What does First B Jackson teach about life after death?
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 life after death is grounded in the physical resurrection of Jesus as the foundation that makes everything else possible. Brad Yates, preaching from 1 Corinthians 15, made the case that the resurrection is not a peripheral detail Christians can hold loosely. Without it, Paul says, faith is worthless and believers are more pitiable than anyone. Brad pressed the point that the empty tomb is the engine of Christian hope, not optional equipment. It authenticated every claim Jesus made about himself, and it is the proof that his sacrifice was sufficient, once and for all, for anyone who trusts him.
Brad connected the resurrection directly to the future of every believer, describing Christ as the 'first fruits' of what is still coming. The resurrection body is genuinely connected to this one but will not look or function like this one. An earlier message working through the closing verses of 1 Corinthians 15 pressed the same point, walking through Paul's four contrasts: what goes into the ground is perishable, dishonorable, weak and natural, and what comes out is imperishable, glorious, powerful and spiritual. The change happens in a moment, at the last trumpet, because flesh and blood as it is cannot simply walk into the kingdom of God.
The teaching also traces a line between the two Adams Paul sets alongside each other. Every person born belongs to the first Adam by default, which means they are born to die. Those who put their faith in the last Adam, Christ, are born again to live. That future, the sermons at First B Jackson consistently hold, is not a vague comfort. It is the mapped-out destination that gives shape to everything between now and then.
Taught from 1 Corinthians 15:14-20 · 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 · 1 Thessalonians 4 · John 14:6 · Isaiah 53:5
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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Messages that go deeper
- March 31, 2024 He Is Risen: The Map to Get You Home Brad Yates preaches on 1 Corinthians 15 at Easter, making the case that the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christian faith and the source of real, unshakable hope.
- March 31, 2024 Christ Is Risen: The Map to Get Home Brad Yates opens God's Word on Easter Sunday to show why the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christian hope, not just a seasonal celebration.
- March 8, 2015 Be Steadfast, Be Immovable Paul works through 1 Corinthians 15 to show what resurrection bodies will be like, why death has lost its sting, and what that means for how we live now.