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April 30, 2026 - Leviticus 13 & Psalm 92 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bibreating 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 Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Thursday, April 30th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 13 is all about laws concerning how the priests specifically are to deal with and examine skin conditions, otherwise known as leprosy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's a variety of different things to look for from you know itchy hair and beards to boils to open flesh and lots of kind of things that are maybe a little bit hard to read.
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  SPEAKER_00: But these are all again connected to sort of purification, being clean versus unclean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are laws that detail all of that specifically for the priests to look for and to determine whether or not someone has been pronounced unclean because of the condition of their skin and just the perhaps the leprosy that they are enduring.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word, the Psalm 92.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High, to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
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  SPEAKER_01: For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work.
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  SPEAKER_01: At the works of your hands I sing for joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: How great are your works, O Lord, your thoughts are very deep.
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  SPEAKER_01: The stupid man cannot know, the fool cannot understand this, that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you, O Lord, are on high forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: For behold, your enemies, O Lord, for behold, your enemies shall perish, all evildoers shall be scattered, but you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have poured over me fresh oil, my eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
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  SPEAKER_01: The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are planted in the house of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: They flourish in the courts of our God.
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  SPEAKER_01: They still bear fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm ninety-two is such an encouraging psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you look at the superscription, that kind of explains what this is for.
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  SPEAKER_00: A psalm, a song for the Sabbath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the Sabbath was a day that they were commanded to keep holy, to observe it, to keep it, and to keep holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Sabbath was a day of rest, a day of reflection on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see that really uh put into words in, I think, in some gripping ways here in Psalm 92.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh even this morning I was reading in uh just the Valley of Vision book that I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a collection of Puritan prayers, and was praying through one of those prayers and was really destruck by the rich theology, uh, the the way that my heart was kind of pulled into the prayer that I truly was just desiring uh for those words that were pinned long ago, years ago, uh by some other Christian at some some other point in some other place for those things to be my reality in the cry of my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I felt very similarly here in Psalm 92, which is all of the rich and beautiful things that are said here, even beginning in verse one.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High, to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the works of your hands I sing for joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just found myself desiring for these things to be true in my own heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was praying, Lord, help me to believe that it is good to give thanks to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not just believe it with my head, Tyler, but believe it in my heart and to experience it and to taste it, if you will, that this is something that truly is good and for me to experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even verse 4, for you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the works of your hands, I sing for joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That made me just think of what we were talking about on Sunday to anticipate the joy of full submission to Christ, where one day everyone and everything will be in full subjection to Christ once he puts all of his enemies under his feet as a footstool and the joy that's associated with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We looked at a passage on Sunday in Isaiah talking about that time, the new heavens and the new earth, and how that was intended for God's people to be a people of gladness, a people of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I see that even now, here in this life, that we are to rejoice in the hands in the work of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse 4, for you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the work of your hands I sing for joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's just so many rich things in this Psalm, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what were some things that you were encouraged by by Psalm 92 that maybe you could share uh today?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I was looking at this psalm this morning and and reflecting on God's faithfulness in the past and his promises and um just considering, like verse five says, How great are your works, O Lord?
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  SPEAKER_01: Your thoughts are very deep.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I I read more and as I meditate on God's word, more and more I'm considering what it is there is to explore in my understanding of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I need to continue and leaning, continue to lean in in my pursuit of knowing God, knowing who he is, um, loving his word, and anticipating with hope and joy what he will continue to do as he upholds his promises as we read them in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's just one of the things that came to my mind this morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we look to the uh the end of the of the psalm, um, there are some promises that God gives and a reflection on how God um sees the righteous and and the ways that he establishes his life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, I I'm just encouraged by older saints in our body, the folks that have been walking with the Lord for for decades.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm I'm thinking about um just the fruit that they still bear, the the righteousness that they are still um pursuing as God grows and still matures them, even in older age.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just so fired up to see like I really want that to be who I am, if if the Lord will preserve my days into my my 50s, my sixties, maybe even my 70s, who knows how long my life is.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I want to be um like a person described here in the end of the psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really loved these last verses, 12 through 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think this is such a perfect prayer for us to just ask the Lord for what is written here to be true of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I even wrote in the margin of my Bible, Lord, help this to be true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to flourish like a palm tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says in verse 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to be like the one that is planted in the house of the Lord that flourishes in the courts of our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to still bear fruit in old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to be ever full of sap and green.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help me to declare that the Lord is upright and to realize He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a beautiful thing to long for, to pray for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even just the reality here, like you were mentioning, Tyler, it talks about those who are older.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, they are still bearing fruit in old age, those who are the righteous, those who are flourishing, those who are planted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you can hear Psalm 1 uh being reflected here, being like a tree planted by rivers of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see here that the righteous are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God, and all that they do, they prosper, their leaf does not wither.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here in verse 14, they still bear fruit in old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that made me think of Paul when he talks about our outer selves are wasting away, but our inner selves are being renewed day by day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a reality that those who are older, perhaps in more pronounced ways, not always, but certainly just the the pattern of life is as you get older, things uh break down at perhaps more rapid rates than those than when you are younger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, typically, at least, and yet here it says those who are righteous, they still bear fruit in old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are ever full of sap and green.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what a prayer! What what what a thing to sort of pray that the Lord would be true, to make true of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want it, I want it to be said of me that in my old age, whatever that may be, whatever years the Lord has has left for me on this earth, I want to still be bearing fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to be ever full of sap and green.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to have evidence of just a flourishing and being the righteous that flourishes like the palm tree and grows like a cedar in Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_00: These these trees that can thrive even in harsh conditions, oftentimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Palm trees will.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are planted in the house of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's the that sense of uh being planted near to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: They flourish in the courts of our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I think Psalm 92, 12 through 15 is just such a rich prayer for us to pray both collectively as a church and individually.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, help us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to be the righteous that flourish like the palm tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to grow like a cedar in Lebanon, help us to be uh still bearing fruit in old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's Tyler, it's sort of a kind of a commonly maybe accepted thing in our society that the older you get, the grumpier you get, the more harsh you get, the more sort of temperamental or frustrated or quick tempered that you get.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've heard that, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've heard it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've heard it, you've experienced it, I'm sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but that is so contrary to what we see in the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh here it says those who are old in age, what are they doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're bearing fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are ever full of sap and green.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I don't, I don't want uh character, I don't want godliness uh to be defined in these sort of culturally typical ways of getting older and somehow getting grumpier or more set in your ways or uh more free to speak your mind and with harshness or whatever other things that we give uh potentially people who are older in years passes for because they've earned the right, so to speak, to be rude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we see here in Psalm 92, man, no, let us, whether we're young, old, or somewhere in between, the be the righteous that flourish like the palm tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to be planted in the house of the Lord, help us to still bear fruit in old age, uh, help us to ever be full of sap and green, always recognizing that the Lord is upright, that he is always good, that he is our rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know something that's uh I've noticed a common theme for the people that kind of have this uh this evidence of God working in their life is these people that I'm thinking of now that are described in the end of the psalm, they they execute verse number five well.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're always driven back to God's word and they're always reflecting on how powerful and mighty God's works are.
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  SPEAKER_01: They reflect back on their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is true of all mature Christians.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are introspective and seeing God's hand in every step of the way, every step of the way in their life through the difficult times, from the the first early um steps as a Christian to um the maybe more um gentle and ginger steps of of current days.
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  SPEAKER_01: They their bodies, as you might might be describing, are are starting to fail.
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  SPEAKER_01: The outer man is withering away, but their inner man uh is just so so focused on the cross, so focused on on eternity with Christ, and their mind is filled with the Lord and his great works.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's a great encouragement for me today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I'm thinking about older songs and the things that we get to do uh as a body, hymns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, hymns are something that I love.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we consider the ways that we worship God with our mouths, um, we want to also on Sunday mornings, um, throughout the week and with our lives, the things that we say, think, and do, we want to be glorifying God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to be considering the ways that we can praise God and sing for joy as a result of what he's done for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Psalm 92, the encouragement here is just pray through this today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let the day go by without sitting down with an open Bible, crying out to the Lord to help you to do and be and feel and experience and grow in the ways that Psalm 92 details.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just pray that for all of us as a church that we would be able to say sincerely, it is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to his name, O Most High, to declare his steadfast love in the morning and his faithfulness by might uh by night, because he has made us glad by his work, and the works of his hands are the reason why we can sing for joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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