What does First B Jackson teach about fear of failure?
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 of failure starts by naming where that fear actually lives. In a 2015 message, Amy described how believers routinely speak their old nature back over themselves, particularly the habit of rehearsing their fears and failures in the very moment God is trying to speak something true about who they are in Christ. She was direct that this countering impulse is not humility. Drawing on the footnote in the Amplified Bible under Moses' 'who am I?' in Exodus, she pointed out that when God has chosen someone and that person keeps insisting he cannot do it, that is a form of self-depreciation inconsistent with genuine faith. To keep questioning God's appointment, she argued, is to claim you know something God does not, and that is pride wearing the costume of humility.
The 2018 message on 2 Timothy 1 pressed into the same territory from a different angle. Pastor Ray walked through Paul's words to a Timothy who clearly needed encouragement, and the reason Paul gives is plain: God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power, love, and a disciplined, sound mind. Those three things are not qualities Timothy had to work up on his own. They were already given. The fear of failure, by that reading, is not a signal that something is wrong with you so much as a signal that you have forgotten what you have already been handed.
Brad's 2025 message added one more layer. He was honest that he has long found it easier to feel useful to God than to feel beloved by him, and he traced that back to the gap between what people would say they believe about God and what they actually feel when they are quiet. Romans 5:8 and the thief on the cross were his correctives: God did not wait for anyone to earn their standing before he acted, and the man who gave Jesus the entire remaining span of his life, with nothing else to offer, was told he would be with him. The fear of not being enough, in that frame, runs directly into what God has already demonstrated.
Taught from 2 Timothy 1:7 · Romans 5:8 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Ephesians 2:8-10 · Exodus 3:9-11
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 2, 2025 Made for Relationship with God Brad explores what it means to be made in God's image, why love is more than a feeling, and how to move from knowing about God to truly knowing Him.
- December 30, 2018 Power, Love, and Discipline Paul's final letter calls believers forward with power, love, and discipline. A New Year's message on 2 Timothy 1 from First Baptist Jackson.
- February 10, 2015 Living As a New Creation - Who do You say that I am (Wk. 1) (3) A sermon on discovering your true identity in Christ, exploring what God says about who you are and how believing it changes the way you live.