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July 25, 2026 - Deuteronomy 24 & Psalm 145 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob Roading 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_00: I'm Josiah Smith, lead pastor of Compass South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Saturday, July 25th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Deuteronomy 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she's departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priest shall direct you.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is poor and counts on it, lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment and pledge, but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I command you to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward.
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  SPEAKER_00: It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall remember that you are a slave in the land of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I command you to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name for ever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day I will bless you, and praise your name for ever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
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  SPEAKER_00: One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts, on the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works I will meditate.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness, and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
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  SPEAKER_00: All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and all your saints shall bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and tell of your power, to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is faithful in all his words, and kind in all his works.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.
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  SPEAKER_00: You open your hand, you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He fulfills the desire of those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He also hears their cry and saves them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in Psalm 145, this is another perhaps more familiar psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's titled Great is the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got the superscription of a song of praise of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in verse one, I love how this psalm begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that word extol, any anytime I hear that word, that's not a word that we hear or use very often today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like to think of it as kind of putting something in its proper place.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll think about this in the context of Psalm 145.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, I will extol you, my God and my king.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, in a sense, David is saying, I will put you, God, in your proper place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course, the temptation in our lives and in our hearts is to not have God as God over us, at least functionally in our hearts, in our flesh, and certainly to not have God as king over us, who rules and who sits on his throne and who has all authority and dominion and every right to tell us what we ought to do and how we ought to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think David is uh trying to relinquish that sense of selfishness, that sense of self-idolatry, of wanting to elevate perhaps his own preferences, his own desires above what God has commanded and revealed to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's saying, I will extol you, my God and king.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will put you in your proper place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where David is saying, I'm not on the throne, I don't possess all authority, but God does.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is God, I am not, he is the king, I am not, I will put you in your proper place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where is that place?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's it's on the throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is the creator, he is the ruler, he's the sustainer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this psalm opens with this sense of putting God in our hearts in his proper place, which is on his throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying that we have the ability or the power to remove God from his throne, certainly not.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one can stay the hand of God, but I'm just saying functionally, we can be given over to idolatry, we can be given over to a sense of wanting to do whatever we want, however we want, whenever we want, and functionally thinking in our flesh that we are the king and that we get the final say.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Psalm 145, verse 1 is a great just reorienter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a recalibrator for us to say, no, no, no, in my heart, in my mind, I will extol you, my God and king.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will put you where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: He objectively sits on his throne, he rules and reigns, but in my heart, I'm gonna put you there and I'm gonna keep you there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna resist the urge to try to supplant your authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna resist the urge to try to elevate my own desires or my own preferences and preferences or my sinfulness above what God has commanded, what God has revealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, David says, I will extol you, my God and king, and bless your name forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: He goes on in verse two every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: His greatness is unsearchable.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is so worthy of our praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: His greatness, in fact, David says, is so great.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is so full of greatness that it's unsearchable.
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  SPEAKER_00: The depths of his greatness could never be mined by the hearts and minds of men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so David says, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's so worthy of our play praise, he's so worthy of us having this response of verse one, blessing your name forever, extolling our God and king.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he is great, and his greatness is unsearchable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's so great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 4 One generation shall commend his works to another, and shall declare his mighty acts on the glorious splendor of his majesty and on his wondrous works.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, David says, He will meditate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a great thing for us to meditate on, to think about the greatness of the Lord that truly is unsearchable, that truly is unfathomable, that God is great and he is greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this generation, our responsibility is to commend the mighty works of God to the next, to declare of his mighty acts, and to really meditate on the glorious splendor of his majesty.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great and awesome psalm that we have here, Psalm 145.
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  SPEAKER_00: So filled with vibrant praise, even verse six, they shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's so many rich uh theological truths about who God is, who his character, what his character is here in Psalm 145.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, it begins right there in verse 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will extol you, my God and king.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will rightly recognize you as God, as king.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will put you there in your proper place within my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not try to supplant or subvert.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to bow the knee to the one who is great and is greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in Deuteronomy 24, again, we've got more laws here that are being uh reiterated and in some sense clarified from the Levitical categories that we talked about in Leviticus and even saw some in Numbers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's a lot of concern for the poor, the oppressed, the widows.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's even a sense of fathers who bear guilt and fathers who commit sin by virtue of having sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean that their sons automatically are guilty or share in the guilt of their father's sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's verse 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a father is not going to be responsible, at least in that ultimate sense, uh, of their children's sin or for their children's sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it goes on and says, Nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we see highlighted there in Deuteronomy 24, this sense of personal responsibility before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, that gets us to, if you even think about the judgment seat of Christ, the great white throne, uh, that you and I will stand as individuals, and we won't be able to say our father, our mother, our brother, our sister, our husband, our wife, we won't be able to say any of that before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will answer, we will give an account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we've talked about this before, whether we're Christians at the Bhima seat or non-Christians at the great white throne judgment, we will all give an account and we will not be able to pull in other people's sins or other people's struggles and try to point to them as the reason that we lived our lives the way that the way the way that we did, or certainly the reason that we engaged in sin in the way that we did.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just a great reminder of personal responsibility ultimately before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today in the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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