1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
Therefore, The writer calls the readers to consider Christ.
In chapter one, Jesus’ deity was presented.
In chapter two, His humanity was presented.
In all ways, He was presented as being preeminently qualified to the mediator between God and man.
holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling- they were Christians, and all that that included.
consider- to think about w/ caution, to regard in an attentive way. Webster
Apostle- apostolos, literally, “sent one.” THE sent one from God, preeminent.
High Priest- the High Priests was the mediator bewteen God and man.
Jesus is THE High priest, the supreme High Priest whose ministry supercedes that of mere men.
2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.
who was faithful- Jesus was faithful to all the Father called Him to.
John 8:29 “…. I always do those things that please Him.”
Jesus never shrank back from anything the Father required of Him.
as Moses also was faithful in all His house- Moses is now introduced.
The Jews greatly respected Moses.
In the minds of some, there was no one greater in the history of Israel.
Num 12:4-8 (NIV)
4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them came out.
5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,
6 he said, “Listen to my words: “When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,
6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
as Moses also was faithful in all His house house, oikos- literally, people, or household.
God’s people are often called a household.
Eph 2:19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,
1 Tim 3:15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ “
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
15 while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.