What does Tribe teach about who is jesus?
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 who Jesus is starts with a portrait most people never encountered in Sunday school. Brian Hunter has worked through Isaiah 63:1-9 in depth, pressing on a single question the text itself asks: who is this figure marching in from the desert, clothes stained red, moving with singular purpose and unmistakable strength? Brian traces the progression of portraits Isaiah had already painted of the Messiah before that chapter, infant, divine royal child, chosen servant, suffering servant, and then sets this warrior figure against all of them. The answer the figure gives is the one that lands hardest: "It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save." Brian reads that declaration not as a suggestion but as a command, something meant to reverberate.
Brian has also pressed on the cost behind the rescue. The blood-stained clothes and the imagery of a wine press are not treated as pure allegory. He says that immature faith fixates on the ransoming, the prince arriving at the tower, while mature faith also reckons with the bloody battle that had to be fought first. As the text itself records, "In all their suffering, he also suffered and he personally rescued them." The same passage then pulls into a completely different register, describing unfailing love, mercy, and a God who lifts his people and carries them. Brian holds both pictures together as the full portrait of who Jesus is.
In earlier messages in the series on truth, Brian approached the question from a different angle, asking the congregation to consider where they have hung the weight of their deepest beliefs. He walked through the liar, lunatic, or Lord framework, arguing that when a person seriously considers the claims Jesus made about himself, the only reasonable conclusion is that he is Lord. The hook of a personal God who entered history through Jesus, lived without sin, died, and rose again is, in Brian's teaching, the only hook strong enough to bear the weight a person puts on it.
Taught from Isaiah 63:1-9 · Isaiah 52-53 · Isaiah 9 · Song of Solomon 8:5 · John 1:1,14
“It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save.”
From Who Is This？ The Champion from the Wilderness
The passage taught · Isaiah 11
1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- 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?
- July 1, 2024 The Hook That Will Not Fail You Pastor Brian Hunter preaches on hanging your beliefs on hooks that can bear the weight, using Isaiah 22 to explore where we place our faith and why it matters.
- June 30, 2024 The Greatest Hook A sermon from Jackson Hole about where you place your deepest beliefs, and why the hook you hang them on matters more than you might think.
Mentioned along the way
- December 25, 2023 Tribe Christmas Eve Service Brian Hunter shares the Christmas story on Jackson Hole's Town Square, tracing it from the garden to Bethlehem and inviting anyone to receive forgiveness and new life.