Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. Php 3:142Ti 1:9Heb 4:14-151Pe 2:9Eph 4:1Heb 7:26Eph 4:4Heb 2:17 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 1 Num 12:71Ti 3:15Eph 2:22Heb 3:5-6Jhn 6:38-40Heb 2:17Jhn 17:41Ti 1:12
For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 1Co 3:91Pe 2:5-7Zec 6:12-13Heb 2:9Heb 1:2-4Heb 3:6Col 1:18Mat 16:18 And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Heb 1:2Heb 3:3Est 2:10Est 3:9
Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, 2 testifying to what would be spoken later. Num 12:7Heb 3:2Exo 14:31Act 28:23Psa 105:261Ti 1:12Deu 18:15-19Deu 34:5 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly 3to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. 2Co 6:161Co 3:16Heb 10:351Pe 2:51Co 6:19Heb 6:11Heb 10:23Heb 3:14
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
(Psalms 95:1–11)
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Psa 95:7-11Heb 3:15Isa 55:3Rev 3:20Heb 4:7Jhn 10:27Psa 81:13Heb 3:13
“Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts, Pro 28:14Exo 17:7Mat 13:15Zec 7:11-12Dan 5:20Ezk 3:7-9Jer 7:26Psa 78:18
as you did in the rebellion,
in the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers tested and tried Me, Act 7:36Deu 4:9Deu 4:3Deu 8:4Exo 19:4Act 13:8Amo 2:10Deu 29:2
and for forty years saw My works.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, Psa 95:102Th 2:10-12Eph 4:30Jer 4:22Psa 67:2Psa 78:8Hos 4:12Isa 63:10
and I said,
‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known My ways.’
So I swore on oath in My anger, Deu 1:34-35Heb 4:3Deu 2:14Heb 4:5Num 14:20-23Num 14:35Num 32:10-13Heb 4:9
‘They shall never enter My rest.’” 4
The Peril of Unbelief
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. Jer 17:5Jer 7:24Jer 17:9Jer 18:121Co 10:12Heb 10:38Heb 12:25Jer 11:8 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 1Th 5:11Heb 10:24-252Ti 4:21Th 4:18Act 11:23Jas 1:14Eph 4:22Oba 1:3
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. Heb 3:6Heb 6:111Pe 4:13Heb 12:10Eph 3:6Heb 6:4Heb 3:1Rom 11:17 As it has been said: Heb 3:7-8Psa 95:7Heb 10:38Heb 10:29
“Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts,
as you did in the rebellion.” 5
For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? Num 14:2Num 14:30Num 26:65Deu 1:38Psa 78:17Num 14:24Num 14:38Num 14:4 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? Num 14:29Jud 1:5Num 14:22Num 14:32-33Num 26:64-65Deu 2:15-161Co 10:1-13Jer 9:22 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? Heb 4:6Deu 1:34-35Num 14:30Psa 106:24-26Deu 1:26-32Num 20:12Deu 9:23Heb 3:11 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. Jud 1:5Jhn 3:36Jhn 3:18Mrk 16:161Jn 5:102Th 2:12