What does Tribe teach about god's faithfulness?
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 God's faithfulness starts with the recognition that His commitment to Israel is not a minor biblical theme. Pastor Brian has made this one of the clearest entry points into understanding who God is and how He keeps His word. Drawing from Jeremiah 31:35-37, where God says He would only consider casting off Israel once the heavens had been fully measured and the foundations of the earth fully explored, Brian pressed the congregation to hear what that language actually means: the word never is built into the promise. Isaiah 49:16 puts it even more personally, with God saying He has written Israel's name on the palms of His hands and that Jerusalem's walls are always before Him.
Brian has also been clear that God's faithfulness is not only historical but relational and ongoing. The Venn diagram he has been building across the Unbreakable series, with its three overlapping circles of covenantal faithfulness, genealogical descent, and sovereign election, is his way of showing the congregation that Israel's relationship with God is not accidental or revocable. Christians enter that story not by replacing Israel but by being adopted in, grafted into something God has been sustaining across thousands of years by His own initiative. The Vandalism Israel has experienced across history does not contradict that faithfulness. Brian says, "The Lord would say, the restoration of all things is coming. His heart breaks that you have been vandalized, and he will make all wrong things right."
The practical weight Brian places on this is significant. He has said that failure to think rightly about Israel will result in either blatant or inadvertent antisemitism, and that this generation is at a major fork in the road on the question. Understanding God's unbreakable faithfulness to Israel, he argues, is not an optional theological curiosity. It shapes how the congregation reads Scripture, how it understands its own identity in Christ, and how it navigates a cultural moment full of competing narratives about the Jewish people and the land.
Taught from Jeremiah 31:35-37 · Isaiah 49:16 · Jeremiah 31:1-22 · Psalms 94:14 · Genesis 37:1-20
“A vandal is a weak person. They expend energy but not to create of their own, not to make something beautiful of their own, not to innovate of their own, not to improve, but just to tear down.”
From Unbreakable Week 5： Surrounded by Vandals, Part 2
The passage taught · Galatians 3
1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- February 23, 2026 Unbreakable Week 5： Surrounded by Vandals, Part 2 Brian Hunter walks through Israel's history of persecution, asks why antisemitism persists, and connects God's faithfulness to a chosen people with his faithfulness to every broken life.
- January 19, 2026 Israel Is Always on God's Heart Brian Hunter opens a new series on Israel, exploring why Scripture returns to this subject 3,500 times and what that means for how we understand God's heart.