What does First B Jackson teach about joseph and mary?
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 Joseph and Mary keeps returning to a single thread: ordinary people, caught in extraordinary and often frightening circumstances, who received a word from God and chose to act on it. The messages trace both figures through Matthew and Luke, showing that neither of them was given the full picture before being asked to trust. Mary was perplexed but not paralyzed. Joseph had already worked out a careful, merciful plan for what to do about Mary, and then the angel came to him in a dream and asked him to set that plan aside entirely. Both times, the response was obedience.
What the teaching presses on, especially in the Matthew passages, is how Joseph's obedience kept opening the door for more direction. Every time he received a word from God, he acted on it immediately, and the pattern held from the angel's first appearance through the flight to Egypt and back. The genealogy that leads to Joseph is part of the same argument: the line God worked through was not clean or prestigious. Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and the patriarchs with all their failures are all in it. No name on that list earned their place. The point appears to be that God's purposes move through real, flawed human history, and Joseph and Mary are the clearest examples of what it looks like when someone in that line simply says yes.
The preacher also situated both of them inside a larger question the messages keep asking: when a message comes toward you, what do you do with it? The shepherds, Mary, and Joseph are held up alongside each other not as distant figures from a Christmas pageant but as people whose responses model something the congregation is being invited into. The angel's first word to each of them was some version of "fear not," because receiving a message you do not know what to do with is frightening, and the willingness to move forward anyway is exactly what is being celebrated at Christmas.
Taught from Matthew 1:18 · Matthew 1:19 · Matthew 1:20-21 · Luke 1:26-27 · Luke 1:28-30
The passage taught · Ephesians 4:11-13
11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- December 21, 2025 The Message Came Toward Them Shepherds, Mary, and Joseph each heard a message from God and acted on it. A Christmas sermon on receiving what God says and responding in obedience.
- December 13, 2021 Son of David, Son of Abraham A Christmas sermon from Matthew 1-2 tracing Jesus' genealogy, the Magi's journey, and Joseph's quiet obedience, showing how God's promises to all nations came true in Bethlehem.
- December 29, 2016 Lineage of the Savior A Christmas sermon from Matthew 1 on the genealogy of Jesus, the obedience of Joseph, and how God works through ordinary, imperfect people to fulfill His promises.