What does Tribe teach about messiah?
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 Messiah starts with the conviction that the Christmas story does not begin in Bethlehem. Colson, one of the leaders in the young adults ministry, walked the congregation through the entire Hebrew Bible to show that every major covenant God made, with Adam and Eve, with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, with David, was building toward one person. From the very first promise in Genesis 3:15, that an offspring would come to bruise the head of the serpent, to God's word through Nathan that a king from David's line would reign forever, the Old Testament is not a collection of separate religious stories. It is one long horizon pointed at Jesus.
Brian took that portrait further by sitting with Isaiah 63, a passage that shows the Messiah in a way most people never encountered in Sunday school. The figure who comes marching in from the desert in blood-stained robes is not a gentle image, and Brian was not willing to soften it. He described the Messiah as fighting a bloody and lopsided battle at great cost to himself before he ever reaches the people he is rescuing. That willingness to hold the cost of the rescue alongside the tenderness of the rescue is, Brian said, a mark of maturity in faith. The same passage that carries imagery of trampled enemies closes with a God who lifts his people up and carries them.
Taken together, these messages teach that the Messiah is not a late addition to the Bible's story or a figure who appears only in the New Testament. He is the answer the whole Old Testament was waiting for, promised to people who failed repeatedly and needed rescue anyway, and when he arrives the weight of everything that came before him lands at once.
Taught from Genesis 3:15 · 2 Samuel 7:8-16 · Isaiah 63:1-9 · Isaiah 9:6-7 · Daniel 7:13-14
The passage taught · 1 Samuel 16:6-13
6 When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”
7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- December 28, 2025 The Christmas Story A young adults leader walks through the whole Bible to show why Christmas begins on page one and why the story of Jesus was the most unexpected rescue imaginable.
- November 23, 2025 Who Is This Man? A pastor in Jackson Hole traces a striking portrait of Jesus through Isaiah 63, asking the question: who is this warrior-king marching in from the desert?