What does First B Jackson teach about false religion?
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 false religion starts inside the church, not outside it. Both Pastor Travis and Pastor Brian have worked through the book of Amos and pointed to the same uncomfortable reality: God's sharpest words in that book are aimed not at pagans but at His own people, the ones who kept the calendar, sang the songs, and showed up at the appointed places. The charges were not that Israel had abandoned the forms of religion but that the forms had become a substitute for what God actually asked. God told Israel flatly that their festivals and their songs meant nothing to Him when justice was not flowing out of them. The empty worship at the sham temples of Bethel and Gilgal drew the same judgment as outright unbelief.
The plumb line vision in Amos 7 gave the teaching its clearest image. God holds a standard against the wall, and the wall's owners cannot argue their way out of what the measurement shows. Military success and economic comfort did not move the line. The wealthy class on their ivory couches, eating well and making music, were also the ones cheating buyers the moment the Sabbath ended. Pastor Travis described this as the ditch of self-righteousness, people who assumed God's favor while ignoring what God had actually required of them. That combination, religious confidence alongside practical injustice, is what Amos came to name.
The remedy the book offers is not more religious activity but a turn toward genuine seeking. Amos 5 extends what Pastor Brian called an olive branch: seek God so that you may live. But that seeking cannot be aimed at the places that have become substitutes for real obedience. The famous line about justice rolling down like waters is the positive side of the same coin: authentic worship produces righteous living toward others, and where that fruit is absent, the religion itself is under judgment.
Taught from Amos 5:21-23 · Amos 5:24 · Amos 7:7-9 · Amos 5:4-6 · Micah 6:8
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
24 When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- November 2, 2025 Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters Amos called God's people to justice and humility, not religious pride. The preacher's sermon traces the prophet's warnings, visions, and the hope waiting at the end of the book.
- April 24, 2022 Victory in Jesus, Hard Slog to Get There A verse-by-verse walk through the book of Amos, exploring God's judgment on social injustice and the silver lining of restoration that points forward to Christ.
Mentioned along the way
- July 13, 2025 Who Are You Acts 19 shows God's power prevailing through Paul in Ephesus, exposing those who claimed Christ's name without knowing Him, and a riot that could not stop the gospel.
- July 13, 2025 Who Are You Acts 19: God's word grows in Ephesus through miracles, burning of magic books, and a silversmiths' riot that could not stop the gospel from prevailing.