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May 4, 2026 - Leviticus 16 & Psalm 95 · 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, May 4th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this chapter, we see the details of the role of the high priest who will one day for the entire year make an atonement on behalf of the entire nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see burnt offerings and sin offerings and a an atonements made for the priests, for his family, for the tabernacle, for um for everything that that the priest would have a hand in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're seeing that everything here is described in this chapter is is unclean and the ways that God provides and instructs for his people to uh to be atoned for, to be covered for their um uncleannesses, for their sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the highlight of this chapter is the the two goats.
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  SPEAKER_00: One goat is a sacrifice uh unto the Lord, and the other goat is is sent off into the wilderness, the scapegoat, and the high priest would put his hands on the head of this goat, and on this goat, this goat's body, would be the sins of the people uh of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this goat would be uh led off, led out into the wilderness and and cast away, and and so with it are the sins of the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once a year, uh the the sins are placed onto this goat, and the goat is a cast away, um, and the sins of Israel are removed from them, and that's representative in the goat, and this happens once a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The garments of the high priest are only worn on this day, they're washed and put away, and the this this particular day is of the highest importance to the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm ninety five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation, let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise, for the Lord is a great God, and a great king above all gods.
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  SPEAKER_00: In his hand are the depths of the earth, the heights of the mountains are his also, the sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
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  SPEAKER_00: O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Masa in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
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  SPEAKER_00: For forty years I loathed that generation and said, They are the people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look to Leviticus sixteen today and we consider the work of the high priest and his role in the atonement of Israel's sin as a whole, as a nation, once a year can only point us forward with excitement and hope as we reflect on the work that Christ has done once for all to remove, to take away the sins of mankind.
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  SPEAKER_00: The psalm that comes to mind is Psalm 103 as I'm reading through this chapter, Leviticus 16, Psalm 103, verses 11 and 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ's work on the cross, his bloodshed, his atoning sacrifice did more than cover our sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: It removed our sins from us and the debt which is due for their payment, which is which is death.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wages of sin is death, the scriptures say, and we have a a gift of salvation, a free gift of life in the Lord Jesus Christ through faith and through repentance, turning from our sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm looking to the the scriptures today in Leviticus 16 and thinking about the bloodshed as we continue on the ways that this this book in in the Old Testament reveals our uncleannesses, reveals the impurities, reveals the wickedness and sinfulness uh of our lives and of our hearts and and what God requires for forgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is ultimately bloodshed, the the shedding of blood from a living being, and that blood being a purifying agent, a cleansing agent to cover the sins of Israel and the sins of you and I ultimately through the work of Christ on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mind is fixed to this scripture in Psalm 103 that I just read.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to get my mind around how far is the east from the west, how far is that measurement?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go uh east and west, there are no there are no fixed points of of reference.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can pick different different coordinates on the map going east and west.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if we go north and south, there are more clear points of reference, which are the poles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but this this idea of our sins being removed and and the the measurement of that distance uh it east and west is a an ongoing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You keep going east and west, and you just line up and find yourself in the same place that you began.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what an encouragement that is for us, that that's how far God uh removes our ascend.
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  SPEAKER_00: That it is no longer attached, it is no longer on our record if we have faith in him, if we've been cleansed by the blood of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love that the imagery, and I I'm trying to put myself in the minds of the people of Israel once a year, the Day of Atonement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we see this goat being cast off into the wilderness, and on that goat, the people of Israel are are watching their sins, which have been placed on this goat, being made separate from them.
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  SPEAKER_00: This goat is walking away, uh, never to be seen again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and that's a great encouragement as I reflect on how God has removed my sin, how how God has removed the sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I was to tell you how far that sin has been removed from me, it would be uh immeasurable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is erased, it is taken away.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not covered, it is removed and expunged from my account.
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  SPEAKER_00: It no longer exists because Christ paid the debt, he made the payment, he bore the sin that we deserved.
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  SPEAKER_00: He became sin who knew no sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the highlight here in verse thirty is for on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall be clean before the Lord from not some of your sins, not most of your sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, from all your sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ's payment satisfied the debt that we owed, satisfied the wrath of God for the sins in our past, and for the sins that you maybe committed today, and the sins that you will commit in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: These sins are forgiven, these sins are taken away from you forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the the faith that you have in Christ and the eternal work that he has done accomplishes this and accomplishes much more than what the this the shadow is pointing to with the scapegoat here in Leviticus 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we transition over to our psalm today, I'm thinking about the references here to the people of Israel post-Exodus as they are leaving Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt is in the rear view, and the resources are running low.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're out of water, and they uh are arriving at this place called Meribah and Massa, and God provides miraculously despite Israel's grumblings and groanings and complaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses strikes the rock and water flows out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Water flows out, and God is miraculously providing for his people again.
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  SPEAKER_00: They forgot the the miraculous works that he accomplished before their eyes in Egypt, and as a result of that, they would they would wander in the wilderness for four decades, and this psalm ends in a way that is a little bit somber.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where the highlight here is the people that didn't enter the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people wandered in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the the beginning of this psalm is full of remembrance, it's full of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is uh a stop and pause moment for the people that would be uh reciting this and and singing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's not be like the people that forgot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's be people that remember, let's recount the the blessings and the workings of our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the maker of all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: To him alone will we bow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: To him alone do we belong.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not anyone's possession other than the Lord, for he called us out of Egypt to be his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what the people of Israel would be thinking as they're singing this song.
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  SPEAKER_00: He made the sea, the sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land, nodding back to the Genesis creation uh account that all the things on the earth that he created are his uh possession.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you are cleansed and washed by the blood of Christ, you have put your faith, your hope, and your trust in God, you are his possession, you are purchased by the blood of Christ, and not a single thing in this life can can take you away from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no trial or tragedy or um or strong man or uh wicked plan of the enemy can take you away from the Lord God, the the king of all the earth, uh the great king above all gods.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is none that can compare to Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's none who can compare to the King of Kings, the Son of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um this is a great reminder for us today as we reflect on uh the plans that God had made to remove in a in a yearly in a in a rhythmic pace as God's people look forward to the one who eventually would deliver them from their sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were taking part in this once-a-year engagement with a scapegoat and with a sacrifice and the reminder that the the sins that they committed are a serious offense to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a need for cleansing, a need for purification for their sins, and God is faithful to accomplish that.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is faithful to remove their sins from them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, as we look to Leviticus 16, their sins are removed year after year after year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ ultimately made an end to this day of atonement as his uh sacrifice was the one one bloodshed for all time.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no no more no more need to be making these sacrifices, uh the the uh the sacrifices of bulls and goats and rams uh and doves and pigeons.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no need to be sprinkling blood in the holy place to purify the the tabernacle to purify the holy place or the holy of holies.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no more need for that because the holy one, the only holy and perfect and blameless Son of God, his blood and his blood alone is the the final and ultimate sacrifice to end the sacrificial system and draw uh and draw people to um to salvation through his blood and his blood alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us on 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.