What does First B Jackson teach about prophecy fulfilled?
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 prophecy fulfilled keeps returning to a single conviction: what happened to Jesus in his final week was not improvised. It had been written down in precise detail centuries before it took place. Pastor Craig, working through Psalm 22 on Easter Sunday 2014, pointed out that David wrote words about bones out of joint, extreme thirst, hands and feet pierced, and soldiers casting lots for clothing roughly a thousand years before Jesus was condemned, at a time when crucifixion did not yet exist as a form of execution. The specificity is the point. When Jesus cried out from the cross, "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me," he was not expressing doubt but was opening that psalm, pointing back to it and pointing to himself as the one it described.
Isaiah 53 carries the same weight in these messages. Pastor Carlos, in a 2021 evening service, kept returning to the gap between prophecy and fulfillment as evidence that God knew exactly what He was doing and had planned it all along. The people calling for Jesus to be crucified thought they were rejecting a failed messiah, but they were, without knowing it, fulfilling every word of what God had already written about His Son. Even small details held: Isaiah had anticipated that God's servant would be buried in a rich man's grave, and Joseph of Arimathea fulfilled that. The soldiers who chose not to break Jesus' legs fulfilled the Passover requirement that the lamb be without broken bones, while the religious leaders who arranged it had missed the entire meaning of the festival they were trying to protect.
Pastor Karl, preaching through the Servant Songs of Isaiah during Advent 2018, pressed the congregation on the question that runs through those chapters: who has believed this report? His answer was that a seven-hundred-year-old prophecy this specific cannot be set aside easily. Pastor Matt, also working through Isaiah 50 and 53 that same Advent season, read those passages as a first-person account from Christ himself, noting that the servant's confidence was not that suffering would be avoided but that God was near and vindication was certain. The fulfillment of prophecy, across all these messages, is never presented as a curiosity. It is offered as the ground on which trust stands.
Taught from Psalm 22:1-18 · Isaiah 53:1-12 · Isaiah 50:4-11 · Isaiah 52:13-14 · Zechariah 9:9
The passage taught · Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
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The messages that teach on it
- February 22, 2021 It Is Finished John 19 and Isaiah 53 show how Jesus fulfilled centuries of prophecy on the cross, and why his finished work is the only foundation our faith needs.
- December 16, 2018 Who Has Believed Our Report Isaiah 53 read beside its New Testament echoes: a sermon on the suffering servant, written 700 years before Christ, and what it means to believe the report.
- 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.
- April 20, 2014 My God, My God: Psalm 22 and the Cross Psalm 22, written a thousand years before the cross, describes the crucifixion in detail. Pastor explores how David's cry of desolation points to Christ's death and resurrection.
Mentioned along the way
- April 5, 2026 It Is Finished: Walking Through Holy Week A Holy Week walk through scripture and art, tracing Christ's final days from Palm Sunday to resurrection, and the finished work that makes salvation possible.
- April 21, 2019 It Is Finished Tracing the story of Holy Week through Scripture and art, the pastor follows Jesus from the triumphal entry to the empty tomb and the finished work of the cross.
- April 21, 2019 It Is Finished Easter sermon on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, tracing prophecies from Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 to the empty tomb and the hope believers carry forward.
- December 16, 2018 He Set His Face Like Flint Isaiah 53 written 700 years before Christ describes His suffering, death and resurrection in detail. Pastor shows why Christmas only makes sense in light of the cross.
- March 24, 2013 From John 18-19, Morning Praise (2) Palm Sunday sermon on God's sovereignty over suffering, tracing Job, Psalm 22, and Isaiah 53 to the cross of Christ, showing why Christians can still say "blessed be the name of the Lord."