My House

Hebrews 3-Part 2
For every house has a builder by some man; but the one who built everything is God. 
Hebrews 3:4 NLT
But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God's entire house, and we are God's house, if we keep our couraage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.  (verse 6-NLT)


LET IT GLOW

The house I grew up in, and am currently living in, is probably around 75 years old. I don't know the exact year it was built, but the abstract goes back to 1901. After my parents bought it in the '40's, they added a bathroom and an backporch, which became enclosed as the laundry room. Later on, they remodeled the house in the 70's,  and added on a few more feet for a fireplace and a bar with a modern kitchen. Also, they replaced the old wooden windows with double paned ones,  rocked the outside half way up, and added siding to the top. Even though the house was a modernized house, it was still a  building. It wasn't as valuable as the people who lived there. So it is with our church. It is a building where people meet to worship and fellowship, but it isn't as important as the people, the family of God. I'm glad to be a part of the family of God, aren't you?

In reading verses 1-6, I noticed the word house appeared six times. Now that made me take notice and you know that I had to look up the word.
In the Thayer's Lexicon, house, in these verses, means the family of God.
In verse 6, Christ is identified as a son over his own house.

 Liberty Bible Commentary says:

The translation, his own, is stronger than the Greek (auton). It is his house. But His house is the same as God's house (verse 3). There is only one house involved in these verses. It is not Moses' house; it is not ours. It is God's. Moses was a part of this one house. It is what Paul calls the household of God (Eph.2;19); or the household of faith (Gal. 6:10). It includes all believers of all time. We are included-whose house are we. It continues as a present reality, of which we are part.

Hey friends, you and I are a part of this house, the family of God, if we have Jesus Christ as our Savior.
If God built all things, and Jesus Christ built God's house, then Jesus Christ must be God.

LET IT GROW

In the first six verses of chapter 3, we read of a contrast between Jesus and Moses. Here's what I find:

• Jesus was appointed Apostle and High Priest/Moses was a leader of the Hebrews, God's chosen people. (verse 2)
• Jesus was the builder of the church/Moses was the contractor for the Tabernacle
• Jesus delivers people from sin spiritual bondage by His grace/ Moses delivered the Hebrews from the Egyptian physical bondage.
• Jesus fulfilled the Law/Moses was a prophet of the Law, Ten Commandments.
• Jesus is the New Covenant/Moses was under the Old Covenant.
• Jesus is God's Son/Moses was God's servant.
• Jesus was sinless/Moses was sinful.
• Jesus's sacrifice removes our sins/Moses sacrificial system covered sins.

A conclusion can be drawn that "Jesus is Superior to Moses." The first century Jews had a problem with this. They could not let go of the Law and love Jesus as the Messiah. God used Moses for His purpose in his time, but he was not THE SAVIOR.

Which one do I hold? Is Jesus Superior to me?

"Both Moses and Christ faithfully fulfilled their individual, divine appointments to care for the people of God," states MacArthur Bible Commentary.

Am I striving to fulfill my divine appointment, God's purpose for my life today?

Looking back at verse 6b, it says, And we are God's house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ. (NLT)
King James Version says, ...if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Continuence in the Christian life is the test of reality. (Bruce)
The life of a saint is the evidence of a new life in the saint. God's new life will manifest itself in his life. (Romans 6,8)

Am I continuing my Christian walk of faith with courage, confidence, hope, rejoicing until its on earth?

LET IT GO

Are my  action exemplifying that I am a part of the family of God?

Keep Moses' teachings as a guideline for my life, but Jesus' teachings as a way of life.