Sermon Recap
Easter Sunday at Tribe
Brian Hunter · April 5, 2026
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?”
“Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.”
Scripture Referenced
Recap
Easter at Tribe was built on Psalm 22, and the way in was to point out what it actually is. These are lyrics. Somebody wrote this song a thousand years before Jesus, and the line Jesus cried from the cross was the opening line of a song the crowd standing there would have known.
David wrote it out of his own life, and Brian was careful not to flatten that. We know a great deal about David’s circumstances and still do not know exactly what he was going through when he wrote it. The psalm is a real man’s real anguish first. That it also describes pierced hands and feet, bones on display, and clothing divided by lot is what makes it extraordinary rather than what makes it convenient.
The message moved from the psalm to the place. By Jesus’ day there was a vast temple complex where people came, and a man who healed the sick and did things nobody could explain and then told those he healed to say nothing about it. The restraint is part of the story.
Then the turn Easter exists for. What reads in the natural as loss and heartbreak is the opposite here, and the reason it matters personally is that Jesus went through it. He knows what it is to feel alone. That is not a doctrine being explained, it is a person who has been where the room has been.
If you have never read Psalm 22 straight through in one sitting, that is the homework this message hands you. It is the clearest place in the Old Testament to watch the crucifixion described by someone who could not have been describing it.