Well, that’s our confession. That we have placed our faith in the Christ of Glory, the Creator of everything, the One Who took our place on that Roman cross, the One Who arose victoriously over sin and death. And by believing what He has said, He has done everything that needs to be done! All that His last supper meal reveals about Him as Christ the Lamb, body, bread, water, wine and blood of all that was kept in secret or veiled as a fragmented picture from Israel has now become visible to all by the Holy Spirit.
The Bible tells us that we're indwelt by the Holy Spirit and we don’t need a signed certificate, we don’t need anything else. When the Bible says that we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, we're to believe it, we're to trust Him and that’s where Faith comes in. We don’t feel it. We don’t have some magnificent out-of-this-world experience. The Book says it." And that’s our confession. What Christ has said and has accomplished, we believe it and so then it becomes ours by trusting Him and His Faith plus Nothing. (Galatians 2:16 and Philippians 3:9)
Now lets get back to Hebrews chapter 3,and verse 2.
Hebrews 3:2 "Who (Christ Jesus) was faithful to Him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house." We're not going to take the time to go back and look at the Scriptures. We could look at a bunch of them, but we all know enough about Moses that when God spoke to him at the burning bush; sent him back to Egypt for the purpose of delivering the children of Israel out of slavery (a form of our being in the world), he was obedient to that and went through all the turmoil of the plagues and dealing with Pharaoh.
But then the culmination of it all was, he brought Israel out of Egypt and took them down to Mount Sinai. There at Mount Sinai, God gave the Law to Moses and Moses took it down the mountain and gave it to the children of Israel. He was faithful to everything that God commissioned to him. Never do we have a record that Moses himself failed. He was disobedient a time or two but he did not fail what God expected of him to do concerning the Nation of Israel. And so he was totally faithful and every Hebrew that had any concept of all of their Old Testament heritage had a high esteem of Moses.
Of course, this is true of Abraham as well, but we're speaking now because the Scripture is, only of Moses. Their deliverer, the one who brought them out of bondage, the one who gave them the law, and the one who led them, as we’ll see a little later in this chapter, in that horrible 40 year period in the wilderness. But Moses was never found unfaithful. He was God’s faithful servant.
Consequently, when the Hebrews in Christ’s earthly ministry tried to pin Him down with some questions on doctrine or teaching, what did Jesus tell those Hebrews? Well, you have Moses, go back and see what Moses said. Because he was faithful and everything that Moses had been instructed was according to God’s dictates. So Moses is set up as a prime example of someone who was faithful to the commands of God. There was not a point in Moses’ past where there could be any doubt that he was God’s man for the hour. He was always faithful. He heard God's voice and acted upon what he heard, unlike the Hebrew children who covered their ears because they did not want to hear the Words of God.
But, what’s it building up to? Remember that we showed when we first started Hebrews this whole Epistle is a comparison of things that were good, but this is better. Absolutely, Moses was great. He was a man that God (Yehovah) entrusted. He was a man who remained faithful to everything God commissioned him to do, but when it comes to the comparison, he pales next to the Lord Christ Jesus.
So here we come now, here’s another instance where we have the comparison in chapter 2 that He is higher than the angels even though He was lowered for a little while. But Christ cannot be compared with the angelic host. His power is more than the multitudes of angels put together. So now then, verse 3:
Hebrews 3:3a "For this man..." The word man has been added by the translators, but they’re still right in doing it because this is what we’re looking at. We’re looking at the God Man Christ Jesus. The One Who had walked the dusty roads of the land of Palestine, the One Who had walked that way of the cross, the One Who had suffered and died for our sins, the one who paid the ultimate price His Blood. The Blood which carries the power of an Endless Life this that seals us and the New Covenant and though not called such is the New Covenant of Grace as Christ is the Covenant and its power.
Hebrews 3:3b "For this man was counted worthy of (what’s the next word? More. See the comparison? As great as Moses was, this man makes Moses pale into insignificance.) more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house." Now here we come back to an everyday experience. Whenever we see someone building a lavish home, when it’s finished, people probably drive by and admire it and that’s all well and good. But what has more esteem than the house? The guy who owns it, or the guy who built it, the guy who had the wherewithal to bring it all together. This is exactly what we’re showing here. Moses was great. Moses filled a tremendous slot in human history as well as the Hebrews history. But this One, this Jesus of Nazareth, this Man, this God Man, is not only the owner of everything, He made it!
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