to be set up in the center of the valley, and then the two sides that are to shout uh blessings and curses, and basically say amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, we had all the blessings and curses detailed in chapter uh 28.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here we are in chapter 29, and Moses is saying to the people of Israel, remember, remember, remember, remember, do what God has commanded you to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember the blessings that come with obedience, remember the curses that come with disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even he kind of goes back all the way to Egypt and kind of even traces things that have happened since Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, they came out against us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We read about that to battle, and we defeated them.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was in the book of Numbers, uh, even talks about the situation where they were given over uh to idolatry and how the Lord was angry with them, uh, kind of even comparing that with a list of Sodom and Gomorrah, um, and even Adma and Zeboim, which the the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, all of this chapter is geared towards the people of God, remembering the covenant that God made with them to be their God, for them to be his people, and all of the kind of laws and stipulations that were associated with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh that that is the call of this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it ends in verse 29.
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  SPEAKER_01: The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even in the context of chapter 29 of Deuteronomy, there's a sense in which the the some of the things that are happening, some of the ways that the promises would be fulfilled, uh, some of the outcomes on the other side of entering into the promised land are unknown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those are quote unquote secret uh to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't uh the people of God don't necessarily know all those details, but the things that are revealed, namely the Mosaic covenant and all the laws and stipulations and the expectations, they belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even that verse, sometimes we we quote that a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh here in the context of Deuteronomy, it makes uh sense, of course, with the the covenant as the background, uh, just what's ahead of them, what's behind them in this moment that God has brought them to, speaking through Moses to remind them of this covenant renewal uh in Moab.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, PJ, we've come to the end of another book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm, the book of Psalms is now complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've read through all 150 Psalms, one of them taking a handful of weeks to get through, and and all the rest, um, one or two at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, we we'd like to talk about some takeaways as we always do.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are some takeaways and some high points and some and some things that you've been reflecting on or meditating on as you think about our time in the book of Psalms?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just remembering all the different kinds of psalms.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got wisdom psalms, we've got psalms of lament, psalms of ascent, royal psalms, messianic psalms, psalms of thanksgiving, psalms of praise, um, all of these different psalms, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that represent kind of the the broad spectrum of Israel's dealings with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, there's Israel's history that's recorded in the Psalms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there's Israel's lament of just the curses that fell upon their nation as a result of their disobedience and covenant unfaithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've always kind of viewed the Psalms as the discipleship curriculum of the nation of Israel, where they're learning, they're growing, they're stumbling, and uh, it's something where we we kind of get to see a window into how they're seeking to faithfully pursue the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just greatly encouraged by everything that we've read in the Psalms, so many prayers, so many encouraging truths about the character of God, who he is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so just a great, great book.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's crazy that that we're officially done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're done with the psalms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me, I think as I consider being someone who would be singing these songs out loud, uh, just the different um places that the people of Israel has been.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't imagine calling out to God for my enemy's teeth to be broken, but there's imprecatory psalms, and there's there's songs that kind of create some vivid imagery that might make us cringe and kind of uh crunch our nose up a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, really that God, it's in God's book that he wrote, and we have uh we have uh a wide variety of ways that we can trust and know God and praise him as we reflect on the Psalms and as we we look to the goodness and his praiseworthiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly how the book ends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every single line in Psalm 150 has the word praise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, praise the Lord, praise, praise God in the sanctuary, praise him in his mighty heavens, praise him for his mighty deeds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, in Hebrew parallelism, oftentimes you'll have kind of two, what sometimes can feel like unrelated things, but they're contrasting each other or they're paralleling each other.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here it's just the same thing: praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, all the way through these six verses, just to uh kind of call, of course, the people of Israel and by extension us today to live lives of praise to the Lord, live lives of obedience to the Lord, trusting in his promises.
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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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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.