What does First B Jackson teach about pride vs humility?
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 pride and humility returns consistently to the same starting point: the size of your debt. Both Pastor Jon and Pastor Craig worked through the story of the sinful woman in Luke 7 and pressed on the same uncomfortable contrast. Simon the Pharisee had religious respectability, a clean reputation, and no obvious wreckage in his past. The woman had none of that. But it was the woman, not Simon, who was overwhelmed with love and gratitude at Jesus' feet. The reason, the text says plainly, is that the one forgiven much loves much, and the one forgiven little loves little.
Pastor Jon was direct about where that lands. People who grew up in the church, who never lived a visibly dark life, are in the most danger of Simon's posture without ever recognizing it as pride. A debt of fifty denarii is still a debt you cannot pay on your own. The size of the number does not change the nature of the problem. Pride, Pastor Jon noted, is what got the devil thrown out of heaven. It does not announce itself. It just quietly assumes that your spiritual situation is more or less sorted.
Both messages connect humility to forgiveness already received, not to moral effort. The woman was not trying to earn anything when she walked into Simon's house. She had already been forgiven. What came out of her was a response to something that had already happened. James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5 appear in both messages as the scriptural frame: God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. The teaching at First B treats that not as a warning to be frightened by but as an invitation to stop carrying something you were never meant to carry alone.
Taught from Luke 7:36 · Luke 7:47 · James 4:6 · 1 Peter 5:5 · 1 John 1:9
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 11
1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 6, 2022 Her Sins Which Are Many Have Been Forgiven A sinful woman washes Jesus' feet with her tears while a proud Pharisee looks on. The pastor explores what true contrition, forgiveness, and faith look like.
- March 6, 2022 Her Sins Which Are Many Have Been Forgiven A sinful woman anoints Jesus' feet at a Pharisee's table. Pastor explores pride, humility, and what it means to truly grasp how much we've been forgiven.
Mentioned along the way
- November 23, 2025 Slow to Anger but Just Pastor Ramon walks through the book of Nahum, showing how God's judgment on ancient Assyria reveals His justice, patience, and grace toward all who humble themselves before Him.
- November 13, 2022 If Anyone Is Thirsty, Let Him Come to Me John 7 shows Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, drawing a divided crowd. Who is He really? The pastor opens up the debate that still splits people today.