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May 11, 2026 - Leviticus 22 & Psalm 101 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bibleing 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, Lead Pastor of Compass South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, May 11th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say to them, If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead, or a man who has had an omission of semen, and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean, or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be, the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed in his his body in water.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beast, and so make himself unclean by it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A layperson shall not eat of a holy thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: No foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.
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  SPEAKER_00: If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food, yet no layperson shall eat of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if any one eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord, and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt by eating their holy things, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel, and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or free will offerings that they offer to the Lord, if it is to be accepted for you, it shall be a male without blemish of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when any one offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, to fulfil a vow or as a free will offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: There shall be no blemish in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Animals blind or disabled, or mutilated, or having a discharge, or an itch, or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord, or give them to the Lord as a food offering on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a free will offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not do it within your land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither shall you you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner, since there is a blemish in them because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you shall not kill an ox or sheep and her young in one day, and when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning, I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you shall keep my commandments and do them, I am the Lord, and you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing of steadfast love and justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: To you, O Lord, I will make music.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will ponder the way that is blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, when will you come to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will walk with integrity of heart within my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hate the work of those who fall away.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall not cling to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: A perverse heart shall be far from me, I will know nothing of evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever slanders his neighbour secretly, I will destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not endure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now one quick thing that I want to point out from Leviticus 22 comes from the second half of the chapter, verses seventeen, there down through the end of the chapter, verse 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a whole section about acceptable offerings, and specifically it goes into detail about spots or blemishes or things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the word that I want to zero in on is the word perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: The expectation for these sacrifices was that they would be without blemish, that they would be, as it says in Leviticus 22, it will be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It even says in verse 20, you shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there is this whole section in Leviticus about perfect offerings, even verse 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, to fulfill a vow, a vow or as a free will offering from the herd or from the flock to be accepted, it must be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: There shall be no blemish in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the reason I want to zero in on that is because of what we've been studying on Sunday mornings in the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter two, where it talks about that it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, would make the founder of our salvation perfect through suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that's no accident.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus in Hebrews, or Hebrews rather, really is drawing from Leviticus kind of as its background, it's the backbone in a lot of ways of Hebrews.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when the author of Hebrews says that Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, again, we talked about on Sunday, a couple Sundays ago, that that doesn't mean that he was lacking something, or that doesn't mean uh that he uh you know was somehow growing or changing as the eternal son of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not what that means.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, he grew in wisdom and stature as a man, but the eternal son of God uh is perfect in every way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he he is the definition of perfect, he is holy, holy, uh, holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that word perfect in Hebrews is intended to make us think, as the readers uh of Hebrews of Leviticus 22, where we're thinking about the sacrificial system, we're thinking about uh animals, we're thinking about offerings, and we're thinking about the instructions that God gave uh to Aaron and his sons in verse 21 that for in order for these sacrifices, these offerings to be acceptable, they must be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, of course, uh when we talk about the perfection of Jesus, even as a human, we're not saying that he is without spot or blemish.
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  SPEAKER_00: In some sense, of course, that is uh what we are saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he is perfect, he is without spot, he is without a blemish, but uh he he was made perfect through suffering, he was the offering that was necessary and good, and even to use the words of Leviticus 22, acceptable, he was an acceptable offering to the Lord, even thinking about what we talked about this past Sunday when we closed out chapter two, he was the propitiation for our sins, he was an acceptable offering, he was a propitiatory offering, which led to the appeasement, to the satisfaction of God's wrath.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just want to show you that connection here.
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  SPEAKER_00: That Jesus was made perfect through suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 22 demands for a sacrifice in order for it to be acceptable, it must be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus had to, uh in these according to Hebrews, he had to be perfected, he had to be made an acceptable sacrifice through the suffering of death and becoming uh in the likeness of man, uh partaking in the same things as the children that God gave to Jesus at the end of chapter two, as it says that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he became a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God by being our propitiation.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is uh offered forgiveness and satisfaction of God's wrath.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, all of that's rooted in Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, switching over to our psalm for today, Psalm 101, uh, this is again another just short, punchy, another pocket psalm, if you will, if you if you're holding on to that kind of terminology, written by David.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically, this seems to be a psalm that focuses on David's intent to rule the kingdom of Israel in a specific way, uh, with integrity, it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in verse one, I will sing of steadfast love and justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: To you, O Lord, I will make music, I will ponder the way that is blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, when will you come to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will walk with integrity of heart within my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David's sort of concern seems to be that him and his house and the nation of Israel as a whole are all walking with integrity.
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  SPEAKER_00: That he has this desire to be blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he even kind of specifies what he thinks this will take.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's verse three.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hate the work of those who fall away, it shall not cling to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: A perverse heart, verse four, shall be far from me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will know nothing of evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he goes on to talk about even slander in verse five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not uh endure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, uh, these are some of the things that the Lord hates.
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  SPEAKER_00: He loves uh arrogance, he loves pride, he loves or he he hates these things, rather.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we read in Proverbs chapter uh six, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so David is recalling the things that the Lord hates, and he's trying to love what God loves, and he's trying to hate what God hates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even verse six, I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, they that may dwell with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he wants to spend time with certain people, and he wants to distance himself and not spend time with other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in verse six, he wants to spend time with those who are faithful, those who walk in the way that is blameless, he says, shall minister to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he wants to surround himself by people that are seeking to walk the blessed path of Psalm 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in contrast, in verse 7, these are people that he wants to avoid.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one who utters lies shall continue before my my eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, he says in verse 8, morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one quick thing just to pull from this Psalm, Psalm 101, is that in order to live a life of integrity, you gotta have the kind of discernment that David has to know who you're surrounding yourself with and what they are giving themselves to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he has this idea of the people that he wants to surround himself with, they are walking with integrity.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are people that are walking in the way that is blameless, he says.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says it verse six again, I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, those who are faithful, those who are obedient, those who seek to do what God has commanded, those who walk in the way that is blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to have uh that kind of person around him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is very indicative of what Paul talks about uh in the New Testament that bad company corrupts good morals.
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  SPEAKER_00: And David understood that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he wanted to surround himself with people that were walking in a way that is blameless because he wanted to walk in a way that was blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wanted to walk in an upright, integrous way, and so he wants to surround himself with certain kinds of people and he wants to distance himself from certain kinds of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 7 No one who practices deceit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the people that he specifically names, or at least the types of people, are those that give themselves to pride, to haughtiness, to arrogance, uh, to slander.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he talks about that uh in verse five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not endure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he wants to distance himself from those who are arrogant and prideful, those who slander others, uh, those who practice deceit, uh, those who utter lies.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants nothing to do with these kinds of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants, again, to create distance, and he wants to surround himself with people that are going to help him keep going in the right direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will look with favor on the fruitful in the land that they may dwell with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, this is just this is kind of David taking the playbook of Psalm 1 and trying to apply it to his life and even his rule as the king of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so David is saying, I want that kind of person who's walking in the way, the way that is blameless.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want the one who is faithful in the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want the one who is far from practicing deceit, that wants nothing to do with slander, that is far from haughty looks and arrogant hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and what a what a good just reminder for us if we're gonna live upright, godly lives in the present age, as Paul talks about in Titus, uh, Titus chapter uh three, um, we need to, I believe chapter two actually, but we we need we need to be mindful of, discerning of who we surround ourselves with and recognize, just like King David, that he was well aware that the people that we surround ourselves with, the people that we spend our time uh with, that inevitably we will adopt, you know, the either their beliefs, their attitudes, their actions, their pursuits, whatever the case may be, uh, for good or for bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is just something that we all face.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that we all perhaps can struggle with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so David says if you want to live a life of integrity, find those who are faithful, find those who walk in ways that are blameless, and surround yourself with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is why it's so, so important to go to a healthy, biblical, local church and keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: We so often undervalue the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: We so often feel like it's something that we it's nice to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's you know, maybe we want our kids to grow up in church, but if you want to be someone that is of integrity in the way that David says, you gotta find people in the context of the local church that are living this way, that are pursuing these things and run with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Run hard, dig deep, uh, invest in those kinds of relationships within the context of the church, and you will find that you will yield much fruit and that you will begin to grow to love the things that even they love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And hopefully the things that they love are centered and grounded in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we hope, I hope, that that's something that you desire to live a life of integrity, uh, to live with just this sense of being faithful, the sense of walking in a way that is blameless, and surrounding yourself with people that are gonna help you get there.
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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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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bower 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.