What does First B Jackson teach about false teaching?
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 teaching starts with a simple observation: the New Testament never treats this danger as a remote possibility. Across nearly every letter, from Matthew through Jude, the same alarm sounds. False teachers come in from outside the church, rise up from inside it, use persuasive arguments, and pull people away from the straightforward gospel. The messages here have spent real time showing that pattern, reading through the warnings passage by passage so the congregation can see how persistent and consistent the concern is.
The shape of the error, the preaching here argues, almost always runs in one of two directions. On one side is legalism, the demand that people perform religion in exactly the right way to be accepted, whether that means the Judaizers insisting Gentile converts keep the full law of Moses, or any modern equivalent that adds requirements to grace. On the other side is licentiousness, the idea that because Jesus paid for everything, nothing really matters. Both moves are departures from the actual gospel, and both have always been present. The messages describe the gospel itself as a narrow path between those two ditches, and they return to that image repeatedly because the pull toward one ditch or the other never really stops.
The answer the preaching here keeps coming back to is not a better argument but a closer eye on Jesus. The finished work of Christ is enough. The certificate of debt every decree of the law brought against us was canceled at the cross, and what looked like defeat was, as one message put it, "the center point of all history." Anything that displaces that, whether a religious philosophy, a human tradition, or a self-made spiritual code, adds nothing real and takes something away. The call is simply to keep walking toward Christ by the same faith that began the journey, because the ground of the Christian life is not performance but the grace of a God who is leaning toward His people.
Taught from Hebrews 13:9-16 · Colossians 2:6 · Galatians 1:6-9 · Titus 1:5-16 · 2 Timothy 2:14-26
“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.
- December 28, 2025 Jesus Man Pastor Adam preaches from Hebrews 13 on staying grounded in grace, not being carried away by false teaching, and offering God continual praise as the new year begins.
- March 1, 2020 Do Not Be Carried Away Pastor Ray walks through Hebrews 13, warning against false teaching, calling believers to rest in God's grace and follow Jesus outside the comfort of the camp.
- March 1, 2020 Do Not Be Carried Away Hebrews 13 sermon on staying rooted in God's grace, resisting false teaching, and going outside the camp to follow Christ wherever He leads.
- July 15, 2018 Hold Firm to the Trustworthy Word Titus 1:5, 16 examined: what Scripture says about church leadership, truth versus deception, and why the gospel must not be added to or taken away from.
- July 8, 2018 Hold Firm to the Trustworthy Word as Taught A Wyoming pastor works through Titus 1:5-16, examining what the Bible says about church leadership, false teaching, and holding firm to the gospel.
Mentioned along the way
- December 28, 2025 Jesus Is Better Than All of These Things Hebrews 13 calls Christians to hold fast to grace, resist strange teachings, and offer God the sacrifice of praise, generosity, and care for one another.
- July 2, 2023 Faith in a Great God Pastor Ray walks through Luke 17:1-10, connecting four teachings on false teaching, forgiveness, faith, and service into a single picture of what it means to follow Jesus.
- July 2, 2023 Faith in a Great God Jesus teaches His disciples about false teaching, forgiveness, faith, and service in Luke 17. One sermon on what it really means to follow Him.
- January 27, 2019 Worry About Yourself The pastor walks through 2 Timothy 2:14-26, calling believers to study God's word carefully, avoid empty arguments, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace.
- July 1, 2018 Guard the Deposit Pastor Blake walks First Baptist Jackson through the final verses of 1 Timothy and the opening of Titus, grounding both letters in the real history of the early church.
- June 17, 2018 Teach and Urge These Things A sermon from 1 Timothy 6 on contentment, the love of money, and why knowing Scripture means nothing without living it out.
- June 17, 2018 Godliness With Contentment Is Great Gain The pastor walks through 1 Timothy 6, showing how Paul contrasts false teachers who treat godliness as profit with the genuine gain of godliness paired with contentment.
- May 27, 2018 Train Yourself for Godliness The pastor walks First Baptist Jackson through 1 Timothy 4, calling believers to train in godliness, hold to the one Savior, and reject the growing appeal of universalism.
- February 25, 2018 The Aim of Our Charge Is Love The pastor begins First Timothy by introducing Paul and Timothy, then draws out one central aim: love from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith.
- June 21, 2015 It Is for Freedom That Christ Has Set Us Free Paul walks through Galatians 5:1-15, calling believers to stand firm in gospel freedom, neither sliding into legalism nor using grace as a license to sin.
- February 22, 2015 Heresy Thrives on Felt Need When people die suddenly, grief creates a hunger for more than Scripture says. Pastor Ray examines how that hunger fuels heresy, and why the resurrection is enough.