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April 23, 2026 - Leviticus 7 & Psalm 89:1-18 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob Rooting 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 23rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 7 is a continuation of what was started in Leviticus 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are still focusing on the priest and their role and how they are specifically to prepare the different offerings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in Leviticus 7, there is a focus on not mixing things that are unclean with those that are clean, those that are holy and set apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: But really the chapter is summarized well here at the end in verse 37 and 38.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering, which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these are specific instructions, or as a law, as it says in verse thirty-seven, for these various offerings, how they are to be prepared, how they are to be kept, how they are to be eaten, and all of those different specific details.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word, Psalm eighty-nine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: With my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: For I said, steadfast love will be built up forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have said, I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.
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  SPEAKER_01: For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord, a God greatly to be feared in the counsel of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him.
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  SPEAKER_01: O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?
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  SPEAKER_01: You rule the raging of the sea.
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  SPEAKER_01: When its waves rise, you still them, you crushed Rahab like a carcass, you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
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  SPEAKER_01: The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours, the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
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  SPEAKER_01: The north and the south you have created them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tabor and Hernan joyously praise your name, you have a mighty arm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Strong is your hand, high your right hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
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  SPEAKER_01: Steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face, who exalt in your name all the day, and in your righteousness are exalted, for you are the glory of their strength.
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  SPEAKER_01: By your favor our horn is exalted, for our shield belongs to the Lord, our King to the Holy One of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in Leviticus 7, there's a couple of interesting things that are going on that being helpful for us to at least discuss.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them, Tyler, is this phrase that keeps getting repeated of getting cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's these specific instructions that are to be followed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if they are not followed, if they are ignored, there's this sense of being cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at one example in verse 20.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Tyler, what does it mean to be cut off?
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  SPEAKER_00: We were looking into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a couple different options.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, why is that significant?
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  SPEAKER_00: What why are we reading that here in Leviticus 7?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think there's a high standard for God's people to obey his commandments, especially concerning things that are unclean.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in my mind, when I was reading cut off, I was thinking of Schmeagel when he's speaking, he's saying, leave and never come back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and of course that's Proto says that I think I think he's talking to himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and but I'm I'm I'm trying to understand like, is this banishment?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this exile?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this death?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this I you we were looking at this before we started recording.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does this mean there's a blessing that is severed?
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  SPEAKER_01: What does this mean, PJ?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think so there's a couple different options, um, and they're very nuanced.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just for the sake of brevity, we'll try to keep them simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them is execution, that the offender that violates the law, specifically outlined here in Leviticus 7, as an example, uh, would lose their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's one view that's held that this is execution or it could result in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another view is a sense of banishment, like you were just talking about, or excommunication from the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, it was excommunication for the purpose of essentially cutting off the future line and lineage from that person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so familial lineages obviously were very important uh during the writing of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were associated with uh children, of course, but also lands that would be inherited.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so through sending someone away and excommunicating them, essentially their lineage was being cut off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their lands would be repurposed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, especially if they had no offspring at that point, there'd be no opportunity for them uh to raise up a future lineage for their name to continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's another option, excommunication with an eye towards their lineage ceasing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, another option is connected to covenant blessings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so there could be a sense of spiritual uh blessing that they don't receive both in the immediate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can think of even the whole concept of entering into Canaan, which of course a whole generation uh does not enter into Canaan because of Moses and because of other different factors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so you could think of it in that terms of there's a sense of blessing both in the immediate sense, but also in the eternal sense, where they are cut off from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have shown their sort of willful disobedience and the collect from God and his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a result, they are cut off from the covenant blessings that God intends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll read about those covenant blessings more specifically in a pronounced way in Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the covenant blessings would no longer uh be theirs, and so they would no longer be recipients of those blessings.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are the various options.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure there's even more than that that I just outlined.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I'm not exactly sure to be honest, where exactly I land on those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think um, bottom line for for us, for Tyler and I, it is communicating the seriousness of God's law uh and the holiness of God's character.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think regardless of where you fall and what actually happened, and even in the in the scholarly world, it's much debated as to what exactly this means.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think there's a great consensus of regardless of what view you hold, there is seriousness of obeying God's law, listening to God's word, doing what God says in the way that God prescribes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a great reminder for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you even see it connected to what we just read and taught about on Sunday with Hebrews chapter two, this idea of paying much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a seriousness when God has spoken.
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  SPEAKER_00: He speaks through the prophets in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're reading here in Leviticus through the prophet Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and he speaks ultimately and finally through his son.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even in Hebrews 2, it says, How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a seriousness to heeding what God has said and doing what God has commanded.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's just a great uh takeaway here from Leviticus 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there are very specific prescriptions for the priests, they are to do things in a very specific, detail-oriented way, uh, and people are to be mindful and pay attention to the reality that uncleanness has no place in the presence of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, even in verse 21, if anyone touches an unclean thing, and we'll get into more of what those are in later chapters, but it says, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or an unclean, detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Leviticus continues to beat the drum of the holiness of God he has set apart and the need to be cleansed, the need to approach God rightly, the need for uh sacrificial atonement where blood is shed in order for there to be any sort of approaching uh God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we see here in Leviticus 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: So take those uh phrases of being cut off as just a serious warning of not heeding and obeying and listening to what God has commanded in his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we transition to Psalm 89, this first verse reminded me of a song that came out in 1994.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord Forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, the song is titled, I will sing of your love forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this morning in the office, Tyler heard me singing that and uh listening to it and just being uh reminded of that song uh that was very popular in the especially the early 2000s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I will sing of the love of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing of your love uh forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: That even says in verse two, for I said, steadfast love will be built up forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the heavens, you will establish your faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is just uh a great song of praise to the Lord, and it kind of details uh who this God is, what he has done, his mighty works, even in verse nine, you rule the raging of the sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: When its wave when its waves rise, you still them.
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  SPEAKER_00: You crushed Rahab like a carcass.
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  SPEAKER_00: You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Rahab in Psalm 89 is not the Rahab of the book of Joshua, where she is commended and actually ends up in the genealogy of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is actually a reference to um a myth like mythological sea monster, basically.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Leviathan, a mythological sort of sea monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's connected to Egypt and other things, but it's referenced in Isaiah, um, and it represented sort of evil and chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so uh the author here is saying, You crushed this sea monster, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not saying there's a literal sea monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a poetic way of talking about just the power of God, but you crushed Rahab like a carcass, like it was nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything belongs to the Lord, the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then even in verse 12, the north and the south, you have created them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Tabor and Hermon are mountains in Palestine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so essentially it's talking about uh these great mountain peaks, at least from the perspective of Palestine, uh, that were singing praise to the Lord just because of their grandeur, because of their majesty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think of what Paul talks about in Romans 1, that creation testifies to the reality of God, his divine power has been made evident ever since the creation of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these mountains, Tabor and Hermon, it says they joyously praise your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes on, you have a mighty arm, strong as your hand, high your right hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: Steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, that makes me think of just because we're we are in Hebrews on Sunday morning, it makes me think of Hebrews chapter one, where it talks about the scepter of uprightness, is the scepter of your kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, this is in context of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he loves righteousness, he hates wickedness, and we see that here even reiterated in Psalm 89.
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  SPEAKER_00: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
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  SPEAKER_00: Steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's great continuity between what we're reading in Leviticus and the Psalms in Hebrews chapter one and now Hebrews chapter two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and all of it is just showcasing the power of God, the grandeur of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He crushes his enemies, even something like an evil sea monster that represents the chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he scatters his enemies, uh, everything on earth belongs to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The heavens are yours, uh, the north and the south.
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  SPEAKER_00: You created them, Tabor and Hermon, righteousness and justice, uh, steadfast love and faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our shield belongs to the Lord over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this is really just kind of a uh uh a concophony of reasons why God is so worthy of our praise and our worship, which is why it begins the way that it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing of your love forever because of who God is, because of what he has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even in verse 8, O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no one like God, there is no one that can do what God does.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stands alone, he stands set apart, he is holy, he is perfect, he is just, he is powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and this psalm is a reflection of that reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist is being led to just respond with worship and praise and a sense of awe of of who God is and the work that he has done and displayed so clearly in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: PJ, I love how the psalmist is looking around him and considering geographical features, he's considering nations, he's also considering just where he's looking.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is looking up up to the heavens, and as we think back to Hebrews chapter one, um, after making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is much more excellent than theirs.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we look to verse six, for who in the skies can be compared to the Lord, who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord, a God greatly to be feared in the counsel of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there is no one as majestic and as powerful and as wonderful as Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we think about the the line of David, there's a nod to him in the promises and the covenant that God has made with his servant in this psalm, and the things that the things that we can look forward to as we think about the the coming of Christ and the the Holy One of Israel, that our shield belongs to the Lord, our King to the Holy One of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking forward to the day that Christ will return, and we have a great hope, we have a great confidence in this glorious God that the psalmist is describing.
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  SPEAKER_01: This God has made himself known to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: This God has been born as a man in the form of Jesus, and he is our excellent King.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I hope that just even the cry of our hearts would be, I will sing of your love forever, because God is great and he is greatly to be praised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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