Superiority of Christ

Superiority of Christ- Hebrews 3:1-6

“Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.”

In the previous chapters we have seen two equally amazing truth’s of the identity of Jesus.  First that He is greater than angels.  He is not a created being as they are.  In fact He is the creator and sustainer of all things!  We have also seen that Jesus’ humanity was necessary for Him to be a perfect Apostle ‘messenger’ and a High Priest, ‘mediator’ for God.  If Jesus is not like us in our weakness, than his suffering and His humility is incomplete and He would be unable to fulfill His purpose as a savior.  Now we will see that Jesus is greater than the most venerated man in Israel, Moses.

“For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.”

These Jewish believers are falling away from their faith in Christ and landing back in their comfortable Judaism.  To esteem Moses and the Mosaic law higher than Jesus’ word is like venerating the house more than the builder of the house.  Once again the deity of Christ is exalted.  He was the one that did all the miracles through Moses.  God was the one that gave him the 10 Commandments to proclaim to His people.  He is the one worthy of the glory for He was the builder.

“For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.”

The Jews had a difficult time reconciling the truth of the Gospel and the law of Moses.  They failed to understand that the law was given to prepare the people for the good news of the gospel, it was not ever meant to save them.  It was given to diagnosis the disease of sin, but it would never bring the cure

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“Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of hope.”

Moses was a servant of God, but Jesus is His only begotten Son.  This understanding of Jesus’ true identity and our understanding of our own identify as His possession ‘his house’ will give us confidence and a hope that causes us to rejoice! ~ Selah