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April 20, 2026 - Leviticus 4 & Psalm 86 · 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, April 20th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now there are four categories of people identified here in the fourth chapter of Leviticus, and it all has to do with sinning unintentionally breaking any of the laws of Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the four categories are these the priests, the whole congregation, the leaders, and the common people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is a focus here on what to be burned, what to be brought outside the camp, where the blood is sprinkled, where the blood is placed, and all of this is to identify the seriousness of sin and what to do when you sin unintentionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Preserve my life, for I am godly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Save your servant who trusts in you, you are my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul, for you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer, listen to my plea for grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name, for you are great and do wondrous things, you alone are God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth, unite my heart to fear your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: For great is your steadfast love towards me, you have delivered my soul from the pits of Sheol.
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  SPEAKER_00: O God, insolent men have risen up against me, a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn to me and be gracious to me, give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because of you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now have you ever been inconvenienced or wronged in a small way, and like me, you can relate, and you responded with something similar to these words.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a big deal, you're okay, no big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think when I hear these words in light of Leviticus chapter four, I want to eat those words.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I want to when I say those words, I'm sorry, and someone says, it's not a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I want to genuinely talk to these people and say, like, I I know I didn't mean to offend you, I didn't mean to sin against you, I didn't mean to wrong you, but I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please forgive me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that is a response that I think I'm going to practice more and more in a way that is going to draw my attention to the seriousness of sin and my shortcomings before God and before the people around me in my life, and the ways that this book of Moses and specifically this chapter are underscoring the seriousness of God in his hatred of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if it's unintentional, even if you didn't plan on doing it, it sprung up on you, it surprised you, you responded in a knee-jerk reaction sort of way, these sins still offend God, and they are a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we look to God's people, the people of Israel here in Leviticus chapter four, both the priests, the the congregation as a whole, all of Israel, the leaders of Israel, and the common person, from top to bottom, A to Z, you can't escape this order to sacrifice and shed the blood of animals to cover your sin, your unintentional sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think there's a great opportunity for us today to think about the ways that the Lord Jesus Christ has paid for every one of our sins, no matter how insignificant the enemy would like to make us believe our sin is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every sin from large to small, grievous sins to the most in our eyes, and this is sad to say, the the least the least of all the sins that we could commit, they're all an offense to God, and Jesus paid for every last one of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a a great reminder for us to to take an an assessment of our heart towards sin, whether it's a lie under oath in a courtroom or uh a lie on a tax form that no one's ever gonna see, because who are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: You you're uh you're a small fish in this giant ocean and the the IRS has bigger fish to fry.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, when when you wrong someone and when you commit a sin, whether it's large or small in your eyes, if you know that the Lord God does not approve of it, it's a sin that you need to confess and ask God to forgive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this chapter here is a great reminder that the Lord Jesus Christ shed his own blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's much blood shed here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The animals that are described, the bulls, the young bulls, and we're looking, and as we look to the page here, the the internal organs that are being addressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lamb, there's a goat identified here, and no matter which animal you're looking at, there's a lot of blood that is being spilled out for unintentional sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we think about harvesting animals or animals bleeding out, often I think about food.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think about a steak.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think about a food that I'm going to consume.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when we think about the blood that was shed for God's holy and set apart people to be made right with him, this is the process that God established in order to cover unintentional sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let this chapter be a speed bump as you consider the sins that are in your mind insignificant or not a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would like you to reconsider with me and take an assessment of the blood that Christ Jesus spilled out for his people that they could be washed clean of all their sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: One sacrifice once for all to cover the sins of God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that you can see the seriousness here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can feel the gravity, the weight of the situation, the number of animals that are being killed in order to cover the sins of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the cross, the blood that was shed that would cover the sins of those who would repent and believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, with the cross in mind, we look to Psalm 86 and we consider this prayer of David.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's calling out to the Lord in his low estate, declaring his need.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is poor and needy, and he's calling for God to preserve his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's identifying himself as a servant of God, someone who is godly, and a man whose trust is in his God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's calling for God to be gracious, and he's there's there's an endurance here.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we look to verse three, it's not just in morning and evening and midday, it's it's throughout the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's calling out to God all the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whether we're speaking to God in short, short prayers, or long prayers, or long sustained times of prayer, whether it's you getting away in silence and solitude, or you having a moment in your car before you get home, and you're walking into a a loud house full of kids, or maybe you're walking into a house that is eerily quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes our heart can get stirred up and and spun up as we consider all the details of our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can get overwhelming at times, and he's uh the David is calling out to the Lord throughout the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great reminder for us to consider the frequency and the intent uh that we commit to as we're thinking how often we're going to commit this next step, this next chapter of our day, this next scene of our day to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we look to the passage today, we are reminded of the forgiveness available through the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also we see David here as he's reflecting on how God is a good and forgiving God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd like to draw our attention to the second part of verse five.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's abounding and steadfast love to all who call upon the Lord, to all who call upon you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's speaking to the Lord here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is his prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is forgiving and good, willing to forgive sin, willing to make a way for sinful man to be made right with his maker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if there's a core verse in this psalm, I'd like to draw our attention to verse 11, and and what a great verse to memorize.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 86, verse 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unite my heart to fear your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that when I read this, I was convicted and I was assessing my heart in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to I need to pray this daily.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to pray this moment by moment sometimes when I'm struggling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I need to confess to the Lord that I need to know your way, not my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to walk in your truth, not what I think is best for me, not what I think is best for my family.
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  SPEAKER_00: God, I'm gonna wait for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to be united in my heart to follow you and to worship you and to give you the due respect and reverence that is due your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a thanksgiving, there's a a hope and there's a joy that fills us when we do that as we seek to glorify the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a great charge for us to consider in verse 13 that the steadfast love that God has poured out for the redeemed, for those who call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation, for deliverance of sin and death.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a hope for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the psalmist here, David, is is praying and he's saying, You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great weight has been lifted for those who have been rescued by King Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're no longer his enemies, we're no longer in the path of destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no more judgment that that awaits us at the end of our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is there is life and hope and joy in the risen Savior, and that is such an encouragement to me as we consider the different people that are out there in the world that would like to see us fail, the people that would be thinking to make a scheme to potentially harm us in in certain ways, to harm our career, to harm our reputation, uh, to harm our our walk with the Lord, even.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's people out there that that don't don't desire us to obey and please God, but we have this hope, we have this confidence that when we do fall short, when we do sin against God, when we sin against other people, maybe even people in your own household, there is a God that is slow to anger and who is abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, and he calls us to draw near to him, he calls us to call upon his name for forgiveness, and he is so eager and so willing to extend that to us if we would humble ourselves and admit that we're wrong, admit that we've sinned and we've offended a perfect and holy God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and it's with great excitement that I look to verse 17 and I think to myself, man, how amazing has God been to forgive me of my sins?
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  SPEAKER_00: How amazing is it that one day the people who may have slandered me, the people that may have sought to ruin my reputation, we don't need to fear them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to worry about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All we need to focus on is the way that God is going to grow us and refine us through these trials.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the finish line that awaits for us is life everlasting, face to face with the God that we read of in scripture, the God that we pray to, the God that provides for our every need.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will see our Savior face to face and enter, enter into his rest and enter into the the joy and the bliss of dwelling with our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is such a great comfort for us this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for joining us today 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: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.