What does Tribe teach about fear of god?
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 fear of God starts with a simple and uncommon claim: that fear is not the opposite of closeness with God but the very thing that sustains it. In the clarity series, Brian Hunter told the congregation plainly that when life is complex and discernment feels out of reach, the answer is not a louder word from God or more information. It is the fear of the Lord. As Brian put it, "It is your fear of him that will keep you close beside him." That is not a warning meant to push people away. It is the thing that holds them near.
Brian drew this out through the story of Moses, showing that even after God had spoken directly and made a long list of promises, Moses could still get turned around by complexity and confusion. The path through was not more clarity from heaven but simple obedience to what had already been said. Brian told the room, "You don't need to hear his voice. You don't need to discern his will. What you need is the fear of the Lord." That fear, rightly understood, is what moves a person to take the small step of faith that releases God's grace into a hard situation.
This teaching sits alongside what Brian returns to in other messages: that approaching a holy God is not casual business. The God of Isaiah 63 announces salvation with the force of a command, not a suggestion, and the portrait Isaiah paints is of a figure who fought a costly battle before ever reaching the people he came to rescue. The fear of the Lord, in this church's teaching, is the appropriate response to that kind of God, and far from being a burden, it is described as the very thing that orients a person correctly and keeps them walking close.
Taught from Exodus 6:1-8 · Exodus 3:1-10 · Isaiah 63:1-9
“Your faith releases his grace.”
From Clarity Comes With Simple Obedience
The passage taught · Exodus 3:1-10
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
2 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”
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The messages that teach on it
- January 29, 2024 Clarity Comes With Simple Obedience When life feels impossibly complex, clarity comes through simple obedience. Pastor Brian Hunter walks through Exodus to show how faith releases God's grace.
Mentioned along the way
- November 24, 2025 Who Is This？ The Champion from the Wilderness Brian Hunter walks through Isaiah 63 to paint a portrait of Jesus as both tender savior and conquering king, asking the question: who is this man?
- November 23, 2025 Who Is This Man? A pastor in Jackson Hole traces a striking portrait of Jesus through Isaiah 63, asking the question: who is this warrior-king marching in from the desert?
- February 17, 2025 Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves Brian Hunter opens a new series in Leviticus and Galatians, exploring what it really costs to live in relationship with God and why something always has to die.