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June 18, 2026 - Numbers 28 & Psalm 119:121-128 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bywording 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 Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, June 18th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the people of Israel and say to them, My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord, two male lambs a year old, without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also a tenth of an epha of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hen of beaten oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hen for each lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an epha of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil and its drink offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also three tenths of an epha of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for the one ram, and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb, for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their drink offerings shall be a half a hen of wine for a bull, a third of a hen for a ram, and a quarter of a hen for a lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord, and shall be offered besides the regular burnt offerings and its drink offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the first day there shall be a holy convocation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not do any ordinary work, but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord, two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old.
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  SPEAKER_00: See that they are without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an epha shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram, and a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the same way you shall offer daily for seven days the food of a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not do any ordinary work.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not do any ordinary work, but offer a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths and ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, a tenth for each of the seven lambs, with one male goat to make atonement for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: See that they are without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm one nineteen, verses one twenty one through one twenty eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have done what is just and right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not leave me to my oppressors.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give your servant a pledge of good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let not the insolent oppress me.
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  SPEAKER_01: My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am your servant, give me understanding that I may know your testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hate every false way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, for those of you keeping track at home, we are in numbers twenty-eight, and what I mean by keeping track is there are many, many, many animals that are being sacrificed every year as a part of the Mosaic Covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here we have just some more details of the rhythm of these offerings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have daily offerings, we have the Sabbath offering, or remember you can think of that as a weekly offering, six days they work, on the seventh they rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have daily, we have weekly, we have monthly, and we also have yearly, and sometimes bi-yearly and things like that, but the festival offerings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh certainly the Passover was every year, the first month, the 14th day of the month.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you tally up all of those offerings, I think about just the daily offering as an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two lambs per day, every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you look into the Jewish calendar, they actually didn't have 365 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they had about 354.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they followed what's called the lunar calendar, not the solar.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they would have to actually, uh, there was some rabbis that would intercollate, they would put in extra a month or two every few years in order to catch up to keep the the calendar that to correspond with the the crops and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nevertheless, if we just kind of averaged it to 365 days, which is of course uh the more standard calculation, that's about it's over a thousand lambs a year, it's over a hundred bulls a year, it's like 40 rams a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one of the things that's clear in numbers 28, just from those numbers alone, is that God has to provide pretty, I would say providentially for this number of quantity of animals that were a part of the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's having to prosper both Israel and their flocks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so they're they're multiplying, and and and again, this this does not include because their animals were also a part of their livelihood.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was a part of their, you can think of it as their jobs or their work or their ability to make money or to buy, sell, and trade.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so uh just just the sacrifices that are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, we have over a thousand lambs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so there's that sense of you've got to think about just the amount of animals, the amount uh of livestock that God is having to prosper Israel with in order for them just to be able to obey his commands to make these daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly sacrifices.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the interesting question, Tyler, about Numbers 28 that I was asking myself was why are we reiterating again?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Numbers has done this a few times, actually, where it'll just sort of take a pause in the narrative and it'll just reiterate the laws, it'll reiterate sacrifices.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's I think this is about the third time that it's done this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I was like, why are we just reiterating the sacrifices again?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, there's a couple of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: One is that Leviticus, for example, primarily focused on the sacrifices from the perspective of the average Israelite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that was sort of the vantage point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, the the the priests were involved, the the whole convocation, the whole ordination ceremony is talked about there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it was mostly from the vantage point of this is what you, as the average everyday Israelite, these are the sacrifices that you are to make, you know, the the five primary types of sacrifices that we walk through at the beginning of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Numbers 28, this is really from the vantage point of the priest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like these are the priests that are offering the thousand plus lambs, the hundred plus bulls, the 37 rams.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are how they are to be prepared, when they are to be offered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so this is from a different sort of vantage point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, the the the Israelites as the congregation are involved, but it's from that kind of different angle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the timing of this comes right after Joshua is sort of promoted to the leader of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think this in in some ways is to signify that though there is a change in leadership from Moses to Joshua, there is not a change in the law, there's not a change in the covenant that God made with Israel at Mount at Mount Sinai.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think this is very intentional to that it's placed right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, all scripture is intentional.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's breathed out by God and inspired.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if we think about it from a literary perspective, why is this right here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think again, it's that sense of okay, we've got this new leader, there's been a lot of change, the ground has opened up and swallowed hundreds of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, plague wipes out 24,000.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's been lots of things going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think this is uh, hey, with all the change, with the new leadership, the new guard, God is still the same, his covenant still remains, and even the sort of covenant stipulations still are there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think it's again just that sense of hey, uh, we've got a new leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's the reality that that that generation ultimately, uh, the generation that rebelled in the wilderness and uh Numbers 14 would not make it into the promised land, but nevertheless, the covenant still remains, God is still good, and so I think that's part of why we see in Numbers 28 and what we'll read tomorrow in numbers 29 is a continuing uh just to think about the the feast more specifically, the feast of trumpets, the feast of booths, and we'll read about that tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, I think it's intentional.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the author is showing us through this literary technique of new leader, same God, same covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's part of what we're seeing structured here in the book of Numbers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, thanks for that explanation, PJ, and just uh the encouragement for us to revisit the things that we may already know, uh, but keep it front of mind as we um seek to please the Lord with our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as I was thinking about the passage in Psalm 119 today, I was making some connections to Numbers 28 and specifically about the spotless nature without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see that a few times.
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  SPEAKER_01: It has to be without blemish, um, speaking to the animals that would be sacrificed, and that points us ultimately to Christ, who was without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in here, our our psalmist is is drawing the attention to um uh his oppressors and and to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've done what is just and right, do not leave me to my oppressors, and that's exactly what Jesus experienced.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was left to his oppressors, though he did though he did everything right and nothing wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, verse 122 give your servant a pledge of good, let not the insolent oppress me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that drew my attention to Isaiah 53, verses 7 and 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is what Jesus uh experienced.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can go back to uh the book of um of John, and Jesus speaking with Pilate.
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  SPEAKER_01: He comes back and he goes and tells the Jews, I have found no guilt in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Luke 23, also uh verses 13 to 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I do not find this man guilty of any of your charges.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he says, Look, nothing deserving of death has been done by him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's this this clear, clear evidences of Jesus being spotless.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has done no wrong, there is no guilt in him, and and there's a connection here in this passage that I'm I'm finding in um God in man form, Jesus, the servant of his father.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's some language here that really draws us to the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think even what we see here is the psalmist crying out for a sense of vindication, a sense of justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: They give him verse 124, deal with your servant according to your steadfast love and teach me your statute.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think there's a sense of, again, he's surrounded by oppressors.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what he says in 121, do not leave me to my oppressors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give your servant a pledge of good.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what he's requesting God to do on his behalf in the midst of oppressors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he feels like he's done what is just and right, and so he's appealing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, give your servant a pledge of good, let not the insolent oppress me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he talks about even his longing for salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, there's salvation is talked about in a variety of different ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's, of course, uh ultimate salvation in Christ, but there's also just even a sense of being rescued from something or someone, and we see that here, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, my eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and even that righteous promise of God uh who will oppose the proud, uh, but give grace to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole idea of God being a God of justice and truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist has this great confidence that God will do what is just and right, that he will give his servant a pledge of good, uh, that he will defend those who are defenseless, uh, he will uh be a father to the fatherless, you know, those those things that we see all throughout the scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's why he says in 124, deal with your servant according to your steadfast love and teach me your statutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again in verse 125, I am your servant, give me understanding that I may know your testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, what what a great sort of mindset to have.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the the amount of times in even just these few verses that it says, Deal with your servant, I am your servant, I am your servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think that's something that we need to grow in is having that sort of self-identity, that we are servants of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We seek to serve the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to serve the King, and we want our lives to be aimed towards serving him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I even think about that uh in this section of Psalm 119.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the psalmist clearly views himself as a servant, that he lives uh to do the will of someone else of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the perspective that we need to have at Compass South Valley, that we are servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh sometimes that's gonna, from our vantage point, feel inconvenient.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's gonna feel heavy just because we're perhaps we're tired or whatever the case may be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but uh, what greater work for us to expend ourselves in and to work towards than the work of God, uh, the work of ministry, the whole idea of making disciples.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're here to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what our church is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're about the Great Commission.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's our marching orders from our Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we should have this perspective that we are servants, we're servants of the King, we're here to serve, we're here to expend of ourselves, and we're here to do it for the good of others.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think of even our study of Titus right at the the pre, I think it was our first Sunday ever as a as a church.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about viewing ourselves as a servant for the growth of someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you remember that, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was way, that was six months ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the whole idea of being a servant for someone else's faith, to to stoke their faith, to help them grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: We looked at a couple of examples of Paul having that kind of identity where he was a servant for a particular purpose, for a specific aim.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that aim was other people growing in godliness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think if we just look at Psalm 119 and we see the constant refrain of I am your servant, I am your servant, I am your servant, uh, we ought to, we ought to have the identity and we have to pursue that in the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh God help us to serve you, help us to serve others, help us in our service to help others know you more, serve you more, worship you more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a great thing that that would be for our church and our community if we had that kind of identity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, praise the Lord for that encouragement and uh a reminder to to be going after um the people in our church, and also as I I look at verse 126, uh, we see this connection between the law of the Lord and its uh opposers, I guess, the the people that would go against God's law and break it, and that's all of us in the the Great Commission.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we think think back, we're out to go and make disciples.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna go and go and seek the lawbreakers and point them to the law keeper in Jesus Christ and say He was He is the perfect example for us, but also He is the judge and He's coming back, and we need to be right with Him.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to have a right standing with this judge, and um and we need to go after them in love.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we can we can say we we hate every false way, we can say that we we hate evil and wickedness, but there's a level of compassion that we need to go into this world with and say, look, like this was us too.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were wicked, we were evil, we were breaking God's law left and right.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was our nature, but but God gave us a new nature, he gave us his spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, as I'm thinking forward to Cam Compass next week, PJ, I'm thinking about all these all these children that are going to be able to hear the gospel clearly day by day and just help for them to help help them see uh the hearts that they have, the hearts that they have that are uh in opposition of God and breaking his rules.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's something I I hope to see help them see is just their need for the just judge in Jesus Christ who has laid his life down for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: We look forward to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We look forward to continuing just to preach the gospel, whether it's at Camp Compass on Sunday mornings, or if we go out into our community.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want people to know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want them to be reconciled to him through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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