What does First B Jackson teach about fear and trust?
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 trust keeps returning to the same uncomfortable truth: trust is not something that shows up after the difficulty passes. It is something practiced inside the difficulty, before the situation is resolved. In the messages that press hardest on this, the pattern holds whether the person in view is David hiding among the Philistines, Jairus watching time run out for his daughter, or Jesus himself in Gethsemane. Pastor Carl, working through Psalm 34, drew attention to when David wrote that song. He was still a fugitive. Nothing had been settled. And yet the opening line is a vow of praise, not a promise made from the safe side of the trouble. The Psalm's testimony, 'I sought the Lord and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears,' comes from inside the danger, which Pastor Carl held up as the whole point.
Pastor Ray brought the same thread into Isaiah 49, where the servant of God cries that he has labored in vain, and Ray connected that directly to Jesus in Gethsemane, falling face down and asking that the cup pass from him. Hebrews 5 and 1 Peter 2 were brought in to show that Jesus genuinely suffered discouragement and yet kept entrusting himself to the one who judges rightly. That pattern, walking the steps God has set even when they lead somewhere painful, is held out as the example believers are called to follow.
In the Monday night study through Mark 5, the same shape appeared in two people who were frightened and reached out anyway. Jairus, a synagogue leader with a dying daughter, fell at Jesus's feet. A woman excluded from public life pushed through a crowd to touch his robe. Pastor Jason drew from both of them the same lesson: faith that stays private and passive is different from faith that moves. Jesus's word to Jairus was direct, don't be afraid, just have faith, and the consistent pattern across that evening's passage was that Jesus turns toward those who reach out in faith regardless of how frightening the step is.
Taught from Psalm 34 · Mark 5:36 · Mark 5:34 · Isaiah 49:1-13 · Hebrews 5:7
The passage taught · 1 Peter 2
1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 23, 2024 A Light to the Gentiles Ray McDaniel walks through Isaiah 49 to show how God's servant, Jesus, became a light to all nations and why trusting God through suffering leads to certain hope.
- January 10, 2023 Faith That Takes Action Faith is more than belief. See how two desperate people in Mark 5 acted on their trust in Jesus, and what that means for us today.
- June 23, 2019 I Will Bless the Lord at All Times Psalm 34 shows that praising God in every circumstance, not just good times, is the pattern David lived and the peace every believer can find today.
- June 23, 2019 His Praise Continually in My Mouth Psalm 34 traces David's flight from Saul to a song of praise, showing how God meets his people in grief, fear, and joy with faithful deliverance.
Mentioned along the way
- August 4, 2019 Think Carefully About This Jesus A sermon from Hebrews 2 and Isaiah 8-9 on why Jesus is better than all else, and what it means to wait on God, fear Him, and keep your hope in Christ.