What does First B Jackson teach about love of money?
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 the love of money starts with Paul's plain warning in 1 Timothy 6 and does not soften it. When Pastor Bryan worked through that chapter, he opened by naming the prosperity gospel outright as a heresy. The claim that godliness is a means of financial gain is precisely what Paul is arguing against, not toward. What Paul actually says is that godliness paired with contentment is where real gain is found, and that those who are always desiring to be rich fall into a snare that pulls them toward ruin. Pastor Carl put the same point directly when he called the prosperity gospel hogwash, adding that while God does bless his children, He does not set up a system by which anyone twists His arm into delivering a desired outcome.
Both Pastor Bryan and Pastor Carl pressed on the word Paul uses for what drives people away from the faith: craving. It is something deeper and more visceral than ordinary desire, and the direction of that appetite determines where a person ends up. Bryan used the Old Testament prophet Amos to show this is not a new problem. Amos brought a hard message to a prosperous Israel that had turned to false gods while still expecting God's favor, and the warning landed the same way it does in 1 Timothy: you cannot handle what you have not fled.
The command Paul gives is not just to resist the love of money but to flee it, the same word he uses for sexual immorality and idolatry. Fleeing, though, is only half the picture. Paul also tells Timothy to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness. The love of money is not defeated by simply stopping; it is displaced by something better, and that something, according to this teaching, is genuine contentment rooted in God rather than in accumulation.
Taught from 1 Timothy 6:10 · 1 Timothy 6:6 · 1 Timothy 6:9 · 1 Timothy 6:11 · 1 Timothy 6:5
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 24, 2018 What Are You Desiring, Craving, Fleeing, Pursuing? A Wyoming pastor walks through 1 Timothy 6, asking what we truly desire, crave, flee, and pursue as followers of Christ in a prosperous world.
- June 17, 2018 Teach and Urge These Things A sermon from 1 Timothy 6 on contentment, the love of money, and why knowing Scripture means nothing without living it out.
- June 17, 2018 Godliness With Contentment Is Great Gain The pastor walks through 1 Timothy 6, showing how Paul contrasts false teachers who treat godliness as profit with the genuine gain of godliness paired with contentment.
Mentioned along the way
- February 3, 2019 Realize This: The Last Days List Paul's list of last-days vices in 2 Timothy 3 hits close to home, but the antidote is clear: rooted in Scripture, equipped for every good work.