Jesus: more Glorious than Moses
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Intro
Intro
Recap:
Jesus Is Supreme - the heir of all things and the final Word of God.
He made atonement for sins and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Jesus is greater than Angels, he is the Son prophesied by Scripture.
Jesus is the founder and High Priest of our Faith - he has become a man to free us from the slaver of Sin & death!
Jesus is one of us as a man, under God. He is our brother.
Consider Jesus
Consider Jesus
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Holy Brothers of Jesus - He has joined us in humanity and become one of us.
We share in a heavenly Calling - Called by God
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
This is the calling we share to come into Christ and find justification - being made righteous with God!
Consider Jesus. What does it mean to consider him?
Look at His apostleship - Sent by the Father
Look at his High Priestly office - The perfect mediator reconciling God to Man
Look, he is over our confession - the Gospel: Jesus is Lord who dies for sins and rose in triumph over the grave. He is seated at the right hand of the father till all his enemies are defeated.
He Was Faithful - Much like Moses
who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.
Jesus was faithful
How was he faithful?
To whom was he faithful? To him who appointed him - God the Father
Faithful Like Moses before him - the greatest OT figure besides David.
Jesus Builds the House
Jesus Builds the House
In case you thought Moses was the ultimate in faithfulness, Jesus was even better.
For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
Moses messed up a few times - Jesus never messed up
But even so, Jesus is still greater because he is more glorious. As glorious as a builder over a house.
The honour goes to the builder - an architect gets the glory for a good deign, the engineer gets the glory for making it buildable, the tradies get the glory for turning the design into a physical construct. The creators, or creator, is honoured more than their creation.
A Reference to the divinity of Jesus -
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
The Logic:
IF Jesus gets the glory of a builder
AND The world was created through Jesus
AND God is the builder of everything,
THEN Jesus is God.
What is the “House” that Jesus is building?
It started just as an illustration - builders are greater than buildings, but the illustration morphs into a metaphor
The house that Jesus is building is God’s House, it is the house where the family - the Brothers, the children of God are home.
It is the house of the heirs of salvation, it his the household of Faith, the Church.
Nations and worldly institutions and families will pass away, but the one institution that will persevere to eternity is the Church. This is the temple of God, where he dwells now by his Spirit, and where he will forever dwell. God does not dwell in your family (important as that is)
In your order of Loves, with God your primary love, and your close family next, the church comes right behind that. Here are those with whom you will share eternity. Here are those who were sealed with you by the blood of Christ, here are those with whom you have the most in common. The Church of God, which is manifested in local gatherings like this across the space & time, is the house of God that Jesus is building.
How does Jesus build this House?
Jesus is the Cornerstone, Jesus is the Founder of Our faith, upon which he lays the work of the apostles. The Church is the Pillar and Buttress of the Truth.
Jesus builds the house by [exciting]
Electing a people before the foundation of the world, and setting about to save them by Grace across the pages of history.
Accomplishing Salvation, plucking us from the jaws of death and the curse of sin and justifying us to God, sanctifying us.
giving us the life-giving message of the Gospel and the Holy Spirit so that we may hear and take hold of this salvation through faith
Including giving us “apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ”
Sending the Spirit and the Church into the world to draw in the elect from across that face of the world. We have a great commission through which Jesus builds the house.
Jesus is Over the House
Jesus is Over the House
Moses was merely a servant, Jesus is the heir of the Father who is installed over the house.
Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son.
In the ANE household it was not uncommon for somewhat wealthy families to have servants. They may have been indentured, like temporary slaves, or like full-time employees (i mean really full time).
So in the household heirarcy you would have the master - the father/husband, and then his family membder and then the servants down the bottom. SOmetimes you get servants adopted into the family, but ordinarily servants are at the bottom.
Here we are reminded that Moses, as great as he was, was basically at the bottom. He’s “just” a servant compared to Jesus who is the firstborn Son, the cheif heir of the estate. The first Son is the one who takes over, and although the Father never dies it is an image brought forward here, of the Son being the one who becomes the leader of the household.
Jesus, the anointed Christ is the one over God’s house, the Church, and indeed he is over the whole world!
Stay in God’s House
Stay in God’s House
So what do we do in response? We are reminded of the need to faithfully endure!
And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
We are his house. We are the household of God, if we hold fast our confidence.
This does not nullify what God has said elsewhere about electing a people for himself, or protecting his people so that they will not fall away from faith. This is what God uses to keep his people and bring them to salvation - warnings to stay faithful.
There will be false professors, but you are called to not prove yourself a false professor, walking away from faith. You need to hold onto your confidence, your faith, in Jesus and you glory in the hope you have in Christ. This is not prideful selfish boasting, this is rejoicing and proclaiming the Hope of the Gospel, that Christ saves sinners like you and I!
Do not neglect your salvation, but hold fast to Christ!
What now?
What now?
Consider Christ, stay in God’s House.
