What does Tribe teach about banner of love?
Drawn from the message 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 banner of love is rooted in Isaiah 62 and in the straightforward question Pastor Brian put to the room: what banner is actually flying over your life? Working through Isaiah 62:10-12, Brian traced the image of a raised flag for all the nations and connected it to what the congregation is watching unfold in Israel and in their own lives. The passage is not read as distant prophecy but as something with present weight, a call to consider what standard you are living under and what you are proclaiming to the people around you.
The thread tightens around a single line from Song of Solomon 2:4, the one the room returned to more than once: Brian says, "His banner over me is love." That banner is not a vague sentiment. It stands in contrast to every other flag a person might drift under, whether the slow taint of cultural lies, years spent in practices that pull away from God, or simply unresolved sin that becomes a boulder in the road for others. The baptism of Ali in the Snake River on October 31 was held up as a visible, public moment of someone tearing down one banner and raising another.
The highway imagery of Isaiah 62 and Isaiah 35 shaped how Brian framed the congregation's responsibility. Preparing the way is not passive. The boulders in the road are often us, and the banner of love is what gets raised when that ground is cleared. The teaching holds together the personal and the outward-facing: living under God's love in an honest, unobstructed way is itself the witness.
Taught from Isaiah 62 · Song of Solomon 2:4 · Isaiah 35:8-10 · Acts 1:6-8 · Psalm 91
“Nobody paves a road for no reason.”
From Throw Open the Gates
The passage taught · Acts 1:6-8
6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- November 13, 2023 Throw Open the Gates Brian Hunter walks through Isaiah 62, exploring what it means to clear the road for God's people, replace false banners with God's love, and pray for Israel.