What does First B Jackson teach about serving others?
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 serving others begins not with duty but with identity. Before any command to serve is issued, the question asked is: what has God already done for you? Whether Carl is walking through Philippians 2 on a Monday night or Nick is preaching it on a Sunday morning, the pattern is the same. Paul opens that passage with a series of questions about the encouragement, comfort, and fellowship that come from belonging to Christ, and those questions are not throat-clearing. They are the foundation. The instructions that follow, thinking of others as better than yourself, taking an interest in what others need, working together with one mind, grow out of what God has already given, not out of sheer willpower.
The clearest picture of what serving others looks like is Jesus wrapping a towel around his waist and washing his disciples' feet in John 13. Nick pointed to that image not as a guilt trip but as something that draws people toward service rather than grinding them into it. John Hammond traced the same movement through Philippians 2:5-11, noting that Jesus could let go freely and take the form of a slave, the Greek word being doulos, someone with no control over any part of their own life, precisely because he already knew who he was and already had the Father's love. He did not need to clutch anything. That security is the key to the descent. And Pastor Blake, working through Mark 10, pressed the same kingdom principle from another angle: in the world around us, authority is used to lord over people, but Jesus says the one who wants to be great must become the servant of all.
The practical shape of this teaching is wide. It includes Timothy's genuine care for the church, Epaphroditus nearly dying in service to others, Rahab hiding the messengers, a woman at a Monday study feeling an overwhelming love for two strangers she would not have expected to love. Carl taught from Philippians 2:13 that the reason these things are possible at all is that God is the one supplying both the desire and the power. Florian, visiting from Romania, put it simply: leave the house each morning and ask God to use you for at least one person that day. The call is not to manufacture something you do not have. It is to yield to what God is already working in you, and let it move outward.
Taught from Philippians 2:1-11 · Philippians 2:12-30 · Mark 10:32-45 · John 13 · Colossians 1:1-14
The passage taught · 2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- October 19, 2025 The Book of Philippians - Guest Speaker John Hamon A sermon on Philippians 2:5-11 exploring how Christ emptied himself of glory, went to the cross, and was exalted, and what that means for how we live.
- October 16, 2022 The Attitude of Christ Philippians 2 shows that loving and serving others flows from what Christ first did for us, not from willpower or guilt. His example changes everything.
- September 20, 2022 Monday Night @ First B Sept 19th Pastor Karl speaks on the book of Phillipians Carl walks through Philippians 2:12-30, showing how obedience, joy and care for one another flow from what God has already done for us in Christ.
- September 13, 2022 Having the Attitude of Christ Philippians 2:1-11 explored at a Monday night study: why the attitude of Christ matters, and what makes humble, selfless love toward others truly possible.
- August 28, 2022 God, Use Me Today Florian, a Romanian pastor preparing to return to missions, shares from Colossians 1 on living as a child of God and asking Him to use you each day.
- May 2, 2022 To Follow Jesus Is to Serve Others In Mark 10, Pastor Felix walks through Jesus predicting His death and redefining greatness: true followers serve others, just as Jesus gave His life for many.
Mentioned along the way
- February 2, 2025 Transformation Is Possible Acts 9: Saul's conversion shakes Jerusalem, Peter heals the paralyzed and raises the dead. God transforms the hardest hearts and builds His church through ordinary people.
- March 10, 2024 Surely Not I, Lord Judas made his choice knowingly. The eleven asked, "Surely not I, Lord." A verse-by-verse walk through Holy Week asks which camp we are in.
- January 21, 2024 Many Parts, One Body Romans 12 shows us how to live in light of God's mercy: present yourself wholly to God, renew your mind, and serve one another with your God-given gifts.
- October 23, 2022 Responsibility to Others A Wyoming pastor walks through Matthew 18, showing how Jesus calls his followers to serve, forgive, and care for one another as their core responsibility.
- April 11, 2022 James Chapter 2 - 4.11.22 Faith without action is dead. James 2:14-26 shows how a real relationship with God naturally produces good deeds, and why belief alone is never enough.
- November 30, 2021 To Love Is to Serve Pastor Kyle walks through John 13 on Jesus commanding his disciples to love one another the way He loved them, even while being betrayed.
- March 3, 2019 The Lord Stood With Me Paul's final letter names real people who served, strayed, or stayed faithful. A Kenya mission trip shows what those choices look like in our own time.
- March 3, 2019 The Lord Stood With Me Paul closes 2 Timothy with a list of names, and Pastor Ray traces what faithfulness, desertion, and service look like in the lives of real people then and now.
- November 18, 2018 Faith and Deeds Always Work Together James 2 shows that real faith always produces action. A dead faith changes nothing, but a living faith rooted in God's love compels us toward good works that glorify God.
- November 4, 2018 Shepherd the Flock Among You A Wyoming pastor walks through 1 Peter 5:1-3, asking hard questions about why anyone leads, and what faithful shepherding actually looks like.
- October 14, 2018 Green Bananas and the Gifts God Gives A Wyoming pastor connects rotting green bananas to 1 Peter 4 in a sermon on spiritual gifts, urging believers to use what God has given before it goes to waste.
- October 14, 2018 Use the Green Bananas A missionary's 70 pounds of rotting bananas becomes a vivid picture of what happens when we ignore the spiritual gifts God has given us to serve one another.
- May 6, 2018 Hold the Mystery with a Clear Conscience A sermon from First Baptist Jackson on 1 Timothy 3:8-13, exploring the character God calls deacons and those who serve the church to walk in through Christ.
- December 3, 2017 Let This Mind Be in You Philippians 2 sermon on humility: because Christ emptied Himself of divine rights to serve and die for us, Christians are called to pursue unity over pride.
- April 23, 2017 Stuff That Matters Closing Colossians with Paul's final greetings, the pastor explores what steadfast prayer, wise words, and grace toward outsiders and insiders alike look like in everyday life.
- September 4, 2016 By the Mercies of God Ray McDaniel walks through Romans 12, showing how spiritual gifts like serving, teaching, giving, and mercy flow from God's mercy and call believers out of self-centered living.
- September 4, 2016 By the Mercies of God, Present Yourself Romans 12 calls every believer to present themselves as a living sacrifice. Pastor Ray walks through spiritual gifts and what faithful service looks like in the church.
- August 28, 2016 Offer Yourselves: A Reasonable Response Carl walks through Romans 12:1-2, asking why believers should offer themselves to God and how it happens, grounding the answer in the mercies listed throughout Romans.
- November 27, 2015 Monday Nights @ First B (7) Philippians 2 calls us to serve others because Christ served us first. See what that looks like when humility moves from Sunday morning into everyday life.
- November 22, 2015 We Ought to Serve Because Christ Has Served Us Philippians 2 sermon on serving others because Christ first served us, with practical examples of humility, gratitude, and looking out for each other's interests.
- June 21, 2015 It Is for Freedom That Christ Has Set Us Free Paul walks through Galatians 5:1-15, calling believers to stand firm in gospel freedom, neither sliding into legalism nor using grace as a license to sin.