What does Tribe teach about temptation?
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 temptation starts with Jesus in the wilderness in Matthew 4. Amanda Lack walked the congregation through those verses and set a baseline that shapes everything else: being uncomfortable is not the same thing as being abandoned. The Spirit led Jesus directly into the wilderness immediately after his baptism and immediately before his public ministry, and Amanda argued that sequence is not coincidental. The wilderness was not an interruption but preparation, a deliberate part of what connected who Jesus was declared to be and what he was sent to do.
The three temptations Jesus faced each carried the same opening move: an attack on his identity right after the Father had publicly spoken over him. Amanda pointed out that the enemy still works this way, targeting the last thing God said about you by pointing to your circumstances instead. The congregation also noted that the first temptation, turning stones to bread when Jesus was physically at his weakest, was not obviously wrong on its face, which is exactly what makes temptation dangerous. On the second, Satan quoted Psalm 91 but left parts out, bending scripture toward something that makes God look more like a genie than a king. The pattern across all three was that Jesus stood on who he actually was and what God had actually said, and the enemy had nothing left to work with.
Justin Waters brought a connected thread in a separate message, drawing the line from Israel's failure to drive out the Canaanites in Deuteronomy and Judges into the practical reality of what temptation costs when a believer decides to manage sin rather than kill it. He said plainly that he had lived that compromise himself, showing up faithfully on the outside while harboring patterns he would not let anyone touch. The posture Tribe teaches is not passive resistance but active, ruthless turning. As Justin put it, "It's cost me way more to coddle and pamper my flesh than it has to crucify it." The victory, both messages agreed, is already secured in Christ. What remains is the decision to take it seriously.
Taught from Matthew 4:1-11 · Deuteronomy 8:2-5 · Galatians 5:24-25 · Romans 8:12-13 · James 4:7
“Being uncomfortable is not the same thing as being abandoned.”
From Uncomfortable Is Not the Same as Abandoned
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- August 19, 2024 Uncomfortable Is Not the Same as Abandoned Amanda Lack opens Matthew 4 with Tribe church in Jackson Hole, walking through Jesus in the wilderness and what his example means for the hard seasons we all face.
- August 18, 2024 Jesus In The Wilderness Amanda Lack walks through Jesus in the wilderness, looking at his three temptations and what they teach us about identity, trust, and how to endure hard seasons.
- April 15, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker leads Tribe church through Deuteronomy, Galatians and Romans, calling believers to stop coddling sin and ruthlessly cut out whatever pulls them from God.
- April 14, 2024 Devoted to Destruction A guest speaker at a Wyoming church walks through Scripture on why followers of Jesus must fully destroy sinful patterns rather than make room for them.
Mentioned along the way
- January 30, 2023 Worship and Prayer A Sunday of worship, prayer, and communion at a Wyoming church, where members shared personal struggles, prayed the Lord's Prayer line by line, and sought forgiveness together.