Daily With Christ

Text: Psalm 1:1-3

Intro: Blessed is the man...

Ephesians 1:3 KJV 1900

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

The blessings of God are far reaching and abundant! Ephesians 1:3 - “…who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:”

How many Christians live and never posses their possessions and enjoy their true blessing in Christ?!?

In Psalm 1 gives us three things that are the way of the blessed man...

Separated from the world: The New Testament compares our daily Christian life with a walk.

Ephesians 4:1 KJV 1900

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Ephesians 4:17 KJV 1900

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 5:2 KJV 1900

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Ephesians 5:8 KJV 1900

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Ephesians 5:15 KJV 1900

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Walking… Why do we walk? To get from one place to another, so is true of our Christians walk. We walk with purpose and walking results in progress.

1 John 5:5-7 Gives the warning of the believer that walks in darkness...

2. Saturated in the word: Notice here that the delight of the blessed man is not in the things of the world, therefore he does not walk with those things.

Matthew 6:21 KJV 1900

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The person that reads, studies, memorizes, meditates and prays over the word of God is the person that is controlled by it!

Sign: “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone that isn’t.” C. H. Spurgeon

3. Situated by the waters:

Jeremiah 17:7–8 KJV 1900

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Unless we spend time situated at the place where the Spirit can feed us, then we will wither… When the believer stops bearing fruit, it is because the roots have ceased to draw nutrients. Let us daily draw upon Christ and walk daily with Him!