Olivet Baptist Church

Olivet Baptist Church We exist to help you follow Jesus. Glorify God means we exalt Christ by the way that we live and by what we do.

Olivet Baptist exists to to glorify God as fully devoted followers of Jesus who equip others to do the same so that the gospel may reach the world. In Eph. 1:11-12, Paul says, “In Christ we were also chosen… in order that we… might be for the praise of His glory.”

Fully devoted follower of Jesus means we view Christ not just as Savior but also Lord. The Bible is our authority, conscience, and gu

ide in all things. We walk in obedience to God’s Word by knowing and obeying the commands that He has clearly laid out in Scripture not because they save us but because we love Him, and love always leads to action. Equip others means the church is the training ground for believers. Eph. 4:12-13 says that the church is to “equip the saints for the work of the ministry and to build up the body of Christ, until we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.” God designed believers to do life with one another, to encourage and build one another up, to admonish and edify one another, to equip and train each other. We need each other; let us not forsake meeting together (Hebrews 10:25). Advance the gospel to the world means we seek to put Christ on display to every nation and preach the good news of Christ to people in every place. Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He commissioned His disciples, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20) Advancing the gospel to the world is engaging the lost and sharing with them who Christ is and what He has done for them

For more information about Olivet, visit: https://olivetbaptistnc.org

09/08/2026

Tuesday, September 8th
Day 1: The Foundation of Peace
Reading: Romans 5:1-2

Devotional: Justification by faith is not a doctrine reserved for theologians -- it is the bedrock of your daily life. Because of what Christ accomplished, you do not stand before God as a guilty defendant but as a declared righteous child. This peace is not circumstantial. It does not rise and fall with your health, your relationships, or your finances. Your standing in God's favor is permanent.

Today, before the noise of life crowds in, pause and ask yourself honestly: when did
you last thank God that you are justified by faith? Let that truth be the ground beneath your feet today.

09/06/2026

Join us as Pastor Matt wraps up our sermon series Celebrating the Riches of God's Grace. Today we will be discussing a New Perspective on Adversity.

09/05/2026

Saturday, September 5th
Day 5: Grace Received Must Become Grace Extended
Reading: Matthew 18:21-35; Ephesians 4:32; Romans 15:7; Colossians 3:13

Devotional: Grace is not meant to stop with you. A person who has truly sat with the depth of what God has forgiven and the permanence of the standing he has granted will find it increasingly difficult to remain harsh, condemning, and critical toward others. The parable in Matthew 18 is a sobering warning -- the servant who was forgiven an impossible debt and then refused to extend even small mercy to another had fundamentally failed to understand what he had received. Meditating on God's grace is not merely a private spiritual exercise. It is the very thing that reshapes how you see and treat the people around you every single day.

Reflection: Is there someone in your life toward whom you have been consistently critical, impatient, or unforgiving? What would it look like to extend to them the same mercy God has extended to you?

Practical Application: Choose one person you have found difficult to show grace toward. Do one specific, intentional act of kindness or forgiveness toward that person this week -- not because they have earned it, but because you understand what it means to receive what you have not earned.

09/04/2026

Friday, September 4th
Day 4: Running Toward Grace, Not Away From It
Reading: Hebrews 4:16; 1 John 1:9; Romans 8:1; James 1:14-15

Devotional: Shame wants you to hide. The enemy whispers that your failures have finally disqualified you, that God is done being patient, that you have worn out your welcome. But the gospel says something entirely different. Hebrews invites the church -- not the perfect, but the church -- to come boldly to the throne of grace in the very moments of greatest need. And when is the need greatest? Often when we have failed. Sin always leads to death, as James makes plain. But the answer to failure is not to run from God in shame. It is to run to God for mercy and restoration.

Reflection: When you fail, what is your first instinct -- to hide from God or to run to him? What does your honest answer reveal about how well you understand grace?

Practical Application: Identify one area of repeated failure in your life. Instead of avoiding it in prayer, bring it directly before God today. Confess it specifically, receive the forgiveness Scripture promises, and ask for the help you need to walk differently.

09/03/2026

Thursday, September 3rd
Day 3: A Standing That Does Not Shift
Reading: Romans 5:2; Romans 8:38-39; John 10:28-29; 1 Corinthians 3:11

Devotional: Your standing before God is not a feeling. It is not a spiritual temperature reading based on how well your week went. It is a permanent position secured by the finished work of Jesus Christ. Paul uses a verb tense in Romans 5:2 that communicates something has happened with continuing effects -- Christ brought you into this grace and you continually stand there. Your obedience did not purchase it. Your failures cannot revoke it. The foundation beneath you is not your performance, which shifts like sand, but the unshakable finished work of
Christ. Nothing greater than Jesus is coming. Your standing is secure.

Reflection: Be honest -- do you measure your closeness to God by how well you have
performed recently? What would it look like to instead anchor yourself to what Christ has already accomplished?

Practical Application: The next time you feel distant from God because of failure or a difficult week, resist the urge to earn your way back. Instead, open to Romans 8:38-39, read it aloud, and remind yourself that your standing rests on Christ alone.

09/02/2026

Wednesday, September 2nd
Day 2: Access Granted -- The One Who Brings You In
Reading: Romans 5:1-2; 1 Peter 3:18; Ephesians 2:13-18; Hebrews 10:19-22

Devotional: You did not find your way to God. Scripture is clear that no one was seeking him on their own. Jesus did not simply point you toward the Father and wish you well -- he personally brought you into the Father's presence. The word translated "access" in Romans 5:2 carries the picture of being es**rted into the presence of someone important by someone who had the right to bring you there. That is the gospel. Christ is not merely your guide; he is your es**rt into the very throne room of God. You are there because he brought you there.

Reflection: Do you live with the confidence of someone who has been personally brought before the King, or do you still approach God as though you are unsure of your welcome?

Practical Application: Read Hebrews 4:16 slowly. Then spend five minutes in prayer,
approaching God not with hesitation but with the boldness that passage invites -- because of Christ, not because of your performance.

09/01/2026

Tuesday, September 1st
Day 1: The Weight of Separation and the
Wonder of Being Found

Reading: Isaiah 59:2; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:12-13
Devotional: Sin does not merely bend our relationship with God -- it breaks it entirely. Isaiah makes clear that our wrongdoing creates a wall between us and the God we were made to know. Before grace, we were not simply struggling people in need of encouragement. We were separated, standing under wrath, outside the family of God, and far from the one thing we need most. Yet God did not leave us there. He had a plan before the first sin was ever committed. The depth of your separation only magnifies the wonder of being brought near. Sit with that today.

Reflection: In what areas of your life have you tried to minimize how serious sin really is? How does understanding the weight of separation deepen your gratitude for what Christ has done?

Practical Application: Write down one specific way sin has cost you something meaningful -- a relationship, your peace, your integrity. Bring it before God in honest prayer, thanking him that it does not have the final word.

08/30/2026

Sermon Series: Celebrating the Riches of God's Grace
Today will be part 3: Standing in God's Favor. Join us as Pastor Matt brings today's message.

08/29/2026

Saturday, August 29th
Day 5: Treasured Truth -- Our Obligation to a World Without
Peace
Reading: Romans 1:14-17, Matthew 28:18-20, and 2 Corinthians 5:14-20

Devotional: If you possess the knowledge of how a person can move from being an enemy of God to being at peace with him, you carry something more valuable than any cure the world has ever discovered. Paul describes himself in Romans 1 as a debtor -- someone who owes a debt to the world because of the gospel entrusted to him. That same obligation rests on every believer. The gospel is not a private comfort to be enjoyed quietly. It is a treasure to be shared urgently. The world around you is filled with people searching for peace in all the wrong places. You know where true peace is found. That changes everything about how you live.

Personal Reflection: Who in your life is visibly searching for peace -- in a relationship, a career, a substance, or an achievement -- and has not yet heard the gospel clearly presented to them?

Practical Application: Identify one person this week to whom you will intentionally speak about where true peace is found. Pray for them by name each day this week before that conversation takes place. You are not responsible for their response. You are responsible for your faithfulness.

08/28/2026

Friday, August 28th
Day 4: The Cross -- Where Wrath Became Reconciliation
Reading: Romans 5:6-10, Isaiah 53:4-6, and 2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Devotional: Peace between God and sinners was not achieved by God simply overlooking sin. The offense was real. The holiness of God demanded that the wrong be dealt with. And so it was -- at the cross. Christ bore the full weight of the wrath that every enemy of God deserved. He absorbed the cost so that the door of reconciliation could be opened. Isaiah 53 describes this exchange with stunning clarity: the punishment that brought us peace was placed on him. This is the heartbeat of the gospel. God did not merely tolerate us. He pursued us, paid for us,
and declared us reconciled through the death of his own Son.

Personal Reflection: Do you treat the cross as a familiar religious symbol, or does its meaning still move you? Ask God honestly to restore a sense of wonder in you about what took place there.

Practical Application: Find a quiet moment today to sit before a cross or simply close your eyes and meditate on the scene at Calvary. Consider specifically that Christ died while you were still an enemy. Let gratitude shape the rest of your day.

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