Hebrews - Part 6 Jesus is Greater Than (Hebrews 2:18-3:6)

All right, we are on to Hebrews 3, but the end of Hebrews 2 is where we finished last week, and I did say we'd look at the end of it a little bit. So this is a reminder, though, and this is something that I just have to admit, I don't do this regularly when I read the Bible, but particularly when I'm teaching it, I do this, which is I remind people, hey, what's this book about? And because if you're not thinking about what is Hebrews about, and then you're not thinking about what was Hebrews 1 and 2 about, what were the verses we just read about, sometimes you can just do what I do and just read a chapter and it's like, okay, that was a nice chapter.

And then you just move on. And this is one of the reasons why I, you know, when I read the Bible now, even in my personal reading, after having read through the Bible a number of times now in my Christian life, I do a lot more like reading the same chapter sometimes over and over. And there's nothing wrong with, you know, I know like Jason just started the Horner plan, the 10 chapters a day thing, nothing wrong with that stuff either.

But right now I'm in a phase where like I'm reading the same chapter over and over, maybe two or three, and then I'll reread them the next day because I'm trying to really make sure I'm understanding it. And then of course, when we talk about context, you have the context of the whole Bible as well, right? So you're always wanting to think about these things this isn't a i don't know it's not a storybook like if you read star wars tomorrow and it really doesn't matter if you didn't quite understand all the stuff with you know the senate and things like that or whatever so what's hebrews about hebrews is about the first century jews practicing old covenant worship of god and the author of hebrews writing to them and to centuries or millennia of Christians to follow to remind them not to fall into trusting in their own works for salvation, not even trusting in the good religion of the Jews for salvation, and to understand that there has been a new covenant that has been instituted so that we might be free of formality and temptation to self-righteousness and that we may really appreciate just the purity of Jesus Christ.

In particular, God is getting ready to destroy the temple in A.D. 70, and he's teaching these first century Hebrew people to abandon this old covenant that they are, in one sense, understandably still kind of joined into. it would have been remarkable for first century Jews to figure out like, oh, this thing's over. Although it's easy for us to say, well, of course, it's a new covenant.

We have the benefit of already having read Hebrews. Probably everyone here has heard somebody preach through it or teach about it. So just keep in mind that what may seem really easy for us is only easy because God has granted us thousands more, I don't know, thousands, but probably thousands more words of scripture than these people have. I think it's easy to forget that, that when, you know, when these guys were still doing these things that they're writing about, they may have seen the book of Matthew by now, or, you know, they may have heard there was a letter written to the Galatians.

They probably hadn't seen it yet. And so, this is something they needed. And so, be gentle with the Hebrews in your judgmental mind as well. At the same time, we don't want to make the mistake they're making. And we can make the same mistake, but just not with the Hebrew religion. So in Hebrews 2, verse 17 and 18, speaking of Jesus Christ, God says, therefore, he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

So we talked about that last week. Jesus had to become a man. This was remarkable because, well men are incapable of actually approaching God that's that's literally our problem and so for Jesus to become a man and be able to approach God is extremely significant and and but it doesn't make him not greater than everything it doesn't make Jesus not better than the old covenant so if you were going to make like a meme you just put Jesus and then that greater than sign, the carrot, and then you'd have, you know, the old covenant, or Jesus is greater than the law.

And now we're going to see Jesus is greater than Moses. And some people just have Jesus is greater than, and then like, you know, everything, or just put nothing. So Jesus is greater. It's an absolute statement. And so, but for these first century Jews. This was remarkable.

Men couldn't approach God. Men had no business messing around with angels. If an angel appeared, a man would be afraid, rightfully so. Nobody would think, well, here's a man that's got, you know, power over angels. Here's a man that's going to subject all things to himself And so this is important He a faithful high priest And one of the reasons It verse 18 of chapter 2 for because he himself has suffered when tempted he is able to help those who are being tempted and so now we get into a like a different aspect of the atonement here than what we just talked about him being a priest allows him to go to God on our behalf and actually offer a sacrifice, but him being tempted is a practical concept that we're given that he's able to help us when we're tempted.

So not only is he able to make atonement for us because he never sinned, he is able to help us when we are tempted. Well, now you're talking about a relationship. So if you turn to Matthew 4, we'll look at Jesus's temptations briefly. This relationship you now have with Jesus Christ is, remember, in comparison to the old covenant, is different and unique.

In the old covenant, we were given the law, and we'll say that the Jews were, that's who he's writing to, but the law is binding on all people for all time. The law is able to tell you what you should and shouldn't do. You know, if you look at the Ten Commandments, you shall not have any other gods before the one true God. You shall not manufacture any image either in your mind or with your hands.

You shouldn't use his name in vain, honor the Sabbath, honor your parents, don't murder, commit adultery, steal, lie, and don't covet. There's positive and commands and negative prohibitions in there. And so we can determine or ascertain pretty easily what is right or wrong from the law. We can judge other people by it, and we can judge ourselves by it.

What the law couldn't do was help you obey it. No matter how many times the law said, don't commit adultery, it never actually supplied the power to anyone to not commit adultery. This is one of the reasons why in your Christian life, I'm mostly speaking to men here, and I'm or maybe a woman would listen online. But in your Christian life, the struggle with the flesh that causes us to want to lust, even just in our own hearts and heads, that struggle is not helped by reminding yourself that it's illegal.

That may be a good reminder, but I think you know it's illegal. We don't have the power to avoid lusting after women. Unless we have the power of Jesus Christ, who he himself suffered when tempted, then can help others suffer or help others when they are tempted. And so this is also a bit of a controversial concept because Jesus Christ being tempted is something that people like to say means that he could have sinned or he even maybe had an inner battle.

You know, like somebody, a pretty girl walked by and Jesus had to think to himself, like, oh, don't look, don't look. And he wasn't like that. when it says that he suffered when tempted, it is more of a description of the fact that he had to suffer the existence of temptation, which is something that doesn't happen to God. God can't be tempted. And so Jesus had to be in the presence of sin, and he had to suffer through the very existence of this sinful, cursed world.

And so if you look at like Matthew 3, Matthew 4, 2 and 3, after fasting 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. Real human being, really hungry. Okay. Most of us can't fast four hours before we say, wow, Luke wins dinner. Okay. He fasted 40 days.

This isn't an example for you. This is just something Jesus did. And the tempter came, this is Satan. So the greatest tempter that's possible, okay? And he says, if you're the son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread. And Jesus doesn't have an inner struggle.

He doesn't sit there and think, ooh, this sounds really good. Let me think about it. And then, ooh, no, I don't want to do this, but some part of me really wants to do it. It's not like your struggles and my struggles, which are good struggles. Like, we are glad that we have that struggle now because we are so, and I mean this term, hell-bent on evil, that the existence of any struggle to do good or evil is evidence of the Spirit of God working in your life.

At least it can be evidence of it. I know people have that struggle who don't have God, too. But we desire to do well and we fight the evil. But no, Jesus just said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Jesus' response to temptation wasn't a struggle. That's not how he suffers temptation.

Jesus' response is, no, I'm not going to listen to you, Satan. Satan's a non-factor in Jesus' decision-making. But being put in a wilderness area where he was made to be hungry by fasting and then had to even listen to Satan, that's suffering enough. And so because Jesus endured temptation because he had to exist in the midst of it he promises that he will help us And because you have his spirit dwelling inside you in the new covenant because God said I will take out your heart of stone give you a heart of flesh and I put my spirit in you.

Now you actually have some power over temptation and sin. You can say no to sin. And we also know that we exist in an unglorified, cursed, sinful flesh, and we will continue to have this struggle. And for us, the thing we call the struggle is in and of itself evidence of the evil that's still in us. Jesus didn't have these things. So he can help us when we suffer.

And I just wanted you to understand that when he suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted has to do with his perfection. He is so perfect, we cannot possibly lean on anyone else or anything else for help in our temptation, and we cannot possibly think that he can't help us. Okay, so there's two concepts. One, Jesus is the only possible help there is, so don't lean on AA.

Don't lean on all these worldly machinations or like things we produce in the world that supposedly help us not sin. So let me clarify, it's okay to be wise, you know, get rest, eat well, you know, exercise, do things that are good for you that maybe make it a little easier for you to have some strength once in a while. But we rely on Jesus to help us with sin, not worldly concepts, not worldly games they play, even worldly things that seem to work.

When it's a battle with your sin, they are an affront to God, because the second thing about Jesus being our perfect high priest is that he doesn't want anything else before him. He is the one you should trust in. And so even if you could tell me that this quiz you did online really did help you identify your sin issues, and it really gave you some good practical tips to avoid certain sins.

Why would you want to go to anything but your Lord and Savior for those things? And second of all, I promise you they don't have the power to change your heart. So there's all sorts of worldly endeavors that will convince you not to do certain things you're trying not to do. There's things that might even help you to build a fence around your life in such a way that you don't dive into certain sins anymore that are difficult for you.

But that's not the same as changing your heart. And so we have to try to get our ideas from the Bible, and we have to try to get our help from the Lord Jesus Christ through prayer, through studying his word, and confessing to other Christians for help. And so continuing then to chapter three, Paul, I said Paul, the author of Hebrews, who I certainly think sounds like Paul, but again, we don't know. he says therefore so because of the things i just told you holy brothers you who share in a heavenly calling consider jesus the apostle and high priest of our confession who was faithful to him who appointed him just as moses was also faithful in all god's house so Well, the first thing I want to note is he calls the people holy brothers.

I think we pass over those phrases a lot in the Bible, first of all, because they're common in the New Testament. But I think we sometimes pass over them when we're reading them in a way that when we're studying, we should pay attention to. He is writing to people who he is treating as Christian. He calls them holy brothers. He's telling them that they have been made holy, that they are saints of God.

They're sanctified in the eyes of God. They've been justified by Jesus Christ and their brothers. They're adopted into the family. So they've been, you know, forensically or legally justified in God's eyes. They have been declared holy, accounted righteous in the eyes of God because of Jesus's resurrection from the dead. And they've also been adopted into his family.

So there's the forensic forgiveness they've received. And then there's just the relational adoption that we're speaking of when he calls them brothers. We are a family. We have a shared father. We say our father who art in heaven, not my father. you know, I've heard it said God doesn't have grandkids either. So, you know, it's not like your kids are God's grandkids.

You know, when they get saved, that's their father too. They're your brother. The greatest thing is looking at your kid and calling them brother or sister. That's one of the neatest things. But don't pass over this because there's going to be warnings later in this book where the author is basically describing apostasy. He's describing false conversion.

And they're scary warnings. They're supposed to be scary. But let's remember, he's treating them as brothers. And part of what, this follows what we just talked about, you get the strength to live out your Christian life by looking back upon your in a sense upon your baptism by looking back upon your profession of faith which is the first evidence that you have been made a brother and that you been declared holy by God in his eyes because of what Christ did.

So when you're talking to somebody who's struggling with sin, and they say they're a Christian, and yet they are in some kind of sin, We'll call it a disqualifying sin, a sin where a person who persists in this sin unrepentantly is clearly in the list of sinners that are going to inherit the lake of fire. Murderers, the sexually immoral, the cowardly, detestable, faithless, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars. Homosexuals in 1 Corinthians 6, 9, the effeminate. there's there's people who their sin is is just so in the list of sins that that god says well you're going to go to hell if this is who you are and you're dealing with a brother who's who's we'll say stuck in one of those but there's something about him that's that's saying i don't want to do this i just can't stop and you don't know yet what's going on with this person if if your thought is well i need to i need to take away any assurance of salvation from him and i need to treat him like a non-believer until he quits this sin um i think you may be going about it the wrong way i'm not saying we give people assurance if they're unrepentantly sinning but when somebody's struggling with sin and they're a christian the power that actually will help them to continue to grow in their Christian life and to overcome that sin is the power of Jesus Christ dwelling in them.

And it's looking back upon the fact that they have trusted in Christ before and that Christ has made them his brother and they have a shared inheritance with them. That is the reminder that Christians need to fight against their sin. We just tend to think, well, when certain sins, those are big, bad ones, and we need to really hammer people for that one.

But my sins, those are littler ones. And so in my case, we just talk about what a great God Jesus is to forgive sins. And I think that we err when we do that. I'm not saying we never end up excommunicating people at church. I'm not saying we don't hold people accountable for their sin, but I have seen Christians struggle hard with sin because their flesh is strong, their spirit is weak, and for whatever reason, God has appointed that they're going to deal with that sin maybe for a longer period of time than I think is allowable.

Calling them holy brothers is the best way to try to help someone. And then if they persist, there will be a time that you will say, okay, I can't treat you that way anymore. But that's not, the reason we don't treat someone as a brother isn't to declare them not a brother so much as it is to cause them to long for that treatment if they truly are one.

So the idea behind excommunication isn't, okay, we're done with that guy. Now we call him a nonbeliever. the idea of excommunication is we just took a believer, we removed him from the divisible covenant, and that person, if they have the Spirit of God, regardless of how much the sin is hard for them, it's going to be harder for them to miss the fellowship of the saints if they're a true Christian. And so he calls them holy brothers, and we should practice more of this type of greeting as well.

We should speak to one another as if we are our family that is far apart. Like, look at some of us on the phone have never met. Some of us live far apart right now. We should greet one another as if this is a family reunion, and it is just so exciting to even get to see one another. We should love one another the way in a family brothers should love one another.

And even brothers that don't love one another very much, who don't get along, you'll find that if somebody else picks on them, they'll defend their brother. You know, there's a thing with brothers where it's like, hey, I can beat them up, but nobody else is gonna, you know. And we should have a little bit of that attitude of loving one another. And this should be a stronger bond than anyone you have in the world, even family.

And so he reminds them, you who share in a heavenly calling, okay, so he's talking to the holy brothers there. You share in the heavenly calling. You are all partakers of the Holy Spirit. You are getting ready to one day, like, go into heaven yourself, You think he says, consider Jesus the apostle and high priest of our confession. You know, set your eyes upon Jesus, he says, who is faithful to him who appointed him.

And then he makes a comparison, just as Moses was also faithful in all God's house. And so in Numbers 12, there's a little phrase where he says, Suddenly Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting. And the three of them came out. And Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

So now verse 6, Numbers 12, 6, and he said, you. I, Yahweh, make myself known to him in a vision. I speak with him in a dream. So he's talking about the prophets of old, how he reveals himself to these guys, or even girls, I guess, but they were usually men. But then verse 7, he says, not so with my servant Moses. So Moses, the greatest prophet who had ever lived at this time, and to some extent, probably one of the top few prophets and the way God used them and produced literature out of them.

He says, not so with my servant Moses. He doesn't make himself known to Moses in a vision. And he doesn't speak with him in a dream like he just described. He says, it's not so with my servant Moses. Then he writes, he is faithful in all my house. So there's the quote from Hebrews, Right.

Moses, who was appointed by God, was faithful in all God's house. He says with Moses, I speak mouth to mouth clearly and not in riddles. And he beholds the form of Yahweh. And he says, why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against them. This is Aaron and Miriam and he departed.

And so what we see here is in the Old Testament, Moses is exalted above all people. Moses is even exalted above all the prophets of God who God had ever spoken through in dreams and in riddles and in speaking to them through visions. He says, I speak with him mouth to mouth. He's face to face with Moses. In some sense, God is trying to say that Moses actually sees him, which is impossible, which means that Moses was most likely speaking with the Christophany, right, Jesus Christ in the presence and in a form.

But he asked him, why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? the point here is is that moses was someone who they should have been afraid to speak against god had so clearly appointed and anointed moses for service that they should have obeyed moses as if they were obeying the voice of god they should have respected moses as if moses was literally god in front of them that's to that level that he was so close to god they should have been listening and they instead were not afraid to speak against them but now he's saying you should consider jesus in the same sense and we're going to see in an even greater sense so when you see this comparison with jesus and moses i think what you have to remember is moses doesn't just represent the ten commandments or he doesn't just represent the old covenant moses is like literally god's right hand man at this time in the old testament and he's about to tell us that moses is not even close to being like jesus so why would we speak against jesus why would we not trust in the purity of Jesus for all of our needs? So then he tells us in Hebrews 3.3, for Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. So Moses certainly had glory.

Remember, Moses had the glory of God that was reflecting off his face because his face turned so bright, they had to put a veil over Moses because it was too bright that people couldn't look at it. Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. So even though he's a man, more glory than Moses is what he is worthy of. And then it says, as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

Which is kind of an interesting phrase because it's telling us that the amount of glory Moses receives and the amount of glory that Jesus should receive and that he's worthy of is as if to say Jesus created Moses. Jesus is the one who actually made Moses and gave him his glory If a house is beautiful it not anything about the house innately that made it beautiful It was its designer that made it beautiful right So Hebrews 3 4 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.

So what we see is that Christ is declared to be God. Every house is built by someone with the builder of all things is God. Written right after, as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. Moses, the most glorious man in a sense, the man who received glory, who reflected the glory of God to the people. Moses, who spoke face to face with God, the author of Hebrews just says, Moses is nothing compared to Jesus.

He's telling us that Jesus is the one Moses spoke face to face with. But as a son, he was appointed to be faithful over God's house by the father. And so we also have a picture of the Trinity. so Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant verse 5 to testify to the things that were to be spoken later Moses was faithful he did all the things he was supposed to do Moses was great the old covenant was a wonderful thing that God gave the Jews were privileged to have it it was a special thing that Moses spoke to God and came back and gave him the pattern to built the temple and told them how to do the sacrifices, told them how to worship God, told them how to have a nation that would survive in a time and place when nations came and went just because of sickness alone.

Moses was faithful, but it was to testify to the things that were to be spoken later. Moses existed to point to what Jesus Christ would come and do one day. All the old covenant stuff that Moses promoted that was really true and really important. And they had to do it and they had to do it letter by letter and every jot and tittle. And they had to follow these ceremonial rules.

They had to follow the civil laws and the moral law. But all of these things pointed to the fact that Jesus Christ would come later. And so when we start to talk about God's house, we're talking about the temple. We're talking about the tent of meeting where the priests would go and do the things Moses had written. And these Jews were familiar with this as what they were still practicing.

So to us, it sounds weird because we don't do these things. The only people we know that sacrifice animals now is like Satanists on Halloween or whatever, right? So we tell people, keep your cat indoors. I've never known anyone who lost a cat on Halloween. But anyway, that's besides the point. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant of God.

He was nothing more than a servant. He was a doorkeeper in the house of God. He was the greatest man who lived at the time. He was the meekest man, it said in Numbers 12 as well. The greatest is usually the humblest and meekest. But Moses was nothing but a servant of God.

To point to what would happen later, Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. Christ isn't God's servant in the sense that Moses was. Christ is the son. He is greater than a servant. If you had a big mansion and you had a thousand servants and you had the very best servants in the entire world that could possibly exist, your son gets more honor than all of them do.

It's just the way life works. Jason has a business with dozens of employees or subcontractors and none of them get the honor that his own kid in his own house gets. This is that simple. That's just that's that's just obvious. Parents that don't love their sons and give them that kind of honor are generally abusive. But now here we get to the point that he's making. he says, and we are his house.

If indeed we hold fast our confidence and are boasting in our hope. We are his house. Moses was just declared to be faithful in God's house as a servant, speaking about God temple where people would meet the tent of meeting where the priest could come and actually encounter God and do the sacrifice and meet with God and have atonement made for sin so that God could be pleased And it had to be built according to the pattern that Moses was showed on a mountain. and everyone who followed Moses had to still be faithful to do what Moses had written so that they could have these places of worship.

And they had this place of worship that these Jews went to, and they went to it regularly still. And they believed in Jesus, but they couldn't get rid of the fact that there was this physical place where they could go and they could feel like they were in a holy place. They could feel like they were in a special place. They could feel like they were in the presence of God.

They could feel like they were following in the footsteps of Moses and that they were practicing a religion just like their fathers had in the very beginnings of the Jewish religion. And they knew this was the religion of God and that it had been validated when Jesus had come, that Jesus was the coming Messiah. They understood that this was real. But they weren't understanding that in the new covenant, we are now the temple of the living God.

That we meet with God through one mediator whose physical presence is irrelevant to how we are able to approach the throne of God. That the sacrifice that he brought into the throne room of God, the sacrifice he brought to the altar of God for our sins, made atonement once and for all in a way that means that wherever you are, whether you're in the temple, whether you're at your house or whether you're hundreds of miles away in Cappadocia or Italy or any of these other places where the gospel is beginning to spread, you were as close to God as the guy who was right outside the holy place, handing the priest a little lamb from his flock. That Jesus had now made it so that none of these things that they practiced were relevant anymore. that the feelings they had that they were doing some kind of good religion were not based on the truth of the fact that we are in a new covenant.

This is one of the reasons why I will hammer the new covenant over and over, because it's a different covenant. It's made the old one obsolete. We'll see that later in Hebrews. But these people needed to understand that we are the house of God. Now, God dwells with men. He dwells among men.

He dwells in men. He makes his abode with them. And that is why you actually have power over sin throughout the week. So instead of, you know, like Roman Catholic Church, instead of showing up at church once a week, meeting with a priest who then supposedly helps you encounter God so that you can get forgiveness of all the sins you committed all week, you actually have God in you all week.

The same God that dwelt among us never once sinned so he can help you when you're tempted. You have that power living in you. The power that enabled men to sing hymns as they were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church, the power that enabled Peter to preach great sermons on Pentecost, That same power of God is dwelling in you. And so don't think that you have to go do something religious to get God in the sense of the old covenant religion.

You have Jesus Christ. You are his house. He dwells in you. His spirit is there. And his spirit guarantees your hope that you will one day be glorified and taken to God. And then there's this little phrase that people will misread.

It says, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and are boasting in our hope. We are his house. Yes, if we hold fast our confidence and are boasting in our hope. Some people read this as saying like, well, you're his house. But if you stop doing these things, now you're not his house. So you can lose your salvation is how they'll read that phrase.

What the phrase means is if you do these things it will show that you were his house the whole time So if you persevere to the end that will be evidence that you were his If you worship God a little bit and then one day walk away, one day you stop holding fast your confidence in that hope of Jesus, or one day you stop holding fast your boasting in your hope of Jesus, well, that's evidence that you never knew him. to the fact that some people will be deceived into believing they believe in Jesus, and then one day will walk away, is in no way, has no bearing on whether a Christian could ever lose his salvation. You can't be unadopted by God. You can't be unjustified by God.

You can't have Jesus' atonement, forgive your sins, and then somehow it not. and so we are the temple of God and this this warning if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting and our hope is supposed to encourage us to actually cling to those things so rather than clinging to the religious expressions of the old covenant we should be investigating how to have more confidence in our hope that we may boast in Christ more that rather than boasting, you know, when somebody asks you, how do you know you're a Christian? You know, it's not a horrible answer to say, well, you know, over the course of 15 years, I've seen a lot of steady growth in my battle against sin. That's not a bad thing to be able to say.

I'm not the man I once was. Okay, that's good. We should believe those things. but what's really boasting is saying wow i the more i realize how utterly sinful i am the greater christ becomes in my mind that that's the boasting in our hope i'm boasting in the hope that christ can save me not in that i've had some temporary gains those are those are both good but one's a better confidence.

Because in one case, I'm saying, hey, no matter how sinful I start to realize I am, no matter how hard I fight against sin, I keep failing at times. But I have this hope that Christ made atonement for me. I'm not giving up the battle, but my confidence is in Christ. My confidence is in his power to forgive me even for sins I didn't know I was going to commit that he knew I'd commit, that when I finally commit some of them, I'm going to go into despair.

But my confidence is in him, not in my own success. Because when your confidence is in your own success, as great as that can be at times, our victories over sin and the flesh, If your confidence is there, there will be a day that that confidence will just get blown away because we all sin. We all still see indwelling sin. And God is faithful actually to turn you over to it if you get your focus off of your need for his son.

And so we'll stop there at Hebrews 3.6. and then next time we'll look at psalm 95 here with hebrews 3 7 but keep your confidence in jesus christ he's greater than moses he's greater than thus everything moses created which would have been the entire religion of the jews of the old testament jesus is the pinnacle of it all he's the goal of it all he's what it all pointed to and he is the He fills all in all, says the Ephesians. And so we must look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Thank you for listening to Be a Berean with your host, Michael Coughlin.

I am a writer at thingsabove.us. And I also have a personal website, michaelcoughlin.net. you can contact me by emailing me michael at thingsabove.us I hope that you have been encouraged to search the scriptures.