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I hope this will be a simple fun tool for us to grow in our understanding and surrender to God through the Bible as we connect over the web. Reading the Bible is both simple and difficult. What could be easier than opening a book and reading? Yet we've all done that and wondered what sections of the Bible mean? What's with the book of Leviticus? What is Revelation really about? Is the Song of Songs about marital love or is it supposed to be more 'spiritual' than that?

So, my intent is for this blog to be a tool that helps us in our faith. A forum for better understanding. An honest place of sharing that nurtures us as we follow Jesus together.

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2.04.2011

Hebrews 3:1-6

1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. (NIV)

This paragraph starts out similarly to 2:1-4. The author here instructs us to pay attention/fix our thoughts on Jesus. We could stop there, pray, seeking to live it out and be all the better, but the author keeps moving on with more support for the seriousness of this instruction. To do this, he contrasts Jesus to Moses. As faithful as Moses was as a servant 'in all God's house,' Christ is faithful 'as a son over God's house.' The contrast is servant vs. son and 'in God's house' vs. 'over God's house.' And, you and I experience the impact of Jesus' faithfulness over us as God's house, IF we 'hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.'

We have everything to gain by standing fast and holding on no matter what, and no matter how long...we have everything to lose by slipping back.

Thoughts...

1 comment:

  1. Seem to be several related thoughts going on in v. 6. First, Jesus is 'over God's house' emphasizing the Christian experience as being part of a family...which means, the Christian faith is not meant to be a private, individual sort of thing! It is meant to be lived in relationships with others. And, just like families, this means we stick together even when things get tough...a principle largely lost on today's local churches where hopping around seems to be the order of the day.

    Second, Jesus is the one in charge of the house, which means He calls the shots about who sleeps where, when we eat, how we work things out between us, and what our chores are, etc.

    Third, we are that household, if we continue in our confidence in God and our boast in the hope we have in Him all the way to the end. This does not meet a surface level flat statement that if we doubt we're out. It means that living as a faithful Christian can sometimes be difficult, but we stick with it anyway...just like someone who has a fight with a family member, or who disagrees with Dad, still accepts that they're family and so they stick with it.

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