Welcome to Day 2234 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Hebrews-4 Moses, Messiah, and Me – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 05/07/2023 “Messiah, Moses, and Me” Hebrews 3:1-6 Last week, we continued our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. We focused on Jesus: the “Pioneer of our Perfection,” and learned three essential principles to have hope in suffering. Today in Hebrews 3:1-6 we will explore how the Messiah (Jesus) is greater than Moses. To fully understand the importance of this passage, we must take on the mindset of a first-century Christian Jew facing hardship and persecution. Let’s begin by reading today’s passage on pages 1864-1865 in the Pew Bibles. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 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. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”[a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. Though the very words of the book of Hebrews are “God-breathed”/—the inspired and inerrant Word of God—/the chapter and verse numbers are not. They are artificial insertions to make citations and cross-referencing easier. Nevertheless, I’m not sure what we’d do without them. The chapter and verse additions are certainly helpful, but sometimes, they give the impression that the inspired author intended a hard break from one chapter to the next. When we step across the threshold into Hebrews 3, we shouldn’t imagine a door separating this passage from what precedes. Instead, the author ties together Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 with an essential logical connector—“therefore”—which indicates continuity. (Clip lanyards together) We may be stepping from one thought to another, but we’re stepping through an open doorway. The author expects us to take along everything he has been discussing up to this point. In the previous chapters, the author continued to develop the theme that Christ is superior in His person and work. Not only is He superior to the prophets and angels /(chapters 1–2), but having persevered through temptation, pain, and death, /He is also superior to temptation, sin, and suffering. As such, His help is available to us right now,/ whenever we find ourselves threatened by rising floods or raging storms. /In addition, Jesus is always there to help us in trials or temptations—faithful to come to our aid (2:16–18). With this basic understanding of Christ as our superior prophet, priest, and king, the author of Hebrews is ready to hit his Jewish Christian readers where this truth would likely hurt the most: the ministry of Moses. (mindset) 3:1 Hebrews 3...
