What does First B Jackson teach about fruit of the spirit?
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 the fruit of the Spirit starts with the conflict every believer lives inside. The message from Galatians 5:16-23 titled 'Walk by the Spirit' made clear that Paul's opening exhortation in verse 16 is not a soft suggestion but a command paired with a firm promise: walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. The Greek carries a triple negative, something far stronger than mild reassurance. The flesh and the Spirit are set against each other, not as equals locked in stalemate, but as competing patterns of life, and the daily, ordinary choice of which one to feed is where the teaching lands.
The follow-on message, 'Sowing to the Spirit,' worked through both lists in Galatians 5 side by side. The works of the flesh were stacked against similar lists in 1 Corinthians 6 and elsewhere to show how wide and consistent the picture is, and no one category stands alone. Strife, jealousy, and rivalry appear on the same list as sexual immorality and drunkenness. The fruit of the Spirit, by contrast, describes what grows in a life that is being led by God rather than driven by the flesh. The grave warning of verse 21 was held honestly alongside the mercy of 1 Corinthians 6, where Paul says 'and such were some of you,' pointing to the real possibility of genuine change.
What ties the two messages together is that walking by the Spirit is described as mundane and habitual rather than dramatic. It is the same Greek word for the walking people did every day to get from one place to another. One foot in front of the other, paying attention to the still small voice of God and acting on it. The church's teaching does not present the fruit of the Spirit as a personality upgrade to work toward, but as the natural outcome of a life that keeps choosing to be led by the Spirit rather than feeding the flesh.
Taught from Galatians 5:16-18 · Galatians 5:19-23 · Galatians 5:25-26 · Galatians 6:1-8 · 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- July 5, 2015 Sowing to the Spirit A Wyoming pastor walks through Galatians 5, contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit, and calls his congregation to walk yielded lives in God's grace.
- June 28, 2015 Walk by the Spirit Paul's call in Galatians 5 to walk by the Spirit is both a command and a promise: feed the right wolf, and the flesh loses its grip on your life.
Mentioned along the way
- December 17, 2023 Born of a Woman at Just the Right Time A Christmas message from Paul's letters on grace, freedom in Christ, and seizing the moments God sets before us in the fullness of time.
- May 21, 2023 Why Do the Nations Rage Pastor John preaches Psalm 2, showing why human rebellion against God is futile and how Christ, the anointed King, offers cords of love rather than burdensome chains.
- July 24, 2022 Commissioning of the 12 Jesus sends out the Twelve with nothing but His authority. A sermon on Matthew 10 about trust, rejection, and what it means to carry the gospel into a world that won't always welcome it.