What does Tribe teach about isaiah 63?
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 Isaiah 63 starts with a single question Brian Hunter presses on the congregation: who is this figure marching in from the desert? The portrait Isaiah paints is not the familiar Sunday school version of Jesus. He comes sweeping out of Edom and the city of Basra, clothes stained red, moving with singular purpose and unmistakable strength. Brian traces the progression of portraits Isaiah had already given, infant, royal child, chosen servant, suffering servant, and then puts this one in front of the room as something different and harder to look away from.
The answer the figure gives is where the weight lands. Brian says, "It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation. It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save." That declaration is not a suggestion or a gentle offer. It is a command, the uncreated God announcing that he and he alone can solve the problem no human effort, moral resume, or self-help effort can touch. Every person has fallen short, and the distance between a holy God and sinful humanity cannot be closed from the human side.
Brian is also careful not to let the rescue collapse into sentiment. The blood-stained clothes and the wine press are not treated as pure allegory. Before the Messiah reaches the locked door where humanity is held captive, a bloody and costly battle has already been fought. Brian says, "In all their suffering, he also suffered and he personally rescued them." He describes recognizing that cost, not just the rescue, as a mark of maturity in faith. The closing verses of the passage then shift entirely into unfailing love and mercy, a God who lifts his people and carries them, which Brian reads as the full portrait Isaiah intended all along.
Taught from Isaiah 63:1-9 · Song of Solomon 8:5 · Isaiah 52-53 · Isaiah 9 · Romans 3:23
“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
Messages that go deeper
- 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?