Whose side are you on?

That is the question Psalm one asks as it paints two portraits: one is the picture of the wicked person, and the other is the portrait or the wise man.

“Who is the blessed man of whom the psalmist speaks?” asked Joseph Flacks. “This man never walked in the counsel of the wicked or stood in the way of sinners or sat in the seat of mockers. He was an absolutely sinless man.”

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The life of the believing sinner is in Jesus Christ. We get life by appropriating the saving grace of God by faith in Christ. There is life by living in Him, trusting in Him, and believing in His grace and power.

There is legal life in Jesus Christ. If you have put your faith in Jesus Christ you are acquitted based upon what Christ did for you on the cross. You are no longer under the sentence of death. “The wages of sin is death.” But Christ died as your substitute. Legally you are alive because of the death and resurrection of your substitute.

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The relationship between Christ and the believer “is the nearest, dearest, closest, most intense, and most enduring relationship that can be imagined,” said Spurgeon. We live because Christ lives, and our lives are hid with Christ in God. It is closer than a husband and wife, or children and their parents.

One of the greatest mysteries in the Bible is the believer’s vital relationship to his Lord and Savior.

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All of us who are trusting in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior are members of the true church of Christ. We are members of His body. We have experienced the forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of His grace. “We are accepted in the Beloved,” and we are “redeemed through His blood.”

The moment we put our faith in Jesus Christ we are born again, and at the same time placed in the body of Christ in a vital union with Him. The essence of saving faith is to rest upon Christ alone for eternal salvation.

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Cults and sects all teach that their religious group is the only one proclaiming the true message of salvation today. All other Christians are corrupt and their “inspired” leader is equal to Jesus Christ in authority. These groups claim to be the only correct church in the world, and salvation can be found only by being a member of their organization or following their teachings.
I am convinced that the greatest need we have in our day is the gift of discernment. Many cults and sects claim to be biblically based Christian organizations. They will even use the historic Biblical Christian language, and even call themselves “the Church of Jesus Christ,” or “the Church of Christ,” but deny or redefine essential Christian doctrines to fit their eccentric teachings.

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I hope everyone had a really good holiday. We did! We are entering a time of the year that we see as linear. To explain that our focus for the next few weeks will be forward, things, presents,…



Matt Pruett is the Pastor at Beulah Baptist Church in Canton North Carolina. To learn more about Matt and our other two pastors at Beulah Baptist Church please visit us online at www.beulahbaptistonline.org. Listen live on Sunday morning, Listen to past services online, read the other pastors blogs, come be a part of our family and sign our guestbook, we’d love to hear from you!

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Have you learned to rejoice in everything?

The Bible says, “Rejoice always” (1 Thessalonians 5:16). A couple of verses later it says, “. . . in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (v. 18). “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice” (Philippians 4:4).

Sometimes it is not easy to rejoice or to give praise to the Lord, but that does not change the command.

“It is God’s will that we find joy in prayer in Christ Jesus in every condition of life,” writes A. T. Robertson. There are no circumstances in the Christian’s life where he cannot give thanks. God works everything together for good for those who love Him (Rom. 8:28).

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What will it take in the Christian’s life to overcome broken resolutions and commitments?

It will be a great benefit to realize that there is no such thing as instant godliness. There are no ?one minute,? thirty days, or ?three easy steps? to a life of righteousness that pleases God. That is not the way God planned for our sanctification.

We are justified instantly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. But justification and sanctification are completely different.

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Obedience. It is a dirty word in our day. We are all like little children; no one wants to obey anyone else. The words “obedience” and “submission” are a constant reminder of our indwelling sin. But whether we like them or not, they get to the heart of our problem of living a holy life

Over the years we have developed habitual patterns of disobedience. We have patterns of sin in our lives. Am I willing to give up these habits that keep me from being all that God wants me to be?

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Here’s how my holiday is beginning

God is soooooo Good!



Matt Pruett is the Pastor at Beulah Baptist Church in Canton North Carolina. To learn more about Matt and our other two pastors at Beulah Baptist Church please visit us online at www.beulahbaptistonline.org. Listen live on Sunday morning, Listen to past services online, read the other pastors blogs, come be a part of our family and sign our guestbook, we’d love to hear from you!

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