What does First B Jackson teach about colossians?
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 Colossians returns again and again to a single conviction: Christ is sufficient, and nothing added to him adds anything real. The letter was written by Paul from prison to a church he had never visited, burdened that they were being pulled away from the simplicity of faith in Jesus by a blend of Jewish religious demands, human philosophy, and folk spirituality. The preaching here has followed that same burden, pressing the question of whether we are walking in Christ the same way we first received him, by faith, or whether we have quietly started stacking requirements on top of what he has already finished.
The cross is the hinge everything turns on. Every certificate of debt the law held against us was canceled there and nailed to the cross. What looked like defeat was the center point of all history. As one message put it, 'What looked like the devil's greatest day was not the devil's greatest day. It's the center point of all history.' The threats Paul names in the letter, whether rules about food and festivals, ascetic self-punishment, or the demand to observe shadows that found their substance in Christ, all share the same flaw: they suggest that what Christ did was not enough. Paul's answer, worked through carefully in the teaching here, is that in Christ the fullness of God dwells, and that anyone united to him is complete.
The practical weight of that falls on ordinary life. The same faith that brought someone to Christ is the faith they are to walk in daily. The letter swings from theological foundation to lived-out response, and the preaching at First B has followed that movement, asking what it looks like to set your mind on things above when the pressures of the week press back down. 'If you get to know Christ, you get to know everything that you need to know about God, life, and godliness.' That is the note the teaching on Colossians keeps coming back to.
Taught from Colossians 2:6 · Colossians 2:8-10 · Colossians 2:16-23 · Colossians 3:1-4 · Colossians 1:9-12
“If you get to know Christ, you get to know everything that you need to know about God, life, and godliness.”
From Christ Is Good Enough
The passage taught · Colossians 2:1
1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- October 4, 2026 Christ Is Good Enough A sermon through Colossians 2-3 on what it means to walk in Christ, free from legalism, empty tradition, and self-made religion, with Christ as fully sufficient.
- February 26, 2017 The Substance Belongs to Christ Colossians 2-3 sermon on why rules and rituals can't change us, and why Christ alone is the center that holds our faith together.
- January 22, 2017 The All Sufficiency of Christ Paul opens Colossians by grounding Christian hope in the sufficiency of Christ, not ritual or superstition, and praying believers would grow in God's will and knowledge.
Mentioned along the way
- August 28, 2022 We Are God's Children Florin preaches from Colossians 1 on walking faithfully with God, sharing the gospel in daily life, and the hope of an eternal inheritance in Christ.
- August 9, 2021 No Part of Human Existence Left Untouched Pastor Carl closes out Colossians with a look at prayer, grace-filled conversation with unbelievers, and the friendships God builds among His people.