What does First B Jackson teach about healing miracles?
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 healing miracles starts with what they reveal about Jesus himself. Across studies in Mark, Luke, and Acts, the preachers have returned again and again to the same pattern: Jesus heals not to display power for its own sake, but because he is moved by genuine faith and real human need. Pastor Brian pointed out that the miracles in Mark 5 show a third kind of authority, after the calming of the storm and the casting out of demons, power now over sickness and death, always turning toward those who come to him with nothing to offer but their need. Pastor Josh made a similar observation: the focus in these stories is not only on what Jesus does but on how people come to him, and in both cases they come in humility, in desperation, and in faith that takes a concrete step.
The teaching has pressed hard on the connection between faith and action. Pastor Jason drew this out from the same passage in Mark 5, noting that both Jairus and the bleeding woman did not hold their belief quietly. Jairus walked to Jesus, fell at his feet, and pleaded. The woman pressed through a crowd she had no business being in and reached out to touch his robe. The pattern the teachers have traced across these stories is consistent: belief about Jesus stays passive, but faith in Jesus moves. Pastor Sean made the same point from Mark 7, comparing the Syrophoenician woman to others in Mark who come empty-handed, persistent, and humble, and noting that Jesus turns his face toward exactly that kind of coming.
The healing miracles in Acts carried the same weight for the early church. Pastor Carl traced what happened after the lame man was healed at the Beautiful Gate: the miracle created an undeniable public witness, and Peter was explicit before the Sanhedrin that the healing was done by the name of Jesus Christ, not by any power or goodness of the apostles. The church in Acts then prayed not for protection but for boldness, asking God to keep stretching out his hand to heal so the message would continue to go forward. And in Acts 9, Pastor Ray showed Peter willing to stop what he was doing and go where he was needed, available to be interrupted, and the healings in Lydda and Joppa each became the reason whole communities turned to the Lord.
Taught from Mark 5:21-43 · Acts 3:1 - 4:31 · Luke 7 · Mark 7:24-37 · James 5:14-15
The passage taught · Acts 1:8
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- February 2, 2025 God Is On the Move Ahead of You Acts 9: Saul's conversion stuns Damascus, Barnabas vouches for him in Jerusalem, and Peter heals Aeneas and raises Tabitha as the early church spreads.
- November 24, 2024 By What Power Have You Done This Peter and John before the Sanhedrin: how two ordinary fishermen answered threats with bold prayer, and why the gospel cannot be contained by any human authority.
- January 10, 2023 Faith That Takes Action Faith is more than belief. See how two desperate people in Mark 5 acted on their trust in Jesus, and what that means for us today.
- July 10, 2022 Humble Faith Allows Jesus to Heal the Issues A humble father, a suffering woman, and two miracles in one story. Pastor's message on how humble faith moves Jesus to heal whatever we're facing.
- July 10, 2022 Humble Faith Allows Jesus to Heal the Issues The pastor preaches through the healing of Jairus's daughter and the bleeding woman, showing how humble faith opens the door for Jesus to work in impossible situations.
- February 20, 2022 A Great Prophet Has Appeared Among Us Pastor Carl traces miracles of Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus raising the dead to show how Jesus fulfills what God promised through the prophets and why that matters now.
- February 7, 2022 Monday Night @ Frist B Feb 6th Faith, humility, and persistence: what a desperate Gentile mother and a deaf man teach us about coming to Jesus and God's good news for everyone who believes.