Hebrews 3

Hello study sisters !

 In our group on Wednesday we reviewed a bit of the Old Testament concerning Moses and who he is and how he fit into God’s plan for the Israelites and for us :). If you are not familiar w Moses take a gander at Exodus 17:1-7 or your sermon notes from the Tab series on the book (granted that will not be a quick effort but enlightening).

 Moses led the Israelites for 40 years on a journey that should only have taken 3 months as the crow flies. They were going to the Promised Land, a place of rest from their journey. Who got to enter the Promised Land? Who did not?

 This journey is a shadow of our lives on earth and our rest eternally in Heaven when we exit the desert of this life. Remember how God was w the Israelites every day in the desert, He fed them every morning. He was their GPS by day and their night light every night. He was visible and powerful and yet they did not all see Him. Just like we can miss seeing Him in the day to day business of being us.

Hebrews.3.1-19.ESV Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who (Jesus)  was faithful to him (God) who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son.

How do a servant and a son have different investment in the house they share?

And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.  Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’   As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

Take a minute and turn to Psalm 95:7-11. Again we see the Old Testament and the New Testament weaving together the history of God’s people. Also as you look at this verse and the verse before it do you see the Trinity mentioned?

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Great reminder to have other sisters in Christ who knows us well. It is so easy to convince ourselves that our sin isn’t really sinful, or not that bad. We need each other.

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he (God) provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he (God) swear that they would not enter his (God) rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Who are they?

The nation of Israel is referred to as God’s chosen people, chosen for a specific purpose and a specific time. We are chosen too. Chosen for a specific time and purpose.Their leader was Moses, a servant in the house of God; ours is Jesus the Son of God and builder of the house. To whom much is given , much is required. We have been given much.

Read 1 Peter 2:9&10 and Luke 12:48

Do you feel chosen? Do you see your night light or use your GPS?

What have you been given?

What is your purpose? How is God calling you to use it?

God loves you and so do I, h