What does First B Jackson teach about fixing your eyes on jesus?
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 fixing your eyes on Jesus runs straight through Hebrews 12:1-2. The passage gives three commands: rid, run, and look. The third is the one everything else points toward. Jesus is named in the text as the author and perfecter of faith, and Pastor Mark has taught that the Greek word behind "author" carries the sense of someone who not only started the way but stayed in it as its leader. He pioneered the path through suffering and kept going, which is why the text tells us to consider him when things get hard.
The joy set before Jesus is what held him at the cross. That forward orientation is the model the passage sets out. Fixing your eyes on Jesus is not a warm feeling to be stirred up but a deliberate act of attention, the same kind of daily attention that keeps anything moving in the right direction. Pastor Mark used his own struggle with his weight as a plain example: lose track of it, and it drifts. The same principle holds for the run the passage describes.
Brad has pressed on what makes that look possible. The culture's operating assumption is that this life is all there is, which shapes everything from how people spend their time to what they treat as worth wanting. Against that, Hebrews 12 calls the church to live in light of eternity, with identity and purpose found not in self-advancement but in a relationship with the God who is infinite. Fixing your eyes on Jesus means running your own race, the one set before you specifically, toward the one who already finished it.
Taught from Hebrews 12:1-2 · Hebrews 12:1-3 · Hebrews 1:1-4 · Colossians 3:1 · Galatians 5:13-14
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:31
31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- September 14, 2025 Rid, Run, Look Hebrews 12 calls us to rid ourselves of every hindrance, run with endurance, and fix our eyes on Jesus, the champion who finished the race for us.
- September 14, 2025 Rid, Run, Look A sermon on Hebrews 12:1-2 calling Christians to rid themselves of sin, run their God-given race with endurance, and fix their eyes on Jesus.
- January 12, 2020 Fix Your Eyes on Jesus A Wyoming pastor walks through Hebrews 12, showing how fixing your eyes on Jesus, not religion or your own efforts, is what carries you through.