What does First B Jackson teach about grace and peace?
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 grace and peace starts with the observation that these two words are not a polite formality. Across multiple series, the consistent point has been that Paul begins and ends his letters with grace and peace because those words carry the whole weight of the gospel in shorthand: grace is its origin and peace is its effect. Grace is unmerited favor, something no one earns and no one deserves more of than anyone else, and the moment a person begins to think they have earned a standing before God, they have left grace behind. Peace is what arrives when that grace is received, not merely the absence of conflict but a complete rest in God with no inner or outer turmoil.
Pastor Van made the point during the close of the Ephesians study that Paul returning to grace and peace at the end of the letter, after opening with the same words, is not coincidence. It frames everything in between. The honest thing a believer can offer anyone outside the faith is not that they deserve to belong, but that they did not deserve it and received it anyway. That same thread runs through Pastor Carl's teaching in First Corinthians, where he noted that the greeting grace and peace was not a standard salutation of the ancient world and that you cannot arrive at one without the other.
Pastor Josh brought the same pairing into Second Peter, where the promise is grace and peace in abundance, and the Greek word for knowledge in that greeting, epignosis, means contact knowledge gained through first-hand relationship with God, not merely knowing facts about Him. The provision of grace is already complete, which is what makes the peace real rather than wishful. The church has returned to this pair of words across more than a decade of teaching because, as the messages in Ephesians, Colossians, Romans, and Philippians all show, it is the ground every other instruction stands on.
Taught from Ephesians 1:1-2 · Philippians 1:1-2 · Ephesians 6:21-24 · 2 Peter 1:1-11 · 1 Corinthians 1:3
The passage taught · 1 John 4:19
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 21, 2026 Grace and Peace, Always Paul closes Ephesians with grace and peace, then opens Philippians with the same. A study of how joy, unity, and humility flow from the gospel.
- June 21, 2026 Hills and Valleys: Walking Out the Faith Pastor Van closes Ephesians and opens Philippians, tracing grace, peace, and the call to humble, joyful service through Paul's final greetings and opening words.
- March 29, 2026 By the Will of God Pastor Ray opens Ephesians by sitting with just two verses, showing how Paul's identity, God's will, and the promise of grace and peace set the foundation for everything that follows.
- March 8, 2026 Outside the Envelope: Grace and Peace to You Pastor Ray opens Ephesians 1, showing how God's grace and peace, given through Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit, call the church into His will and purpose.
- April 7, 2019 God Is Sovereign, Man Is Responsible Peter opens his second letter by grounding Christians in what God has already given, then calling them to respond with lives marked by faith, goodness, and love.
- April 7, 2019 Grace and Peace in Abundance Peter opens his second letter with a bold claim: God has already given believers everything they need for a godly life. Learn what that means and what it asks of us.
- January 24, 2016 God's Good News: The Prescript of Romans Paul's letter to Rome unpacked: who sent it, who received it, and why Romans 1:1-7 puts Jesus at the center of God's good news from the very first line.
- July 13, 2014 Grace to You and Peace Paul's letter to a divided, sin-riddled Corinth still speaks today. Pastor Carl opens 1 Corinthians, tracing its context and calling believers back to the cross.
Mentioned along the way
- January 22, 2017 The All Sufficiency of Christ Paul opens Colossians by grounding Christian hope in the sufficiency of Christ, not ritual or superstition, and praying believers would grow in God's will and knowledge.
- January 15, 2017 The Enemy of God Is Not a Position to Be Envied A short, sobering walk through Obadiah's prophecy against Edom, showing what it means to be an enemy of God and why grace is the only place to run.