What does First B Jackson teach about fear and faith?
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 fear and faith keeps returning to a simple but sharp observation: fear is not a neutral thing. Brad Yates, working through the parable of the talents in Matthew 25, made the case that the servant condemned by the master was not condemned for doing something wrong. He was condemned for doing nothing, and the nothing was driven by fear. Brad brought in Romans 14:23, that whatever is not from faith is sin, and pressed the point that inaction rooted in fear falls under that judgment just as much as any outright wrongdoing. Fear can freeze a person solid, and that frozen place is not a safe place to stay.
Pastor Carl has returned to the same tension from a different angle. Teaching through the storm account in Mark 4, he stayed with the question Jesus asked the disciples after the wind and waves went quiet: why are you afraid, do you still have no faith? Carl was careful not to turn that into a demand that people try harder to feel confident. He described faith as a gift, God's own persuasion working in a person, and said the role believers play is to yield to it rather than manufacture it themselves. The problem, he said, is that people often strain to work up faith on their own while God is simply asking them to keep their eyes on him.
That image of opened eyes runs through Ron Turpin's message from 2 Kings 6 as well, where Elisha's servant saw only a surrounding army until Elisha prayed that his eyes would be opened to what was already there. The teaching at First B Jackson holds these things together: fear is real, it is serious, and it is specifically the thing that faith displaces, not by effort but by seeing more clearly what is actually true and who is actually present.
Taught from Romans 14:23 · Mark 4:35-41 · Matthew 25:14-30 · 1 John 4:18 · 2 Kings 6:15
The passage taught · 1 John 4:16-19
16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- September 3, 2023 Blessed to Be a Blessing Brad Yates preaches on the parable of the talents, showing why faithful stewardship of God's gifts matters as believers wait for Christ's return.
- January 3, 2023 Monday 1-2-23 Jesus Heals the Demon Possesed Man and Calms the Storm Carl walks through Mark 4-5, where Jesus calms a storm and frees a demon-possessed man, drawing out what Jesus's authority means for fear and faith.
- August 28, 2011 Open My Eyes That I May See A Wyoming congregation hears a teaching from 2 Kings 6 on seeing God's protection when surrounded by fear, drawn from Elisha and his servant's story.
Mentioned along the way
- March 8, 2022 As For You, Follow Me Peter denied Jesus, yet Jesus met him with breakfast and restoration. A study of John 21 on what it means to be forgiven, called, and told simply: follow me.