What does Tribe teach about feast of unleavened bread?

At Tribe, the teaching on the Feast of Unleavened Bread starts with the Jewish tradition of the father of the home going room by room with a candle, a feather, and a wooden spoon, hunting down every trace of yeast before the Passover meal. Brian Hunter uses that image to open a harder question: how do Christians actually live free from sin, not just believe they are free? Leaven in scripture represents sin, and Jesus broadens that in the New Testament to include hypocrisy and anything in the heart that is not of God. The old covenant placed the entire burden of removal on the person searching, and Brian points out that this is exactly where many believers get stuck, pouring all their energy into finding and fighting sin in their own strength, which only keeps the sin front and center.

The teaching moves through several New Testament passages to show what Jesus actually accomplished at the cross. He canceled the record of charges against us, carried sin in his body, and removed it in a way Brian describes as pulling yeast out of an already-baked loaf, something that should be impossible. The Greek phrasing, he explains, means out from the midst of, a complete separation of a person's sin from their identity as a son or daughter. That is the ground for the freedom Jesus speaks of in John 8: "If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed." Romans 7 came into the conversation honestly as well, with the room working through why believers still fall short even after all of that is true. The answer the teaching lands on is that sin no longer defines a believer's identity or standing in God's family, even though the body still lives in a fallen world.

What Brian names as the enemy's only remaining weapon after the cross is deception. The enemy works to make believers forget what has actually been done for them and to keep them focused on managing sin through willpower alone. That is why Brian says, "The enemy likes to get us to forget that we have no obligation to obey the voice of the enemy whatsoever." The call at Tribe is not to a harder self-examination strategy but to a life built on what Christ has already finished. Brian puts it plainly: "I want you to live free so bad, and I want you to represent the person who you claim to follow."

Taught from Leviticus 23:6-8 · John 8:34-36 · Colossians 2:13-14 · Romans 7:15-20 · Galatians 5:1