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 simple and uncomfortable observation: it is the offering where nothing comes home. Working through Leviticus 1:1-9, Brian Hunter walked the congregation through the specific demands of the Olah offering. The animal had to be the worshiper's own, from their own herd or flock. It had to be without defect, meaning the best available, not the leftovers. And the entire animal went onto the fire. Nothing was taken back, nothing shared, nothing sold. That totality is the point.
The detail the congregation kept returning to was the worshiper laying a hand on the animal's head before it was killed. Brian connected that intimate, costly gesture to the difference between a real offering and a forced apology with nothing behind it. He also pressed on why verse 8 places the head on the altar first, drawing out the idea that surrendering the hardest thing opens the door for everything else to follow. The same Hebrew word, hola, appears in Exodus 24 when young men offer a whole burnt offering before the elders go up the mountain, and again when Moses walks into the consuming fire at the summit and disappears from view below. Brian said that connection is the author's intention, not his own reading, and that it points toward what this kind of offering actually pictures: a life given over completely, with nothing held back.
Both messages land at Romans 12:1 and its call to present yourself as a living sacrifice. Brian has said plainly that, "when we lay down our lives to ourselves, our own pride, our own gotta get it for myself, it's gonna feel like death." The burnt offering does not soften that. It is the offering that names the cost honestly and asks whether what you are bringing to God is truly yours, truly your best, and truly all of 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.