Hebrews 3
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Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Therefore -
HOLY brothers and sisters
who share in a heavenly calling
I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
Consider Jesus
The Apostle - Sent one
And HIGH PRIEST
of our CONFESSION
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.
He - Jesus - was faithful to the one who appointed him - Who appointed Jesus?
Once again a connection to Moses. Why?
We will see how Jesus is superior to Moses, and Moses worshipped Jesus.
So the Word of God is going to begin making the connection, for those Israelites who understand the Scriptures (OT), that Jesus is the one who has always been, meaning He is God, and that their belief in Him is on solid ground.
For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.
Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.
Moses was faithful as a servant -
When Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed in him and in his servant Moses.
Not so with my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my household.
I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.
So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name.
But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
Son VS Servant
Son Over His Household
You are my SON - baptism of Jesus
Jesus was about the Father’s business
“Why were you searching for me?” he asked them. “Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house?”
When Jesus was a boy, He understood that the son was to be in the Father’s House, learning about the Father’s business.
WE ARE THAT HOUSEHOLD
You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?
Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested me, tried me,
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation
and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
and they have not known my ways.”
So I swore in my anger,
“They will not enter my rest.”
This is Psalm 95:7-11
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
And the seed on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. Having no root, these believe for a while and fall away in a time of testing.
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to walk worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and provide for themselves.
so that none of you is hardened - God can give you over to your hardened hearts
But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples, and conducted discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
Sin’s Deception
to take off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,
For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.
As it is said:
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?
All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Your corpses will fall in this wilderness—all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more—because you have complained about me.
So he raised his hand against them with an oath
that he would make them fall in the desert
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
