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May 15, 2026 - Leviticus 26 & Psalm 105 · 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 Josiah Smith joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Friday, May 15th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of Leviticus 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 26 details both the blessings and the punishments for obedience and disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: So essentially, the summary of Leviticus 26 is if you obey, if you do what God has commanded, the nation of Israel, they would be blessed, they would experience favor, everything from uh their relationships to victory in war to um crops growing and having a fruitful harvest, uh they would experience blessing and favor from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they disobeyed and broke the covenant through idolatry and um false worship and things like that, uh there's going to be punishment for disobedience and it will be severe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's Leviticus 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blessings for obedience and punishments for disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a quick summary of Psalm 105.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the Psalm is calling the us to reflect and look back to the wondrous works of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in this psalm, you'll see references and the names of men that God used to display his mighty works and the covenants that he established through them.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses as well, and we see the way that God provided for his people, the way he led them, the way his promises were established with them and still reign true today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and we see the faithfulness of God and his worthiness of our praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 26 is uh hard to read in some ways, where especially, of course, when you get to the punishments for disobedience, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 14, God says, But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we've just detailed many of the commandments throughout the book of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, those started in the book of Exodus with the ten words or the ten commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he says, If you will not do all these commandments, if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, then I will do this to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease, and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's just the beginning, and then we've got twenty more verses of just the seriousness of disobedience, disregard for God's covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh so it's it's it's challenging to read, but it again accents and highlights the holiness of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is holy, and he makes other things and other people and other places holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have holy people, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The nation of Israel, we have holy things, the the tabernacle, we have holy garments, the priestly garments, we have holy food, holy sacrifices, holy days, holy celebrations, we have all kinds of things that are holy that God makes such, he consecrates them, sets them apart for his purposes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God is very serious that when he declares something holy, when he makes something holy, he intends, particularly for his people, to act as such, uh, to live in light of the position that they have been placed in.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've been set aside, they've been set apart, they've been consecrated to the Lord as a nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that they were intended to display that to the world around them, to the pagan nation specifically, was through obedience to the covenant that God made with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was going to be grave discipline and grave punishment for a disregard and a disrespect of God's covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of reminiscent even of the purity laws that we kind of waded through, where if you had, if you ate certain foods, if you had certain skin conditions, if even you did uh, you know, if you had a physical relationship with your spouse, like all of these things that made you ceremonially, ritually impure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's this idea that of holistically, uh, if you violate the covenant, you become impure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not just religiously so or ceremonially, you you become ethically and morally impure, and God will not have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God uh says here in Leviticus 26 that He won't punish those for disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how you were feeling, Tyler, when you were reading this, but it was a my heart was uh you know, just heavy, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was under it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was reflecting on just the ways that uh as a as a child, uh I was disciplined.
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  SPEAKER_01: As a child, I lived opposed to my parents, lived opposed to their their commands, their statutes, their their rules for me and my siblings.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm thinking about just the faithfulness of my parents and in disciplining me, giving me strong rebukes, showing me if you continue, Tyler, this is where you're going.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is where you will end up.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember my parents telling me, if you don't stop, you're gonna end up in jail.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what they would tell me on on a few occasions.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and ultimately I did heed their warning and I did uh receive uh blows.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did, I did, I was disciplined.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um they did not w withhold the rod, and my my parents were faithful in disciplining me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I'm drawn to this uh the section at the tail end of uh chapter 26, verses 40 uh to 42.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and there there is some relief, there is some hope, there is uh there is uh a promise made to God's people.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are going to confess your iniquity, if you're gonna confess to the Lord your wrongs, your sins, uh, the treachery that you've committed, um, he's going to remember his promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna remember his covenant to Jacob, and he's uh he's going to remain faithful.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's going to continue uh to be who he is, steadfast to his promises.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um God is uh the God who is steadfast and doesn't change, though we change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we we change our haircuts, we we change um our uh our favorite um frozen yogurt place that might change over the course course of your life, but the uh the the statutes and the laws of the Lord don't change, his faithfulness doesn't change, and he is faithful ultimately to to discipline the ones that he loves, the ones that he calls to himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think the the blessings and the punishments make much more sense, especially framed within the context of the lamp and light bob wording plan, because we've just read Genesis, we've just read Exodus, and we've seen the greatness of God, the faithfulness of God, the protection of God, the provision of God, that God rescued and called out a people for himself to set them apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so these commands uh seem um, you know, of course, like the obvious fruit of a people that have been rescued from slavery in the way that the Egyptians have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love how even in the verse one, the opening verse of Leviticus 26, this whole thing is framed by a warning against idolatry.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: For I am the Lord your God, you shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we have the blessings then that are detailed.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you if you do this, if you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then, and it lists all of these things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will give you your reins in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even all the way in verse nine, I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and when I will confirm my covenant with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's reminiscent of the garden, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will bless his people in that effort, if they keep his statutes, observe his commandments, and do them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the the reality is uh that all of this is framed with the backdrop of of whether or not you're going to be true, whether or not the the nation of Israel was going to be true in their devotion and worship to the Lord, or whether they were going to give themselves over to idols.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we've been we've been in the Psalms, of course, since January of this year, and we've seen a lot of psalms of lament uh reflecting on the reality of their idolatry, the reality of their covenant unfaithfulness that led them into captivity, that has that led them into being conquered by foreign nations, that led their city to be in ruin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh all of the things, honestly, that we see here for the punishments happen to Israel because we know uh that the rest of the story that they are unfaithful, uh, that there's even books about um prostitutes as an illustration, as a as an analogy of Israel's unfaithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They prostitute themselves to other gods, they uh give themselves over to false worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and they, in that sense, for that whole you know, Gomer analogy, they cheat on the one true God again and again and again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet there is that glimmer of hope that you just mentioned, where those who are humble, who have a contrite spirit, it says, Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will remember uh the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God never forsakes his people, he never forsakes his covenant, though there is punishments, though there is disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not an abandonment of the promise that God made to his people in the covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, really, in a sense, it's ensuring that the covenant actually uh accomplishes what God intends through discipline, through these punishments, through this, these coarse corrections that God enacts on his people for their idolatry, for their swerving to the left and to the right, for their forgetting who their God is, uh, and in order to bring them back.
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  SPEAKER_00: There, there is discipline and there is punishment.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as a result, uh, God's people are drawn back to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we see that sort of rhythm throughout the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they fall away to idolatry.
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  SPEAKER_00: God brings them back through discipline and uh by his grace, really.
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  SPEAKER_00: So though these can be difficult to read, and though uh it can we can sympathize in some sense with the severity of them, uh really all of this is a divine act of grace from the Lord to call his people back to himself, to bring them back to their covenant commitments, because that's not only good for them, it's good for the nation as a whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: It brings blessing, it brings uh a sense of prosperity, even it mentions again crops and land and enemies and all of these things that result from just a true commitment to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of those blessings are not for blessings in and of themselves, it's for that's that sort of constant reminder that God provides and he takes care of his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's there's again, that's the severity of this is it's all with the backbone of are you going to be true in your devotion to the Lord or are you going to give yourself over to idols?
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  SPEAKER_00: And and unfortunately, we see um that Israel does give themselves over to idols again and again throughout the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we think about idol worship in the Old Testament and the ways that that mankind in the year 2026 are tempted to disobey and break God's laws, there there is this lie that is purchased in the heart of man that says there is a better benefit for me to stray away from the commands of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's better for me, it's better for me to follow in the way of a different God or a different passion or a different desire, and that's going to bring me more happiness.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's gonna bring more joy into my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we look to the the statutes of the Lord, we look to his laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the psalm is is calling us to remember God's faithfulness to provide, his faithfulness to the forefathers of uh of Israel and the covenants that Yahweh made uh with his people.
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  SPEAKER_01: His laws and his promises are for our good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when we stray from them, when we forget the goodness uh of God's law for us and for our lives, how it brings glory to him, we can uh get into trouble in a very uh short amount of time.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't take long for us to wander and make a mess of our lives, going after false gods, pursuing worship in other ways that are forbidden.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we look at Leviticus, there's a certain way that our sacrifices and worship are to be brought to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we can be tempted to redefine what that means.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can uh narrate like the worship that God deserves in our own minds and drift away and forget the laws and the commands of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And another great reminder for us is to avoid that by giving thanks to the Lord, calling out to his name and worship and remembering the things that he has done, how faithful he is, how his statutes, how his laws, how the commands of the Lord are for our good, ultimately for God's glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when we forget what he has done, when we lose track and and we see a glimmer uh of something beautiful that's outside of who God is, and we we pursue that, we can we can fall quickly into idol worship and all kinds of wickedness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I loved reading Psalm 105 because it made me just feel like I was going back through Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because of course that's that's that's what it's doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it even starts back in Genesis when he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is kind of a condensed summary of Israel's history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh then it you know kind of recounts Joseph's life briefly.
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  SPEAKER_00: The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people set him free.
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  SPEAKER_00: He made him lord of his house, talking about Potiphar, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Israel, that's Jacob, came to Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham, and the Lord made his people very fruitful and made them stronger than their foes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He turned their hearts to hate his people to deal craftily with his servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then and walks Moses, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have this recounting of the history of Israel all the way through the Exodus event, verse 37.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember talking about this with you, Tyler.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the silver and the gold that they're it seems like they're kind of looting on the way out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's mentioned here again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that very silver and gold becomes the materials that they use to construct the tabernacle that we've, of course, saw constructed there at the end of Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Exodus closes with the glory of the Lord filling the tabernacle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus picks up with the five primary sacrifices and uh all of the purity laws, the written the ceremonial ritual purity laws, all of the sort of moral and ethical laws that were to bind the nation of Israel, the sacrifices, the feasts, all of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so it just was it was just fun to kind of read this and think back and be reminded of our journey so far through the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has been just an encouraging uh couple months of reading uh these rich Old Testament books that we tend to, as New Testament Christians, if we're not careful, we tend to neglect because they're a little bit, they can feel a little bit foreign to us, um, but so, so rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they teach us so many good things about the Lord and really about our our uh our history, uh where you know, where our roots of faith, as it were, uh, where they come from, where they grow out of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so I loved even in verse 43 of Psalm 105, he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, think of uh the song of Moses in Exodus 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he gave them the lands of the nations, that's the land of Canaan, and they took possession of the fruit of the people's toil.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where it talks about you're you're eating uh vineyards that you did not plant.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna acquire all this, uh, that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there again, there's a connection to Leviticus 26, where God says, Keep my statutes, obey my laws, and you will be blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in in Psalm 105, it says he did these things, he gave them the this land that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, um, as we've already said, that there were times when Israel did that well, there were times when they didn't, uh, and they experienced both the blessings and the punishments that were associated with both of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, just be encouraged as you read through Psalm 105 today, uh, just to kind of be reminded of where we have been in Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And tomorrow we are finishing the book of Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Basically, I feel like since we got done with Genesis, I don't know, it feels like we're going faster, even though we're not someone hit the fast forward button and didn't tell us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're going to we're going into numbers starting uh on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tyler will be we'll be covering numbers one and two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so we're almost done.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're we're we we've got the majority of the Pentateuch already finished, essentially.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the the first five books of the of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are making great time, and I love the pace.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love just being able to think about these things, to um to again kind of immerse ourselves in books that perhaps we wouldn't uh otherwise, or in other context, and just to see what God's word says.
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  SPEAKER_00: All scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for uh instruction, and so we want to submit to all of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Psalm 105, again, just a reminder.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's uh kind of kind of the the highlight reel, if you will, of Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus for that matter, and uh an encouraging reminder to recount the wondrous deeds of the Lord, uh, how he has saved you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're we're talking about here in Psalm 105, how God did these wonder wondrous works to save a people for himself, the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but we need to recount often, like we will on June 7th in our baptism service of the wondrous works that God has done even in our midst, and hopefully be led to praise the Lord like we are here in Psalm 105.
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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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