What does First B Jackson teach about loving others?
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 loving others starts with a premise that runs through several messages: you cannot give away something you have not first received. Pastor David made this the center of a message on what it looks like to love others the way Jesus loves us. He walked through three connected movements, accepting others as Jesus accepts us, valuing others as Jesus values us, and forgiving others as Jesus forgives us. The thread holding all three together is that God's love toward us is the source and the model for love toward anyone else.
Pastor Carl taught a similar idea from John 15, where Jesus calls his followers to remain in him the way a branch stays connected to a vine. The fruit that grows out of that connection, Carl pointed out, includes love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness. This is not something a person strains to produce on their own. The fruit comes because the connection is there. Carl also pushed back against the idea that keeping Jesus's commands is a burden. Loving someone, he said, is actually easier than maintaining hatred. Holding on to unforgiveness is one of the hardest things a person can do, and the commands are meant to free us, not weigh us down.
Pastor Mark, teaching from 1 Peter 1, described the kind of love Peter calls for as fervent love from the heart, and he was equally clear that this is not something people can manufacture on their own. Quoting John, he said we can love because God first loved us. Our love is a derived thing, flowing out of what God has already placed in us. Peter's short list of things to put aside, malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander, was treated by Pastor Mark as a prompt for honest self-examination, because those habits are exactly what crowds out the love the passage is calling for.
Taught from John 15:1-17 · 1 Peter 1:22-23 · 1 John 4:7-11 · Romans 15:7 · John 15:5
The passage taught · 1 John 5:3
3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- January 4, 2022 Remain in Jesus Carl walks through John 15, where Jesus calls himself the true vine, and shows why remaining connected to Him is the only way we bear lasting fruit.
- September 2, 2018 Loving and Longing Peter calls believers to fervently love one another and crave God's Word, while laying aside malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. First Peter 1:22, 2:3.
- October 9, 2011 He Accepts Me A Wyoming pastor explores what it means to love others the way Jesus loves us, covering acceptance, value, and forgiveness in week two of Forty Days of Love.
Mentioned along the way
- January 7, 2024 If You Are Saved, Act Like It Peter calls scattered, persecuted believers to hope fully, live holy, fear God, love deeply, and crave God's word, all grounded in the mercy of Christ.
- August 26, 2018 Woe Is Me: Encountering the Holiness of God A study of 1 Peter 1:10-22 on the holiness of God, the salvation promised through the prophets, and what it means to live as a believer set apart for God.
- July 3, 2016 Falling Feels Like Flying for a Little While Romans 8 shows believers they are free from sin and death, equipped by the same Spirit who raised Jesus, and called to set their minds on God's love.
- November 30, 2014 The Message of the Cross Is Where It's At A review of 1 Corinthians traces one steady theme through every chapter: the message of the cross is foolishness to some, but God's power to all who believe.
- October 5, 2014 Who You Love Is More Important Than What You Know First Corinthians 8 on Christian liberty, idol-offered meat, and why who you love matters more than what you know, from a verse-by-verse series.
- September 12, 2012 Your Name Is Safe in His Mouth Deborah Buckingham teaches on the Father's love, walking through three steps: understanding, receiving, and living in that love, replacing lies with God's truth.