Right out of the earth here this thing is; beautiful dormers and stainglasses and the whole thing, just marvelous." Sin promises the transgressors happiness, only to plunge him in sorrow. Lessons Drawn from Israel Under Moses. But Moses was angry. View Hebrews . Our confession is not reference to some formal subscription to any such thing as a creed but is used here to mean the holy religion of Christ. And though Moses besought the Lord, the Lord would not let him lead them into the land. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus. Note how delicately the inspired writer defers to the deserved honor of Moses, whom he did not belittle or diminish in any way. Here is a solemn warning against trusting in a majority or what is popular. We"ve got to know that there is greater power with us than that which is against us. (1a) Therefore: who we are in light of the previous paragraphs. Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Hebrews the third chapter. The Book of Hebrews makes a great thing of obedience, affirming that even Christ was made perfect by it (Hebrews 5:8,9) and that the salvation he authored is "unto all them that obey him"; and also marking especially the obedience of so illustrious a person as Abraham (Hebrews 11:8). Unbelief does not exist apart from antecedent evil in people's hearts. It promises joy, but delivers wretchedness, shame, misery, and remorse. They had begun so gloriously, led of God himself, seeing their enemies humbled by a series of shocking plagues, crossing the Red Sea on dry land, arming themselves from the wreckage of Pharaoh's drowned army, engaging in the most dramatic instantaneous exodus of all time, overcoming all obstacles, and singing the songs of triumph and victory; how could they have failed after all that? The word is always used in the plural, and we should note that we never hear of “Saint So-and-So.” 1 All God’s true people are called saints or … Today, if ye shall hear his voice is an appeal for action NOW. A three-year-old will ask, "Mommy, who made the cow?" He is deserving of more honor and glory. Commentaries for Hebrews Chapter 3 The Christian Hebrews reproved for their little progress in the knowledge of the gospel. Moses was only a man; Christ was and is both God and man. Hebrews 3 – Jesus, Superior to Moses A. You"re going to stay here in the wilderness until you all die and your children for whom you feared, they will be the ones who will go in and take the land. We are the royal priesthood. (Hebrews 3:1). The Son having been revealed, men are no longer under a servant, even so true and faithful a servant as Moses (Romans 2:28; 9:6-8; Galatians 6:15; John 8:39). The book of Hebrews was written to Hebrews. It would be nearly impossible to note all of the contrasts which proved the absolute supremacy and superiority of Christ over Moses, but enough are listed to give some indication of it. It is an eleven-day journey from Mount Horeb to Kadesh-Barnea the scripture says, but it took them forty years. There are many examples in all languages where such has occurred. Five definite facts emerge from this verse: (1) that it is possible for Christians to fall away from the living God; (2) that such a disaster is due to an unbelieving heart; (3) that an unbelieving heart is evil (not merely `smart'); (4) that God is not a mere influence but a living person; and (5) that there are adequate grounds upon which a Christian may avoid falling away. Moses delivered Israel from Egypt; Christ delivers from sin all who follow him. Westcott stated it thus: [3] Brooke Foss Westcott, The Epistle to the Hebrews (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. (5) The most important and all-encompassing reason for their failure was their unbelief, a condition bluntly noted in Hebrews 3:19 and Hebrews 4:2, below. Even in such a state, one may, if he will permit it, be softened and healed by the word of God. Hebrews 3:2-3. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. This verse is engraved in letters of stone over the principal portal of the Central Church of Christ, Houston, Texas. People may go a little at a time, further and further into sin, until finally they become hardened and confirmed in their rebellion against God. I"m cognizant of their need. The one who builds the house is greater than the house itself. People's deceitful hearts subconsciously desire to be deceived, thus making the deception far easier and more extensive than otherwise. God gave them the right to enter Canaan immediately upon their coming out of Egypt, but through unbelief and disobedience they failed to enter, Never, perhaps, in human history is there so clearly outlined a case in which the religious and spiritual failures of a people issued so promptly and irrevocably in their temporal and physical poverty as well, leaving the lesson for all to see. And so he"s going to show the superiority of Jesus. Both Moses and Jesus were faithful to deliver God's message to people, each in his own way, and each in his own capacity. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. So he who has built the house is greater than the house itself. We can"t do it. Reiterating the supremacy of Christ, the author, on the basis of a bold deduction, names Christians themselves as components of God's house, "whose house we are"! Respect to such a unity does not contradict the fact of progression in the will of God as he moved to abolish the old covenant and establish the new. Moses' body was buried and saw corruption; Christ's was spared that by means of the resurrection. We can"t take the land. These words take up and illustrate the lesson of Psalms 95 which had just been quoted at length. The Greek margin (English Revised Version (1885)) shows these words to be literally, "if they shall enter into my rest"; but the context demands a translation of such an idiomatic phrase in words that cannot be mistaken. (2) They exaggerated the dangers that confronted them, saying, "The land eateth up the inhabitants thereof" (Numbers 13:32). They were used to the high priest going in on the Day of Atonement and making atonement for the sins of the people. But God said, "Moses, come here, son. Wherefore, holy brethren ( Hebrews 3:1 ). Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build My church." "Is not my word like a fire, saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock into pieces?" It was in view of this unity that Jesus said. He could not take them into the rest. So we are needing to take heed that we not depart from the living God. Here"s the church. Indeed, if there is no such thing as the possibility that a true child of God might fall away and be lost, how could the author of this epistle have introduced such a subject, and how could he have warned them to "take heed" against a non-existent danger? Wherefore, I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. The most determined atheist, in his tenderest and most thoughtful hours, cannot escape the persuasive eloquence of that argument from design which demands a Designer. Just an awesome reality how God loves to dwell among His people. That mortal man should be considered holy is due to the imputation of Christ's righteousness and to their having received the gift of the Holy Spirit subsequent to their being baptized into Christ (Acts 2:38). [⇑ See verse text ⇑] This chapter points out that Jesus is a greater example than Moses. [6] W. H. Griffith Thomas, Hebrews (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. Every house is built by some man. In other words, God established His house, the spiritual house, through Moses. "No way." Instead of glorying in their faith and exhorting one another daily to maintain it, they permitted themselves to drift away from it, until in an evil hour they found themselves in a state of rebellion against God. You know, we had an earthquake and the earth was shaking and all, and pop. We"re going to perish. c. And if you"ve got a house, you have to have a builder of the house. Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, a. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to … Now it is interesting that the figure of the house is used for the congregation of the people of God. But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end. So we see, &c. — The conclusion we draw from the whole is, that they could not enter in because of unbelief — Though afterward they desired it. Moses, you misrepresented Me. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honor than the house ( Hebrews 3:2-3 ). Here are his words: The interrelation between design and the Designer is a fact observable alike by a little child or the wisest man who ever lived. They should have the grace to accept the sentiments of an old motto once said to be over the gates of the University of Glasgow; "What do they say? Since this is a quotation from Psalms 95:7, it is possible the author means, "As long as the Bible says Today." Moses' miracles were inferior to those of Christ, as in the changing of the water already noted, and because Christ raised the dead. Here we have the exhortation towards perseverance. ", "These things were all a shadow of things to come. Hebrews 3:1 The term “holy” or “saint” is one of the most frequent descriptions of God’s people in the New Testament. But here, the key to entering rest is revealed: belief. That rest will be deeply detailed in the next chapter. The living God identifies the God of the Christians as the creator, upholder, and governor of all the universe; and this expression is used several times in the New Testament. They need water. You look at a house and you like the architecture and the style and you say, "I wonder who built that house. Christ is to be considered as the Apostle of our profession, the Messenger sent by God to men, the great Revealer of that faith which we profess to hold, and of that hope which we profess to have... View the entire commentary The quotation here is from Psalms 95:7ff and introduces the second of a series of exhortations designed to bolster the lagging faith of the Hebrew Christians and to warn them against apostasy, the warning being strongly reinforced by the appeal to the analogous falling away which took place in that generation which entered the wilderness after their deliverance from Egypt but were cut off from entering the promised land. The statement that "all they" rebelled is hyperbole, exaggeration for the sake of emphasis; and, while it is true that Caleb and Joshua refused to be with the majority and survived to enter Canaan, "The exception was so small that the apostle had no scruple in saying that they all provoked God by their disobedience," as Barnes put it. They said, "We can"t go in. Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after ( Hebrews 3:4-5 ); So Moses was faithful; he gave to us the laws of God. Moses couldn"t bring them into God"s rest, and so he quotes from this Psalm. People who have accepted the truth and are actually in the faith of Christ, if they do not live up to the moral requirements of that faith, become alienated from it, grow to despise and hate it, and at last find themselves in rebellion against God. Regarding the word "confidence," its rather broad meaning accentuates the unity of this verse with the statement in Hebrews 3:6, "glorying of our hope." Hebrews 3 - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible . Bruce wrote: Bruce might have meant by that comment that a failure to continue means there was no reality to begin with, such being the thesis of Calvinism; but continuity must be viewed as a divinely imposed condition of salvation, upon the fulfillment of which destiny depends. "Yes. This is going to be the longest funeral procession in history. CHAPTER III. Actually, three times within the text. They came to Kadesh-Barnea in the beginning. Things just don"t happen that way, unless they"re man according to the evolutionary theory. But for the time being in chapter three, he is going to show us the superiority of Jesus over Moses through whom the priesthood was established. The inauguration of the Law of Moses and that of Christ had this in common: that three thousand souls were involved in each case, three thousand being lost at Sinai, three thousand being saved at Pentecost (Exodus 32:38; Acts 2:38ff). The word "works" in this place should be rendered in the singular, according to Westcott who observed that. T HE S ON OF G OD G REATER THAN M OSES, W HEREFORE U NBELIEF TOWARDS H IM W ILL I NCUR A H EAVIER P UNISHMENT THAN B EFELL U NBELIEVING I … No wonder children grow up asking in their hearts, "Do they really believe it?" Jesus, our chief priest. He Above Moses, as the Builder is Above the House. That lost generation of the Israelites suffered incredible hardships in the wilderness, being subject to the incursions of armed enemies, enduring hunger and thirst and wretchedness, being exposed to the sickening agonies inflicted by poisonous serpents, finding no certain habitation, marching every day of their lives in step with frustration, disease and death. . Moses did not merely deliver the Judaic system of religion; but, in the sense that the flower is contained in the bud, he delivered the Christian system also, identified in this verse as "those things afterward to be spoken." "Greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world" ( 1 John 4:4 ). Yes, sin deceives. Jesus is superior to Moses 3:1-6. v1 Brothers and sisters in Christ … (7) There is no better time than NOW to do the Father's will. 1, 2. Because you failed to represent Me before the people, Moses, I just can"t let you lead them into the land." Note the attribution of this Psalm of the Holy Spirit. They need water and I know that. How many people work side by side without ever knowing if a fellow-worker is even a Christian or not and who for months or years never mention either God or religion, except, perhaps, profanely! "Oh, come on, Lord. Moses gave to the people bread from heaven (Exodus 16:15); Christ gave the people loaves and fishes in the wilderness, a figure of him who is the Bread of Life (John 6:31,49ff). And it was through Moses that the tabernacle was set up and the dimensions and all declared. Take heed, brethren, lest haply there should be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God. The heavenly nature of this calling is not seen merely in the fact that it came from heaven, for the Jewish system did also. Such a reticence can be attributed to one's being ashamed of Christ. They came to the wilderness to the area of Meribah and they cried unto Moses and said, "You"ve brought us out here to die. You can"t have a house without a builder. By your obedience to the law, by your keeping the law, it will never bring you into rest. ", "We can"t go in. Any end whatsoever! (1-3) And in his superiority to all the holy angels. "I was angry." Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God ( Hebrews 3:12 ). Perhaps the words "to the end" are unspecific on purpose in order to cover a range of meanings such as: (1) the end of a particular period of temptation; (2) the end of life; (3) the end of the world; and (4) perhaps even "the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls" (1 Peter 1:9). [2] Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 16. Nowhere else in scripture is the title of "Apostle" applied to Christ, but it certainly fits the office of our Lord as the official messenger from heaven, since the primary meaning of the word is "one sent or commissioned for some important communication"; and although the word "apostle" is not in other places used of Christ, the meaning of it surely is. Moses was sinful, Christ is sinless (Deuteronomy 32:51,52; Hebrews 4:15). An additional implication in the meaning of the word "apostle" is that the person sending is greater in dignity than the one sent; and to make clear just what is meant by its reference to Jesus, the author of Hebrews uses the term "Jesus," that being the usual scriptural word where the human nature of our Lord is meant. But exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. He took his rod and he smote the rock. This singles out the principal superiority of Christ over Moses and affords another glimpse of the deity and Godhead of Christ, making Christ to be the builder of the house in which Moses served. A noted research chemist, Thomas David Parks, said: Christians ought not to be ashamed of the argument from design; for here it is in the word of God itself, commending itself to the unbiased mind, and standing absolutely uncontradicted by any vaunted achievements of science. You can"t have an effect without a cause. Both offered themselves to die for Israel (Exodus 32:32; John 10:17). Strangely enough, both of these directives lean heavily toward self-help! And so they wandered for forty years as an example of what happens when we, by our unbelief, fail to receive the promises of God. One might call that "the grasshopper complex" and find a great many examples of it today. Paul calls them, "holy brethren and partakers of the heavenly calling." The tenderness of the author appears in his use of "haply." It mocks the ship of Alexandria with the gentle zephyrs of the south wind (Acts 27:13), only to smite with the full fury of Euraquilo when the unwary ship has ventured out of its haven. Moses was faithful as a servant, Christ as a Son, over God's house. God said, "Moses, they"re thirsty. If you hear his voice raises the question of how God's voice may be heard today; and following are some suggested answers: (1) the voice of God through the holy scriptures as read or preached; (2) the admonitions of faithful loved ones and friends; (3) through conscience which, however depraved, must inevitably retain some vestiges of regard for duty toward God; (4) through the message of God as revealed by consideration of the creation in the light of reason; (5) through God's providential blessings upon every man; and (6) through the spiritual hunger that rises in every heart and which instinctively reaches for a knowledge of God and longs for his approval. "If we hold our confidence steadfast to the end.". It is extremely appropriate that the Being within whom the life principle is self-contained, and whose existence is eternally in the present tense ("I AM that I AM" - Exodus 3:14), should be called the living God. (3) The difficulty of obedience is only multiplied and compounded by delay. The deceitfulness of sin extends to every conceivable phase of it. Wherefore as the Holy Spirit saith, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works for forty years. Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness; Christ lifted himself upon the cross (John 3:14). For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. The tragic case of that lost generation in the wilderness is of epic proportions. Hebrews chapter 3 makes an important shift in topic. There are many people who have peace with God because they have been delivered from the power of sin from darkness into the kingdom of light, but they don"t have the peace of God. The application, of course, is that, if God spared not them, neither will he spare Christians guilty of the same conduct. "No." So there is the prophetic aspect to the writings of Moses that were fulfilled in Jesus. The climate for the proper maintenance of faith is not exclusively produced by, nor does it depend solely upon, external conditions. Moses brought only the patterns of things to come, Christ the realities. I wonder who drew up the designs. For we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus ( Hebrews 3:1 ); Here we are called upon to consider Jesus, and that"s what the book of Hebrews, really, is all about. Westcott said, "It is used by the Greek writers for firmness under torture; and generally for courageous firmness of character."[13]. ". 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