May 28, 2026 - Numbers 10 & Psalm 116

We trace how God leads His people with clarity in Numbers 10 and how love for God grows when we remember His mercy in Psalm 116. We connect thankfulness, praise, and prayer to a simple practice that fights spiritual forgetfulness and fuels our worship. 

For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compassbiblesv.org. Keep reading. Keep growing. God’s Word is a lamp to your feet, and a light to your path. 

Transcript

Welcome And Today’s Reading

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Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bybooting 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. I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn. Today is Thursday, May 28th, 2026.

Numbers 10 And Silver Trumpets

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Here's a quick summary of numbers 10. Numbers 10 details the role that trumpets, silver trumpets specifically, were to play in the packing up and moving on and setting up and even staying, and all of the different movements and when each different tribe and section was to take off, when they were to stay. Basically, it was a it was a trumpet of dismissal. Uh it was a trumpet that was communicating to the entire camp. You gotta remember there was lots of people, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands, thousands of Israelites. So when they heard the trumpets, they were to do certain things. It even says in verse 8, the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. So there was summoning that would happen with the trumpets. There was a breaking of camp, and uh that's what their role is. And then we see, of course, Israel actually getting up, uh pulling their tent spikes out of the ground from Sinai and moving to uh Peron and making their journey there, and ultimately they're heading towards Canaan uh later on in Numbers. But that's the summary of Numbers 10, the silver trumpets, the summoning that they did, the breaking up of camp, and different things like that.

Psalm 116 Read Aloud

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Listen intently to God's written word.

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Psalm 116. I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy, because he inclined his ear to me. Therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompass me, the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me, I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of the Lord. O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous our God is merciful. The Lord preserves the simple. When I was brought low, he saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, even when I spoke, I am greatly afflicted. I said in my alarm, All mankind are liars. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord, I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. O Lord, I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem, praise the Lord.

What We Love And Why

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Tyler Psalm 116 has me thinking about things that we love and why we love those things. So we were just talking off podcast about something that you love. What do you love, Tyler Sanborn?

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We were speaking specifically to a frozen or semi-frozen treat. My my heart goes out for a very simple mix. We have plain tart yogurt, we have some some white mochi, some popping boba, maybe if they have it, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. And that's what my heart desires at Menschies. I love a plain tart yogurt.

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Why do you love it? What do you love about it? Why do you love menchies and all of those weird things that you just said about popping boba?

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Yeah, it it's satisfying. It's satisfying to me. I I have, to your point, uh, I have affections that that reach back into my history. Sadie and I used to go on dates when we were in college. We would go to Menchies. They had a deal on Fridays, five dollar Fridays, and you can pay five dollars and whatever you can fill into your Menchie's cup, it would only be five dollars.

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It wouldn't really matter, right? Because you would fill it with the same thing because you would never differ.

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When you have something that's so satisfying, you want more of it, you can have more of it, and it's still satisfying, it doesn't grow old.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Yeah, don't they say too much of a good thing though? I don't know. Maybe not for Minchis, not for Tyler Sanborn. Uh, but okay, you're talking about okay, thinking about the past with Minchis and maybe growing up eating it or having pivotal moments with you and Sadie in your relationship and your your blossoming love and romance happening. And really Minchies Minchis was the gathering place. We still go. It's great. Yeah. Uh so you are remembering something that adds to your already kind of uh affection that you have for Minchis.

Remembered Mercy Fuels Present Love

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Now that's what we see here in Psalm 116. There is a remembering of something in the past that is stirring an ongoing affection for the Lord in the present. Uh so look at verse one. I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. So I love the Lord. That's an active, current, ongoing reality. Why? Because he has past tense, he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy, because he inclined his ear to me. Therefore, I will call on him as uh as long as I live. Right. Then he goes on, even says, Gracious is the Lord, the Lord preserves the simple, he saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. So the psalmist here uh is is sort of just like like Tyler with Minchis, just crying out uh to the Lord and remembering what God has done for him. And really, there's this kind of overflow of praise uh and just an expression of love to the Lord. Uh and what a precious thing that we see here in Psalm was 16, even the word precious there, right in verse 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Oh Lord, I am your servant, I am your servant, the son of your maidservant, you have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of uh the Lord. And so that this psalm is just uh replete with uh reasons that the psalmist loves the Lord. And again, he's thinking back over just his faithfulness, his kindness, his salvation, his graciousness, uh, the way that he preserved him, the way that he was saved when he was brought low, it says in verse six. And that sort of thinking back uh really adds to his ongoing affections and love for the Lord uh in the present.

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Yeah, I I love this this psalm and the word specifically bountifully. Uh I I haven't uh had too many occurrences in my life where I could say I spared no expense. But when I think about the Lord and I think about the psalmist here and how uh in verse seven it we read, return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. Um abundance, uh plenty, generous in an unsparing manner. Uh that's what bountifully means. And God spares no expense, literally, to save his people. He uh he his heart and his his whole being, his soul is finding his rest in the Lord. And as we look further on to verse 12, I love this verse. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? Um, he goes on to share about lifting up a cup of salvation and paying his vows, and uh, that just draws my mind and my heart to the ways that we follow after and pursue the Lord in the way that we are obedient to him and declaring our allegiance and uh living a life that is faithful to God as a result of what he's done. And it's uh just a outward display of our inward heartfelt gratitude for what he's done to us.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Yeah, and that word bountifully there in verse 7 reminds me of Psalm 23, the picture of uh you have prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. So there's this sense of kind of a feast, right? There's a there's an occasion for celebration, there's uh a table that's been prepared, uh almost like a banquet, and and God is bountifully and generously uh providing, and uh he is so generous and gracious and loving. And so, yeah, in verse 13, the response, I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. Uh so even that that image of the cup, he's he's sort of like I want to drink deeply uh of the well of salvation. I want to drink the blessings that God is is pouring out, right? I want to receive, I want to taste and see that the Lord is truly good. So, what a what a great psalm here in Psalm 116. Again, just the sense of I love the Lord. I love what he has done, I love who he is, I love how he provides. And what a great thing for us, Tyler, as a church, to think back on just all of the things that the Lord has done for us, to think back on even the the reality of our salvation that God has saved us. Um, and even the response that we should have here in verse nine, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. And even in that sense, I will walk before the Lord. I wrote in my Bible, just being righteous, being upright, uh, seeking to live a life of integrity and uh to pursue holiness because uh we recognize who God is and we're we're seeking uh to obey the command that God even gives us to be holy as he is holy, but not out of obligation or duty, but out of delight that we love the Lord, we love who he is, we love what he has done for us, we love his generosity, we love that he's dealt bountifully with us. And so we then we ask that question what shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? Well, we should just render a heart of thanksgiving, a heart of praise, a life full of uh joy of a joyful service to the Lord, a joyful worship of the Lord, because again, we recognize who he is and what he

Forgetfulness In Numbers And The Cure

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has done. Now, as we continue to study the book of Numbers, um, one of the things, of course, that we're going to see in the not so distant future, uh, as we continue reading, is that Israel forgets who God is. They forget what he has done, they forget how he delivered them from Egypt. And their forgetfulness actually leads them to disobedience, leads them to disqualification of some of the promises that God made of entering into Canaan, they themselves lose out on participating in that because of their unbelief, it says uh so even the chapter that we're reading today, Numbers chapter 10, they're picking up camp and they are heading towards Canaan. They're gonna make a stop, of course, in Peran. Uh, but they are heading towards Canaan and uh they're gonna start picking up some things along the way, and it's all things that are rooted in forgetfulness. They're forgetting who God is, they're forgetting what he has done, they're forgetting the salvation that he has accomplished for them, uh, the mighty works that he has displayed in their deliverance. That's gonna lead them to complaining and grumbling, that's gonna lead them to insisting on their own way, as we talked about on Sunday. So, Psalm 116 really is the cure for spiritual forgetfulness. We have to remind ourselves often of the gospel, remind ourselves often of the grace that God has given. Remind ourselves that God truly has dealt bountifully with us, and so that we should have this response of offering a sacrifice of thanksgiving, calling upon the name of the Lord, praising the Lord, as we see here in Psalm 116.

Prayer Of Faith And Gratitude

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And this uh heart of this psalm draws my attention to my upcoming sermon that I'll be preaching this Sunday night at Initial Point High School, and we're gonna be looking at James chapter 5, verses 13 through 18. And uh it's the the superscript here is the prayer of faith and uh the idea that a a believer, a true, genuine, regenerate um human being, has much to be thankful for, much to to seek the Lord for uh for dependence in. And uh the ways that we live our life should should reflect um what God has done, our our need and our dependence for him. He's he has saved us. There's great praise and worship due to his name for the work of salvation, but also for the work that he would have us to do in our lives, the things that he would have us carry out in our day-to-day lives. We we uh have a great dependence and a need uh in the spirit and in the word of God to direct and guide us. Um so there's a great focus here on praise and prayer in regards to the Christian life and our love and affection for the Lord.

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Yeah, absolutely.

Write Your Own “I Love The Lord Because”

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And I would just give kind of a homework assignment for everyone listening. Uh, the first verse of Psalm 116 says, I love the Lord because. So just on a piece of paper in your journal, uh on your phone, in your notes, uh app, but I love the Lord because and and lists reasons why you love the Lord, because that's what the psalmist says. He has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy, because he inclined his ear to me. Therefore I will call on him as long as I live. So I just make that a practice. I love the Lord because that's even a good practice that we ought to do with our spouses. I love my wife because, uh, because of her character, because of her kindness, uh, because of her love for the Lord. You know, that's a good thing to do uh in our life. And we see that example uh here in Psalm 116. I love the Lord because. So I would just say do that as an exercise today. Write it out, I love the Lord because, and list some reasons uh why you have an affection for the Lord and remember what he has done in your past that is to fuel your praise in

Closing Words And Where To Find Us

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the present. Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast. For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass bible sv.org. Keep reading, keep growing. God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.