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July 30, 2026 - Deuteronomy 28 & Psalm 149 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob 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_01: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Thursday, July 30th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Deuteronomy 28.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 28 lists blessings for obedience, first and foremost, that when they enter the land, if they do all that God commanded, there would be blessings that are associated with that obedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: There would be fruit of the womb, there would be having children and being fruitful and multiplying, even the fruit of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: They would have the work of their hands established, rain falling from the heavens, all of those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then there's also curses for disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if they go into the land and they do not obey, they do not listen, they do not follow the covenant that God made.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's really all uh Deuteronomy twenty-eight is talking about blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Psalm 149.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord, sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let Israel be glad in his maker, let the children of Zion rejoice in their king, let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the Lord takes pleasure in his people, he adorns the humble with salvation, let the godly exult in glory, let them sing for joy on their beds, let the high praises of God be in their throats and two edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute on them the judgment written.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is honor for all his godly ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lots of blessings, uh blessings of all kinds.
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  SPEAKER_01: It even says in verse 7, The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your enemies, your crops, your womb, uh your relationships, all of those things are going to be blessed if you obey.
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  SPEAKER_01: God says to Israel, and of course the opposite is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Verse 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God, or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cursed shall you be in the city, cursed shall you be in the field, cursed shall you be your basket, your kneading bowl, shall be the fruit of the womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of the herds.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's like the literally the opposite of everything that says that God says he will bless, uh, the opposite will be true, he will curse if there is disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh some serious things that are being said to Israel, because obedience is a very serious thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's commands are a very serious thing, and he expects his people to obey.
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  SPEAKER_01: He expects his people to to be holy as he is holy, as he's commanded them to, uh, even through Leviticus, and uh has been reiterated uh in numerous ways, and numbers in here in Deuteronomy as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, of course, we know the story of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know we know that they experienced both sides of this equation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh perhaps the ones that stick out to us more is the curses side, because there's of course Babylonian captivity, there's uh just different things that happen because of their disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: They even think of the the book of Judges as an example of everyone doing what was right in their own eyes instead of obeying the commands of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so this is just again a reminder, a plea really for the nation of Israel to remember the covenant of God, to do what he says as they enter the land that he promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they do this uh well at some points, and they do this not well at all at other points.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we we see kind of this play out in the rest of the story of the Old Testament as it unfolds.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see this chapter um come to life in the following stories and in the following uh books that we'll read, the the prophets, the um, even in the wisdom literature, we we read some of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in Psalms, we've already read uh some reality of the curses that they've experienced.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lamentations is a great example of some of the curses that they experience and the lament that comes with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, nevertheless, this chapter really sets up the trajectory of the rest of the Old Testament that we are going to read.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see the experience of Israel defined by their obedience or their lack of obedience and the curses that come because of as a result of their disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And something I think that we should be careful uh to do as uh believers in the year 2026 is not read ourselves into the text, uh read ourselves into this blessings that that this list that is meant for God's people at this at this time, specifically this chapter, uh, concerning obedience and and blessings and uh abundance and victory and uh this long list of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's easy for us to be like, well, I want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, where can I get some of that?
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  SPEAKER_00: And and read ourselves into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's some caution to be had as we think about um our relationship with God in the year 2026 and the people of Israel as they are about to inherit this land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we uh look over to our psalm today in Psalm 149, we see uh a psalm of victory and praise to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And something that I am taking away from this psalm today is that God is continuing to uh express his desire uh to lift up the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um now, for us in this particular uh time, I don't find myself receiving victory over my enemies as I humble myself uh before the Lord, or as I think about people that are in our um in our current year, I think about the victory over sin that God has accomplished for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think about the victory over sin that God has um displayed through the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for those who are uh humbling themselves, we have we draw near to God and we have a victory over our sin as we ask God to help us with that victory, even today.
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  SPEAKER_00: God help me to not be led into temptation, help me to fight, help me to see the way of escape over this temptation, uh, whether that's through accountability, whether that's through scripture memorization, or or whether that's through um pulling a Joseph and just running away from this current situation in the current time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we have our own sets of uh problems and troubles uh in in this point in time in history, but nonetheless, we still have the same God who is continuing to save uh even today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I love how it says there in verse six, let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands to execute execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a sense of uh victory, of course, that showcases the glory of God, the promises of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even in verse six, let the high praises of God be in their throats, the sense of recognizing the victory that God gives, recognizing the blessings that come from obedience and trusting in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a great reminder here from Psalm 149.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've only got one more psalm, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can you believe it?
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  SPEAKER_01: One more psalm, Psalm 150, that we will cover tomorrow, and then we will officially be moving into Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we'll wait, but tomorrow we will reflect on the book of Psalms as a whole, like is our custom when we finish a book.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll think through all the lessons that we learned from the book of Psalms, and we'll encourage you to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.