What does Tribe teach about jealousy?
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 jealousy starts by pulling apart two very different things that share the same name. In the series on Israel, Brian walked the congregation through Romans 11:11, where Paul says God used the Gentiles' reception of salvation to make Israel jealous. Rather than reading that as something uncomfortable to explain away, Pastor Brian drew a firm line between fallen human jealousy and what he called God's noble jealousy. The difference, he said, comes down to the nature of the covenant. Because God gives himself completely, he is rightly jealous for a complete return. That jealousy is not petty or grasping but the natural consequence of total self-giving, and seeing it clearly changes how a person reads Israel's whole story.
The darker, human side of jealousy got its own treatment in the later Unbreakable series. Pastor Brian introduced the word vandal as a lens for understanding how Israel has been treated among the nations, and he traced vandalism back to jealousy at its root. Weak people, he said, commit acts of vandalism because they see something they cannot create or take for themselves, so they destroy it instead. That pattern showed up in Genesis 37, where Joseph's brothers, consumed by that same spirit, plotted against him simply because of who he was. The point was not only historical. Pastor Brian turned it inward and asked whether anyone in the room had experienced that same kind of destruction aimed at them personally.
Running underneath both messages is the conviction that jealousy, in its corrupted human form, moves a person away from love. Joy's word from 1 Corinthians 13 landed here: love does not rejoice about injustice, and the test of any theological conclusion is whether it moves a person toward love or away from it. The congregation's prayer through the twenty-one-day fast captured the posture the teaching was aiming for. Brian says, "Break our hearts, Lord, for what breaks you. Wreck us for what you love and for what you care about."
Taught from Romans 11:11-12 · Genesis 37:1-20 · 1 Corinthians 13:6 · Romans 11:13-15 · Romans 11:28
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 13:6
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- February 8, 2026 Surrounded By Vandals Pastor Brian Hunter explores who Israel is, what antisemitism looks like today, and how Joseph's story connects to God's unbreakable commitment to his people.
- September 25, 2023 Making Room for Israel Brian Hunter walks Tribe through Romans 11, exploring God's heart for Israel during a 21-day fast and what it means for believers grafted into that story.