What does First B Jackson teach about forgiveness of sin?
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 forgiveness of sin starts with what God has already done. In the message "He Is Indeed in First Place," Pastor Josh worked through Colossians 1:13-14, where Paul describes God rescuing believers out of the domain of darkness and transferring them into the kingdom of His beloved Son. That transfer, Josh explained, is exactly where redemption lives, and redemption is the forgiveness of sins. The weight of that is hard to overstate. As he put it plainly, "Every sin that has ever been committed will either be justly condemned or mercifully forgiven." There is no third option.
The message "Once for All Time" traced the same truth through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Nathan showed the congregation how the entire old covenant system of priests, tabernacle, and animal sacrifice was always pointing toward something it could not itself accomplish. Those sacrifices had to be repeated because they were never finished. They reminded people of sin but could not remove it. Christ entered a different holy place entirely, offered His own blood once, and sat down. The old priests stood every day because the work was never done. Christ sat down because it was. Hebrews grounds this in Old Testament voices, quoting Psalm 40 as Christ telling the Father that He had come to offer a body where animal sacrifice had fallen short, and Jeremiah 31 as the Holy Spirit's own testimony that in the new covenant sins would be remembered no more.
Together these messages present forgiveness not as something a person earns or maintains through religious effort but as something secured entirely by Christ and received by faith. Nathan pointed the congregation toward the Lord's Supper as the place where that once-for-all sacrifice is remembered and proclaimed. Josh pressed the personal question: Jesus is preeminent, but is He first place in your life? Both pastors land in the same place, that what a person does with Jesus determines everything.
Taught from Colossians 1:13 · Colossians 1:14 · Hebrews 9:1-10:20 · Jeremiah 31 · Psalm 40:6-8
“You can worry or you can pray but you can't do both.”
From He Is Indeed in First Place
The passage taught · 1 John 1:8
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- September 20, 2026 He Is Indeed in First Place Colossians 1 shows Jesus as preeminent over all creation and the dead, the agent of peace through the cross, and the one who must hold first place in every part of life.
- November 3, 2019 Once for All Time Hebrews 9-10 traces how the old covenant sacrifices pointed forward to Christ's once-for-all death as the only sacrifice that truly removes sin.
Mentioned along the way
- July 21, 2024 Searching and Fearless A Wyoming pastor walks through Step 4 of the 12 Steps, a searching moral inventory, showing how Scripture's vice lists point us toward honest self-examination and God's grace.
- December 23, 2018 Cradle to the Cross in Five Days Five days in Luke trace Jesus from the manger to the cross, showing a Savior born for all people who still calls, heals, forgives and saves today.