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May 14, 2026 - Leviticus 25 & Psalm 104 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bibreating 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_02: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today is Thursday, May 14th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 25.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have the Sabbath year that is talked about and instituted here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, the Sabbath week, of course, is six days.
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  SPEAKER_02: They work on the seventh, they rest.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that was to be a pattern not only for their weeks, but also for their yearly calendar.
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  SPEAKER_02: Six years, they would work and cultivate and keep the ground.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the seventh they would let the ground rest.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we have that that's detailed here in Leviticus 25.
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  SPEAKER_02: We also have the year of Jubilee, which is the 50th year.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they have 49 years, seven sevens, and then on the 50th year, they would have the year of Jubilee.
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  SPEAKER_02: It would say in verse 12, for it is a Jubilee.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a joyous, uh exciting year of celebration.
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  SPEAKER_02: It says it shall be holy to you.
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  SPEAKER_02: You may eat the produce of the field.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so um there's this calendar and this rhythm, both on the week to week, uh, to the annual, to uh the uh every seven years to every seven sevens of years, 49 in the 50th year.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh and then we have just some other details about uh redemption of property, how you are to uh think about that, laws concerning that, kindness for those who are poor, uh, what you are to do if if one of your kinsmen is poor and sells himself to someone, and all those different kinds of laws that are that are outlined and detailed here in Leviticus 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 104.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bless the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, you are very great.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
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  SPEAKER_01: He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters, he makes the clouds his chariot, he rides on the wings of the wind, he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire, he set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
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  SPEAKER_01: You covered it with the deep, as with a garment, the waters stood above the mountains, at your rebuke they fled, at the sound of the thunder they took to flight, the mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: You make springs gush forth in the valleys, they flow between the hills, they give drink to every beast of the field, the wild donkeys quench their thirst, besides them the bird, the birds of the heavens dwell, they sing among the branches, from your lofty abode you water the mountains, the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
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  SPEAKER_01: You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted, in them the birds build their nests, the stork has her home in the fir trees, the high mountains are for the wild goats, the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
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  SPEAKER_01: He made the moon to mark the seasons, the sun knows it's time for setting.
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  SPEAKER_01: You make darkness and it is night.
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  SPEAKER_01: When all the beasts of the forest creep about, the young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the sun rises they steal away and lie down in their dens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man goes to his work and to his labor until the evening.
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  SPEAKER_01: O Lord, how manifold are your works in wisdom you have made them all.
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  SPEAKER_01: The earth is full of your creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here is the sea great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.
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  SPEAKER_01: There go the ships, the Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: These all look to you to give them their food in due season.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you give it to them, they gather it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you open your hand they are filled with good things.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you hide your face, they are dismayed.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the glory of the Lord endure forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Lord rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
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  SPEAKER_01: May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bless the Lord, O my soul, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tyler, I spy with my little eye.
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  SPEAKER_02: A quotation from one of our sermons in Hebrews from Psalm 104.
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  SPEAKER_02: Can you find it?
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  SPEAKER_00: After everything you just read.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it regarding angels, ministers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pretty early on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: He makes his messengers wins, his ministers a flaming fire.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a quotation that the author of Hebrews uses again to just kind of make a contrast to Jesus, where he says, But your throne, O Lord, right after that, endures forever.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the messengers and the angels, they shift and they change and they come and they go and they uh differ in their work and frequency and kind, but Jesus, his throne endures forever.
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  SPEAKER_02: The scepter of his upright of uprightness is the scepter of his kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_02: He loves righteousness, hates wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's kind of the context that we're talking about in Hebrews 1.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's been cool because the last couple of psalms, we've had a couple of those uh quotations in Hebrews.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I like to just point that out because the Bible, believe it or not, has continuity.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like God created this divine tapestry for us to enjoy as it's woven together, uh a clear picture of Christ, which is why even the author of Hebrews in Hebrews 1 says, long ago, many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so, really, uh, that's even kind of connecting to how the Old Testament really is speaking of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_02: And God speaks through his son in the last days to show that that is the reality of the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Levitical system, the all the stories of Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_02: We had a conversation even in our life group about types and shadows and things like that that point forward from the Old Testament into the New Testament that give this kind of uh anticipatory look of who Christ would be and what he would do.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, just another quotation there uh that Hebrews, the author of Hebrews, uses from this psalm.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Psalm 104, one of the longer psalms that we have done, what were some things that kind of stuck out to you, Tyler?
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  SPEAKER_02: Maybe you were encouraged by something you were chewing on uh from Psalm 104.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm encouraged by uh the references to uh the flood at the beginning of the psalm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I was encouraged by uh the ways that God um since this global flood has not flooded the earth again.
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  SPEAKER_01: God continues to uphold his promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm I'm just thankful as I look to the the creation order and thinking back to Genesis, and as I look at maybe the middle section of the Psalm, maybe verses 11, uh 12 through 23, God's creation is sustained by his power and in and his design.
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  SPEAKER_01: Things are operating and working in the way that he intends.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we look at the different animals described here, uh the different things that man can enjoy, this is all by God's design, and it's a grace that we get to enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we get to enjoy as we have dominion over creation uh that God has made, we we get to reap the benefits of our position, uh made in the image of God, having having dominion over the things that God created.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I'm I'm thinking about verse 24, um, just reflecting on the power uh and and the majesty of God's creation, uh, we we're not one to worship the creation, we worship the creator, but we stand in awe at uh the work uh uh of creation.
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  SPEAKER_01: God spoke the things that we see in this world uh into existence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm looking outside right now, we have high winds, these trees are are bending and swaying, and as we consider how God is in control of every season, uh, there's not a day that goes by.
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  SPEAKER_01: We might think um this past winter was a light winter, but no, it was exactly how God intended it to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: It it snowed only a couple times and the snow didn't stick, and that's exactly how God intended it to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I'm in awe and just ref reflecting on um how good God's ways are, uh the way that he speaks through his word, the way that he breathes out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking to verse 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um it says, when you send forth your spirit, uh they are created, speaking about um just how we can look, look all around us, and we can see the good things that God has made, the things that he has spoken uh into existence, and we can praise the Lord and bless the Lord for all that we have and all that he promises to us.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and even the rhythm that you were kind of mentioning from verses 19 through 23 reminds me of what we read in Leviticus today, um, in a roundabout way.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he made the moon to mark the seasons, the sun knows it's time for setting, you make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about, the young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
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  SPEAKER_02: When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens.
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  SPEAKER_02: Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.
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  SPEAKER_02: So there's this sense of rhythm and order, and uh all of it being attributed, of course, to God and his design.
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  SPEAKER_02: That maybe think of what we're reading in Leviticus, where we have not just Sabbath weeks, but Sabbath years, where six years you cultivate, work the ground, the seventh, you you let it rest, you have the year of Jubilee, um, and just the rhythms that I think God is intending uh to establish in his people, in the covenant nation that he made uh Israel for the purpose of pointing to him, just like the the moon and the sun and the darkness and the night and how the the birds and the the beast and the prey, how they they they order their lives, uh and it points to God as the creator.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I would say the same thing with uh the you know the year of Jubilee and the Sabbath year and all of the laws.
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  SPEAKER_02: God is consecrating a nation for himself and even their rhythms, the way you know, proverbially that their uh sun comes up and and their moon shines in the night, and the things that they do on a not just week-to-week basis, but a year-to-year basis, and then even more, uh, you know, every seven years, every seven times seven years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so I think all of that points forward uh ultimately to Christ and uh how even we'll we'll talk about in Hebrews in chapters three and four, how Christ is our rest and Sabbath gets fulfilled in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we'll talk more about that.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's of course connected to Leviticus as well, but just the rhythm of it all points to the creator, points to the design.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um for you know the psalmist here in verse 24, it says, Oh Lord, how manifold are your works and wisdom have you made them all.
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  SPEAKER_02: The earth is full of your creatures, and so the the again, the the established pattern, the rhythm, the way that everything is ordered and operates, it points to God and his manifold works, uh, both at the creation level, but also at the the covenantal level with the the nation of Israel in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, their their calendar, their patterns, their uh feasts and celebrations and the year of Jubilee and the Sabbath year, and all that points to uh the Creator.
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  SPEAKER_02: So just a great connection there between Leviticus and Psalms.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a question for you now, PJ.
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  SPEAKER_01: You asked me a question.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I came back from a meeting today, and you were I said you're in the zone, and and you responded, I'm I'm always in the zone, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um looking to verse 34 here, um it's it's a great one for us to camp out on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's a great reminder for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: What we choose to think on, what we choose to dwell on, what we choose to fill our mind with, we want that to be pleasing to the Lord, the the thought patterns and the cycles and the ways that we bring to mind the things um in our day-to-day life, the things that we have great concern over.
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  SPEAKER_01: What we want as Christians to to have a meditation, a thought life that is pleasing to the Lord, the things that we're choosing to take hold of in our minds, we want those, uh we want those to be filled with joy and praise to the Lord, and that that can look different in different seasons, uh, seasons of difficulty, seasons of trial or challenge, or or maybe um uh seasons where things are exactly as we hope or wish they would be.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we want to be always having a mind and a heart that's meditating uh on the Lord, and we want that to be pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love, yeah, and even the the cry of let our meditation be pleasing to him, like you just said, that we don't want to just meditate on the right things, we want to meditate on the right things in the right way, and we want to please the Lord uh with the things that we meditate on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and again, that's just indicative of Psalm 1.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh on his law, he meditates day and night.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so what a what a great prayer for us, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Help help the things that we meditate on that we are in a sense consumed by, help them to be pleasing to you ultimately, help us to be pleasing to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I I pitched a question but never asked it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I said I was gonna ask a question.
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  SPEAKER_01: What for for our life stage in our church, what do you think it would be a great encouragement, a great benefit to our our church body?
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  SPEAKER_01: What can be what can we be meditating on uh as a church as we look forward to to the end of spring, maybe to summer, as we think about uh we're we're approaching the maybe the six-month mark of our church um being established.
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  SPEAKER_01: What could what should we be meditating on moving forward into summer?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think just the faithfulness of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um growth comes sometimes really slowly, sometimes it happens really quickly.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's not really our main concern.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's something that we obviously have an eye towards.
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  SPEAKER_02: We don't want to be inattentive to those things, uh, but we want to meditate on the faithfulness of the Lord, that this is his church.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, Christ said he would build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so thinking about meditating on God, you are so faithful.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and our response to the faithfulness of God is to be faithful, to strive to be faithful.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I think if we're meditating on the faithfulness of God, his steadfast love, how he always keeps his word, even in Genesis, right, promises made, promises kept.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh I think that's gonna help us just to keep moving forward and to move forward in faith, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Things may happen on different timetables or different ways than we would hope or anticipate.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh, I share in some of that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh, we just gotta remember that the Lord is faithful, uh, and we got to do what we've been called to do to make disciples.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so that that'll look different season to season, you know, that might morph slightly a year from now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Who knows what the Lord will do.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but our concern, I think first and foremost is Lord, help us to be faithful and help us to meditate on things that please you uh and be concerned about the things that please you, first and foremost, of course, not even first and foremost, just holistically, all encompass encompassingly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so that's that's what I would say we need to be meditating on, the faithfulness of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and that that ultimately is gonna drive us to his word, that's gonna drive us to a dependence on him in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um, I think that's gonna be a helpful thing ultimately for our church.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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