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April 25, 2026 - Leviticus 9 & Psalm 89:38-45 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob 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 Saturday, April 25th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word, Leviticus 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, and he said to Aaron, Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And say to the people of Israel, Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the Lord will appear to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses said, This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar and off offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_01: The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he presented the people's offerings, and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people, and killed it, and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the rule.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver, they put the fat pieces on the breast, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the breast and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses commanded.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people, and fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now you have cast off and rejected you are full of wrath against your anointed, you have renounced the covenant with your servant, you have defiled his crown in the dust, you have breached all his walls, you have laid his stronghold in ruins, all who pass by plunder him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has become the scorn of his neighbors, you have exalted the right hand of his foes, you have made all his enemies rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have cut short the days of his youth, you have covered him with shame.
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  SPEAKER_01: Leviticus nine is kind of where even what we started reading in Exodus kind of comes to a culmination from all of the instructions that God gave specifically to Moses on Mount Sinai to the building of the tabernacle, to the building of the ark, to all the specific instructions for the priestly garments and all of the sacrifices.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of those things are coming together.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see we saw in the previous chapter the consecration of the priests, where Aaron and his sons are ordained for their specific roles of their priestly duties.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here we see them actually enact those sacrifices.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in Leviticus 9, we see them doing a sin offering, a burnt offering, a peace offering, and a grain offering.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are four of the sort of the five main ones that we were reading about.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you remember, uh it started with the burnt offering, uh, then it was the grain offering, then it was the, I believe it was the peace offering, then the sin offering, then the guilt offering.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we see uh those offerings here as just a means of both uh Aaron atoning for himself and on behalf of the people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it says in verse 6, and Moses said, This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them as the Lord has commanded.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Tyler, this was something that you were talking about on the podcast yesterday, uh, where the the need and necessity for blood and just the the work of atonement, of course, that points us forward to the blood of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but we see here after the consecration of Aaron and his sons as the priests for their priestly roles and duties and responsibilities, uh, here they are being enacted, all of these different offerings for the purpose of atonement uh or appeasing or seeking to have a sense of reconciliation, forgiveness, being able to approach the Lord and to be in his presence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's even part of Leviticus 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you, that the glory of the Lord, the presence of the Lord would be in your midst, would be with uh the people of Israel in and among them at the center of their camp in the tabernacle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we see at the end of chapter nine, that's exactly what happens.
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  SPEAKER_01: The glory of the Lord appeared to all the people, and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offerings and the pieces of fat on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, something that's so interesting to me is in the Exodus event, uh, what was sort of leading them at night, Tyler?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a a pillar of a pillar of fire by night.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a pillar of flower and fire by night, a pillar of cloud by day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't want to make too much of this connection, but I just think it's interesting that uh it was a pillar of fire that was leading uh the Israelites out of Egypt, and it is fire that consumes the offerings, and it's fire that represents the glory and the presence of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh the Lord has been uh providing for his people, he has been protecting them, leading them, rescuing them, and now uh he's even continuing uh to pursue them and to make a way for his people uh to draw close to him, at least in an imperfect way here that points forward to the perfect final sacrifice of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it says, and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when all the people saw it, they did what any normal person would do.
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  SPEAKER_01: They shouted and fell on their faces because they recognized this is the glory of the Lord, the presence of the Lord, he is with his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, in my notes, Pastor Josiah, I have uh the people of Israel had multiple emotions firing all at once, uh, fear, amazement, uh great and deep respect for what God was doing among them and in the the consecration of the temple and the priests.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I can't help but think that I would be doing the exact same thing, um shouting, probably in terror, because I'm just so so uh terrified of of just the the power and the magnitude of the moment, and and to think that God is making himself um in his presence known to the people before the whole congregation of of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is is saying, I am with you, I am here, and I am worthy to be worshipped.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they fall down on their faces in reverence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's a good reminder that God, from the beginning, since Genesis 3 had a plan and a purpose and pursued intentionally being with his people.
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  SPEAKER_01: He had a plan for creating and forming a people for himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, I even think of Titus, where God is purifying for himself a people for his own possession.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is what's going on here, where God is providing a way for the nation of Israel through all of these.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're gonna read more about purity laws and um just all the significance of those, but he's purifying a people for himself for his own possession.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, that climaxes and culminates in Christ, which is what Paul's talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's his vantage point, but we see that in Leviticus 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, as we close out Psalm 89, there's kind of a drastic shift because it was quoting, uh, it says, you know, it started in verse 19, of old you spoke in a vision, and there was a quoting of a vision that detailed uh the Davidic covenant, spoke of how God would not violate his covenant, and that quotation ends in verse 37, and we pick it up in verse 38, where the tone kind of shifts, and it doesn't feel as hopeful, it doesn't feel as uh you know triumphant, you could even say.
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  SPEAKER_01: It feels ominous almost, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where it ends in verse 37, at least that quotation, like the moon, it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.
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  SPEAKER_01: So after recounting and rehearsing this vision of old, uh, this truth that they have known about the Davidic covenant, we shift and it says here in verse 38, but now you have cast off and rejected.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are full of wrath against your anointed, you have renounced the covenant with your servant, you have defiled his crown in the dust, you have breached all his walls, you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
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  SPEAKER_01: So one of the things, Tyler, that I was thinking about is that in verse 34, uh quoting from a vision of old, I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness I will not lie to David.
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  SPEAKER_01: His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me, like the moon, it shall be established forever, and a faithful witness in the skies.
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  SPEAKER_01: But as we transition to verse 38, it says, But now you have cast off and rejected your full of wrath against your anointed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So is this a contradiction that we're reading here in Psalm 89, Tyler?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we were discussing this uh before we started recording, and uh this is a good example of man's perspective of what's going on in his life in relation to what what he sees God doing uh in the moment in in his current position.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were talking about exile, we're talking about defeat and destruction of Jerusalem, the the people of Israel being cast off, scattered, taken captive by a foreign people, and um the the imagery of a the blade uh of a sword, the edge being turned back, not sharpened dull, um, with a bevel, and they were defeated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh their sword had no effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the Babylonians came and conquered and and took them away, and they were away for 70 years, 70 years in captivity, and uh I'm reflecting back to Ezra, where the first glimmers of hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking to the last verse of this uh of this chapter in 89, and the hearts of the people of Israel when in captivity are slowly being changed, and they are longing for home, they're missing, they're missing worship in a in a genuine sense of like, we really messed this up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have sinned against Yahweh, we need to get back to what he's commanded us to do, and that's and that's what they do.
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  SPEAKER_00: First thing, they go back and they begin to worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's this imagery here of of defeat.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an imagery of like, God, where are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where where have you been over the past however many years?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's not a timestamp as to where this uh this psalm was was written, maybe in the in those 70 years, but uh there's man's perspective on life and what he perceives is happening and what he thinks God is doing, but the reality is God is true to his promises, he doesn't lie to David, like we were looking here uh yesterday in verse 35.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't lie, he's gonna hold sure and true to his promises, and we can continue on thinking all we want about God, but unless it's in line with his word, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is a reflection from Ethan the Azrahite, where he is in the middle of kind of experiencing the Babylonian captivity, where they are in bondage, they are in exile.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so from his vantage point, it seems as if God has violated his covenant.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems as if he has cast off and rejected, renounced, defiled, breached uh all of these just really intense and graphic words uh in this last section of Psalm 89.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I would say Ethan at this at this point, because of his circumstances, is not looking forward with eyes of faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: He can only see what he's currently experiencing, and that makes sense, and that that's human nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we feel bound and tethered by the circumstances that surround us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but as a result, we can often, just like Ethan, we can often not look forward with eyes of faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm even just thinking about uh what the the author of Hebrew says about Moses, who looked forward uh with eyes of faith, where he did not consider the riches and wealth of Egypt something uh to cling to, but he considered the reproach of Christ as much greater, and he looked forward with eyes of faith and he greeted promises from afar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I think in the midst of difficulty, in the midst of situations that might tempt us to think that God has violated his promises, that God has cast off, rejected, renounced, defiled, breached, and all of these words that we see here, Ethan using to describe his present circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to look forward with eyes of faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's really just even as we're studying in Hebrews on Sunday morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the point of Hebrews.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep going, run the race, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look forward with eyes of faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in this circumstance, Ethan can't see the way forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: He can't see the faithfulness of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and so let that just be a warning and something for us to take as a lesson, to look forward, to have this kind of faith that is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen, and to keep moving forward, uh, even in the midst of circumstances that feel as if uh God somehow has been unfaithful or God somehow has cast us off.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even Paul recounts in no uncertain terms in the book of Romans that nothing can separate us from the love of God in all of creation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to look forward with the eyes of faith that God's gonna keep us, he's gonna preserve us, he's gonna get us across the finish line and to his glory and for the the even the the magnifying of his son.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will preserve his people and he will be faithful to his promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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