What does Tribe teach about god's sovereignty?
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 sovereignty starts with a simple but weighty claim: God owns everything, and he does what he pleases with his own property. Brian Hunter has grounded this in three passages that he treats as foundation stones. Psalm 24:1 establishes that the earth belongs to the Lord and everything in it. Daniel 4:35 makes clear that he does what he pleases among the angels and among people, and no one can stop him or demand an explanation. Leviticus 25:23 adds that even the land promised to Israel was never truly theirs to sell, because it belongs to God and they are only tenant farmers on it. The point Brian draws from all three is not complicated: God is absolutely trustworthy in exercising that sovereignty, even when we find ourselves in prayer asking why he is not running his decisions past us first.
That sovereignty also extends to the instruments God chooses to work through, and Brian has pressed the congregation to resist the temptation to disqualify those instruments because of their imperfection. The clearest example he used was King Cyrus of Persia, a pagan idol worshiper who received worship himself, yet whom God calls 'my shepherd' and 'his anointed one' in Isaiah 44 and 45. In Ezra 1, this same Cyrus issues the decree allowing Jewish exiles to return home and rebuild the temple. Brian invited the congregation to sit with that tension rather than resolve it too quickly, because the broader lesson is that God's sovereignty is not undone by the imperfection of the people or movements he works through.
Both of these threads come together in what Brian teaches about how God's purposes relate to specific people and places. God's gifts and calling, as Romans 11 puts it in the specific context of Israel, are irrevocable. That covenant runs through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Psalm 105 names the land of Canaan as part of what was promised and describes that covenant as never ending. Brian brings this home personally as well. He has said his heart is that the congregation would reckon seriously with what God has said belongs to them, putting it plainly: 'My heart is that you would own and fully possess all that God has said belongs to you.'
Taught from Psalm 24:1 · Daniel 4:35 · Romans 11:28-29 · Psalms 105:7-8 · Leviticus 25:23
“Borders drawn without God are lines drawn against God.”
From Unbreakable Week 7： The Land of Promise
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- March 9, 2026 Unbreakable Week 7： The Land of Promise Brian Hunter walks through the biblical and historical question of who owns the land of Israel, from Genesis to modern maps, and what it means for your own inheritance in God.
- March 1, 2026 God's Sovereignty Is Not Compromised Brian Hunter works through the meaning of Zionism, God's sovereignty over imperfect people and nations, and what Scripture says about Israel's place in God's covenant purposes.