What does First B Jackson teach about easter resurrection?
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 the resurrection starts not with an empty tomb but with a declared impossibility. Drawing from Acts, the preacher put it plainly: it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Jesus. That single fact is why the congregation gathers on Easter, and every thread of the teaching runs back to it.
The messages here approach the resurrection from different angles. One Easter walked through the seven last words of Christ on Good Friday, reading each statement in light of what Sunday proved: that the one who prayed forgiveness over the soldiers nailing him, who promised paradise to a dying thief, who quoted the opening of Psalm 22 in his desolation, was not defeated by any of it. Another message stayed in the Old Testament entirely, working through Psalm 22 to show how precisely a psalm written roughly a thousand years before the crucifixion described what happened, right down to bones out of joint, extreme thirst, hands and feet pierced, and soldiers casting lots for clothing. Crucifixion was not even a known method of execution when David wrote those words, which is the point. A third message followed the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, tracing how two followers who had given up hope recognized the risen Jesus in the breaking of bread, then turned around and walked straight back to Jerusalem to tell someone.
Running through all of it is the word "witnesses." The women at the tomb were witnesses. The disciples who saw his hands and feet and watched him eat broiled fish were witnesses. The teaching holds that the resurrection is not a symbol or a feeling but a reported event, carried forward by people who saw something and could not keep quiet about it. That same chain of witness is what puts anyone in a pew today.
Taught from Psalm 22:1-21 · Luke 24:13 · Acts 1:1-11 · Romans 6:4-5 · 1 Corinthians 15
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 10, 2023 The Last Seven Words of Good Friday A Easter Sunday sermon walks through the seven last statements of Jesus on the cross, exploring forgiveness, salvation, relationship, and triumph leading to resurrection.
- April 17, 2022 Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead Easter Sunday sermon tracing Luke 24 and Acts 1: an empty tomb, a road to Emmaus, and a risen Christ who calls ordinary people to be His witnesses.
- April 20, 2014 My God, My God: Psalm 22 and the Cross Psalm 22, written a thousand years before the cross, describes the crucifixion in detail. Pastor explores how David's cry of desolation points to Christ's death and resurrection.