What does Tribe teach about feeling abandoned?
Drawn from the message 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 feeling abandoned starts with Psalm 22, a song David wrote a thousand years before Jesus was born. Brian walked through that psalm and showed how it opens with the exact words Jesus cried from the cross, and that the connection is not accidental. David was seeing something prophetically about a moment he did not fully understand, describing the experience of being utterly surrounded, hemmed in, with no way out and no help coming. Brian put it plainly: "Maybe you find yourself surrounded by fierce bulls of Bashan with no way out, no help, no hope, no rescue."
The teaching does not stop at acknowledging that feeling. Brian's argument was that Jesus walked deliberately into the worst version of that situation, going to the region of Bashan, a place with a deep supernatural reputation for darkness, before heading to Jerusalem. What happened at the cross looked to every human observer like total defeat. His own people were heartbroken. His mother wept at the foot of the cross. But Brian pressed the point that "the cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it." The powers that had surrounded Jesus came out into the open because they believed they had won, and that moment became the moment they were defeated. The resurrection was the proof.
For anyone who feels surrounded right now, the church's teaching is that Jesus faced those bulls firsthand, and that his victory is available to anyone willing to make an exchange. The abandonment he bore on the cross was real, and it was not the end of the story.
Taught from Psalm 22:1-24 · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 · Colossians 2:14
“The cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it.”
From Easter Sunday at Tribe
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
55 “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
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- April 6, 2026 Easter Sunday at Tribe Brian Hunter preaches on Psalm 22 at Easter, tracing the "bulls of Bashan" from David's cry to the cross, and what Christ's resurrection means for anyone feeling surrounded and trapped.