What does Tribe teach about breaking free from sin?
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 breaking free from sin starts with a question Brian puts directly to the room: if Jesus has genuinely set us free from sin, why do so many of us keep living like we are still in chains? The Feast of Unleavened Bread becomes the frame for that question. In Jewish practice, the father searches every corner of the home, sweeps out every trace of leaven, and burns it. Brian connects leaven to sin throughout the Old Testament, and then shows how Jesus expands that picture in the New Testament to include hypocrisy and false teaching. The old covenant put the entire burden of removal on the individual, which Brian calls the little pink monkey strategy: the harder you try not to think about something, the more you think about it. Telling yourself not to meditate on sin turns out to be just another way of meditating on sin.
The New Testament, Brian teaches, tells a different story. Passages from John 8, Colossians 2, 1 Peter 2, and Hebrews 9 all point to the same reality: Jesus did not cover sin or look the other way. He removed it, nailed it to the cross, carried it in his body, and dealt with it once and for all. The Greek behind Colossians 2, Brian explains, pictures something being pulled out from the middle of something else, like extracting yeast from an already-baked loaf, which is impossible by human effort. That is the point. The work is his, not ours.
The gap between what Scripture says and what daily life feels like is real, and Brian does not paper over it. Paul names the same tension in Romans 7, and people in the room named it honestly too, including one person who described straining to manage her own crankiness all the way to church before hearing clearly that she was still working like a slave rather than resting like a daughter. Brian traces that gap back to a single tactic of the enemy: deception. He uses the image of a fired police officer who walks back into the room still wearing the uniform. The officer has no authority anymore, but if you believe the uniform, you act as though he does. The teaching at Tribe is that the authority sin once held has been broken, and learning to live free means refusing to keep obeying a voice that no longer has any real power.
Taught from Colossians 2 · John 8 · Romans 7 · 1 Peter 2 · Hebrews 9:26
The passage taught · 1 Peter 2
1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- April 27, 2025 No Longer Slaves Brian Hunter walks through the Feast of Unleavened Bread to show why Jesus, not willpower, breaks the chains of sin and why the enemy has no real authority over you.
Mentioned along the way
- March 25, 2024 Restfulness vs. Restlessness A Wyoming pastor leads his church through Exodus and Passover to explore how Jesus breaks the yoke of restlessness and invites us into true rest.
- March 20, 2023 Turn Your Cat Around A Wyoming church works through a sermon series on staying aligned with God, covering how we let sin in, believe lies, compromise, and live in defiance of his word.