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July 28, 2026 - Deuteronomy 26 & Psalm 147 · 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, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Tuesday, July 28th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ye shall make response before the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous, and the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders, and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground which you, O Lord, have given me, and you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, then you shall say before the Lord your God, I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover I have given it to the Levites, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice, and the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord builds up Jerusalem, he gathers the outcasts of Israel, he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds, he determines the number of their stars, he gives to all of them their names.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great is our Lord and abundant in power, his understanding is beyond measure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord lifts up the humble, he casts the wicked to the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving, make melody to our God on the lyre, he covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow on the hills, he gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
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  SPEAKER_00: His delight is not in the strength of a horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, praise your God, O Zion, for he strengthens the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you, he makes peace in your borders, he fills you with the finest of wheat, he sends out his command to the earth, his word runs swiftly, he gives snow like wool, he scatters frost like ashes, he hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who can stand before his cold?
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  SPEAKER_00: He sends out his word and melts them, he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has not dealt thus with any other nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do not know his rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our chapter today in Deuteronomy twenty six draws our attention back to the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy, way back in chapter six, twenty chapters ago, and it draws our attention to the land that the Israelites would inherit, the land flowing with milk and honey, a land that contains cisterns that they did not dig, cities that they had not built, vineyards and olive orchards that they did not plant, and the imagery here is of harvest time and of worship and sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see the offerings and first fruits that are to be given over as a thank you to the Lord for his faithfulness, a sacrifice to the Lord that will be placed before the altar as is given to the priest in a basket.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is uh a great reminder to the people of Israel that this land, this harvest, this uh future home that these people would inherit is from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no credit, there is no boasting in any master craftsman or uh vine vineyard planter or uh master well digger.
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  SPEAKER_00: These things are given over to the people of Israel, and they are to be a mighty nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though they started off small, there's reflections in this chapter that draw our attention back to the laborious days, the hard labor days back in Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think about the appeal that Moses gives to Pharaoh through Aaron, let my people go out three days' journey and worship me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are a people set apart for God, and they are a people led by God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see the commands here in chapter 26, as we see God setting down firm boundaries as how to go about giving this third-year tithe.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see also the instructions as to how to care for the Levite, how to care for the widow, the fatherless, and the sojourner.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're thinking about the agricultural and uh the rules of just caring for God's people and the people that would be passing through uh the land of Canaan, the land that Israel would inherit as a blessing from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also see a great highlight and a familiar frame in verse 16 of chapter 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see this day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: Continue to obey me, God says.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for Israel, you shall therefore be careful, pay close attention, don't coast, don't put it in cruise control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we reflect back to this past Sunday as Pastor Josiah unpacked the heart of the matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not the cardiovascular tissue that you learned about in your anatomy physiology class.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is speaking to the control center, as Pastor Josiah stated, the control center of who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the seat of the will, as he also described it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's something that must be carefully guarded, carefully assessed and weighed, and something that has great value as we seek to honor the Lord with our whole being, with our whole heart, with our soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a great reminder from Sunday, and also as we reflect on this command in chapter 26 and verse 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we draw ever closer to the end of the book of Psalms, we are in Psalm 147 today that draws our attention to how God heals and mends those who are broken, the brokenhearted.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he lifts up the humble and casts down those who are wicked, those who would be proud to oppose the the Lord of heaven, the great I am, and the address to those who are are brokenhearted, sing praises to the king, sing praises to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is fitting that we would lift up a song of worship to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 7, we see a charge, sing to the Lord with thanksgiving, make melody to our God on the lyre.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the rest of the psalm highlights uh the power and the majesty, the creativity, uh, the character of God and what he finds delight in.
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  SPEAKER_00: He takes pleasure, as we look at verse 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: God takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we see God's power displayed as it is he who makes peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's he who uh commands the earth, he controls the seasons, he controls uh the weather, he has complete dominion over his creation, and uh, this is a cause and a reason for God's people to rejoice, it's a cause to remember and reflect on his faithfulness, and it's a a call for us to remember the faithfulness that the psalmist is has in mind when he's thinking of the word that God gave to Jacob, the rules and the commands that God gave to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are good, and he has not dealt in this way with any other nation, with kindness, with love, with uh with patience, and um with with a heart that seeks to uh to favor Israel and to favor God's uh people and he is um he is good to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not unjust for the Lord, and he is worthy of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we reflect on that the people of God in the year 2026, we uh we continue to look to this psalm and think about how the Lord lifts up the humble, those who would confess their sin, who would turn from their sin and place their hope, place their trust in the Savior who is risen, who is worthy of praise, those who would humble themselves and look up will be not not be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are wicked, those who do not declare Jesus as Lord will be cast down to the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those who are broken in their sin, God is faithful to bind up their wounds and to provide healing and restore peace between them uh and and their creator, and it it is God who is faithful to his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we would find the the perspective that sees God as we rightly should, him seated on his throne, high and lifted up, worthy of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: This fitting uh mentality is what pleases the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is a God that gives the stars their names, he is a God that knows every detail within his creation, in his omniscience and omnipotence.
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  SPEAKER_00: He upholds the universe by the power that that he holds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a great encouragement for us today uh to take take courage, take heart, and remember who is seated on the throne and who takes pleasure and those who would fear and and humble themselves before a holy God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much 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.