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May 18, 2026 - Numbers 1 & Psalm 107 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, May 18th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Numbers chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the first chapter of the fourth book of Moses, we see the Lord speaking to Moses and giving him commands to conduct a census.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to be counting the number of battle-ready males as they are still encamped near Mount Sinai, and they are going to be using specific men from each of the tribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses is going to give instructions to select men to assist him in this process to count the number of battle-ready males in each of the tribes, except for one tribe.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Levis are exempt.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are not counted in this census.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the total number of battle-ready males, it tops over 600,000.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are men from the age of 20 upward to an age where they would no longer be battle-ready or battle-tested.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of this chapter, we see the instructions that God gives the Levites and how they are to be arranged as they live in and camp around the tabernacle, which is in the center of the camp.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Psalm 107.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 107, as some commentators would suggest, is a reflection of God's people after they have returned from exile.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people would have been reflecting and thinking back on their time in exile, remembering the deliverance that the Lord made happen in their lives, how God made a way for them to return back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's also a section here in the heart of this psalm that speaks about the effects or the consequences of obedience versus uh disobedience, and the psalm concludes uh with a a charge for the people who are singing this, reflecting on these words, to be wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse 43 Whoever is wise, let them attend to these things, let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is the quick summary of Psalm 107.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for the first time in the the history of Lamp and Light Bible reading plan, we have two summaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both of these chapters and our Bible reading plan are lengthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I were to read all 54 verses of Numbers chapter 1 and all 43 verses of Psalm 107, uh this episode would be rather lengthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh two summaries to begin, but also we have two chapters that are the launch point, one in Numbers, chapter one, uh beginning the fourth book of Moses, the book of the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Psalm 107, we begin uh the final book of the Psalms, book five, and we start by uh reflecting and giving thanks to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh verse one in Psalm 107: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his steadfast love endures forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the psalm concludes drawing our attention to his steadfast love again, and that would be wise for us to do as it was wise for the people of Israel uh to do back then when this psalm was written, and we see the uh in this psalm the the references to God's provision, references to God's power, and the ways that he hears his people, uh the ways he draws them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: A common phrase that is in this psalm is pointing our attention to God's people crying to the Lord in their trouble, and uh the following words describe God's response.
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  SPEAKER_00: And often we see, as in verse 19, and he delivered them from their distress.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see that also in verse six, and he delivered them from their distress, and we see a faithful God redeeming his people out of exile after they have been scattered and and cast about the nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is faithful to his promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will uh be faithful to the people uh of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through correction, through discipline, and through uh mighty works, and using often unsuspecting individuals, God is showing his power and his plan to use a small nation, a humble nation such as Israel, and show the world the power of God, the the might, the intellect, and ultimately glorify himself through his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, speaking of numbers of people, the people of Israel didn't start out as a large nation, it started out with one man and his family, Abram, who would later become Abraham, and God promised that he would have many, many offspring, and uh through his offspring the nations would be blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we take a look in our passage in Numbers chapter one, we see a formidable army, a formidable number of battle-ready males.
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  SPEAKER_00: The number tops over six hundred thousand, and that number doesn't account for the nation as a whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just looking at able-bodied men that are able to wield a sword and go to war.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the book of Numbers as a whole will focus in on disobedience or rebellion and faithfulness or obedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's going to be a generation that we see in this book that is not promised to enter into the promised land of Caden.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather, they were promised that they would not make it, that they would die in the wilderness as the people of God were led towards the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is a a frame that we need to view this book with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think about the choices and the decisions that God's people make, it would be easy for us to look down on them and to think to ourselves, what are they doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or how could they?
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to be careful when we're doing that as we consider the ways that we're tempted uh to disobey God or to act out in rebellion in our own hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a challenge for us as we read this book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we need to be checking our hearts and guarding our hearts not to be proud or to be looking down on the people of Israel, but rather to be uh inspecting our own hearts and thinking about ways that we could be rooting out any kind of rebellion that we would have that would be disobedient to the God that shows himself faithful and shows himself always following through with his promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um it's a great time for us to just check in as we begin uh a new book in Numbers and uh a new book in the Psalms, the fifth book, and and consider the ways that God is showing himself, showing his power, uh, showing us the way that he is leading.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the the Psalms, we're gonna have a unique opportunity to look at Psalm 119 for nearly four weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm especially looking forward to Psalm 119 as we just um dive into this uh this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the longest chapter in the whole Bible, and uh it's gonna really focus in on uh just God's beauty and his instruction and how God's word is such a a powerful um agent of change and how it just reveals his might, his power, his intellect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm really looking forward to um diving into Psalm 119, like like I have it before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm excited to uh to go along on this journey uh through this final book of the Psalms together with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh in this final book, we'll see many songs uh of praise, songs of ascent, or songs that would be sung on the way uh on a pilgrimage, if you will, returning back to uh Jerusalem for the different festivals that they were required to attend, and songs of celebration, songs rejoicing in God's salvation and uh lifting up high the name of God uh for all his mighty deeds and all the power that he displays through his provision.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope these chapters and the following weeks will encourage our hearts uh to live lives of faithfulness, uh lives of purity, and and lives that seek to obey God and chase after God with all that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we do, uh our goal and our hope is that God will be glorified and that God would receive much praise, and disciples would be made in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks 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 Bible Church South Valley, visit compass Bible SV.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.