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 conviction that Israel is always on God's heart, and that this is not a minor theme in Scripture. Pastor Brian laid out a comparison of how often various subjects appear across the Bible, and Israel lands around 3,500 times, well above prayer, forgiveness, or even the name of Jesus. A large portion of the marriage references describe God as groom and Israel as bride, and a large portion of the parenting references describe God as father and Israel as child. He pointed the congregation to Jeremiah 31:35-37, where God says he would only consider casting off Israel once the heavens above had been fully measured and the foundations of the earth fully explored. The word never, Brian said, is built right into that promise.
Brian also anchored this in Isaiah 49:16, where God says he has written Israel's name on the palms of his hands and that Jerusalem's walls are always before him. He pressed the room to notice that God is speaking specifically about Israel in that verse, even as the truth of believers being grafted in remains real alongside it. That framing carried into the Unbreakable series, where Brian has worked through a Venn diagram of three overlapping circles to define who Israel is: covenantal faithfulness, genealogical descent, and sovereign election. Christians appear inside that diagram at all, he said, because they are adopted into God's family, grafted into the bloodline through Christ, and drawn in by God's initiative rather than their own.
Through the story of Joseph in Genesis 37, Brian extended that picture of faithfulness into the face of hostility and violence. Even as the historical survey of what has been done against Israel across thousands of years was sobering, he closed with the assurance that God has not walked away. 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."
Taught from Jeremiah 31:35-37 · Isaiah 49:16 · Jeremiah 31:1-22 · Genesis 37:1-20 · Psalms 94:14
“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.