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 fear of God does not treat it as a feeling to manage or a concept to file away. In the clarity series, Brian Hunter tied it directly to the daily texture of walking with God, arguing that clarity in a complicated life does not require a louder word from heaven or more information. What it requires is fear of the Lord. Brian says, "It is your fear of him that will keep you close beside him." The logic is simple and pointed: you don't have to hear an audible voice or successfully discern God's will in every circumstance. The fear of the Lord is already enough to orient you.
That fear, in Brian's teaching, is not the kind that drives you away from God but the kind that keeps you near him. It sits alongside obedience as the practical engine of a life that moves forward when everything is complex and confusing. Moses, standing in the middle of a political disaster with the Israelites turning against him and Pharaoh tightening the screws, did not receive new information. He received a God who named what he himself would do, and Moses had to decide whether the fear of that God was enough to take the next step. Brian's read of Exodus is that it was, and that the step itself is what released grace into the situation.
The fear of God also shows up in the Isaiah 63 teaching as something produced by a clear-eyed look at who this figure actually is. The warrior coming out of Edom in blood-stained robes, announcing salvation with the full weight of the name Yahweh behind it, is not a figure who leaves room for a casual or domesticated response. Brian's point in pressing on that portrait was that mature faith reckons with both the cost of what was fought and the identity of the one who fought it, and that reckoning is where genuine fear of the Lord begins.
Taught from Exodus 3:1-10 · Exodus 6:1-8 · Isaiah 63:1-9
“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?
- 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
- 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.