What does First B Jackson teach about covenant?
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 covenant starts with the character of God Himself. Across several messages, the consistent thread is that God is a covenant-keeping God, and that reality is the ground on which everything else in Scripture stands. The covenant was not invented at Sinai. It runs from Genesis 3, where God first hinted at a Savior born of a woman, through the promise God made with Abraham in Genesis 15, where God alone walked between the animal pieces while Abraham slept. That one-sided act was the point: God bound Himself to the promise without requiring Abraham to walk through with Him. Faith came first, and the sign of circumcision came after. The law given later was never meant to save; its purpose was to show Israel its sin and its need for the Messiah.
The New Covenant, promised in Jeremiah and sealed at the cross, fulfilled what all of this was pointing toward. When Jesus died, the thick veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, and Hebrews makes the connection explicit: the veil is His flesh, and we now enter through it. There is no longer separation between God and man. Gentile believers are wild branches grafted into the olive tree, held in place not by anything of their own but by the root, which is the covenant God made with Israel. That grafting in is not grounds for arrogance. The same God who did not spare the natural branches will not spare the grafted ones if they do not continue in faith.
The practical weight of this teaching is that covenant shapes how believers understand their identity and their call. Israel's purpose inside the covenant was never just to be a separate nation; God chose Israel to be a light to the nations so that His salvation would reach the ends of the earth. That purpose now belongs to the one household, Jews and Gentiles together, built on Christ. The response to God's faithfulness across all of this history, as Romans 11 makes plain, is worship.
Taught from Genesis 15:17 · Jeremiah 31:31-33 · Romans 11:17-24 · Ephesians 2:11-12 · Galatians 4:21-5:1
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15:8
8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 28, 2015 WWW Be Right (14) Romans 11 shows God's faithfulness to Israel and Gentiles alike, revealing a plan of mercy, covenant, and coming glory that leads the heart to worship.
- June 14, 2015 Children of the Free Woman Paul shows the Galatians, and us, that we are children of promise, not slaves to the law, and that freedom in Christ is the only inheritance worth having.
- 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.