Jesus Christ, Greater Than Moses
Hebrews 3:1-6
Coming tonight to the 3rd Chapter of Hebrews, we shall consider verses 1 through 6 in our study. Hebrews Chapter 3, verses 1 through 6. Now while you're turning to that, I'd like you to be able to turn and listen for a moment, because I want to give you a brief review so that you can put yourself back into the perspective of the book of Hebrews. So we said to you in our introductory messages, we do not know who is the author of the book of Hebrews. Some say it to be the apostle Paul. Our personal conviction is that it does not indicate Paul in authorship. That only God knows who the author is. But behind that author, whoever he may be, we know is the Holy Spirit. And so simply refer, as we study the book of Hebrews, to the author of this book, being the Holy Spirit.
Now the book of Hebrews was written to a community of Jews who had been evangelized by the first apostles and prophets. And as a result of this community being evangelized somewhere outside of the Jerusalem area, as a result of them being evangelized by the apostles and prophets, some of them had believed. And a little congregation of believing Jews had arisen in that community. Now there were not only those who were converted who really gave themselves to Jesus Christ of those Jews, but there were some who were intellectually convinced, but who had never made the step of faith. They believed, but they never committed themselves to that faith.
There was in addition to those two groups another group who had not been convinced who had heard the gospel, but made absolutely no response at all. It is then to these three groups that the letter of Hebrews is written. Now we've said again and again that if you don't understand this, then you have a terrible time interpreting the book.
For the various passages are directed to those various readers. There are certain passages then, first of all, directed to Hebrew believers. True Christians who have received Christ. They have come out of Judaism, at least in the sense of faith. They have been born again. They have become followers of Jesus Christ and as a result of that, they have been unsynagogued, ostracized, thrown out of the Jewish culture and persecuted relentlessly.
Because of this persecution, their faith was very weak and they tended to hold on to the rituals of Judaism. So they were true believers, but hanging on to some of the rituals, some of the trappings of Judaism. And this indicated to us in many passages in this particular letter. We won't even take the time to go over them. We'll expedite it a little bit, but there are many in Chapter 10 and other places as well, where they had moved into faith and Christ, but were hanging on to ritual from the old covenant.
And Paul must have had something like that in mind when he wrote to the Galatians and said "standfast in the liberty where with Christ has made you free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage," which was the law of the Judaistic old covenant. And so in the new covenant there was freedom to be in Christ and to experience all that He had, but they had not begun to experience that. They were still trapped by their legalism. They were in the classic sense of Romans 14, a whole lot of weaker brothers.
So the Holy Spirit writes the letter then to strengthen their faith and to show them they can drop the rituals. They can drop the forms of Judaism and they can take totally Christ as absolutely sufficient. They need nothing from the old, they have the new. The secondly, the group of Hebrew non-Christians who are intellectually convinced several passages in the book deal with them. And they are warned that since they know so much they better act upon it, lest they fall away and never be renewed again to repentance. Those who know the truth and willfully reject the truth are severely warned, particularly in Chapter 10. "That they shall have much sorer punishment who willfully trodden under foot the Son of God." Count it as blood an unworthy thing or an unholy thing.
Then the third group are the Hebrew non-Christians. They are unconvinced period. They don't believe it all and to them the gospel is presented several times in the book of Hebrews. So then there are three in view and in each context you must know to whom He writes or you will find yourself terribly confused about the character of Christianity.
In every text in the book of Hebrews, no matter who is addressed, the theme is always the absolute supremacy of Christ. If He's talking to believers who are still hanging on to Judaism, He says you don't need it, Christ is sufficient. If He's talking to unbelievers who are convinced, He is saying come on put your faith in Him, rest in Christ. He's sufficient. If He's talking to unconvinced, unbelieving Jews He is saying the same thing. Christ is superior, He is supreme, He is sufficient. And so the message of Christ is the same, though the form may be the distinction in determining to whom He speaks.
So the theme we could say in a nutshell of the book of Hebrews is the perfect Christ, supreme, superior, sufficient. We need nothing in addition to Jesus Christ. This then, becomes the pattern of the book and what the letter of Hebrews is designed to do. Now if, in fact, the Holy Spirit is to show that Christ is better than anybody else, and if He is to show that the new covenant provided by Christ is better than the old economy, the Old Testament Judaistic patterns, if the new is better than the old then the Holy Spirit must prove that the character of the new, that is Jesus Christ the key character, is better than all of those connected with the old, must He not?
If this is a better covenant, it must have a better mediator. And so He begins to do that in the first part of Chapter 1, He says that Jesus Christ is better than everybody and everything. In Chapter 2 then, He says that Jesus Christ is better than angels. In Chapter 3, He says Jesus is better than Moses. In Chapter 4, Jesus is better than Joshua. And then Jesus is better than Aaron. Then Jesus is better than the old covenant. And Jesus is better than the Old Testament sacrifices, etc., etc. The whole point is to show that Jesus is superior, supreme, and sufficient, you need nothing else. That's the key.
And the theme is so beautifully stated right here in the first verse of Chapter 3 which we're going to look at. Because it says right in the middle of the verse consider the apostle and the high priest of our profession Jesus. The best manuscripts leave out the word Christ. Consider Jesus. That's the theme of Hebrews in two words. Consider Jesus. That's what it's all about. It is strategic for all men, in all ages to consider Jesus. And particularly consider Jesus here in Chapter 3 as He compares to Moses. As He compares to Moses.
Now we have already seen that Jesus is better than the prophets, Chapter 1. We already have seen that Jesus is better than the angels, Chapter 2. And now we shall see that Jesus is better than the one who brought the first covenant, Moses, the greatest of all.
Now we're going to look at the first six verses because they are the doctrine on which the exhortation of verse 7 and following is built. And we have to understand the premise or we won't understand the exhortation. Now in order to understand this passage, we've got to back up a little bit and find out what the Jews thought about Moses. If Jesus is better than Moses, we must know a little bit about what Moses was. Why is so important to prove Jesus better than Moses? The answer is because the Jews so highly esteemed Moses. He was esteemed above any other Jew who ever lived. He had a place that was utterly and absolutely unique in the mind of a Jew. He was the man to whom God spoke mouth to mouth.
He was a man who saw the glory of God. Do you remember back in Exodus 33 and 34? He was the man who had the glory of God transferred directly to his face. He came down out of that mountain, the Bible says he knew not the skin of His face shown. He was the one who led Israel out of Egypt. He was God's man. But beyond that, the greatest thing in the mind of a Jew was the law. And Moses was the one who gave the law. And Moses and the law were synonymous. And you see the Jew and the law were the two things that went together. Paul says in Romans Chapter 2, that "the Jew makes his boast in the law." You see.
The Old Testament commandments and rituals were the Jews' priority. And Moses had brought not only the Ten Commandments, but He had penned the enter Pentateuch which lays out all the Levitical laws and all the laws that governed everything they did. And so Moses was the great law giver. And let's face it, the law was number one on the Jewish hit parade every week, of every year. That was the most important thing in their life.
And some Jews even believed that Moses was greater than angels. And it's true that to the prophets God spoke in visions, but to Moses, He spoke mouth to mouth. He spoke to him in a burning bush. He spoke to him out of heaven. He spoke to him on Sinai and wrote the commandments with the finger of fire. God spoke directly to Moses and transferred His glory to him. And Moses stood far above any other man who ever lived in the mind of the Jewish people.
And certainly his history was remarkable. A hand of God preserved Him as a baby, and the hand of God dug his grave at the finish. And between these two points of his life, there is nothing but miracle after miracle after miracle. And during the most memorable times of Israel's history, it was Moses through whom God worked. It was Moses who led the children of Israel out of Egypt. It was Moses who led them through the wilderness. It was Moses who instructed them from the mouth of God. It was Moses, Moses, Moses.
The whole Levitical system, the whole Levitical economy was initiated through Moses. It was Moses who gave the plans for the tabernacle. The ark of the covenant and everything that went with it. And so to the Jew Moses is the great Mosha, there is none like him. And as great as Moses was, my friends, the Holy Spirit in this section calls on us to gaze on Jesus who is far greater than Moses. And that's the consideration right here for His Jewish readers.
Do you think Moses is great? Consider Jesus. Now in order for the Holy Spirit to present evidence to support the superiority, the supremacy, and the sufficiency of Christ, He selects a threefold presentation. And this will be our outline. He says that Jesus is superior in His office, superior in His work, and superior in His person. Superior in His office, He is the apostle and high priest, superior in His work, He is the builder of the house, superior in His person, He is the Son. And we'll see how these unfold.
First of all, the Holy Spirit says Jesus is superior to Moses in His office. Verse 1, "Wherefore holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling consider the apostle and high priest of our profession or confession, Jesus." Consider Jesus. And that's what I'd like you to do tonight, whether you're a Christian or not. I'd like you to consider Jesus. And certainly this is the meaning of all our preaching and all of our teaching.
All right, let's look at verse 1 and then I'll break it down. First word, wherefore. What does this mean? It takes us which direction? Back. Wherefore means in this verse he's building on something that has come to pass before this. Wherefore on the basis of what I have just said, it points back, on the basis of what I have just said consider Jesus. What have you just said? You've just said that we see Jesus, verse 9, made lower than the angels. You've said that He's the salvation captain. You've said that He's a sanctifier. You said that He calls us brother. You've said that He destroyed Satan and death. You've said that He could deliver us out of bondage. You said this. You said this. You said this. On the basis of what you've said about Him, you ought to consider Him, right? Because of what I've said about Jesus, wherefore holy brethren consider Him. Consider Him.
He has just told them what kind of an apostle He is. He has just told them what kind of a high priest He is. He's a faithful high priest in verse 17. He's a faithful apostle or sent one as He comes from God to accomplish salvation. Now you've seen what kind of an apostle He is, a sent one from God. You've seen what kind of a high priest He is, consider Jesus.
What an apostle. What a high priest, powerful, sympathetic, merciful, faithful, saving, reconciling, helping. All of that's in verses 14 to 18. On the basis of who He is, consider Him. Consider Him. He's a perfect high priest. There is nothing missing at all. And you see here, He's urging the Hebrews to focus on the absolute sufficiency of Jesus.
Drop the rest of the stuff. You don't need it. You've got a new high priest and a new sent one from God. Drop all the trappings, focus on Jesus. He's all you need. Oh what an important message this is. And here He is speaking directly to the believing Christian Jews who were looking at Jesus out of one eye, but glancing back all the time. And He is saying consider Jesus. You don't need to look anywhere else.
Now most of us haven't come out of Judaism. How many of you here tonight have come out of Judaism. Put your hand up. How many of you are Jewish believers. Have any hands? Several, maybe five, six, seven. I don't know. God bless you, twice blessed. But must of us can't relate to coming out of Judaism and we don't understand the temptation to hang on to the old things. I was sharing with one our staff members about this yesterday. And he said, you know, John, I have a real problem. He said, I have a guy whose a new Christian, but he's a Jewish believer and he won't quit going to the synagogue. And he doesn't seek the fellowship of believers here. He seeks the synagogue for fellowship.
This still happens today. It's very difficult to make that break. But we...although we don't relate to Judaism, I think we do find ourselves very often lured into believing that our works and our religious trappings are what it's all about, you know. That God expects more than just our faith and our love. He expects us to do certain little things to please Him. And while we accept God's free grace, complete in Christ, we kind of hang on to an artificial kind of legalism, rather than live the positive Christ-controlled, spirit energized life.
So the statements of Christ's sufficiency certainly shatter all legalistic efforts whether Judaistic or any other kind. All right, "Wherefore holy brethren," and that's the next thing we want to look at, holy brethren. A fantastic statement, holy brethren. Now we studied the word brethren this morning and how that as believers we are brothers with Christ, because we're identified with Him. But I want you to pick out a thought here. Many people in studying the book of Hebrews have said that He has to be writing to Christians all the time because He uses the word brethren.
Just because He uses the word brethren doesn't mean He's talking to Christians at all. In Acts 2:29, in Acts 13:38, the Jews are referred to brethren. They are referred to as brethren, but when He says holy brethren, then we know whom He's speaking about. And here He's speaking to believers. This is not a reference to Jews in total, but to believers. Believers in the sense of those who are true brothers in Chapter 2, verse 11, who are sanctified in Christ for which cause He's not ashamed to call them brothers.
So then this passage is written to Christians, to holy Jews, holy brothers in Christ. Now they're holy not because of their practice, but because of their position. They are the real thing. They are soul brothers, sanctified, set apart, and made holy in Christ. Let me illustrate that from Hebrews 10, verse 10. "By which will we are sanctified," that means made holy, "we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
When you received Christ, you were made holy. Verse 14, "For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are made holy." Verse 17, "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." Why? Because there's no more sin positionally. So we're holy. We're set apart, pure positionally. All Christians are holy in the sense of position before God. Now we've covered that many, many messages.
All right, so this section then is written to holy brothers who know and love Jesus Christ, the true church believers. Just to add emphasis to that, He calls them also partakers of the heavenly calling. Now we know this must be believers there don't we? Partakers of the heavenly calling. If you read carefully through the book of Hebrews, you find out that just about everything about us is heavenly. We have a heavenly home, we have a heavenly Jerusalem, we have a heavenly calling and so forth and so on. We're living in the heavenlys Paul says in Ephesians.
And you see here He is...oh this is terrific statement, He is making a distinction between the superiority of Christianity to Judaism. Judaism, my friends, was an earthly calling with an earthly inheritance, wasn't it? Circumcision the eighth day and you'll inherit the land if you're good. Christianity is a spiritual and heavenly calling with a spiritual and heavenly inheritance, superior.
And Paul says in Philippians Chapter 3, really two verses there, I think verse 14 first of all. "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. For our citizenship is in heaven from which we also look for the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our home is heaven. Our place is in heaven. And we live right now in the heavenlys spiritually. Ephesians 1, "God has blessed us with all spiritual blessing," where, "in the heavenlys in Christ Jesus."
And so we see then that as true believers we are brothers of Jesus by position, we are holy by position, we are partakers of a heavenly kind of existence where only strangers and pilgrims here, right? We dangle our feet in the world, but we don't really belong here. Now it's an interesting thing that this is a powerful point to say to these Jews, why don't you drop the earthly end of man? You're citizens in the heavenlys, now why don't you let go of the earthly things?
I mean, why would anybody want to hang on to the earthly ritual when they have the heavenly reality. And we talked about this several weeks ago and we said that's why we don't believe there should be any ritual in the church. That's why we don't have people walking around simulating things up here and going through all kinds of holy mogus and lighting candles and doing strange things and walking around and waiving things and going through all kinds of forms. We don't need the ritual because the reality is here. Do you see?
If we want to worship Jesus Christ, Jesus said, "You worship the Father in spirit and in," what, "in truth." Not in ritual. There is no place in Christianity for ritual, because the reality is here. That's the whole point. And so He is saying you who are partakers of a heavenly calling, what are you doing hanging on to the earthly trappings, you see? You don't need those. It's pointless. So believers then are sharers in the righteousness nature of Christ in His heavenly calling, because the live in a heavenly kind of existence, they ought to address themselves to that heavenly existence, not to an earthly.
And so He says to these Christians, consider Jesus. Now the word consider is fantastic. The word does not mean it's flighty. The word does not mean take a glance. The word means set yourself to gaze intently on Jesus. You say, well, what's He saying this to Christians for? We already know Christ. Listen, no one needs that message any more than I do, do you know that? God can say to me MacArthur consider Jesus, because I'm a long way from really discover all of His glories, all of His beauties, all that He is.
So He says to these believers, just gaze on Jesus will you? Just keep gazing on Him and don't keep looking around and all these rituals and all these problems and all these persecutions, just consider Jesus. You don't need anything else. He's sufficient for everything. Now there may have been a greater Christian than Paul, but if there is I've never met him. Didn't live in my lifetime and run across my path. And Paul said this, "My great prayer," I love it, "is oh that I may know Him." Did he say that? You say Paul, you know Him. Paul would say no, I haven't plumed the depth of His person. That's what he means.
Listen, Christian I say to you what the Spirit says, consider Jesus. I mean, when the stuff gets rough and the problems come and everything goes bad, and you start thinking about certain things that are tempting you and so forth and so on, put your gaze on Jesus and keep it there intently until all that He is begins to be unfolded before your eyes.
And that's just the reason that so many Christians are weak and worried as they don't really know the depths of the riches of Jesus Christ, do you know that? They don't know. Jesus made a classic statement, He said, "Learn of me." He didn't say learn about me. He said what? "Learn of me." Let me ask you this, do you really enjoy your Christian life? Do you just eat it up? Do you get up every morning and say Lord, I just can't wait to get out of this place and see what you're going to do. I mean, do you just love your Christian life? I mean, is it so exciting you can hardly stand it?
It ought to be. Do you enjoy Jesus Christ? Do you just go through the day Lord, your fellowship and your presence is thrilling. Do you just sometimes want to stand up and shout? God will enjoy them like that? Many Christians don't enjoy Jesus, not at all. They're miserable, unhappy, don't know anything about joy. The only thing the Lord's good for is to cry on. And the reason is they don't know Him experientially. They don't know Him richly. They need to learn Jesus, you see.
Just like, you know, now when I was in college, I used to sneak down and pay fifty cents and go into the back door of the Philharmonic in Los Angeles, crawl up in the balcony, take two or three books with me and sit up there and listen to a whole concert all by myself while I did some homework. And I mean, I listened to Bartoch and Mussorgsky and pictures in an exhibition and I...weird stuff, you know, and all that kind of classical thing and I loved it. I like the guy that beat the timpani most of all. But I like all of it.
And I'd sit in the back and I enjoyed it and I began to gain an appreciation for the masters. And you know, you could take a guy to hear some of that music and the typical person today would say oh are you kidding that stuff is a drag. Or you could take somebody to an art gallery and show them the masters and he'd say well, I don't like that. I don't enjoy that stuff. And I would say to him then, my friend, you stay there and you listen until you do enjoy it, because that's the masters performing for you.
You need to learn to love the masters. You need to learn to love good music. You need to learn to love good art. You need to recognize beauty and recognize real genius and recognize real virtue, not the cheap stuff that's all over the place so handy. And so I say to you the same thing. If you don't enjoy Jesus, then you better stay with Him until you learn to. Until your Christian life is one thrill after another. Until every waking moment of every day is joy upon joy upon joy.
Consider Him, fix your attention on Him. Timothy was having problems. He was young. He was getting an ulcer. Paul said, "take a little wine for your stomach's sake." And he was getting bounced around by the Ephesian heirests. People were criticizing him and he got discouraged. And he was really hurt. And in 2 Timothy Chapter 2, he said well...Paul says to him, Timothy you've got to get it on. Got to get it on. Got to be like a good soldier, hardworking farmer, well-trained athlete, but most of all 2 Timothy 2:8, "remember Jesus Christ." "Remember Jesus Christ, born of the seed of David, risen from the dead."
When you've really got problems he doesn't say do this, do this, do this, He just says do what? "Remember Jesus Christ." Gaze on Him. Learn of Him. In Hebrews Chapter 12 and we'll get to this a long time from now, it says in verse 1, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every wait, and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience, the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus." Did you get that?
If you're going to run the Christian race, where are you going to look? Jesus. You know, I used to run the hundred yard dash in 220 in college and one thing we learned very soon if they didn't know it was you can't run when you watch your feet. Have you ever tried to do that? You can't do it. I mean, you'll run into a wall. You can't do it. When you've got to stay in a lane, it's amazing how your body works, you set your sights just like when you drive on something way down there and you run right at that target and when we used to run the sprints, we used to set our eyes on the tape. And we kept the eyes on the finish. That was not only motivation, but that's what kept your sense of direction.
And when you're running in the race as a believer, get your eyes off your feet. Get your eyes off yourself. You're going to run into wall after wall after wall. You'll be like the bruised and bleeding Pharisees that we talked about, you know, who got that name because they thought it was a sin to look at woman. They kept closing their eyes when they saw them and they ran into all the buildings. There's no sense in that. You set your eyes on the tape. You look unto Jesus, the author, and the what? The finisher of our faith and you look at Him, and then you run.
So many Christians run with their head down, it's no wonder they run into everything. And so what is the Holy Spirit saying? Consider Jesus. I mean, He's all you need, right? Just look at Him. Let everything else drop. Just focus on Him. He's everything, like the little chorus said, "He is all you need." All right, then He gives Him His two titles and this is where we're going to see His office. He calls Him the apostle and high priest of our profession.
First of all, He calls Him the apostle. Now may I add at this point that this is the first way that Jesus is better than Moses for Jesus was both apostle and high priest, Moses was not. At best, Moses was an apostle. Who was the high priest? Aaron. So in this sense, Jesus is superior in His office for He is both, Moses was only one. He is the sent one sent from God. Apostolas means sent from God. In the Greek, it would refer to an ambassador. And Jesus is the supreme ambassador of God sent to earth.
Now what are the characteristics of an apostolas or an ambassador? Well, number one, He has all the right and all the power and all the authority of the king in the country who sends Him and so did Jesus. He came clothed with the power of God. He came with all of God's grace, all of God's love, all of God's mercy, all of God's justice, and all of God's power.
Secondly, an ambassador has to speak with the voice of the one who sent Him. And so Jesus came and said, "I speak not that which I decide to speak. I speak only what I hear the Father say." So Jesus was the perfect sent one from God. He came with all of God's power and with God's voice He spoke. But beyond that, He was also the high priest of our profession.
Now we're not going to spend time on the high priest concept, because that unfolds in the whole later section of Hebrews. Suffice it to say that the word priest in the Latin is the word Pontifex, which broken into two words means bridge builder. And Jesus was the one who built the bridge from God to man. He was the one who connected God and man. And so Jesus is not only the sent one from God, with all God's power and speaking with God's voice, but He is the one who takes man and God and brings them together. He's the bridge builder. And He's also the bridge.
Then it says that He is the apostle and high priest of our profession. That is He's the one we confess. And don't you see the point of the verse. Listen to this, if you profess Christ, if you confess that He is your Lord, then you certainly ought to gaze on Him, right? That's what He said. You Jews, you have received Christ, you've confessed Him as apostle and your new high priest, you've received all that He has. Now gaze on Him intently.
What sense having confessed Him as Lord not to gaze on Him as such? Boy that's practical stuff. How many of us as Christians have confessed Jesus Christ as Savior Lord and still run through our whole lives without looking at Him and looking at ourselves? And so in His office, He's greater than Moses. You don't need any of the other things, let them drop.
Secondly, He's superior in His works, verses 2 to 4. And here is a simple comparison of the work of Jesus with that of Moses to show who is superior. Now I want you to keep in mind that it's hard for us who are Gentiles to understand the affection with which the Jews regard Moses, the man of God. And He was a great man. He was a dear man of God. A man who stood head and shoulders above all other men. And everything connected with God in the Jews' mind is connected with Moses.
And so this subject is dealt with very delicately by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit doesn't fire out in verse 2, "Jesus is greater than Moses." He doesn't just say that. More delicately does He handle it. And the Spirit's wisdom is marvelous. Before taking up Jesus' superiority to Moses He points up the resemblance between the two. Before He talks about the difference, He talks about the similarities, see. And that's very, very tactful.
Notice in verse 2, "Jesus," the end of verse 1, "Jesus who was faithful to Him that appointed Him." Did you know that Jesus was faithful to God? Did you know that? Did you know that Jesus did just that which the Father appointed Him to do? Oh my yes. In John 6:38, what does it say? "For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. And this is the Father's will who hath sent me that of all that He hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."
In other words, I just do what the Father's will is and I don't every violate it, nor do I lose it. John 7:18, "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory, but he that seeketh His glory that sent Him, the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him." In other words, you can tell I'm a true Messiah because I don't seek my own glory, I seek the glory of the one who sent me. Always about His Father's business.
In John Chapter 8, verse 29 the same thing. "And He that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone for I do always those things that please Him." John 17:4, "I have finished the work which thou," what, "gavest me to do. Now glorify me with the glory that I had with thee before the world began." Jesus always did the Father's will. He was faithful. Oh faithful is such a wonderful word. The chief qualification is faithful. Jesus said, "I must work the works of Him that sent me." That's faithfulness. How faithful are you? That faithful?
Jesus was faithful to Him that appointed Him. God said, you're going to go and here's your work and Jesus did it. And then oh so tactfully does the Holy Spirit say, verse 2, "As also Moses was faithful in all his house." You see there's no distinction. There's a comparison. The Holy Spirit very delicately compares them together and says they're both faithful. And that's an indirect quote from Numbers 12:7. In Numbers 12:7 it says, "My servant Moses is faithful in all mine house." Moses was faithful. He carried faithfully God's plan. He came out in Egypt into the wilderness. God refined him. It took 40 years to make something out of himself 40 years for God to wreck him and 40 years God could use him.
But 40 years in the wilderness, God broke him, made him the man he wanted to be and then he took the children of Israel out of the land, he was faithful. He believed God. He got to the Red Sea, and I've often thought to myself, I got to the Red Sea and somebody said wave a stick and it'll part, I would have said catch that again. But he did. I mean, he believed God. He was faithful and led the children of Israel through. And then he was faithful to the time in the wilderness. Oh there were times when he was unfaithful. There were several times, even in Egypt when he slew the Egyptian. Even in the wilderness when he smolt the rock instead of speaking to the rock. But Moses for the most part was faithful.
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