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May 16, 2026 - Leviticus 27 & Psalm 106 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Vibrating 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 16th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leviticus 27.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female, the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then shall he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him.
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  SPEAKER_01: The priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if he does, in fact, substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priests, and the priest shall value it as either good or bad, as the priest values it, so it shall be.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
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  SPEAKER_01: When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad, as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
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  SPEAKER_01: If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed.
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  SPEAKER_01: A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
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  SPEAKER_01: If he dedicates his field from the year of Jubilee, the valuation shall stand.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of Jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, when then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted.
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  SPEAKER_01: The priest shall be in possession of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not part of his possession, then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of Jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the year of Jubilee, the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
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  SPEAKER_01: Twenty garage shall make a shekel.
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  SPEAKER_01: But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate, whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord's.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation and add a fifth to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
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  SPEAKER_01: But no devoted things that a man devotes to the Lord of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one devoted who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind shall be ransomed, he shall surely be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is holy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it, and every tithe of herds and flocks, every tent animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it, and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the commandments that the Lord God commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Psalm 106.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this Psalm we see a thanks given by the psalmist to the Lord for the steadfast love of God, of Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this psalm we see a similar fashion to the previous psalm, there is this historical account of the people of Israel and a history of sorts where there's a recalling of uh shortcomings, um, there's a recalling of the the leaders uh and how God's people responded to them, Moses and Aaron, and uh in a an account of uh God's people forgetting uh and their wanderings and and their mistakes that they've made along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in contrast, we see the steadfast love of God who saves his people, who doesn't uh reject or forsake his uh people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um he is he is one that is redeeming his people and calling his people back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of this psalm, uh we see a a call to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um this psalm is it can be seen as one from exiles looking back at their time away from Jerusalem and their thanks to the Lord as they are returning back and giving worship uh and praise to Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is a summary of Psalm 106.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, Tyler, today's the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are finishing up the book of Leviticus, and this is the third book that we are now concluding on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, our inaugural year, which is very exciting.
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  SPEAKER_01: We went through Genesis, of course, then Exodus, now Leviticus, and next up, we've got numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers next.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very excited about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But as is our custom or is becoming so, we want to reflect on the book of Leviticus together and think about what are the lessons that we learned, what are the truths about God that have been revealed?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so let's just start with you, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: What kind of from Leviticus?
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe um an unexpected book uh for encouragement, perhaps, uh, because especially I I've said often on the podcast, it feels so foreign to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't have tabernacles, we don't have priests, we don't have uh all of the different things that are talked about in constructed the Ark of the Covenant.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't that's not something we carry around as a church, even though it may feel that way with setting up and tearing down.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are not gonna make mention, we are not there, and so you know sometimes it can feel foreign to us, but certainly a lot of encouragement along the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what what have you been encouraged by, Tyler, from the book of Leviticus?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as I look to Leviticus as a whole and just the the holiness of God, and I'm reflecting on um one of the chapters that I uh commented on by myself, uh Leviticus 16 and the Day of Atonement and the ways that God um through through the goats, how God removes the sin of the people of Israel, and that can only draw my eyes to Christ my Savior and the ways that he removes my sin, and I can stand uh in the righteousness that he gives me before the throne of God without shame and and without um without blushing, but I I can stand there and just say all I have is all that Christ gives me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I think about God's people and um I think about the way that they watched that goat just leave their camp and on that goat was the sin of the people of Israel, uh, and how how just overwhelming that must have been the one day of a year that they get to experience this and remember God's uh God's faithfulness to them, his loving kindness and his mercy uh for them, and and just a reflection of the covenant that he has made to his people and the means by which he accomplished fulfilling those promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think something that I just found encouraging throughout the book of Leviticus, of course, the the one-word summary of Leviticus is holiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we see throughout the book is that God is holy, of course, first and foremost.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then God, because of his holiness, he makes other things holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He makes people holy, he makes places holy, he makes things holy, uh in different words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes in the verb form holiness is a noun, so the verb form of holiness or to make holy can both be consecrated to set apart, to pull to the side, to enlist in something towards a particular direction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so or the word is sanctify.
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  SPEAKER_01: So sanctify is again the verb form of holiness, and so we have um holy places, the the tabernacle, we have holy garments, the priestly garments, we have holy sacrifices, holy food, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: The uh these grain offerings that become holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, even in Leviticus 27 that we just read, there is this sense of these offerings, these valuations, these payments to the Lord are holy gifts in verse 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of Jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have holy gifts, holy sacrifices, holy animals, holy people, holy things, holy places, uh all flowing from a holy God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that really I think is clear from both Leviticus and the rest of the storyline of scripture is that holiness is a position given by God before it is a pursuit by man.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's an order to these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: God says, make this holy, because I am holy, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: God consecrates a nation, he rescues them out of Egypt, he forms them, he fashions them, he sets them apart from the nations through his deliverance of them, and then says after that, after he's made them consecrated to himself and commands them to be such, he then says, Be holy, for I am holy, be holy as I am holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's a position first and foremost that God initiates, and then it's a pursuit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in the Christian life, of course, uh, holiness is something that we are granted uh upon our faith in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Ephesians chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_01: God predestined before the foundation of the world that we should be adopted in Christ to be holy and blameless before him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that is a position that we are granted.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then as a result of that position that we have in Christ, we've been set apart, we've been consecrated, we've been sanctified.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Hebrews chapter three, which we'll be talking about this weekend, calls us holy brothers, uh, holy brothers and sisters, people that have been formed, fashioned, set apart, and enlisted to a particular purpose for a particular end.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a result of that, what do we do?
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  SPEAKER_01: We pursue holiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we see that sort of pattern unfold here in in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like, I like how you're drawing our attention, Pastor Josiah, to the way that God uh speaks, and then it is so I think about creation, God speaks it and then it becomes instantaneously in God calling his people holy and describing and and making the way for them to do so because he said so.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that um we can we can often reflect and ask, ask ourselves, like, well, God, why do you want me to do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: We can we could just remember because God has told us to, because that is his will for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when our children ask, why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why do I have to?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, because this this is what's best, this is what is good for you, and this is how I'm going to lead you, and this is what you will do because I I'm your authority, as God is our authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we follow his lead, his commands.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I was just also just reflecting as we've been in Leviticus now for about a month, 27 chapters, and then if you if you factor in the Sundays that we take off for the Lord's Day, because we gathered together, and of course, we're in the Word uh corporately, uh it's about 30 days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we've been in Leviticus for pretty much exactly a month.
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  SPEAKER_01: We started on the 16th of April, and we are ending on the 16th of May.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's something very fitting about the order of all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I was just thinking about what has happened in the life of our church over the last 30 days, and um, it has actually been quite a bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just made a quick list before we started recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had our second ever exploring compass on April 26th.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in the time uh shortly after 10 days after we started the book of Leviticus, we had our second Exploring Compass where we had new families that were wanting to learn about our church, and we had a great opportunity, Tyler, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a great encouragement to just discuss hey, this is what we're about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's what we're trying to accomplish by God's grace, and we'd love for you to join us.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was on April 26th.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was our second ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had our first one pre-launch, which is crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before we even publicly launched, we had our first Exploring Compass.
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  SPEAKER_01: We then had our second, April 26th, shortly after Easter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we released our very first children's book from Hebrews 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did that within the first month of being uh a church, praise the Lord from a public perspective, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or a public launch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we we wrote the children's book, Morgan and I, Hebrews 1, based off of the sermon series Who is Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_01: So that happened in the time of our reading Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we had a student ministry just kind of fun fellowship day on a Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell us about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: What did you guys do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, we were zipping around the track at K1 speed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there are a couple uh of youth in our uh in our student ministry that were humbled and and God is is faithful to to make uh make his people more like himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Christ was the the perfect example of humility, and if we're gonna be like Christ, sometimes humility can can happen on a racetrack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh no, but we had a great time and we had a a great turnout, a lot of leaders and and students racing, and there were some sore shoulders afterwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not it's not easy going fast, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so that was on May 2nd.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a Saturday that happened in our time of reading Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had our first ever women's event um for Compass Bible Church, South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was last Saturday, May 9th.
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  SPEAKER_01: And fittingly enough, we talked about being holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So look at that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was not necessarily planned.
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  SPEAKER_01: We didn't plan it uh to line up with our study of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even today, you're listening to this on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is our first men's event where we're talking about being holy as God is being holy, men holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh there's gonna be seven different ways for us to pursue holiness as a man that really flow from again that whole idea of God being holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is holy and he makes things holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So our first women's event, our first men's event, and our first series, and and for this first go-around, we're doing kind of a joint series talking about the same things set apart, holy, faithful, and zealous.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh that's very fitting and overlaps really well with the book of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so that happened as we read through Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: We also, uh, even this past Wednesday, just a few few days ago, we had the concluding ceremony of Adventure Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we finished out the year.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of our kids started Adventure Club in the fall at Treasure Valley, and they finished Adventure Club uh here in the spring um at South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh that marked uh really a big transition because we are transitioning away, uh, I'm not gonna say permanently, but at least for the near future from Adventure Club, where we're really trying to focus in on life group kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's something that we do currently that course corresponds and coincides with our life groups.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the kids go back over and kind of review and uh talk about what they learned on Sunday, and it's also rooted in in Hebrews, and so they follow along with us, uh the adults in the main service, and we're all kind of on the same page.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the adults meet together during life groups and discuss Hebrews, and the kids meet together during life groups for life group kids, and they discuss Hebrews, and that was something that we just found a lot of value in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we're gonna be transitioning away from Adventure Club to spend a little bit more time and energy and resources uh filling that out and making that the best that it can be.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just in the last 30 days, lots of things have happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Changes have have already kind of uh you know been undergone in our church with transitioning away from Adventure Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great program.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, loved studying that with the third through fifth graders that I was able to uh be a part of.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um now even we're kind of adding our monthly prayer nights on Wednesdays.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's something that was initiated within the last 30 days, at least communicated to our church and just an open invitation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're listening to this, we'd really, really love for you to be a part of those.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we tried to make it to where it's not um, you know, some sort of burden on your schedule.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not every week, but it's once a month.
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  SPEAKER_01: We think it's important.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and again, that happened in the time of our reading of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just kind of tracing, you know, this is what over the last 30 days has taken place in the life of our church, uh, reflecting on the faithfulness of God, reflecting on the truths that we have uh really been able to mine out of the book of Leviticus, a great book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, just the one-word summary, holiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is holy, he makes things holy, uh, he makes us positionally holy, and then commands us to pursue holiness because of uh the position that he has given us in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I would say, Tyler, um that's a wrap on the book of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been an encouraging time, and I've really enjoyed just putting my mind around the details of of God's instruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I think about um all the details and the commands of of the New Testament and how many there are, I I can appreciate and just really get into the finer granulated details of the Old Testament and and how they matter to God, how how doing it his way that is set apart is is good for us, and I and I don't need to feel burdened by by the the details of the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a joy and a freedom that comes with pursuing holiness and obeying God, and and that's been something that I've really enjoyed through the book of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I hope you too, if you're listening, that you have been just encouraged by our study of Leviticus, and we're looking forward to numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers can be a bit of a challenge, lots of names, lots of uh just detail, and it can be somewhat challenging, but again, all scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for our instruction.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're looking forward uh to getting into numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Tyler will start us off in numbers one and two.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's all we've got time for today.
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  SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible SV.org.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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