What does Tribe teach about burnt offering?
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 the burnt offering starts with a straightforward but striking observation: in this particular sacrifice, nothing comes home. Working through Leviticus 1:1-9, Brian Hunter walked the congregation through the details of the Olah offering and kept returning to one central point. The animal must be the worshiper's own, from their own herd or flock. It must be without defect, meaning the very best available. And the entire animal goes onto the fire. Nothing is taken home, nothing is shared, nothing is sold. The whole thing is consumed. That totality is what sets this offering apart from others in Leviticus, including the fellowship offering where the worshiper brings most of the meat home and eats it with others.
The teaching has also surfaced in the way Brian reads Exodus 24. In that passage, young men offered a whole burnt offering before any of the elders climbed the mountain, and the Hebrew word used is the same one, hola, that describes Moses walking into the consuming fire at the summit. Brian reads that connection as the author's intention: the smoke goes up, nothing comes back down, and the image of Moses disappearing into the cloud is meant to mirror exactly that kind of offering. When Brian says "when we lay down our lives to ourselves, our own pride, our own gotta get it for myself, it's gonna feel like death," he is describing what the burnt offering pictures for the person bringing it.
The congregation at Tribe has heard this teaching land most squarely on Romans 12:1 and the invitation it carries. Surrender is not a corner of your life handed over while the rest stays managed. The head goes on the altar first, Brian has said, and if you give the hardest thing, everything else follows. The act of laying a hand on the animal's head before the sacrifice, looking it in the eye knowing what is about to happen, is the picture Brian keeps holding up: an offering that actually costs you something, not the reflex apology where your heart is nowhere near it.
Taught from Leviticus 1:1-9 · Romans 12:1 · Exodus 24
The passage taught · John 12
1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
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Messages that go deeper
- March 30, 2025 The Ola Offering A Wyoming pastor walks through Leviticus 1 and the Olah offering, a burnt sacrifice consumed completely, and asks what it looks like to give God everything.
- January 2, 2023 Come Up the Mountain Brian Hunter opens 2023 with Exodus 24, tracing three "goings up" the mountain and calling Tribe Jackson to let their lives be wholly consumed by God.