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June 15, 2026 - Numbers 25 & Psalm 119:97-104 · 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, June 15th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers twenty-five.
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  SPEAKER_00: While Israel lived in Shidam, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
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  SPEAKER_00: These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Paor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And behold, one of the people of Israel had came and brought a Midianite woman to his family in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Phineas, the son of Eliasar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand, and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty four thousand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Moses, Phineas, the son of Eliazar, son of Aram the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The name of the slain man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri, the son of Salu, chief of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites, and the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kosbi, the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father's house in Midian.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Harass the Midianites and strike them down, for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Kosbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one nineteen verses ninety seven through one hundred and four.
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  SPEAKER_00: O how I love your law.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is my meditation all the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hold back my feet from every evil way in order to keep your word.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
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  SPEAKER_00: How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our text today in the book of Numbers underscores, highlights, circles, puts red caution lights around the jealousy of God, the jealousy that he has for his people and for for them to worship him and him alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse three, it says the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and uh the penalty for this offense to the Lord, this great and grievous sin of idle worship and whoring after the God of Baal is this death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Death is the only result.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see God taking his glory and his worship very seriously.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can look to texts like Isaiah 42 and verse 8.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yahweh says, I am the Lord, that is my name, my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the idol worship of the day would ascribe and attribute a different praise and worship to these false gods, and give them the honor and glory due to what God would be providing, whether that's uh a harvest, uh fertility, uh blessing of wealth or riches, or uh great seasonal conditions for an agricultural climate.
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  SPEAKER_00: All these reasons were reasons that people would go and worship false gods and uh and sit make sacrifices and often children being laid into the the arms of these idols, these uh carved and um engraven images, and they would they would be sacrificing to these false gods in order to appease them and thank them, in order to woo them into giving them what they uh needed to survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we know as we see the the history of uh the people of Israel in the books of Moses, it is God that is delivering in them and providing for their needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is Yahweh who is taking care of their needs to obey him, to follow him all the way to the promised land, and what a what a grievous and and terrible sin uh that the people of Israel are are committing against their God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we see God's response here, he does not take it lightly, and people are dying, and up to 24,000 people are dying due to this uh this interaction between uh a man of Israel and a Midianite woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh without getting too graphic, they are they are having uh a forbidden relation, and um a son of uh a son of Aaron is going to do something about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is going to end uh the debauchery and end the uh the sin on the spot and he kills them both and and this is pleasing to the Lord, and it's something that to me at first first glance like well that was that was intense, but this is how this is how serious God takes sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he is he is commended Phineas, the son of Eliezer, son of Aaron the priest.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is named and his his name will forever be in the history books for turning back the wrath of God and ending a plague that was inflicting and killing off uh the people of Israel here in Numbers chapter 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh just a reminder for us today that there are still opportunities for us uh to throw ourselves, though we might not be worshiping a statue or an idol, but to be throwing ourselves and finding our hope and our peace and our comfort and finding provision in different ways from things that are not Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a great reminder for us to to reflect on uh where we are finding uh satisfaction, where we're going to to be fulfilled ultimately.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if it's not it's not God uh of the scriptures, not the God of the Bible, uh the eternal Son of God, we uh we are in the wrong place and we need to turn back quickly, and that would be the best move to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: Repent from our sin and confess to the Lord, confess our sin and and turn away, turn away from from wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look to the psalm today in Psalm 119, we see some relationships described here, and it all is revolving around the law of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The meditation that is placed into the scriptures is what provides understanding, it's what provides a wisdom, and ultimately it's what is uh navigating the psalmist's life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do I go?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't turn aside from the rules, I don't swerve into evil ways, and I don't let your words leave my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's understanding in the word of God, and it has an impact on the one who reads, the one who meditates on this word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist here, in a non-boastful way, in his own self, is giving praise, high praise, and is boasting in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 99, the psalmist says, I have more understanding than all my teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: For the testimonies are my meditation, it's what allows him to live a life that is upright, that is righteous, because the scriptures direct and point to the way that would please God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It steers us away from the evil way, and it turns our mind and our hearts and the heart's affections to the Lord, and and they're sweet, they are satisfying, they are pleasing, and the the imagery here in verse 103 is so encouraging.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of God are sweet to the taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can look left and right and see that this world is a passing away and everything in it, and we also are just living in the reality that there's a lot of people that think that their way is right, that their way is going to lead them to life or to what they would prefer after they die.
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  SPEAKER_00: But ultimately, the the true understanding for how to live a life and to live a life that is in true worship, true life in Christ is through the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 104 says, Through your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is only one way that leads to life everlasting, and that is the way that would be pleasing to the Lord, that is through uh the life of Christ, his righteousness, his perfect life is accredited to the sinner's account if you repent and believe in the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Believe that the the life that Jesus lived is the one that you could not yourself, the death that he died was the one that you deserved, and the resurrection, the resurrection proves his victory over sin and death.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no name under heaven which can save other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says that I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father but through him, and he is the true way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be encouraged, church family, be encouraged that uh the law of the Lord is delightful.
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  SPEAKER_00: The law of the Lord makes you wise, it gives you great understanding, and it guides your life, it steers you in a way that would please the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay in his rules, church family, stay in his rules, and let's reflect today on the sweetness that is to be found in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a treasure we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us today in 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: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.