What does First B Jackson teach about freedom in christ?
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 freedom in Christ starts with a clear insistence that the finished work of Christ is genuinely enough. Nothing added to it, whether religious philosophy, human tradition, or self-imposed spiritual codes, adds anything real. The preacher working through Colossians 2 described the certificate of debt, every decree the law brought against us, as canceled at the cross and nailed there. What looked like defeat was in fact the center point of all history, and the result is that believers are no longer required to carry the burden of earning what Christ has already secured. As the preacher put it, "What looked like the devil's greatest day was not the devil's greatest day. It's the center point of all history."
Pastor Mark, teaching through Galatians 5, described freedom in Christ as a narrow path between two real ditches. Legalism sits on one side, the pressure to add rule-keeping or religious rites to faith as though Christ's grace were not sufficient. License sits on the other side, the assumption that being saved means sin no longer matters. Paul's command in Galatians 5:1 carries two edges: stand firm, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Neither ditch is where Christ intends his people to walk. The Galatians had been pressured by teachers insisting they take up the law of Moses, and Paul's response was that accepting that demand meant setting Christ aside and treating his grace as incomplete.
The freedom that Christ gives is not a freedom from accountability but a freedom rooted in promise rather than human effort. Pastor Mark traced this through Paul's allegory of Hagar and Sarah in Galatians 4: anyone trying to reach God through their own effort and rule-keeping is working in purely human resources, producing a life born into slavery. The children of promise, by contrast, are born through what God accomplishes, not through what people can manufacture themselves. That freedom carries a shape: faith working through love, oriented not toward license but toward the life the Spirit produces.
Taught from Galatians 5:1 · Colossians 2:14 · Galatians 4:21-5:1 · Galatians 5:16-24 · Colossians 2:6
“If you get to know Christ, you get to know everything that you need to know about God, life, and godliness.”
From Christ Is Good Enough
The passage taught · Colossians 2:1
1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- October 4, 2026 Christ Is Good Enough A sermon through Colossians 2-3 on what it means to walk in Christ, free from legalism, empty tradition, and self-made religion, with Christ as fully sufficient.
- June 21, 2015 It Is for Freedom That Christ Has Set Us Free Paul walks through Galatians 5:1-15, calling believers to stand firm in gospel freedom, neither sliding into legalism nor using grace as a license to sin.
- June 14, 2015 Children of the Free Woman Paul shows the Galatians, and us, that we are children of promise, not slaves to the law, and that freedom in Christ is the only inheritance worth having.
Mentioned along the way
- December 17, 2023 When the Fullness of Time Came A Christmas sermon on the gifts God gave through Christ's birth, tracing grace, freedom, and adoption through Galatians, Ephesians, and Romans.
- November 6, 2016 Worry About Yourself Romans 14 asks Christians to aggressively welcome those who differ on disputable matters, not to judge them, since every believer answers to Christ alone.
- May 29, 2016 Dead to Sin, Alive to God On Memorial Day, Romans 6 connects the sacrifice of fallen soldiers to Christ's death and resurrection, and what it means to die to sin and walk in new life.
- November 11, 2015 WWW Be Right (13) Romans 14 calls Christians to stop judging each other over nonessential convictions and to pursue unity, living by faith and love rather than personal freedom.