What does First B Jackson teach about serving two masters?
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 two masters comes out of Luke 16, where Jesus moves from the parable of the shrewd manager straight into a hard statement about money and character. Both Pastor Scott and Pastor Ray have worked through the full chapter and landed on the same point: the way a person handles money is not a side issue, it is a window into who that person actually is. Jesus does not say money is evil, but He says plainly that you cannot serve both God and money, and that what you do with what you have while you still have time to do something with it will reveal your actual loyalties.
Pastor Ray drew attention to what Luke records about the Pharisees hearing all of this. They were lovers of money, and their reaction, the Greek word Luke uses, carries the image of blowing something out of your nose, as dismissive a gesture as there is. Jesus turns to them directly and tells them that what gets a person lifted up among people is often detestable to God, and that they were justifying themselves before people while God already knew their hearts. The contrast Jesus draws is not subtle: the priorities that earn human approval and the priorities God looks for are frequently not the same thing.
The practical conclusion both messages press toward is that faithfulness with small things and with things that belong to someone else is the training ground for anything larger. A person who is stingy with a little will be stingy with a lot. Worldly wealth is temporary, Jesus says, and what matters is what the handling of it reveals about a person's character and about where that person's trust actually sits.
Taught from Luke 16:1-31 · Luke 16
The passage taught · 1 Peter 5:7
7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 25, 2023 Living Life With an Open Hand Pastor Scott walks through Luke 16, two parables about money, time, and eternity, showing why faithful generosity with what God has given us reveals the character of a believer.
- June 25, 2023 You Can't Take It With You Luke 16 walks through a difficult parable about money, a shrewd manager, and the story of Lazarus to ask how we use what God has entrusted to us.
Mentioned along the way
- January 16, 2022 To Be Noticed By Them Jesus calls His disciples to give, pray, and fast with pure motives, not to impress others. The pastor walks through Matthew 6 on what that looks like.
- January 16, 2022 Take Care Not to Practice Your Righteousness Jesus warns His disciples about doing good things for the wrong reasons, examining giving, prayer, and fasting done to impress people rather than to honor God.