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A.The Builder Outranks the House: Jesus Above Mosesvv. 1-6

1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. 2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 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. 4 And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

B.Today, If Ye Shall Hear His Voicevv. 7-11

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ 11 So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

C.Exhort One Another Daily Lest a Heart Hardenvv. 12-19

12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. 15 As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” 16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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Chapter summary

Consider Jesus, 'the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.' Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant; Christ over it as a son, and the builder has more honor than the house.

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Consider Jesus, 'the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.' Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant; Christ over it as a son, and the builder has more honor than the house. Then Psalm 95 is quoted whole: 'To-day if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.' The wilderness generation saw his works forty years and still erred in heart, and he sware in his wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.' The remedy is urgency in company, exhort one another day by day, lest any be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

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  • A. 1–6 The Builder Outranks the House: Jesus Above Moses
  • B. 7–11 Today, If Ye Shall Hear His Voice
  • C. 12–19 Exhort One Another Daily Lest a Heart Harden
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  • Numbers 144 verses
    • Numbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
    • Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
    • Numbers 14:29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
    • Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
    • Read Numbers 14 →
  • Hebrews 34 verses
    • Hebrews 3:2He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
    • Hebrews 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
    • Hebrews 3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
    • Hebrews 3:15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
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  • Hebrews 43 verses
    • Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
    • Hebrews 4:6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,
    • Hebrews 4:14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
    • Read Hebrews 4 →
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  • Psalms 952 verses
    • Psalms 95:7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
    • Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
    • Read Psalms 95 →
  • 1 Corinthians 32 verses
  • Jeremiah 172 verses
    • Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
    • Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
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  • Numbers 121 verse

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.