What does First B Jackson teach about putting on love?
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 putting on love starts with a simple image: taking off dirty clothes and putting on clean ones. The passages the church returns to are Colossians 3:12-17, where Paul lists what believers are to wear as people who belong to God. Compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, and forgiveness all appear on that list, but love is the overcoat that holds everything else together. It is not a feeling to wait for or a Sunday habit. It is something a person is actively becoming as those other qualities take root inwardly, and it shows up in words and actions toward the people right around them.
The teaching is careful to move through each item on Paul's list rather than letting love float as an abstraction. Compassion, in the Greek, is connected to the gut, the place the ancients believed feelings came from. It is not feeling sorry for someone from a distance but entering their story and staying there. Kindness is what makes compassion visible to someone else. Humility, described in one message as the rarest and fairest of Christian virtue, looks like the person who shows up early, moves chairs, stays late, and says nothing about any of it. Patience holds back when someone irritates you, and forbearance, the word Paul adds alongside it, is the positive side of that, actively carrying someone's burden with them.
All of this, the preaching here insists, is grounded in what God has already done. The believer has died with Christ and been raised with him, which means these qualities are not self-improvement projects. They are the natural clothing of a new self that God himself is renewing. Forgiveness belongs on the same list for the same reason: the one who has been forgiven much has no basis for withholding it from others. As one message put it plainly, "Unforgiveness is a poison pill that you take and expect the other person to die." The whole shape of the life Paul describes in Colossians 3 flows from receiving, and then walking out, what God has given.
Taught from Colossians 3:12-17 · Colossians 3:14 · Colossians 3:1-4 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Colossians 2:6-7
“Unforgiveness is a poison pill that you take and expect the other person to die.”
From Walk It Out
The passage taught · 1 John 2:15-17
15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- October 25, 2026 Walk It Out A message from Colossians 3 on setting aside sin, putting on compassion and forgiveness, and letting the peace of Christ rule in everyday life.
- January 15, 2012 New Year, New Life, New Clothes A sermon on Colossians 3 calling believers to put off old habits and put on compassion, kindness, humility, patience, and love as a new life in Christ.
- January 8, 2012 New Clothes for a New Life A January 2012 sermon from Colossians 3 calling believers to take off old habits and put on compassion, love and humility as a new year begins.