What does First B Jackson teach about romans 13?
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 Romans 13 sits inside a larger argument Paul builds across chapters 12 and 13. Pastor Brian preached through Romans 13:1-7 and placed it inside widening circles: first the Christian's relationship to God, then to the church, then to outsiders, and finally to civil government. The passage's core claim is that every governing authority exists because God established it, and that resisting authority amounts to resisting God. Brian acknowledged that this cuts against the American instinct, noting that the country itself was born out of rebellion against a king, and he took that tension seriously rather than smoothing it over.
Where Brian drew the line was at direct conflict with God's law. He looked at Moses, Daniel and his friends, and Peter and John in Acts, and found a consistent pattern: non-violent, conscience-driven disobedience to an authority that has crossed into God's territory, accepted alongside whatever consequences the earthly government hands down. The posture is never armed resistance or escape from punishment, but willingness to suffer while obeying the higher authority.
Pastor Ryan closed out Romans 12 and 13 together by pressing on 13:11-14. The logic is that Christ's return is closer now than the day anyone first believed, and that fact is the reason for urgency across everything the two chapters demand, honoring authorities, loving neighbors, paying what is owed. The Augustine story gave the passage a human face: someone who understood all the theology and kept delaying full commitment, until opening to Romans 13:13-14 ended that delay for good. The point Ryan kept returning to was that none of this Christian living works apart from Christ himself, which is why the passage closes with the call to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Taught from Romans 13:1-7 · Romans 13:11-14 · Romans 13:8-10 · Acts 4:19 · Romans 12:1-2
The passage taught · Jonah 1:1-16
1 Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
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Messages that go deeper
- October 30, 2016 Sleepers Awake Romans 13:11-14 calls believers to wake from spiritual sleep and live urgently in light of Christ's return, as the pastor preaches at First Baptist Jackson.
- October 30, 2016 Sleepers Awake Romans 13 sermon on moral urgency, awakening from spiritual sleep, and putting on Christ as the only way to live out love for God and neighbor.
- October 16, 2016 Let Every Soul Be Subject Romans 13 calls every person to submit to governing authorities. The pastor walks through what that means for Christians living in America during a heated election season.