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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
It continues to be the great honor and privilege in my life to steward this pulpit and to share the Word of God with the saints of Durbin Memorial Baptist Church.
I am sure that many of you are aware, today is Mother’s Day.
Before we press on in our look through the book of Hebrews, I want to draw your attention to the story of a mother from Scripture.
Last week, we saw in the beginning of Hebrews 3, that Jesus is better than Moses.
Moses was a faithful servant to God, but Jesus is the Son of God.
When we come to saving faith in Jesus Christ we are made a part of Christ’s house, not Moses’ house.
In fact Moses is a part of the house with us!
Even still, the original Hebrew audience was very familiar with Moses.
So what we will get to in a few moments is a continuation of seeing how Moses’ life points to Jesus.
The section of Hebrews 3 today looks at events that happen towards the end of His life.
Before we get there, I want to go all the way back to the beginning.
Allow me to read for you from Exodus chapter one.
To set the stage here, the Israelites had been living in Egypt since the famine brought them there and first, it was a very positive relationship.
But over the next 200 or 300 hundred years different leadership arose in Egypt.
During that time, the Israelite people really multiplied.
A new pharoah rose to power and said that Israel had become too many and too mighty so he started to enslave the people and eventually decided to kill every new born son of the Israelites.
Take a look at how this plays out and what Moses’ mother does.
Now, we could preach a whole sermon just on this passage.
We could see what this teaches us about the sanctity of life.
We could look at how wonderful it is to protect children.
We could even draw parallels between the Pharaoh’s atrocity with the horror that is the modern day death culture promoted by the abortion industry.
But for the context of our message today I want to simply boil down the actions taken by Moses’ mother to help us into the mindset of what we will be seeing in Hebrews 3.
So what did his mother do here?
First, she understood that danger was immanent.
It was no secret that the Pharaoh was having all of the baby boys killed.
It is very likely that she knew other mothers who had their children taken away from them in such a horrific fashion.
Second, she valued the life of her son.
Scripture says she saw he was a fine child and then hid him.
Third, she did something difficult and potentially seen as crazy to provide for her child.
She made him a basket that was sealed and floated it down the bank.
Now, a lot else happens in the story and it deserves a longer exposition at some point down the road, but for our purposes, remember those three things about Moses mother.
She understood danger was immanent.
She valued the life of her son.
She did something difficult to provide for her son.
With these three things in mind, would you open your Bibles to Hebrews 3. We have been talking about how great of a Savior Jesus Christ is.
We have seen what a blessing it is to be a part of the family of God.
Faith in Jesus Christ is the mode, and the only mode for that matter, in which God brings us humans into glory.
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
No one comes to the Father but by Him.
With this understanding we pick up in Hebrews 3:7
Hebrews 3:7 (ESV)
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
Before we get into the three pointed outline illustrated in the Exodus Narrative, we cannot overlook the deep theology presented in the first few words of verse 7. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says.
After that phrase, the next 5 verses are a direct quote from Psalm 95.
This is a much bigger deal than a passing reading would suggest.
The writer of Hebrews is suggesting that the Psalm that many believed to be penned by King David is actually the words of the Holy Spirit.
What are the implications of this?
Does this mean that David did not actually write the Psalm?
We are given clarity on this in chapter 4:
We will come back to the meaning of this verse when we get to chapter 4, but the big thing to notice here is “SAYING THROUGH DAVID.”
What we have to recognize, realizing, and respect is the Holy Spirit, the third person of the triune God, worked THROUGH David to write the fully inspired, completely inerrant, life-giving, ever-flowing Word of God.
And it is not just the psalms that are inspired in this manner.
This is a great example of God speaking to us even today through David, but ALL of Scripture is this way.
What does this mean for us?
It means that we should treasure these books that we are able to carry in our pockets, on our phones, on our coffee tables, because whether they be on a screen, a scroll, or bound in leather they are the very word of God!
There is simultaneously 40 different authors of the Word and but One author of the Word of God.
All of it comes to us from God through men.
Praise be to God for His Word.
But alas, let us press on in Hebrews 3:7
Here we come to first stop in our outline.
Understand Danger is Immanent
The Author of Hebrews, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is drawing our attention back to what happened towards the end of Moses’ life.
We must once again look back to Moses’ life to get the full context here.
We read earlier that Moses was brought into the house of the Pharaoh’s daughter.
Flash forward a few decades later and God has chosen Moses to deliver His people out of Egypt and out of oppression and slavery.
God afflicted the Egyptians with a series of ten plagues as both punishment and to coerce the Pharoah into letting the people go.
The last plague, and most severe, caused the death of every first born son in Egypt.
The Pharaoh then pleaded with the Israelites to leave, so they did so under Moses’ leadership.
When they left Egypt, they got to the Red Sea and Pharaoh changed his mind.
He and his troops took off after the Israelites to bring them back.
God worked in a mighty way and parted the Red Sea so that the Israelites could cross and escape.
The people of Israel made it across and the Egyptians followed, but before they could make it across, the waters are released and the army is drowned.
It was a miraculous deliverance for the people of Israel, but the miracles didn’t even stop there.
God provided for His people in a great way.
He led them by a pillar of cloud in the day time and pillar of fire by night.
He provided them with drinkable water.
He sent them bread to eat in the wilderness so they would not have to scavenge food.
Then one day in the journey, the Israelites got thirsty.
After all of these miracles they had witnessed, look ath how they speak to Moses:
The people of Israel were not trusting in the Lord to provide despite everything He had already provided.
We’re told later on that part of this quarreling included question if the Lord was even among them or not.
‘God had been providing for them all along; they had abundant evidence of His power and care.
But they would not put their full trust in God.” (MacArthur)
Yet even so, in His great mercy, the Lord instructed Moses to strike a rock.
Water would then flow from the rock and the people were able to quench their thirst.
Though satiated for a moment, the people were still not satisfied.
This was but one of ten times they tested the Lord and grumbled despite seeing His power and provision time and time again.
(Ex 14:10-23, Ex. 15:22-24, Ex 16:1-3, Ex 16:19-20, Ex 16:27-30, Ex 17:1-4, Ex 32:1-35, Num 11:1-3, Num 11:4-34, Num 14:3)
The Israelite people, “your fathers” as we read in Hebrews 3, put the Lord to the test over and over again.
This is a reference to the judgment God lays down on the people in Numbers 14.
To put it simply:
God, working through Moses, brought His people out of Egypt, provided for them, and was taking them to the Promised Land.
But because of the doubt and disobedience of the faithless people, none of the original generation brought out from Egypt and witness to the great power of God would enter the rest of the promised land.
Now you have the fuller context of the passage from Psalm 95.
But this isn’t just included to be a history lesson.
Go back to verses 7-8
We go from looking at the history lesson of the testing of God and rebellion to God of the Israelites in the wilderness, to thinking about this in the context of when?
TODAY!
Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, like they did back then, or else you too will feel the wrath of God and you shall not enter His rest!
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