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May 7, 2026 - Leviticus 19 & Psalm 98 · 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 away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josai Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, May 7th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 19 details a lot of specific statutes and laws that God gives to Israel that span a lot of different categories that span everything from what to do with ox and specifically offspring, not mixing them with other animals, not planting two different types of crops, to not sewing together two different kinds of fabric, to treating your neighbor in a way that you would want to be treated, loving your neighbor as yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's lots of statutes and commands and laws given with the repeated refrain refrain that they were to do this because God is their God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things.
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  SPEAKER_01: His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations, he has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth, break forth into joyous song and sing praises, sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody, with trumpets and the sound of the horn, make a joyful noise before the king, the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let the sea roar and all that fills it, and the world and those who dwell in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let the rivers clap their hands, let the hills sing for joy together before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus nineteen, if you can think back to the giving of the Ten Commandments in the book of Exodus, and we talked about how that was in many ways sort of the preamble, or maybe maybe even a better word, is the constitution for the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was sort of a defining document, but it was also a binding document.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was sort of setting the boundaries and kind of creating this sort of this ethnic identity, this national identity of the people of Israel, the people of God that were to be governed by the ten words or the ten commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look at Leviticus 19, in my mind, maybe because I'm a preacher, I thought of the Ten Commandments as the points, and I'm looking at Leviticus 19 as the subpoints.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there is uh you can connect almost all of these, if not all of them, directly and explicitly back to the Ten Commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh even in verse 3, every one of you shall revere his mother and his father.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one of the commandments, and you shall keep my Sabbaths.
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  SPEAKER_00: So remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy is one of the Ten Commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you go to verse 11, you shall not steal, you shall not deal falsely, you shall not lie to one another, you shall not swear by my name falsely and to profane the name of our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord your God, I am the Lord, it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all of these different sort of commands and these statutes, as they're called, beginning in verse 19, again funnel backward to the broader points of the Constitution of the of Israel, the the Ten Commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they span all kinds of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: They touch on, again, interpersonal relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's even something in verse 20 about if a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, uh, there's this distinction that is to be made.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh even when you plant a tree, when you go into a new area and plant a tree, how many years are you supposed to wait before you actually eat the tree?
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  SPEAKER_00: On the third year, or what is it, the fourth year, uh three years it's forbidden.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fourth year you should offer it as a praise to the Lord, kind of as a kind of a grain offering, uh Thanksgiving offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in the fifth year, you may eat of its fruit to increase its yield for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everything from the food that you eat to the trees that you plant to the clothes that you sow together, uh, the way that you treat the sojourners, the people who are not from the nation of Israel, but nevertheless are there within their boundaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse 34, You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's even just a reiteration of loving your neighbor as yourself, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want you just to see the overlap, and that's why I think even just the whole analogy of sermon points versus subpoints makes sense of a lot of the specifics that we're reading of here, specifically in Leviticus 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one thing that I noticed just kind of right away as I read through this, Tyler, is the repeated refrain, I am the Lord, I am the Lord, again and again, even beginning in verse two, you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse three, you shall keep my Sabbath, I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse four, do not turn to idols, I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and again and again and again throughout this.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse uh 10, I am the Lord your God, verse 11, uh, or verse 12, rather, I am the Lord your God, verse 14, I am the Lord your God, verse 16, I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you get the point, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So just again and again and again, and how does it end?
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 37, I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God reminds them, He starts with the explicit command, be holy, be set apart, live upright and godly lives, live in a way that corresponds with God's character and God's morality, and he reminds them after each sort of section, even sometimes verse after verse, I am the Lord, I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do this because I am the Lord, because I am holy, I am the one that brought you out of Egypt, even as he's talking about the sojourner.
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  SPEAKER_00: You once were sojourners, you weren't we're strangers in a land of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do what I'm asking you to do, do what I'm commanding you to do, because I am holy, you are to be holy, and that's just a repeated refrain again and again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even in verse 18, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do what God says because he is the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's sort of the rationale.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Tyler, your kids will ask, Why do I have to do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: I was and sometimes you want to just say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, maybe in weaker moments, it's sometimes it's appropriate.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you should always lead with because I said so, but that's not an inappropriate response.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that's all you ever say, maybe there's some more effort we could put in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But check your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is something that the Lord does.
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  SPEAKER_00: He makes He gives a command and He doesn't give a ton of explanation.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just says, I am the Lord, I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will do what I say because I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the one that brought you out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the one that made the covenant with your father.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the one, I am the Lord, is what he says over and over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so it's just uh such a uh through line through Leviticus 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just see that phrase again and again and again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the rationale, that's the motivation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like that's got God expected them, that's all they needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't need more explanation, they don't need uh more detail.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, I'm the Lord, I'm the Lord, I'm holy, be holy as I'm holy, and they're expected to obey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great illustration there, PJ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I kind of am thinking about uh my young years as I'm thinking about my oldest daughter now, and she's starting to understand like I I obey my parents because uh that would be pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would bring honor to them by honoring the Lord and submitting myself to them and and following uh their lead, uh, even when she doesn't understand or doesn't agree, or it's not her preference.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's a great encouragement to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm thinking back to my my years in later elementary, early middle school, and I had a hard time singing in front of other people.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really cared a lot about how I sounded, uh, not so much then about the attitude of my heart, and that has changed since then, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I had a hard time singing, especially new songs, new songs I didn't know, new songs that were unfamiliar to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we think about a future eternity of worship and and revering God, um, we're gonna want to sing a variety of songs, like singing the same songs over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you've been on a road trip and there's one CD that's that's stuck in the CD player.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to sing uh we want to sing a new song.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's there is an endless, uh, an endless list of things that we could be thankful for as we consider the salvation that we have in God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And our psalm today says, sing a new song to the Lord, for he has done marvelous things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 4 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth, break forth into joyous singing, uh, joyous song and and sing praises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um repetitive here, sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and make a sound uh of melody.
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  SPEAKER_01: And maybe, maybe there's some listeners today that are thinking about like I don't even like the sound of my own voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't want people to be distracted by me singing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be someone who's caught on recording with a sour tone or a sour note cutting through everyone else.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, God is God is desiring you to sing from the abundance of your heart with the abundance of thankfulness that you can just reflect and meditate on, pour that out through your mouth and sing a praise and lift high the name of the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is what God wants you to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wants to interact with us, he wants us to lift up our prayers to him, he wants us to lift up praises to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because he's worthy, because he is the Lord our God, because he is the one who has led us out of sin and death and into life everlasting.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are great reasons and an abundant reason, reasons for us to lift praises to the Lord in a variety of ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: PJ, how would you how would you respond to that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I just think of it struck me as we continue to to work our way through the Psalms, how I don't know, asynchronous or dissonant, I feel like our lives and our hearts and our praise of the Lord is in a modern context to what we see here in the Psalms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um meaning, uh I think we we just don't devote ourselves to making a joyful noise to the Lord in the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a conviction that I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the whole idea of the simplicity of recounting the wonders of God, the faithfulness of God, the work of God, even in verse one, his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think there sometimes can be a dissonance where uh we don't live lives of worship in the same way that we're reading about here in the psalms, these psalmists that uh were seems like bursting forth with praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course they were human, they weren't perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but just I think I'm drawn to, man, we we need to live lives of worship, seek to worship in spirit and in truth, present our bodies as a living sacrifice, which is our spiritual worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like I like you said, Thailand, verse 4, make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth, break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this doesn't necessarily mean, of course, it does in certain contexts, I mean, actually, with your vocal cords vibrating, sing praises.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I think we can sing praises in other ways without it actually being an audible song that we are singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's more the life that we live, uh, the obedience that we pursue, uh, the love that we seek to display, the faith that we live our lives by and walk in, uh, the endurance where we press on, looking to our author and perfector, the founder of our salvation, Christ Jesus, for the joy that is set before us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think all of that is a life of praise uh in the messiness uh if you're a stay-at-home mom, and the messiness of perhaps stumbling through at times parenting or homeschooling, or uh if you're uh, you know, one of the main cooks in the house and all the stress that can come with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think all of those things can be done with a shout of praise, with whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think Psalm 98 really is sort of the spiritual chiropractor, so to speak, that aligns our hearts to let's let's make a joyful noise to the Lord, uh, let's make known his salvation, let's uh remember his steadfast love and faithfulness, and let's sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre in the sound of melody, with trumpets and the sound of the horn, make a joyful noise before the king, uh the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, I read Psalm 98, and I just I feel this sense of we need to grow in our in our worship, uh, in every aspect of our lives, and and everything that we do should be done in worship of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, whatever our hand finds to do, to do it with all of our might, do it as unto the Lord and not as unto men to please them, not with eye service, as Paul talks about in Ephesians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so what a what a great encouragement and challenge from from Psalm 98 uh for us just to keep singing and uh to to live lives of worship.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, PJ, as I was looking at the last few verses of this chapter in Psalms, I went to YouTube and just watched oceans like a storm hitting the coast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I watched rivers flowing during the runoff season.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I watched um nature, the as God is orchestrated, just carrying out its design.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh I'm thinking about people that may be thinking, well, you know, my my worship place, my place to meet with God is in nature as he designed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and we need to look at this, we need to look at this psalm and think like God has designed uh his creation to operate in a certain way, and God has also designed his body, his people to meet and worship in a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I'm just thinking about the local church.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking about Sunday mornings with my brothers and sisters, and in in the way that we get to live our lives together, and the way that God has designed and woven creation to to function and work together, uh, there's there's a connection that I made in my mind for us as God's people to worship and to dwell among each other, be interwoven into each other's lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and that's also a great worship uh for uh for the Lord as we seek to accomplish the one another's, to lean into each other, uh each other's lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um that's just something that I pulled away as I I thought about just the visuals here at the end of this psalm.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I think it's a great reminder for us that um that everything that God has made, mankind, the oceans, the land, the skies, all these things are just declaring um just the power and the might and the worthiness of us, uh his the pinnacle of creation, mankind, to to lift up worship with our whole lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think to that to that point, worship is not only an individual act, there's an individual component to it because we were all commanded individually to worship the Lord, but then there's also a corporate dimension to that where Paul says in Colossians 3 that we're to encourage one another by singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we both worship collectively and corporately together as a body, the body of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also worship individually, and we need both of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we can't have one without the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we need to live lives individually of worship in our families, uh, our sort of personal devotion to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we also need to live lives of worship with our other brothers and sisters in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh both of those things together, I think, uh, make a joyful noise to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what we are trying to pursue here at Compass Bible Church South Valley, and uh what Psalm 98 is encouraging us towards.
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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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