What does Tribe teach about debt canceled?
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 debt canceled is rooted in the encounter between Jesus and a woman with a broken past, told in Luke 7:36-50. Pastor Brian walked through the scene at Simon the Pharisee's table, where two people in the same room responded to Jesus in completely different ways. One, the woman, came undone in the best possible sense, pouring out everything she had at his feet. The other, Simon, sat back in polite distance, convinced he had managed fine on his own. The contrast is the whole point: the person who knows how much has been forgiven loves deeply, and the person who thinks they owe little feels little.
Brian drew out the weight of what it means to actually encounter Jesus rather than simply observe him. The woman in the story had a rough past and had been delivered from evil spirits, and what she did at his feet was not theater. It was the overflow of a heart that had been genuinely touched. That kind of response is what a canceled debt produces. It changes the way a person moves, what they give, and what they are willing to look foolish doing in front of others.
The same message held space for people carrying mountains they cannot move on their own, whether the weight is financial, relational, or something else entirely. Brian pointed to Zechariah's word to Zerubbabel, that the obstacle comes down not by might or power but by the Spirit, and that grace spoken over a situation changes things. He says, "If you keep ramming at this mountain in your own strength, you're just gonna end up with a headache, and the mountain will still be there." The invitation is to stop straining and let the same Jesus who canceled the debt also handle what feels immovable.
Taught from Luke 7:36-50 · Zechariah 4:6-7 · Psalms 32:1 · Micah 7:16-20
“Kiss the sun or lick the dust. The choice is yours.”
From Kiss the Sun or Lick the Dust
The passage taught · John 11
1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 24, 2023 Kiss the Sun or Lick the Dust A woman's extravagant act of worship at Jesus' feet shows two ways every person will ultimately respond to him: with love and gratitude, or pride and rejection.