What does First B Jackson teach about slavery to sin?
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 slavery to sin starts with a distinction that runs through the Romans 6 messages: everyone is already a slave to something. The question is not whether you have a master but which one. Paul's argument, as Pastor Deborah worked through it, is that before faith a person is under sin's ownership, and that ownership produces spiritual death. The wages are not arbitrary. Sin kills because it separates a person from the God who is life itself. Freedom in the biblical sense does not mean having no master. It means being transferred to the right one, the one whose yoke is gentle and whose promises hold.
The messages here keep returning to what actually happened at the moment of salvation, because getting that wrong is what keeps people living as though they are still in the old condition. The preacher in the Romans 6 series laid it out carefully: justification, sanctification, and glorification are all God's work, not ours. Justification freed believers from sin's penalty. Sanctification is the ongoing freedom from sin's power, and the same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead is what God has placed in every believer for that fight. The old self was crucified with Christ, buried, and raised. Nobody who has just been raised from the dead, the teaching goes, should want to walk back into the tomb and lie down again.
Pastor Carl's treatment of Romans 6 pressed the same point from a different angle. Most of the chapter is written as declarations of what is already true, not as goals to strain toward. Christians are not under law but under grace. The sin nature no longer has mastery. But there is one command in the passage: yield your members to righteousness. Pastor Carl was careful to separate that from willpower. Yielding is not forcing. It is listening to that still small voice and following it, feeding the right thing. The parable of the two wolves made it concrete: the one that wins is the one you feed. The chapter closes with what he called the starkest gospel statement in the passage, that the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, and he was clear that both sides of that statement matter.
Taught from Romans 6:1-23 · Romans 6:15-23 · Galatians 5:16-17 · Ephesians 2:1 · Romans 6:3-7
The passage taught · Galatians 5:16-17
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- June 5, 2016 The Free Gift Is Eternal Life Romans 6 shows that the wages of sin is death but God's free gift is eternal life. Pastor Carl walks through what it means to yield to righteousness and grow in sanctification.
- September 23, 2015 WWW Be Right (31) Romans 6 shows that sin no longer has power over believers. We died with Christ and rose to new life, free to walk in His righteousness and strength.
- September 19, 2012 I Am Free, I Am New, I Have Eternal Life A sermon on what Christ's sacrifice truly means for us: freedom from sin's bondage, becoming a new person in Him, and the settled assurance of eternal life.
Mentioned along the way
- November 27, 2022 Before Abraham Was Born, I Am Jesus declares "I am the light of the world" in John 8, and the preacher challenges us to ask honestly: are we trusting in our own righteousness, or in Christ alone?