What does First B Jackson teach about jealousy?
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 jealousy starts with where James locates it: not as a personality quirk but as a root. In the James 3 messages, both Pastor Scott and Pastor Ray walked through James's contrast between two kinds of wisdom. The world's wisdom, James says, is marked by jealousy and selfish ambition. What stands out in both messages is that this kind of wisdom requires no effort. It rises naturally, pulls a person into boasting and dishonesty, and produces disorder and evil as its harvest. Neither teacher treated jealousy as a minor failing. They presented it as the seed of a whole pattern of destruction that shows up wherever God's wisdom is absent.
Deborah brought the same thread into her James 4 teaching at the women's Bible study, grounding it in relationships rather than abstract categories. She noted that the root of nearly every quarrel is either jealousy or hurt, and she called the group to take their own inventory before pointing at others. The remedy James points to is submission to God, not just commitment to Him. Commitment, she said, can mean loving the idea of a God who makes life go well. Submission is harder: it means trusting God's path even when what we want is pulling in a different direction.
The contrast that runs through all three messages is between what jealousy produces and what God's wisdom produces. James lists the marks of wisdom from above as pure, peace loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good deeds, showing no favoritism, and always sincere. Pastor Scott and Pastor Ray both emphasized that this harvest does not come from human effort any more than the harvest of jealousy does. Humility, which they defined as gentle strength, power held in reserve, is where God's wisdom begins to take hold, and it starts with God, not with us.
Taught from James 3:13-18 · James 4:1-2 · Proverbs 4:7 · Galatians 5
The passage taught · 1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- February 14, 2024 Women's Bible Study - February 14th, 2024 - Live with Purpose Deborah teaches James 4 at First Baptist Jackson, exploring pride, slander, submission, and what it looks like to walk the narrow path with God.
- January 6, 2019 Prove It: True Wisdom Comes from God James 3 shows that true wisdom comes from God, not ourselves. It is pure, peace-loving, gentle, and merciful, and it produces a harvest of righteousness.
- January 6, 2019 True Wisdom Comes From God James 3 shows two kinds of wisdom: the world's, which breeds disorder, and God's, which grows righteousness. Learn what it looks like and how to seek it.
Mentioned along the way
- December 8, 2024 If It Is of God, You Cannot Overthrow It Peter and the apostles face arrest again in Acts 5, yet keep preaching Jesus as Messiah. A study in boldness, suffering, and the unstoppable advance of the gospel.
- November 4, 2015 WWW Be Right (33) Romans 12-13 calls believers to offer themselves fully to God, renew their minds through Scripture, use their spiritual gifts joyfully, and love others well.