What does First B Jackson teach about saved by grace?
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 grace consistently starts with the same leveling reality: every person, regardless of background or religious pedigree, was dead in trespasses and sins before God acted. Pastor Ray worked through Ephesians 2 to show that no prior category gives anyone a head start. Jew and Gentile alike were children of wrath. The turn comes not because of anything in the person but because God is rich in mercy and great in love. Those two words, 'but God,' carry everything.
The same ground was covered from Acts 15 across three different services. Pastor Mark, Pastor Mike, and Pastor Nate each walked through the Jerusalem Council, where the earliest church faced the direct question of whether grace through faith was enough or whether law-keeping had to be added to it. Peter settled the room by pointing to what God had already done at Cornelius's household, giving the Holy Spirit to Gentile believers in exactly the same way he had given it to Jewish believers, with no additional requirement. His conclusion was plain: neither the apostles nor their forefathers had ever been able to bear the yoke of the law, and to place it on new believers would be to misrepresent how salvation works.
What First B Jackson draws out of these passages together is that salvation is not a transaction a person completes by meeting certain conditions. It is something God does, received through faith, which is trust placed in someone actually faithful. Pastor Ray pointed to Ephesians 2:10 as the piece that often gets missed in debates about faith and works: we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works He prepared beforehand. The point was never to win a theological argument. It was to show that people remade by grace become, together, a body with a purpose.
Taught from Ephesians 2:4-5 · Ephesians 2:8-9 · Ephesians 2:10 · Acts 15 · Ephesians 2:1
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 22, 2026 But God: Rich in Mercy Ephesians 2 shows every person starts dead in sin, but God's mercy brings Jews and Gentiles alike into one body through Christ's blood, not our works.
- May 11, 2025 This weeks Sermon May 11th @ First B Jackson Acts 15 traces the Jerusalem Council's debate over grace and law, showing how early believers settled a defining question about how anyone, Jew or Gentile, is saved.
- May 11, 2025 Sunday May 11th 11am Service ( Mother's Day) Acts 15 sermon on the Jerusalem Council: how the early church settled whether Gentiles must follow Jewish law, and what it means for Christian unity today.
- May 11, 2025 Sunday May 11th 9am Service (Mother's Day) Acts 15's Jerusalem Council shows how the early church resolved a major dispute over salvation, landing on one answer: grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.