What does First B Jackson teach about belonging to god?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on belonging to God begins with where the idea comes from: not human effort or heritage, but the will of God acting before the foundation of the world. Ray worked through Ephesians 1:1-14 and showed that the saints addressed in that letter are not a spiritual elite. They are simply people God chose and called, described two ways with words that belong together. Being named holy by God and being given the faithfulness to live that out are not separate gifts. The choosing carries a purpose, that those who belong to God would be holy and blameless before Him so that others would see Him.
Pastor Brian pressed the same truth from Galatians 4:1-5, tracing the movement from immaturity and slavery to full adoption as children of God. The turn in that passage is decisive. When the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son, born under the law, specifically to redeem those under the law so that they could receive adoption as sons. Belonging to God is not something you grow into by meeting requirements. It is something God accomplishes and then extends to you.
Pastor Amy brought the same thread into Ephesians 2:11-22, where the contrast is sharpest. Gentiles were once strangers, excluded from the covenants of promise, with no hope and without God. What changed was not their effort but the blood of Christ, which brought near those who were far off and tore down the wall between God and humanity. Jews and Gentiles together now form one household built on Christ. Pastor Nick added to this from John 17, where Jesus prays out loud for His disciples and then for everyone who would believe through their message. That prayer, he pointed out, reaches across history to include the people sitting in the room. To belong to God is to be held by that prayer.
Taught from Ephesians 1:1-2 · Ephesians 1:3-14 · Galatians 4:1-5 · Ephesians 2:19-22 · John 17
The passage taught · Acts 18
1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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The messages that teach on it
- March 8, 2026 Outside the Envelope: Grace and Peace to You Pastor Ray opens Ephesians 1, showing how God's grace and peace, given through Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit, call the church into His will and purpose.
- February 1, 2022 I Want Them With Me Where I Am Jesus prays for His disciples and for all future believers in John 17. Pastor Nick walks through what Jesus asked for us: unity, joy, truth and eternal life.
- May 3, 2015 God Sent Forth His Son Galatians 4:1-5 shows why God sent His Son at exactly the right time: not to leave us enslaved, but to bring us into full adoption as His children.
- February 4, 2015 No Longer Strangers and Aliens Ephesians 2 traces how Gentiles once excluded from God's covenant are now brought near through Christ's blood and welcomed into one household with God's people.
Mentioned along the way
- June 7, 2015 Become Like Me Paul's letter to the Galatians calls believers away from legalism and license, back to the simple gospel of grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.