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. Practical unbelief ( Deu 1:26 ). his voice--of grace. God punishes such apostates in kind. Even those that are holy brethren, and partakers of the heavenly calling, have need to stir up one another to think more of Christ than they do, to have him more in their minds; the best of his people think too seldom and too slightly of him. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point What he counsels them to do-to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ. THE SON OF GOD GREATER THAN MOSES, WHEREFORE UNBELIEF TOWARDS HIM WILL INCUR A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT THAN BEFELL UNBELIEVING ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS. John Piper Sep 15, 2012 2K Shares Sermon. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. After all, it is God who had built the house of Israel into a numerous people and had appointed Moses over them. StudyLıght.org. Consider what he is in himself, what he is to us, and what he will be to us hereafter and for ever; consider him, fix your thoughts upon him with the greatest attention, and act towards him accordingly; look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. http://adventistsermonsandmusic.com/ Book of Hebrews Chapter 3 commentary and video bible study Part A Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. God is grieved and provoked most by sins publicly committed by the generality of a nation; when sin becomes epidemic, it is most provoking. He departs from them--the worst of woes. II. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy 3:9 and Heb. -------------------- For--assigning the reason why they should "consider" attentively "Christ" ( Hbr 3:1 ), highly as they regard Moses who resembled Him in faithfulness ( Hbr 3:2 ). An evil heart of unbelief is at the bottom of all our sinful departures from God; it is a leading step to apostasy; if once we allow ourselves to distrust God, we may soon desert him. What God proclaims we confess. not--literally, "If they shall enter. He helps us as God's most important priest. New American Standard Version. 8. ( Hbr 3:6 ). So--literally, "as." GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. Sin, long continued in, will kindle the divine wrath, and make it flame out against sinners. Skip to content. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Pauline Epistles Chapter 3. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Those who begin seriously, and with lively affections and holy resolutions and humble reliance, should go on in the same spirit. The irreversible doom passed upon them at last for their sins. was--Greek, "has been." in the day--Greek, "according to the day of.". Our fathers' sins and punishments should be remembered by us, to deter us from following their evil examples. Moses was “in God’s house;” however exalted his position, he was in the house as a servant. Johannine Writings Now Christ is above the angels, according to the first and second chapters because (1) as Son of God He is higher; and (2) because manhood, though originally lower than angels, is in Him exalted above them to the lordship of "the world to come," inasmuch as He is at once Messenger of God to men, and also atoning Priest-Representative of men before God ( 563 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 47 - Hebrews 3:1-12 - Duration: 28:22. the beginning of our confidence--that is, the confidence (literally, substantial, solid confidence) of faith which we have begun ( Hbr 6:11 12:2 ). To-day--at length; in David's day, as contrasted with the days of Moses in the wilderness, and the whole time since then, during which they had been rebellious against God's voice; as for instance, in the wilderness ( Hbr 3:8 ). 1. Moses, as a servant, is a portion of the house, and less than the house; Christ, as the Instrumental Creator of all things, must be God, and so greater than the house of which Moses was but a part. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. of you--The "you" is emphatic, as distinguished from "your fathers" ( Hbr 3:9 ). [1.] as mentioned in Heb. Hebrews 12:3–17 builds from a description of heroes of the faith, culminating in Jesus Christ. One is hard-pressed to find a verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Hebrews from a Torah perspective. What he cautions them against-hardening their hearts, turning the deaf ear to the calls and counsels of Christ: "When he tells you of the evil of sin, the excellency of holiness, the necessity of receiving him by faith as your Saviour, do not shut your ear and heart against such a voice as this.' Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Commentary on Hebrews 3:7-13 (Read Hebrews 3:7-13) Days of temptation are often days of provocation. We must consider Christ as he is described to us in the scriptures, and form our apprehensions of him thence, not from any vain conceptions and fancies of our own. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. Hebrews 3. As the apostle of our profession, the prime-minister of the gospel church, a messenger and a principal messenger sent of God to men, upon the most important errand, the great revealer of that faith which we profess to hold and of that hope which we profess to have. There is a great deal of deceitfulness in sin; it appears fair, but is filthy; it appears pleasant, but is pernicious; it promises much, but performs nothing. 1. Historical Books (3.) Keep Reading About: Hebrews 4:12-16 – Hebrews 5:1-10 commentary. (1.) lest. -------------------- God's wrath will discover itself in its righteous resolution to destroy the impenitent; he will swear in his wrath, not rashly, but righteously, and his wrath will make their condition a restless condition; there is no resting under the wrath of God. Luke-Acts Moses only introduced the Hebrew economy; it was God in Christ who founded it. Site Resources. Johannine Writings Poetical Books Pauline Epistles Wisdom Literature (4.) Christ is an appointed Mediator; God the Father has sent and sealed him to that office, and therefore his mediation is acceptable to the Father. Moses was faithful in the discharge of his office to the Jewish church in the Old Testament, and so is Christ under the New; this was a proper argument to urge upon the Jews, who had so high an opinion of the faithfulness of Moses, and yet his faithfulness was but typical of Christ's. F. F. Bruce explains the “if” clause (Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Eerdmans], p. 59): Nowhere in the New Testament … With a characteristic description of those persons who constitute this house: I. 4. Here observe. [2.] . Not merely some, but all the Israelites, for the solitary exceptions, Joshua and Caleb, are hardly to be taken into account in so general a statement. Minor Prophets But. 2 The superior *apostle 3:1-4:13 Jesus is superior to Moses 3:1-6 III. temptation--"Massah-meribah," translated in Margin "tentation. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point       my rest--Canaan, primarily, their rest after wandering in the wilderness: still, even when in it, they never fully enjoyed rest; whence it followed that the threat extended farther than the exclusion of the unbelieving from the literal land of rest, and that the rest promised to the believing in its full blessedness was, and is, yet future: Psa 25:13 37:9, 11, 22, 29, and Christ's own beatitude ( Mat 5:5 ) all accord with this, Hbr 3:9. (2.) We have the duty we owe to him who bears all these high and honourable titles, and that is to consider him as thus characterized. HEBREWS IVP New Testament Commentary Series.       not known my ways--not known practically and believingly the ways in which I would have had them go, so as to reach My rest ( Exd 18:20 ).       partakers of Christ--(Compare Hbr 3:1, 6 ). "That from among you no one (so the Greek order is in some of the oldest manuscripts) be hardened" ( Hbr 3:8 ). 10. grieved--displeased. Luke-Acts Minor Prophets -------------------- (4.) The New Testament Chapter 5. General Epistles With a comfortable accommodation of it to himself and all true believers (. When--rather, "Where," namely, in the wilderness. Christ was a maker of the house, Moses but a member in it. CONSIDER JESUS OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST Click chart to enlarge Charts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission Hebrews - Charles Swindoll - Chart on right . 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