Hebrews Chapter 3

The Son’s Superiority over Moses

¹ So, holy “children” that take part in the heavenly calling, pay close attention to Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of what we profess. ² He was faithful to the One that appointed him just like Moses was in his house. ³ But Jesus has been considered worthy of more honor than Moses—as much more as a house builder has more honor than the house. ⁴ Somebody builds every house; God has built everything. ⁵ Moses was faithful as a servant in his house to testify about things that would be spoken later; ⁶ Christ^Messiah was faithful as a Son over his house. We are that house if we stay confident and take pride in our hope.                                                                           

Heb 3:1-6

Being Sensitive to Righteousness

            ⁷ So, like the Holy Spirit says,

                        “Today, if you hear him speaking to you,

                                    ⁸ don’t harden your hearts

                                    like they did when they rebelled

and tested me in the desert,

                                    ⁹ where your ancestors tested me at Meribah,

                                    and saw what I did ¹⁰ for 40 years.

That generation wasn’t pleasing to me,

                                    and I said,

‘They always stray in their hearts;

                                    they don’t know my ways.’

                        ¹¹ As I swore in my anger,

                                    ‘They’re not going to go into my rest!’” [Ps 95:7-11]                                 

Heb 3:7-11

            ¹² Be careful so there won’t be an evil, disbelieving “heart” in any of you, and you fall away from the living God. ¹³ Encourage one another every day as long as it’s “Today” so sin’s deception doesn’t “harden” you. ¹⁴ You’ve become partakers of Christ if you hold firm to the end the assurance you had at the first— ¹⁵ while he says,

                        “Today, if you hear him speaking to you,

                                    don’t harden your hearts

like they did when they rebelled against me” [Ps 95:7-8].

¹⁶ Who “rebelled” against him when they “heard”? Wasn’t it everybody that Moses brought out of Egypt? ¹⁷ Who was he “angry” with for “40 years”? Wasn’t it the ones who sinned and their corpses fell in the “desert”? ¹⁸ Who’d he “swear” wouldn’t “go into his rest” but the ones that disbelieved? ¹⁹ We can see that they couldn’t go in because they disbelieved.               

Heb 3:12-19