What does Tribe teach about abundant life?
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 Tribe, the teaching on abundant life is rooted in the story of the first Passover and the person it was always pointing toward. Brian walked through Exodus 12 to show that God himself established the Passover as one of his own family traditions, not a human invention, and that every detail of it was building a picture of Jesus. The lamb brought into the home, named and loved by the children before it was killed, was meant to make the cost feel real. The blood applied to the doorframe was not symbolic gesture but the actual condition of entry. Brian was direct: only through the shed blood of Jesus are people allowed to have right relationship with God. Abundant life, then, is not something a person earns or works toward. It is something they cross into, the way Israel stepped across that blood-marked threshold and into freedom.
Part of what that life requires is honesty about what is working against it. The Passover command to search every corner of the house for yeast became, in Brian's teaching, a picture of what the Holy Spirit does in a willing heart. Paul's letter in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 makes the connection plain: a little yeast spreads through the whole batch. Small compromises work the same way, quietly, until they have touched everything. Brian described it the way a mountain bike gets progressively muddier, that moment when you stop avoiding puddles because the bike is already dirty. The remedy is the same one the psalmist reaches for in Psalm 139: invite God to search the heart and name what needs to go.
The congregation also traced the hyssop branch through the Passover account, through Psalm 51, and into the crucifixion, where a sponge on a hyssop branch was offered to Jesus on the cross. That Jesus refused it mattered to Brian. No religious shortcut, no human tradition, gets a person through the door. The abundant life Jesus describes in John 10 is entered the same way Israel entered freedom in Egypt, through blood that someone else shed, applied to the frame of the door you are standing in front of.
Taught from Exodus 12:1-23 · John 10 · 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 · Psalm 139 · Psalm 51:7
“If you have not seen him move in your life in this moment, it does not mean that he is impotent in any way.”
From Portal of Blood
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 22, 2024 Portal of Blood A Wyoming pastor walks through Exodus 12 to show how the first Passover, the blood, the yeast, and the threshold, points directly to Jesus and abundant life.
- April 21, 2024 Enter Into Abundance A Wyoming pastor walks through Exodus 12, tracing the first Passover from the lamb's blood on the doorframe to Jesus as the door into abundant life.