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June 6, 2026 - Numbers 18 & Psalm 119:41-48 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: 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 letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Saturday, June 6th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood, and with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary, or to the altar lest they and you die.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, and there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And behold, I have taken your brothers, the Levites, from among the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting, and you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil, and you shall serve.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons as a perpetual due.
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  SPEAKER_01: This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every guilt offering of theirs, which they rendered to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.
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  SPEAKER_01: In a most holy place shall you eat it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every male eat it, it is holy to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This also is yours, the contributions of their gift, all the wave offerings, and of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem, and their redemption price, at a month old you shall redeem them, you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty garas.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem, they are holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved, and as the right thigh are yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for you and for your offspring with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them, I am your portion, and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting, so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity.
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  SPEAKER_01: It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that it have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe, and your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you shall also present a contribution to the Lord from all your tithes which you receive from the people of Israel, and from it you shall give the Lord's contribution to Aaron the priest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Out of all the gifts to you you shall present every contribution due to the Lord, from each its best part is to be dedicated.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore you shall say to them, When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as a produce of the wine press.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it, but you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word, and take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will keep your law continually, for ever and ever, and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will also speak of your testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: For I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will lift up my hands towards your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numbers eighteen is a really fitting continuation, of course, of Numbers 17, where we have that just divine confirmation of Aaron, the tribe of Levi.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Numbers 18 then, of course, goes right into what's their duty, what's their responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there was arguing and complaining.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Korah's rebellion in chapter 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: God really settles the disputes and quiets the complaining in chapter 17, of course, in uh a different way than he did originally, then swallowing up those who were the 250 that were rebelling against Moses and Aaron.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then before the whole camp of Israel, he confirmed again Aaron and the tribe of Levi and now specifies their duties in Numbers 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that you see just very plainly in Numbers 18 is the seriousness of which they were to take their role.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Levites as a whole, they were not to touch the holy things, the objects inside the tabernacle, but they were kind of standing guard.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were standing guard around the tabernacle, specifically the tent of meeting, the holy place, so that someone who is a stranger, a stranger, not necessarily someone who wasn't an Israelite, but a stranger to the tribe of Levi, would not get too close, would not touch the holy things, would not desecrate that which had been set apart and consecrated to the Lord, and ultimately lose their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we have kind of an outer wall, if you will, of Levites that are protecting the holy place.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then only those who were of the family of Aaron, Aaron and his sons, could actually enter into, along with Moses at this point, enter into the tent of meeting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this was a very somber, very serious thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, it's right on the heels of God confirming that Aaron and his family were to be uh the line of the priesthood that would continue throughout uh Israel, of course, until the change of priesthood and Jesus, who is after the order of Melchizedek rather than after the order of Aaron, which we've talked about before on this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it just struck me that the seriousness, uh, we were kind of we were sort of tongue in cheek before the podcast began saying really it's fulfill your duties uh or experience death.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's a very real summary of what we're seeing here, Numbers 18, uh, for the priest, for the Levites who are aiding the priest in protecting the tabernacle, uh tabernacle, but also even for the people of God uh who were to take very seriously.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were not to profane the holy people of Israel, they were not to profane the holy things of Israel or the holy things of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and if they did, they would bear that iniquity, they would bear that sin, and they would ultimately lose their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is just a great continuation of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you remember the one-word summary, Leviticus is holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, God is holy and he makes things and people and places holy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have a holy place, the tent of meeting, we have holy things, the items in the tent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think of the Ark of the Covenant, now the staff that had blossomed in number 17, the Ten Commandments, the table of showbread, the altar of incense, you know, the bronze altar, things like that, uh, all are holy objects, and they all are a reflection of the ultimate holiness of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so Numbers 18 again just details the seriousness of approaching that holy God in a way that is worthy, in the way that he prescribes, and he does give very specific prescriptions and instructions for his people for the tribe of Levi, and his expectation for them is that they listen and they obey and they do what God tells them to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, the consequence is you you do uh what God has told you to do, your duty, or you experience death and you ultimately lose uh your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love in Numbers 18 the continual theme of God providing what his people needs, what they require, uh both spiritually in him, leading and following Yahweh, and also uh just their for their physical needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is continuing to detail and outline the ways that he will provide for Aaron and his family and the Levites, and the ways that Israel are bringing their contributions, their offerings to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's also a way that God is providing uh for the people who are serving in and around the the tabernacle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a another great encouragement to me to see uh just time and time again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This shall be yours, shall be yours, shall be yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kind of underlined uh a lot of these provisions in Numbers chapter 18, and this was uh just a great encouragement uh to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look over to Psalm 119, we see um some language here that um kind of speaks to the posture, uh the posture of someone who is looking to God and looking to his word to receive it with with love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as you're might be thinking about someone who's in a catch something, um, if you're on an athletic field or a court or a a diamond, you might be in a certain position to receive um the ball or receive uh a pass to catch something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a psalmist here in uh in the attitude of his body and his heart and his mind, he's lifting up his hands towards God's law, his commandments, which he loves, and he's choosing to meditate on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I'm just trying to think of the way that in my heart that I could be delighting to receive God's law with joy, with love, with excitement.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh I get to do that day by day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a freedom to open God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no one knocking on our door to go and make sure we don't have Bibles in our country.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have uh open freedom to read our Bibles day by day by day and meditate on the promises of the Lord and uh and share them, share them aloud, share them with people that um would need to hear it, people that have not yet responded to the gospel, people that uh God is waiting for, and and what a great opportunity for us to continue in that disciple-making process as we open God's word and openly share it with those around it in our community who desperately need to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and even think about the confidence that we can have because of God's word and ultimately in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's verse 46.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will also speak of your testimonies before who?
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  SPEAKER_01: Before kings.
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  SPEAKER_01: People of great authority, people of great renown, great authority, great power, great status and prominence.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_01: For I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I even wrote in the margin of my Bible that God's word gives confidence.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can have confidence in what we are saying and even the things that we believe, because it's rooted in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can speak to people uh that would be uh from our perspective of great renown, from a worldly earthly perspective, but we have no reason to fear, we have no reason to shrink back, we have no reason to be ashamed.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can speak of the testimonies of the Lord before kings, and there's just a great confidence that we should have in the word, and ultimately we should have a great confidence in the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite verses in the book of Romans is Romans 1:16.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the power of God, it's not Josiah's power, it's not Tyler's power, it's not Compass Biochurch South Valley's power.
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  SPEAKER_01: The gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes.
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  SPEAKER_01: The word of God is powerful, not because we have an ability to articulate it and explain it clearly, but because it is the very words of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there's just a great confidence that we can have, even just in the week in and week out ministry of Compass Bible Church South Valley, in the proclamation of the gospel, and just the ordinary means of teaching and proclaiming and meditating on the scriptures, uh, because we are proclaiming something that is of divine origin.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the very words of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: The scriptures are inspired by God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we can have this sort of confidence that we see here in verse 46 to speak of God's testimonies before kings, before our family, before our coworkers, before the stranger that we bump into and strike up a conversation with at a restaurant or uh as we're walking around in the in the warmth of June outside.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we can have confidence in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can have confidence in the gospel because it's not our power, it's not our ability, it's not our testimonies, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the testimony.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will speak of your testimonies, it says, God's testimonies before kings that we are proclaiming.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can have a great confidence that God's word will not return void.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'd love just that sense of this grounded, unshakable confidence that we can have access to, and that's ours in Christ Jesus, in the gospel and in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, because these are things it's not my power that's on the line, um, and so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just a display of God's power.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's his sovereign choice, it's his authority that's on display.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I can I can just faithfully share, I can faithfully teach, I can faithfully extend the scriptures and the words and the testimonies of God and trust that because God said in his word that it will not return void, that's exactly what's going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just uh look at verse 43, Pastor Josai, and I'm I'm thinking about air.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'll read it here and take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've watched any kind of sci-fi film where the the setting is in space, people are desperate to stay inside their spacesuit or stay inside uh the shuttle or the space station, and their most precious resource is air.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the word of God is even more precious to the human soul, the human condition than air.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist is saying, Don't take this out of my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need it, I long for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't live without it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't don't take it from me because this is this is my hope and this is my trust, and I need I need to remain it uh in it to continue following your rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a challenge for us to think about what are the things that we hold most dearly that we can't live without.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the word of God, it's his truths, it's his commandments, his his testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we hold on to them, we surely will not be put to shame because our hope and our trust is in our Redeemer who laid his life down for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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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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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.