What does First B Jackson teach about spiritual maturity?
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 spiritual maturity starts with a diagnosis before it offers a remedy. Working through Hebrews 5:11 through 6:3, Pastor Scott showed that the writer of Hebrews does not accuse his readers of never having been sharp, but of becoming dull. Something changed. People who should have grown to the point of teaching others had reversed course and needed someone to walk them back through the ABCs of the faith. The word the text uses carries the sense of blunt or lazy, like an axe that will not cut because it has not been kept sharp. Scott was clear that going backward to elementary things is not a normal plateau; it signals something is genuinely wrong.
The remedy the letter offers is not to keep relaying the same foundation over and over. The elementary doctrines, repentance, faith, resurrection, judgment, are not the problem. The problem is staying camped on them indefinitely instead of pressing forward. For the original readers, the pull was back toward a familiar religious system that felt safer because it was measurable. Pastor Scott framed that as trading the real thing for a shadow of it. The prescription is simply to press on toward maturity, which requires putting what is already known into actual practice.
Pastor Matt, wrapping up the same stretch of Hebrews a few weeks later, grounded that call to maturity in something outside the believer's own consistency. The anchor, he said, is the promise and oath of God and the high priesthood of Jesus. God made a promise to Abraham and, because He could swear by nothing greater than Himself, swore by Himself. That foundation does not shift with a person's spiritual performance, and the letter makes that plain by following its sharpest warning with the word 'beloved' and the writer's stated conviction that better things accompany his readers. The call to maturity is urgent, but the ground it stands on is not the believer's track record.
Taught from Hebrews 5:11-6:3 · Hebrews 6:1 · Hebrews 6:9 · Hebrews 6:13-15 · Hebrews 5:11
The passage taught · Exodus 3:14
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- September 29, 2019 The Basis of Our Spiritual Security A Wyoming pastor walks through Hebrews 6, tracing diagnosis, warning, and encouragement to one anchor: the unbreakable promise of Jesus as our eternal High Priest.
- September 15, 2019 Diagnosis and Remedy Hebrews 5-6 warns believers who have grown dull to God's Word. Pastor explores the diagnosis of spiritual immaturity and the call to press on toward maturity in Christ.
Mentioned along the way
- September 22, 2019 Danger, No Passage The pastor walks through Hebrews 6:4-12, holding the warning against falling away and the call to persevere in honest tension, without softening either.
- September 22, 2019 Standing on the Promises, Heeding the Warning A close reading of Hebrews 6 that holds the Bible's strongest warning and its deep encouragement together, calling believers to persevere in faith rather than drift away.
- February 12, 2017 Christ in You, the Hope of Glory Colossians 1 sermon on what Paul meant by "filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions," and how believers carry the gospel forward through their own suffering and witness.