Hebrews 3: Jesus is Faithful

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Jesus Is: A study in the book of Hebrews / Hebrews 3

Our own defintions of Jesus always include our favorite parts of Him, but never completely Him. Our definitions of Jesus would never get Him to the place of a Savior, One who can actually do something about our condition. Whatever best subjective definition of Christ we come up with will fall short of HIm actually being able to save.

Consider Jesus

New Living Translation Chapter 3

And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest. 2 For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire house.

We can be confident in Christ

To consider something rightly is to have confidence in it. The ability to have confidence in something or someone is in predictability of that object. We have confidence in what is predictable. We live in an unpredictable world. There is not much that is faithful, not much that can be relied upon. (See Oaths and Vows).

He is faithful to lead us

Hebrews 3:2–6 ESV

who was faithful to him 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. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

This chapter compares Jesus to Moses. That as great as Moses is, he doesn’t compare with what JEsus has done. Now we may have a cursory understanding of Moses. We might know some of his OT fame or maybe can point out some events in his life in Exodus but we don’t have much else than a passing interest in Him.

Moses makes an entrance to the world of Jewish faith in the book of Exodus. He is the one called by God to lead His people out of slavery into the promised land. Moses is chosen by God to free people and lead them to a better life.

But then Jesus. What Moses did to the Israelites in the desert Jesus is doing in our lives now. He is freeing, He is rescuing, He is restoring. He leads us through the desert into the promised land.

Here is what we can see. Whatever it is that you have deemed the most faithful, Christ is moreso. Whatever it is you have trusted to not move, that can be leaned on, Christ is moreso.

Hebrews 3:12–14 ESV

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. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

Christ cannot be out considered. You can choose to walk from Him, you can choose to trust in other things. But if you sincerely consider Christ, you will see His faithfulness.

We live unpredictable lives in an unpredictable world. Our confidence comes from what we can predict, it is not formed any other way.

While we do not always know what God is doing, we can rest, we can be confident in who Christ says He is and what He said He would do.

Proverbs 3:5–6 ESV

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make straight your paths.