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June 16, 2026 - Numbers 26 & Psalm 119:105-112 · 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, June 16th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Numbers 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers 26 is the second census in the book, the first one being in Numbers chapter one, and the second one here in Numbers 26, and we see the the names of the tribes and the clans and uh the total number of God's people as they are wandering in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this happens uh right after God sends the plague and it kills 24,000 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see the the heart of this chapter looking forward to the promised land and how much space and how much land would be allotted to each of the tribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the idea here is the larger the tribe uh by number, the larger space they will occupy in the land of Canaan when they enter.
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  SPEAKER_00: A quick number count here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first census total, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty, and here in numbers twenty-six, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Psalm one hundred nineteen, verses one hundred five through one twelve.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have sworn an oath and confirmed it to keep your righteous rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am severely afflicted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me life, O Lord, according to your word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accept my free will offerings of praise, O Lord, and teach me your rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever to the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look to the second census chapter here, Numbers twenty-six, something that comes to mind way back in Genesis is the promise that God made to Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you remember back, there's a three-part promise, a covenant made with with Abraham concerning land, seed, and blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the totals here from the different tribes and clans, these are the military-aged men who are leading families, presumably, not all of them have families, but we would assume, well, a large majority of them would be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these are the number of people that God has been sustaining in a harsh environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to remember, they are wandering in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The numbers here totaled as we look to Numbers 26 were a little lower in perspective from the beginning of the book of Numbers till now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um 1,820 military age men, age 20 or older.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we we think about this the number of deaths that have occurred through the different plagues, uh, the different uh events that have happened, Korah's rebellion comes to mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you think about the number of deaths that have occurred and the number of births, we have to think about the number of graves.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's promises are continuing to be upheld despite Israel's rebellion, despite their wandering and God's promise that of the first generation in the wilderness, none of them would see the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each day, around 90 funerals, we do some math here, around 90 funerals per day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think about the increase, I looked up some scholars and how they would do the math here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some biblical commentators are numbering hundreds of births a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God is prospering his people and feeding them, giving them water, he is allowing them to be fertile and a prosperous people who are uh in large families, and God is sustaining his people all the way to his promise given to Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are on their way to Canaan to take the land set apart for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the blessing that the people of Israel will be, the blessing to the nations, draws us to think about who would come from the line, the lineage of Abraham, and that is ultimately the Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the blessing that the nations would have in a future sense would be the Gentile believers that would be grafted into God's family.
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  SPEAKER_00: So without a people that would be the offspring of Abraham, there would be no seed that would one day bring us to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there is no offspring from Abraham, there's no seed that would carry on, if all the members of Israel died in the wilderness, God's promise would not be upheld and not come to fruition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with all the numbers of the people that we see here in the clans, in the tribes in Numbers 26, we have to be thinking forward to God's promises being upheld.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is a great showing of God's faithfulness, a great showing of God's love and provision for his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And along the way, in this chapter, we see a handful of names in verse 9, in verse 19, and verse 61, those who were judged by God along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that would be a um a point of reference and a remembrance for God's people to bear to mind that they have a bent towards sinning against the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as God's people continue on even into the promised land, this would be a continual theme, that they struggle to obey and can and struggle to be um a people faithful, remaining uh and striving after the Lord that delivered them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look over to our Psalm 119 passage, we come to the heart and the the title for this podcast: Lamp in Light.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we see in verse 105.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the guide for our lives, it is the the director of God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word of God is what gives us the path forward in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Righteous rules for a righteous people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love the the continual back and forth, the conflict that the psalmist pours out.
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  SPEAKER_00: This life that that he is living, the life that we live, is not void of challenges and hardships and and afflictions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist looks to the Lord, he looks to the Lord for life within the context of the scriptures, according to your word, the psalmist says in verse 107, and there's a confession that the psalmist makes in verse 111.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though there's affliction present, there's not a forgetfulness concerning God's law, though there's traps and snares laid, the psalmist is not wandering away to avoid them by neglecting God's word and his precepts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we get to verse 111, revert referring to the precepts of the Lord, the testimonies of the Lord, they are his heritage forever, and in them are the joys of his heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So where does the psalmist go when troubles come, when the opposition makes its presence known?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in the Lord, it's in the Lord's scriptures, in the Lord's law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where the heart of the psalmist places his hope and his trust when fears arise, when temptation makes itself known.
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  SPEAKER_00: The psalmist says, I incline my heart to perform, to, to go after, to execute the laws of the God of the God that He serves forever to the end, to the end of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a tendency, I think, when people get comfortable in their rhythms, we can we can find uh the cruise control button in for our lives and and just press it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can press the cruise control, and when we do that, we there's there's a sense of diminished alertness, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we get older in age and as uh we've been walking with the Lord longer, things become can become more familiar, more common, and but that should not, with an increased knowledge of the Lord or understanding of the scriptures, that that should not make us comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: That should not make us uh a people that um that that lean back into the lazy boy chair of this Christian walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we need to be striving forward and as the psalmist says, to the end, holding God's word in our hands day by day as it it is the lone source of our sustenance in this life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where else can we go to find the heart of God, the mind of God, and the the will of God, other than the scriptures?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where we find our joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I just want to challenge you to continue to find joy in the scriptures, continue to find the promises of God and uh recall them, bear them to mind and remember back to the heritage from Abraham all the way to the year 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see God's promises that he made to Abraham coming true even today, as the blessing to the nations, as the Gentile believers around the world today take take benefit and refuge in the Lord because of the covenant and promises made to Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: And considering the the truth of God's word, the light it is to our lives, the lamp it is to our feet, we have a great treasure in the scriptures and a great comfort as we seek to uphold God's statutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have life in them, we have life in God's word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my my prayer and my desire for our church is to be a people that continually press forward, not forgetting, but continually remembering God's goodness through his promises and through his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan.
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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: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.