What does First B Jackson teach about new covenant?
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 new covenant starts with the old one, and it takes that seriously. The old covenant given at Sinai was not a mistake. It was given by God, built according to a heavenly pattern, and administered by priests whose entire system was designed to show people their need. But it could never finish the job. The sacrifices had to be repeated year after year, and that repetition was itself the confession that nothing had actually been removed. The law could identify sin and remind people of it, but it had no power to take sin away or to change the heart underneath it. Jeremiah 31 was God's own admission, made while the old covenant was still in operation, that something better was coming: a covenant written on minds and hearts, with sins forgiven and remembered no more.
What Jesus accomplished is the fulfillment of everything the old system pointed toward. The old high priest entered the most holy place once a year, carrying blood for his own sins first, then for the people's sins of ignorance. He stood because the work was never done. Jesus entered the true sanctuary, not one made by human hands, with his own blood, and he sat down. That posture is the argument: the work is finished, and it is finished once for all time. Because of that, the way into God's presence is open to every believer, not only to one priest on one day of the year. The guilt itself is gone, not just the feeling of guilt, and the approach to God is no longer through layers of ceremony but through Christ directly.
The practical weight of this is that there is no going back. The letter to the Hebrews was written to people tempted to retreat, whether into old covenant Judaism or into whatever way of life they had before Christ, and the argument against retreating is the same either way. What has been replaced was always a shadow, a copy built to direct attention toward the real thing. To turn back from the new covenant toward the system that only pointed at it is to turn away from the substance in favor of its preview. At First B Jackson, this is not treated as a fine point of theology. It is the center of the whole message: Jesus is better than everything that came before him, and the new covenant he mediates is the reason his people can draw near, hold fast, and live freely.
Taught from Jeremiah 31:31-34 · Hebrews 8:1-13 · Hebrews 9:1-10:20 · Hebrews 12:22-24 · Ephesians 2:11-12
The passage taught · 1 Thessalonians 5:18
18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- February 16, 2020 A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken Hebrews 12 traces the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, calling believers to pursue peace, receive grace, and worship God with gratitude in a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
- November 3, 2019 Once for All Time Hebrews 9-10 traces how the old covenant sacrifices pointed forward to Christ's once-for-all death as the only sacrifice that truly removes sin.
- November 3, 2019 Once for All Time Hebrews 9-10 explains how the old covenant's sacrifices pointed forward to Christ's once-for-all offering, and why believers need not turn back to any lesser substitute.
- October 27, 2019 A More Excellent Ministry Hebrews 8 shows why Jesus, our High Priest seated at God's right hand, mediates a better covenant written on hearts, not stone. A sermon from First Baptist Jackson.
- October 27, 2019 A More Excellent Ministry by a Better Mediator Hebrews 8 shows Jesus as the mediator of a better covenant, fulfilling what the old covenant could only shadow, and writing God's law on our hearts.
- February 4, 2015 No Longer Strangers and Aliens Ephesians 2 traces how Gentiles once excluded from God's covenant are now brought near through Christ's blood and welcomed into one household with God's people.
Mentioned along the way
- December 28, 2025 Jesus Is Better Than All of These Things Hebrews 13 calls Christians to hold fast to grace, resist strange teachings, and offer God the sacrifice of praise, generosity, and care for one another.
- September 10, 2023 Confidence to Enter, Boldness to Go A pastor shares a story of a Muslim man praying for God to reveal truth, then walks through Hebrews 10 on drawing near to God through Christ's sacrifice.
- July 18, 2022 Old Symbols, New Meaning Mark 14 traces Jesus through His final Passover meal, where old covenant symbols receive new meaning and His sacrifice becomes the foundation of a new promise for all who trust Him.
- November 17, 2019 It Is a Terrifying Thing A verse-by-verse walk through Hebrews 10 on the weight of willful sin, the faithfulness of God's promises, and what it means to say yes to Christ as Lord.
- November 17, 2019 Christ or Judgment: Those Are the Two Options Hebrews 10 calls us to draw near, hold fast, and stir one another toward love, but also warns that willful sin leaves only a terrifying expectation of judgment.
- November 10, 2019 Let Us Draw Near With a Sincere Heart Hebrews 10 calls believers to draw near, hold fast, and stir one another toward love and good works as the day of Christ's return draws closer.
- October 13, 2019 Pay Closer Attention to What It Says Pastor Ray opens Hebrews 7:1-10, examining the mysterious priest-king Melchizedek and what his encounter with Abraham reveals about Jesus as our eternal high priest.
- March 24, 2019 From Glory to Glory A Wyoming pastor traces God's glory from Moses' radiant face through the law and the cross, showing how believers are being transformed into Christ's image from glory to glory.