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May 13, 2026 - Leviticus 24 & Psalm 103 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where you are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Wednesday, May 13th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leviticus 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the people of Israel to bring your pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it, two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf, and you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord, and you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever, and it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual dew.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel, and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name and cursed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then they brought him to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_01: His mother's name was Shilamath, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan, and they put him in custody till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the congregation shall stone him.
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  SPEAKER_01: The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the name, shall he be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life.
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  SPEAKER_01: If any one injures his neighbor, as he has done, it shall be done to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one o three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless his holy name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good, so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord's works, righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
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  SPEAKER_00: For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: As far as the East is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.
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  SPEAKER_00: As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field, for the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant, and remember to do his commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord all his hosts, his ministers who do his will, bless the Lord all his works in all places of his dominion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, O my soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Tyler, if there was a chapter in the Bible, there are several, there are many actually, but if there was a chapter in the Bible that encapsulated our distinctive to maintain a high view of God, I think Levin Leviticus 24 fits the bill.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because in this chapter, we have a case of capital punishment being enacted on a young man who did not have a high view of God and in fact cursed and profaned the name of God and ultimately as a result of that lost his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, again, one of our distinctives at Compass is that we seek to maintain a high view of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not the man upstairs, he's not our spiritual counselor, he's not a heavenly vending machine, he's not our homeboy, he's not any of those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, he is a holy, holy, holy God.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Leviticus, if we're we're going to summarize it in one word, it would be holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And unfortunately, it seems like this young man uh did not regard God rightly, did not view him as rightly holy, and took his name in vain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and it says, even cursed him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it says this the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name, the name of the Lord, and cursed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as a result of that, the the judgment for that is ultimately the loss of his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, now this sense of profaning the name of the Lord and cursing, it seems even in this context that it was more than just mere words.
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  SPEAKER_01: This this seems to be flowing from this young man's heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems to be an all-out rejection of God as his God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's part of the reason why the Egyptian father, though we're not given his name, is mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems kind of like a random detail.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's kind of to draw our minds to, it seems like this young man was influenced by his Egyptian father, who potentially, most likely, uh, was worshiping the false gods of Egypt that God had that showdown with through the ten plagues that ultimately he knocked one after another down, showing that he is the one true God, the one who is more powerful, the one who holds all power, it has all authority.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he demonstrates that he truly is the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And unfortunately, this young man, even though he was in the midst of the camp of the people who were devoting themselves and consecrating themselves to the one true God, for the one true God, it seems like in his heart uh he is rejecting God as God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he curses his name, he blasphemes the name, and as a result, he loses his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think this chapter is kind of a solemn reminder of the seriousness of God being who God is, that he is holy, and because he is holy, he has to rightly punish sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he rightly punishes those uh through his wrath and his judgment and his justice who ultimately reject him, who uh r rebel against him, who sin against him, and we see that this punishment here is enacted on this young man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh now this is different, because even right after this instance of stoning, uh, we see in verse 17 whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a distinction being made within the Levitical law of capital punishment, that is divine justice, if you will, and reckless concern or lack of concern for human life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what we see there in verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whoever takes a human life, so that's someone that is unjustly, uh someone who presumably is innocent, at least in the eyes of the law in this sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not innocent before the Lord, but they uh they have not done an offense that is worthy of capital punishment and losing their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is just someone that is uh essentially a manslaughterer, as it says in other places.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is someone who is just shedding blood.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's a distinction between uh the taking of life for a reckless, purposeless reason versus taking a life, as it were, for enacting God's laws and uh fulfilling God's justice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's a lot of things here in Leviticus 24 for us to get our arms around and our hearts can be heavy with the reality of this young man losing his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: But again, this is a rejection.
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  SPEAKER_01: You got to remember categories.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who is this young man blaspheming?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who is he cursing?
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  SPEAKER_01: This isn't just his dad, this isn't just his mom, this isn't Moses, who's a representative of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is blaspheming God himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the holiness of God for him is sort of the the unfortunate side, if you will, of holiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no unfortunate side, of course, but I just mean in the sense of God's wrath and his justice uh being poured out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, if we are in Christ, the fortunate side of holiness is that we become what God is in that sense of being holy as he is holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the command.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Christ, God makes us what only he is, which is holy and blameless.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's Ephesians 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh the unfortunate side, if we're using those words, is uh the wrath and the justice and the vengeance of the Lord that gets poured out on this young man for his all-out rejection of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, I just think if you're kind of uh trying to encapsulate the distinctive of compass to have a high view of God, Tyler, Leviticus 24, it's one of those passages that I think gets us going in that direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and as we look at the other side of the coin that we're looking at here in Leviticus 24, where there's blasphemy and cursing of God's name, we look to a man after God's own heart and David's cry to the Lord, blessing, uh, blessing the Lord, bless the Lord, oh my soul, in all that is within me, bless his holy name, rightly seeing God as the one and true God set apart from all other um all our gods who are false, who are um popsicle stick gods.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's this cry to the Lord that we see, and it concludes here in Psalm 103, bless the Lord in verse 20, bless the Lord in verse 21, and bless the Lord and to conclude twice in verse uh 22, and from from a heart that is seeking to please the Lord and remember uh the benefits of the Lord and to remember the forgiveness that is available to the the penitent and repentant heart to those who are looking to be satisfied in God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these these are the heart cries of a man who is who is looking to his life and recognizing he is just a vapor, he is just a uh grass that is here one day and gone another.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um he recognizes the the compassion that the Lord has for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's seeing that uh we we see some imagery from Leviticus also, Leviticus 16, this this imagery of how far the sins of man are removed from them because of the Lord's uh compassion, because of the Lord's forgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: God does not deal with us according to our sins, uh, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
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  SPEAKER_00: As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see some some repeating words here in Psalm 103.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we see uh love uh and we see uh fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who who love God um are going to fear God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who fear God also love God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we we have to we have to look at those two words and and understand their relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God is uh is a loving God and in his commandments, he he calls us to um and his people to love him uh with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we have to go all out with all that we are, and that's what that's what David is is his cry and this his uh heartbeat is in this in this psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my soul, the the the most that I have, the most that I am, yeah, let let me just pour out my heart and my life to worship and and love this God who is my maker.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I love I love the reminder to consider our days, to reflect on the brevity of man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 15, as for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field, for the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in contrast, the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even the idea of those who fear him is mentioned multiple times throughout the psalm, verse 13, as a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same thing that we just read uh from verses 15 and 16 and 17, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Everlasting on are on those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just the contrast that the psalmist is making here, David, is basically encouraging us to focus on what will ultimately last, to focus on what will never fade away, what will never pass away.
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  SPEAKER_01: As for a man, his days are like grass.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Tyler, I know that's something for you that's that hits close to home because you're a big grass, you're a grass dad, huh?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we we like to keep the lawns in tip top shape, unfortunately.
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  SPEAKER_00: My backyard is is uh a reflection of this psalm, unfortunately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unlike yours, yours is looking nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But no, this uh this psalm definitely has has me reminded of just how how temporary and finite I am and and how how eternal and and steadfast and um and permanent God is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the contrast, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 15, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field, for the wind passes over it and it is gone.
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  SPEAKER_01: That makes me think of, I guess it's not technically a flower, um, but the weeds that that that come up and weeds flower.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they do.
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  SPEAKER_01: They um I for some reason I can't think of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's the is it the dandelion that you you blow and all the things?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dandelion.
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  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't think of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um just because my yard is free of them currently.
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  SPEAKER_01: Void, void of weeds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, that that kind of reminds me of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the wind blows and and all of those little things fly in the air and they they get blown away in the wind.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have just such a great contrast that you started to draw out there, Tyler, of this young man in Leviticus 24, uh, who does not uh regard God as holy, who does not worship him as holy, who in his heart rejects him, who blasphemes him, curses him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here in Psalm 103, we have another man, David, uh, who who just out of the abundance of his heart is saying, Bless the Lord, O my soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's even kind of there's some self-talk, if I can put it that way, here in verse 2, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's reminding himself, he's saying, Oh my soul, forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's reminding himself of all of these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's the inverse of Leviticus 24 of blaspheming and cursing, he's blessing and seeking to honor, remembering, reflecting on even his brevity, his life, trying to keep his mind focused and fixed on that which is permanent and will never pass away, the steadfast love of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, even in verse 19, the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's this reminder, and again, this solemn contrast that we are to have a high view of God because he alone is holy, holy, holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He alone will rule in a kingdom that never ends.
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  SPEAKER_01: His throne is in the heavens, he does whatever he pleases.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Psalm 103 is such a great, rich reminder of all those truths.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, PJ, I I read the end of the psalm, the last three verses, and I I want to challenge our listeners today to something.
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  SPEAKER_00: We look at David, and he's recruiting, he's encouraging, he's trying to look out to everything that he is aware of, himself included.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's calling to the angels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you angels, bless the Lord, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers who do his will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then the last verse 22: all his works, all creation, everything that we see, all the things that the word of God has spoken into existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord in all places of his dominion, all the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bless the Lord, all my soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you uh have someone in your life, whether it's a spouse or a child, encourage them to look around and uh and just find things to um to thank the Lord for, to bless the Lord for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there anything good in your life?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there anything um that is worthy of praise?
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that will be my encouragement and challenge to you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And keep seeking to have and maintain a high view of God and let Leviticus 24 especially shape that view with the solemn reminder that God is holy, that his justice is swift, it is sure, it is certain, but he's also found and provided rather a way of escape by giving us the gift of his son and the grace of salvation through his son that you can receive through repentance of your sin and placing your faith and trust in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we hope you're encouraged by that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We hope you maintain a high view of God, that you seek to bless the Lord, remember all of his wondrous deeds, uh, to recount who he is and how he never changes and his kingdom will never end.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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