Free Bible Commentary
“Hebrews 3:1-6”
Categories: Hebrews“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.”
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We should look to Jesus as the paragon of faithfulness (verse 2) in our times of distress. We must “consider” (give careful attention to) Him when we are tempted to abandon our faith and throw our eternal future away. Christians partake, not in an ordinary, secular profession, but in a “heavenly calling” through Jesus. God calls us FROM heaven and TO heaven by His Son through His word.
Jesus is the “Apostle” of our confession (commitment) in that He was “sent” from heaven by the Father to rescue us from the slavery of sin (Hebrews 2:15), and He is the “High Priest” of our confession in that He offered himself as the atoning sacrifice for the sins that separate us from God (Hebrews 2:17) and His eternal rest (verse 11). Jesus was sent by God as an Apostle and He presents us to the Father as a High Priest.
Jesus is greater than the angels of heaven, through whom the Law of Moses was delivered (Hebrews 2:2), and even greater than Moses himself (verse 3). It was a challenge for a faithful Jew to elevate any man above the station of “the great law-giver,” who was the “apostle” and “mediator” of God’s law and covenant with Israel that was ratified on Mount Sinai. Both Moses and Jesus were faithful in the administration of their duties over God’s “house” (family). But Jesus is “worthy of more glory than Moses” because the Son of God is “builder” (Creator) of the house and not merely a created (yet faithful) servant like Moses (verses 5-6).
Because of Jesus’ absolute obedient faithfulness in His execution of the Father’s plan of salvation for us, faithful Christians are a privileged part of the household of God (verse 6). As brethren of Jesus and faithful children of the Great I Am, we have every right and reason to “hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.” Stay faithful. Like Jesus. To the very end. No matter what. It will be more than worth it!
Please read Hebrews 3:7-11 for tomorrow.
Have a great day!
- Louie Taylor
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