Jesus More Worthy Than Moses
Hebrews 3Therefore, holy siblings, partakers of a heavenly calling, y’all must fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we confess as our Apostle and High Priest. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all ʜɪꜱ house. For he has been deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of the house has more honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Truly “Moses was faithful in all ʜɪꜱ house as a servant,”+Num 12:7 for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken in the future. But Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. We are ʜɪꜱ house, if we hold fast our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
The Unbelief of the Israelites
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if y’all hear his voice, y’all must not harden your* hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where y’all’s ancestors tested and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they haven’t known my ways.’ So I swore in my wrath, ‘They will never enter my rest.’”+Psa 95:7-11Siblings, y’all must see to it that none of y’all has an evil heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. But y’all are to exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, so that none of y’all may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold our initial confidence firmly to the end, As it is said,
“Today if y’all hear ʜɪꜱ voice, don’t harden y’all’s hearts, as in the rebellion.”+Psa 95:7-8For who was it that heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? To whom did God swear that they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief.