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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.

 

Moses was the one God chose to deliver the Israelites from captivity in Egypt: earning him a place of honor amongst the people of God. Here in the Hebrews text, Jesus is pointed to as being greater than Moses. But verse 4 is what really caught my attention: “For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.” In the first chapter of John, we hear that the Word was with God at creation and that all creation came from the Word. John’s text goes on to say how the Word became flesh in the form of Jesus. One can then see just how true this text of Jesus deserving the highest honor, even that of the builder.

 

The Trinity can be tough to ponder. Why do we have one God yet in Three persons? Do we need Three and if so, why? But in these messages, where we begin to peel back the truth of the God and see the distinctness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit AND the overlap of the Trinity, I think it begins to make more sense. Christ the high priest who serves God and through which we can connect with God. Christ the head of the Church (his body) where we all are bound together as one. Scripture possesses many words of wisdom, yet we only truly begin to the power and beauty of God’s Word when we take back and begin to see how the truth is interwoven into an amazing tapestry of God’s love and will.

 

Chad Ryberg

Cryberg@livinglord.org

 

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