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Old things New Podcast
by Reformed devotions from all of scripture.
Regular, reformed Bible devotions from scripture to go deeper with Christ. "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” - Mt 15:32. rcbhpastor.substack.com
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Lesson 8: Satan Accuses Us (Job 2:1-6).
Prayer Reading: Job 2:1-6. Meditation Lies are Satan’s main tool, but accusations are key in his strategy. Satan falsely accuses the saints. As well as trying to get Job to speak lies about God, Satan tries to feed lies about Job to God, and to other people (we’ll see more of this as we continue…
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Lesson 7: Lies are Satan’s main tool in your suffering (Job 2:1-6).
Prayer Reading: Job 2:1-6. Meditation In Job 1 we began to see that Satan has the power to inflict suffering on God’s people. We saw another angle on this in Ephesians 6, which says that, as Christians, we are engaged in a conflict with the forces of darkness. The Christian life is, in one sense…
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Lesson 6: Your Suffering is Bigger Than Your Story... (Job 1:13-22).
Prayer Reading Job 1:13-22. Meditation Your suffering is bigger than your story. Satan’s aim in hurting Job was aimed at doing two things. First: he wanted to get him to deny God. Secondly: he wanted to get him to sin. If we respond to suffering by sinning, Satan gets a win. And if someone…
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Lesson 5: Your Suffering is Guided by God’s Wisdom (Job 1:13-22).
Prayer Reading Job 1:19-21. Meditation Our suffering is directed primarily by wisdom, not justice. That is ultimately true for believers, because there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1). It is true, that there is a connection between suffering and discipline for us…
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Lesson 4: Accept Your Suffering, Lament in Sorrow (Job 1:13-22).
Prayer Reading Job 1:13-22 Meditation Not a single hair can fall from your head without the knowledge and permission of your Heavenly Father. Though Satan is indeed a mighty adversary—powerful beyond human comprehension—he is not supreme. Behind him, like an eternal and unshakable mountain…
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Lesson 3: Watch & Pray Against Satan’s Attacks (Job 1:13-22).
Prayer Reading: Job 1:13-22. Meditation In the third scene, it all unfolds: raiders kill his workers and steal his livestock, his barns and sheep are struck by lightning and burned to the ground, all his camels are stolen by another raiding party, his wealth crashes down to nothing in the space…
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Lesson 2: Become aware of the invisible causes of suffering (Job 1:6-12).
Prayer Reading: Job 1:6-12. Meditation What have you suffered in your life? Sickness? Injury? Family grief? Physical or spiritual harm at the hands of another person? We tend to think about these injuries in two basic ways. On the one hand we may think of them in terms of bodily harm (e.g. you...
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Lesson 1: Learn to accept the reality of suffering (Job 1:1-5):
Pray Reading: Job 1:1-5. Meditation As little children learn to talk, there are a few common phrases and words that they typically say. Among the most well known are: “Mummy”; “Daddy”; “No”; “I want…”; and on it goes. If you have boys, “Truck” or “car” seem pretty typical, and they usually make a...
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Ep 158 - Sixth Instruction: Search the Scriptures Diligently (Prov 2:4).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:1-4 Meditation. We will not get wisdom if we give it a half-hearted effort; it requires diligence. People don’t just walk around and find silver lying on the ground. They have to dig, and work, and sweat, and go, and go, and go. They have to extract it from the ground…
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Ep 157: Fifth Instruction: Pray for Insight Desperately (Prov 2:3).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:3. Meditation. We need to pray for insight desperately. And when I say need, I mean need. As in – we need air to breathe kind of need. Verse three of Proverbs 2 shows us something very important. You can study the Scriptures with the rigour of an academic. You can pour…
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Ep 156: Fourth Instruction: Work hard in God’s word (Prov 2:2).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:2. Meditation. One of the things about mining is that it takes hard work. Sometimes you’ve got to bend your back into it and work. And it’s the same with wisdom. We must work hard in God’s Word to get wisdom. Pay attention to that statement: “incline your heart to...
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Ep 155: Third Instruction - Focus your attention on God's Word (Prov 2:2).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:2. Meditation. How do you spend your week? Where are the places that you go? What are the things you do? Pause and think about that for a moment, perhaps write down your answers. Now ask yourself this question: Where are you focusing your attention? What are the things…
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Ep 154. Second Instruction: Treasure God’s Commandments (Prov 2:1b).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:1. Meditation. What do you do with treasure? As I write these words, I’m visiting a regional Australian city called Ballarat, staying in a mansion-come-resort previously owned by a gold-prospector who struck it rich. Around the back of the property is a solid blue-stone...
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Ep 153: First Instruction: Receive God’s Words (Prov 2:1a).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:1a. Meditation. When someone has been sick, one of the things they need to focus on as they recover is building up their strength again. You can’t build up your strength without food. Our bodies need food to survive. Without nutritious food, our bodies waste away and...
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Ep 152: How to get wisdom (Prov 2:1-5).
Prayer. Reading: Prov 2:1-5. Meditation. The climax of the first chapter of Proverbs is a clear and open call from Lady Wisdom, an open invitation to everyone to come and get wisdom for themselves: “Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy...
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Ep 151: Wisdom’s warning, wisdom’s blessing (Prov 1:32-33).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:32-33. Meditation. Wisdom is ultimate. The warning of today’s passage takes no hostages. If you ignore her voice, you will be destroyed. If you listen, you will have security and – ultimately – salvation. Why is wisdom so important? The reason why is because, in this call…
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Ep 150: Wisdom's scorn (Prov 1:24-31).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:24-31. Meditation. We ignore wisdom’s call at our own peril, and to do so invites certain destruction. It will do us good, then, to consider the way of the fool that we might avoid it for ourselves. The first mark of a fool is that they refuse to listen to wisdom. A fool…
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Ep 149: Wisdom's Help (Prov 1:23).
Wisdom’s Help Prayer Reading: Prov 1:23. Meditation. Have you ever needed help? Have you ever felt yourself to be helpless? I sometimes feel that the Christian life is nothing but a growing sense of my own helplessness. But, as we sometimes sing, our God is mighty to save. In Proverbs 1:23, God...
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Ep 148: Wisdom is not automatic (Prov 1:22).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:22. Meditation. One of the very important insights that we gain from the Book of Proverbs is that, by nature, we are not wise. When we are young, our default setting is what the proverbs call: “simple” (see Prov 1:4). What this means, very simply, is that: unless you have...
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Ep 147: Wisdom - your best life (for) now (Prov 1:20-22).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:20-22. Meditation. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. So spoke Solomon the Preacher in Ecclesiastes 3. In one sense, you could describe our lives as a series of opportunities. When we are young, we have the opportunity to learn. When...
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Ep 146: Flee from sin's destruction (Prov 1:16-19).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:10-19. Meditation. The world is on the road to destruction, they are plunging after sin headlong: “their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.” The attraction of sin spurs them on and, as we’ve seen in our proverbs episodes, it is attractive. There is even a...
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Ep 145: Sin's empty promises (Prov 1:13).
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:10-14. Meditation. One thing we need to recognise from this passage is that the enticements of the world are dangerous because, on some level, we find them to be truly attractive. They have a magnetic power to the sin that remains in our hearts. There is something in us…
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Ep 144: Sin is evangelising you (Prov 1:13-14)
Pray. Reading: Prov 1:10-14. Meditation. In our last few meditations, we have learned a few insights into how our sinful nature generally works. It is self-centred, it is greedy, and in verses 13 and 14 we now also see that sin is evangelistic. God has made us to be social creatures. We are...
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Ep 143: Don’t be shocked by society’s corruption (Ecc 5:8).
Pray Read: Ecc 5:8. Meditation I rarely buy the newspaper, but just this last Wednesday (at the time of writing) I picked up two different papers, and let me share just a little of what I read. I warn you that these stories are troubling, but there is a point in sharing them. A four year old...
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Ep 142: Take your vows seriously... umm... wut?
Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7 Meditation We’re going to talk a little about vows. Now it must be said, this topic is not really something that comes up at all for modern evangelical or even reformed Christians. It is pretty much off our radar. That is not because we do not make vows, but more because we…
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Ep 141: Be careful of wondering minds and careless tongues in worship... (Ecc 5:1-7).
Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7. Meditation When we come to worship God, we come to listen, therefore our words must be few. That’s what we learned in our last meditation. But part of worship is about bringing our own offering as well. We must come and speak. Or, to be more accurate, Solomon instructs us to...
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Ep 140: Do you listen at Church? (Ecc 5:1-3).
Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7. Meditation As Solomon opens up his words of wisdom on worship, he starts with this basic instruction: come to listen. Verse one says: “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not…
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Ep 139: The Danger of Careless Worship (Ecc 5:1-7).
Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7. Meditation In the words of John Piper: “Mission exists because worship doesn’t.” In John 4, Jesus tells us that God is seeking worshippers. The highest end for which we were created was to glorify God, to declare his excellence, to revel in his beauty, and to enjoy him...
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Ep 138: A Parable for Pursuing Christian Fellowship (Ecc 4:13-16).
Pray Read: Ecc 4:4-16. Meditation Now we have a peculiar little story in verses 13 through 16, it’s almost a parable. Solomon tells the story of a foolish old king who did not know how to take advice. We will open this up a bit more later, but for now notice the old king. What was the defining…
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Ep 137: Don’t be a loner (Ecc 4:9-12).
Pray Read: Ecc 4:4-12. Meditation We’ve seen that envy and laziness as forces of individualism, but Solomon has two more insights to give. Reading from verse 9: “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to…
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Ep 136: Individualism is... lazy? (Ecc 4:5)
Pray Read: Ecc 4:4-5. Meditation Solomon has another observation on individualism for us in verse five: “The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.” Now, like last time, you might be asking again: What has this got to do with individualism? Let me try and show you. Notice the description of...
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Ep 135: The Sin of Individualism (Ecc 4:4-8).
Pray Read: Ecc 4:4-8. Meditation There is a prevailing sickness in our culture today. You will find this sickness quarantined behind closed suburban doors and high fences. You will see its symptoms in next door neighbours avoiding eye contact and a friendly wave. There are train carriages full of...
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Wait… did Solomon just say there’s no afterlife? (Ecc 3:17-4:3).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:16-4:3 Meditation Verse 21 is one of those awkward Ecclesiastes sayings. It’s one of those verses that makes Christians want to avoid the book altogether – and plenty, it would seem, do just that. I want to take a moment to explain it. Let’s just start by reading it together…
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Ep 133: Innocence is possible. Yes, yours... (Ecc 3:17).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:16-18. Meditation Let’s face it, the last two meditations have been heavy going. And yet, even in this seemingly grim passage, Solomon gives us a spark of hope. As we consider this spark in light of the gospel, it bursts into full flame. Solomon has already shown us that…
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Ep 132: Coming to terms with real judgment (Ecc 3:17-18).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:16-18. Meditation In our last meditation we faced up to the hard reality that injustice exists. Now, if the average western person was writing the script, our next play would be this: injustice needs to be dealt with. Makes sense. But if we want justice, we need to realise things...
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Ep 131: Coming to terms with injustice (Ecc 3:16).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:16. Meditation One of the most common objections to Christianity you will ever hear is this question: If there is a God, why does he allow suffering? Nobody likes it when things hurt. Perhaps people have raised this question with you before. There are unbelievers who deny God…
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Ep 130: Eternal desires & joy (Ecc 3:9-13).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:9-13. Meditation Solomon says in verse nine that the deepest pulse of the human soul is the desire for beauty and joy and goodness. We long for it. We want to see it, and taste it, and touch it, and hear it. We want fulfillment and laughter, and wonder, and beauty, and joy. There...
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Ep 129: He makes all things beautiful (Ecc 3:11).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:9-11. Meditation Solomon has challenged our perception of the good life, showing us that life as a gift from God is itself a goodness to be thankful for. And yet, the question stubbornly persists, doesn’t it? Is there any good in life? We still want and desire what is good, and...
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Ep 128: Life is a gift (Ecc 3:10)
A new perspective on finding joy (Ecc 3:10). Pray Read: Ecc 3:9-11. Meditation One thing we must always remember, says Solomon, is who is running the show. Take a look at verse 10: “I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.” Stop for a moment. Do you see...
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Ep 127: What can we gain from life? (Ecc 3:9).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:9. Meditation In the spirit of Ecclesiastes, let me pose a very un-cheerful question to you: If there was nothing good in life, would you really want to be alive? If misery was your only companion, would you want to be here? I think our honest answer to that question would have…
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Ep 126: It's all about timing (Ecc 3:4-7).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:1-8. Meditation There is a time to weep and a time to mourn. What we see here is that we must be prepared, because days of sadness will come. The goal of this life is not to be always happy or always comfortable, because there is a God-appointed time to mourn. Living in a fallen...
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Ep 125: A time to kill, a time to heal (Ecc 3:2-3).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:1-8. Meditation There is a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. There will be seasons of hard work in life. Planting is by definition a time when you invest rather than gain. You work hard, and you give of your resources. This runs counter to the right now…
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Ep 124: A time for birth, a time for death... (Ecc 3:2
Pray Read: Ecc 3:1-8. Meditation There are particular seasons of life that Solomon brings to our attention in verses 2 to 8, and he starts with the big guns. There is, he says in verse 2, “a time to be born, and a time to die.” These are the great realities of time, the bookends of life. There is…
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Ep 123: The Seasonal Nature of Life (Ecc 3:1).
Pray Read: Ecc 3:1-8. Meditation “Time flies,” we often say, don’t we? And probably it would be a cliché, if it weren’t such a constant and powerful reality. Time really does fly by. As children, we don’t tend to notice it. I distinctly remember waiting for my parents to stop talking after church...
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Ep 122: The Fruitfulness of Work (Ecc 2:24-26).
Pray Read: Ecc 2:24-26. Meditation We see a change in Solomon starting at verse 24, because in God’s plan of redemption our labour may become fruitful again. So let us take a quick look at verses 24 and 25: “There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment...
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Ep 121: The Frustration of Work (Ecc 2:18-23).
Pray Read: Ecc 2:18-23. Meditation Ecclesiastes is like a labyrinth, a giant maze. One of the things Solomon does in this maze of life under the sun is show us which paths not to walk down, the dead ends, and which paths we should walk down, the paths that lead and instruct us in the fear of the...
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Ep 120: Faith and work (Ecc 2:18-26).
Pray Read: Ecc 2:18-26. Meditation One very important question every Christian should ask is this: What are you supposed to do once you have become a Christian? What should or will change in our lives? Is it only our Sunday mornings that change, or does being a Christian shape our life during the...
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Ep 119: The Blessedness of Vanity (Ecc 2:17).
Pray Read: Ecc 2:14-18. Meditation We find a most peculiar encouragement in Ecclesiastes 2:17. Look again at the end of verse 17: all is vanity and a striving after the wind. All is a breath. All is fleeting. All is insubstantial. The blessing I am speaking about here is this: that life is short....
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Ep 118: The Suffering of the Wise (Ecc 2:12-14).
Pray Read: Ecc 2:12-14. Meditation Solomon’s point in this passage is not so much to highlight the value of wisdom, which we considered in the previous meditation. He does far more of that in the Book of Proverbs. No, his purpose here is to point out a certain frustration in life that seems to be...
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Ep 117: The Goodness of Wisdom (Ecc 2:12-14).
The Goodness of Wisdom (Ecc 2:12-14). Pray Read: Ecc 2:12-14. Meditation If nothing under the sun can give us lasting joy, where do you go from there? It can feel as if there is nowhere else to go. So do you give up? Do you despair? In this passage Solomon tries something else. He asks the...
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