Hebrews

Jesus and Moses

Therefore, holy brothers, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our faith.

He is faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses was a faithful steward over God’s household. 

But Jesus deserves much greater honor than Moses since the one who builds the house is greater than the house. 

Just as every house has a builder, God is the builder of all. 

It is said that Moses was found faithful as a servant of God over all his household and as a witness of a previous revelation from God. 

But Christ was faithful as the Son to whom the house belongs, and we are his household, provided that we stand firm in our confidence and pride that belongs to hope.

The Today of God

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would hear his voice today!

Don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, 

where your ancestors challenged me, even though they had seen my deeds 

for forty years. That is why I was angry with those people and said: Their hearts are always going astray and they do not understand my ways. 

I was angry and made a solemn vow: They will never enter my rest. 

So, brothers, be careful, lest some of you come to have an evil and unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 

Encourage one another, day by day, as long as it is called ‘today.’ Let no one become hardened in the deceitful way of sin. 

We are associated with Christ, provided we hold steadfastly to our initial hope until the end.

As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

Who are those who, having heard, still rebelled? They were all those who came out of Egypt with Moses. 

With whom was God angry for forty years? With those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the desert. 

To whom did God swear that they would not enter into his rest? To those who had disobeyed. 

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.