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May 5, 2026 - Leviticus 17 & Psalm 96 · 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 Tuesday, May 5th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus seventeen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people of Israel, and say to them, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded.
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  SPEAKER_00: If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord, in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, blood guilt shall be imputed to that man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the priests shall throw the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons after whom they whore.
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  SPEAKER_00: This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall say to them, Any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, no person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyone also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour its blood and cover it with earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the life of every creature is its blood, its blood is its life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I have said to the people of Israel, you shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever eats it shall be cut off, and every person who eats what dies of itself, or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening, then he shall be clean, but if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm ninety six.
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  SPEAKER_00: O sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth, sing to the Lord, bless his name, tell of his salvation from day to day, declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
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  SPEAKER_00: For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, he is to be feared above all gods, for all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Splendor and majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, ascribe to the Lord the glory do his name, bring an offering and come into his courts, worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness, tremble before him all the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say among the nations, the Lord reigns, yes, the world is established, it shall never be moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will judge the peoples with equity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoice, let the sea roar in all that fills it, let the field exult and everything in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our text in Leviticus today draws our attention to blood and what to do when sacrificing, and specifically where God approves of sacrifices and the spilling of blood to take place.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's people are to treat the blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are to take great care and treat life, the life that God has created, with a special reverence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's through blood and the sacrificing of blood, through the death of an animal, through the death comes life and redemption.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately that's that's a climax, of course, through the shedding of Christ's blood on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is a sanctity and a reverence that God's people are to give the blood of the animals here, as we see in Leviticus 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, only the the priests spill uh the blood in a sacrificial way, and um they are not to be in this text we see not to be sacrificing to other gods or to other other deities.
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  SPEAKER_00: The spilling of blood is to please Yahweh and Yahweh alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this chapter, we see the detailings of what God's people are to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they are to find an animal that has died by natural causes or has died by an attack from another animal, there is a an uncleanness that comes when the blood is not properly drained.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you are a hunter or um if you've been fishing and you are going to consume a uh flesh from an animal, you know that the the blood, if it remains and stays inside the animal, uh does have an effect on the taste of the of the flesh, but also uh it can become infected and diseased as bacteria can form that is harmful to uh to humans as we would consume it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the the blood here in this chapter, God alone establishes life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's God alone that sustains life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the creator of all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when God says that uh it is for the blood, uh for the blood that makes an atonement by the life in verse 11, there is a great importance that God places on blood, and it is for uh it is for atonement, it is for sacrificing uh to the Lord, and it's not to be consumed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not um it's it's forbidden for God's people to consume it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Multiple times here we see in Leviticus 17 people will be cut off, will be um disconnected from the people of God if they choose to consume the blood of of animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we transition to the Psalms, we are in chapter 96 today, and this psalm has uh an opening with praise and worship, and uh it's calling us to sing to the Lord, it's calling its readers to tell of God's salvation from day to day, God's power to save, and God's worth and his majesty should be on the minds and on the lips of uh his own on a daily basis, and we see creation being called to rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Creation is commanded to uh to to roar and to exult in uh its creator because the Lord reigns.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as the psalm concludes, we look to the end, and there is a a reminder that creation is looking forward, and creation is longing for the return of Christ and for the groans, uh the groans and the the the child, the childbearing pangs of this world, um at in its fallenness, it looks forward to God making all things right again upon his return.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a a call and a challenge here for for those that would be unbelievers.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is going to come and judge the world in righteousness and in faithfulness for those who are his own, he is faithful to save and and faithful um to pardon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for those who are not in Christ, there is a judgment and there is a a dread that comes with not being covered, not finding refuge in the Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we we see that God is um He is holy, He is worthy of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the middle of this psalm, we see uh a three-peat response and a repetition, um calling its readers to ascribe to the Lord, uh ascribe to the Lord verses seven and eight, and it it's calling us to uh attribute, to credit God and and glorify his name and and give give praise to him and declare the worth due his name, declaring honor, uh declaring reverence to the nations, declaring uh for our hearts to respect and fear the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is also in this in this text um echoes of the the Great Commission.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's echoes of um the nations being told God's glory and God's uh marvelous works.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is great and he is worthy of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I love verses four and five here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all worshiping something, and if we're not worshiping the creator, we are ultimately worshiping creation, whether it's ourselves, uh whether it's some people that worship uh the universe and cry out to the universe trying to manifest different things uh as if they have power to speak things into existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, everything else in this world, if it's not Yahweh, if it's not the great I am, it is a worthless idol.
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  SPEAKER_00: These idols did not speak the world into the existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The these idols do not sustain and hold everything together, it's only the Lord, and He alone is greatly to be praised, as we see in verse 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as long as you are breathing, as long as you are sustained by God here and now on this earth, we have we have a job to do, and that is to worship God with our lives, with our whole hearts, and to declare his worth, to sing praises to his name and to tell tell the nations, to tell the people that are around us of the great salvation that Christ has won to tell the nations of the glories of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're listening to this and you are uh teaching your children at home, or if you're in the workplace, or if you are uh wrestling to find work, or uh you are retired and you are no longer working, we have a job to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can look to the Lord and ascribe to him uh glory and strength, the glory due to his name.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, whether we are eating or drinking or or whatever it is that we're doing, we can bring glory to the Lord, and that is what is best for us to follow him and worship him in obedience as a people set apart for for his glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that is an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.