Okay. Shalom, everyone. While we turn once again to the book of Hebrews, this meeting, today we are going to open to the third chapter of Hebrews. We have already covered the first two chapters of the book of Hebrews, and we are going to continue actually today in the third chapter. I enjoy so much to speak about the letter to the Hebrews because it is so practical, so real, so needful for us who are Hebrews to realize that when the writer wrote to those Hebrews 2,000 years ago, it's applied to us as well today and of course to all believers in Yeshua, the Messiah. And you can see how important this letter for us all to understand the greatness of the person of our Lord Jesus, our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah.

Now, I'm only going to read today the first six verses of the third chapter. The reason for that, you can see there is a natural break here. And yet, after these six verses, he began to give a second time, a second warning to believers in the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. Let me read those verses. Let me read those verses first of all. Hebrews 3, verse 1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Messiah Yeshua, who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. And I stop here. Hebrews chapter 3. Remember that when we give the chapters and the verses, when the writer wrote to the Hebrews 2,000 years ago or 1,900 years ago, he didn't give them those breaks that you and I are having today.

Chapter 1, chapter 2, verse 1 to verse 6 and so on. He wrote a letter which flows very nicely, one step after another. The writer, a Hebrew believer, writing to early century Hebrew Christians, Messianic Jews, you may call them today. Today, Jewish people who have come to faith in the Messiahship of Yeshua, of the Lord Jesus, have embraced him as their Lord and Savior, but were always in the danger of going back into the sacrificial system, to be under the Mosaic law, to bind themselves into that which God has given to the nation. But now when the Messiah has come, the nation of the nation haven't accepted him. Those first century Hebrew believers must move on into maturity and growing in appreciation of the person of the Messiah.

Well, we have the same problem today. Today, a person might come to faith in the Messiah and accept him, recognize that he is complete in the Messiah, yet there is an inclination always to go back to that which was already fulfilled by the person of Yeshua the Messiah. Those of us that are Jewish know that by experience because we have it every time in our life, in connection with our family, with connection with our nation, in connection with our people that are very dear to us, we know that by experience. But there is a difference between us today and those early Hebrew believers because they had the temple still in existence.

They had the sacrifices still on the altar. They had the priesthood. They had everything that was still intact, if you will. But when Yeshua came, he was rejected by the leadership of Israel. Set aside, as we read, the stone which the builders rejected become the head of the corner. Israel as a nation did not accept him yet. And yet those Hebrew people have loved him, sought to follow after him, but always with the danger of going back into that which was done in the person of the Messiah. For them to go to offer a sacrifice on the altar in the temple was a clear violation of what happened when they came to the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

He was the supreme sacrifice. The animals will no longer have any value whatsoever being upon the altar. And so he's leading them forward. And you remember in the first two chapters, he dealt with them to show them that Yeshua, that Jesus, that the Lord Yeshua, the Son of God, is greater, superior, higher than the angels. As God, chapter 1. As men, chapter 2. He is greater than the angels. And angels were very important for our people because angels have been part to the nation throughout the history of Israel as a nation. They served them. They ministered to them. They gave the law to the nation of Israel according to Galatians and according to the book of Acts chapter 7.

So angels were very important, but Yeshua is greater than the angels. By the time we get now to chapter 3, in verses 1, all the way to chapter 4 and verse 13, he is telling them the second important things about the superiority of Yeshua. He is not only greater than the angels, but he is also greater than Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses the Lord Giver. Now you know, if you would sit today in any place in Israel, and you will find and have a few conservative Jewish people, and you will sit and discuss with them some passages from the Bible. You know, there are three individuals that are very dear to our people.

Number one is Father Abraham. He is the one that God have called the first Hebrew. Eivri, we call him in Hebrew, Eivri, who Avar, he is the crosser over. He came over to the Spartania, cross over, and he came to the promised land. Abraham the Hebrew, the father of us Hebrews. That's number one. Number two is, of course, is the man Moses that we are going to talk about a little bit today, who was the lawgiver. God has given to our people of all, to Israel as a nation, the law through angels, but to this man Moses, everyone in Israel, everyone you will talk about, every person you will talk about when you talk about Moses, the Torah, Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Dvarim, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, is that which will attribute to Moses the lawgiver.

He had given Israel instructions. He had given Israel commandments and laws and precepts. And he was a man that was so important to the nation of Israel. And indeed he was. He was a man of God. The Bible tells us no one rose like the servant Moses. And then, of course, the third one that is very important, it's the king of Israel, David. Sometimes we sing that song. David, Melech Israel, chai, chai, ve'kayam. David, the king of Israel, is alive, alive and in existence. Why? Because David, it's through him came the promised Messiah would come. David, the king of Israel, the man after God's own heart.

That's the man that God sent. I found a man for myself, a man after mine own heart. Abraham, Moshe, and David. The three great men that God raised from among the people of Israel. Very important for them. Here comes the writer. And you notice that he doesn't knock down Moses. He doesn't tell of his faults and his failure. He has failure, like all men. But what he does, he shows us that even though Moses was a great man, there is one that is always greater than all. And that's what he does, beloved brothers and sisters. He set before them in a very affectionate way the greatness of the person of our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah.

And so you notice that the text began in chapter three and verse one with the word wherefore. What is the word wherefore is here for is to tell us that what I have already told you in previous verses or in the previous part of the letter in light of this. I want you to see that the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, is now greater not only than the angels, but also the man by the name of Moshe. So he's telling them wherefore. Wherefore, in light of what you have already heard from me, wherefore, he's saying to them, Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider, consider the apostle, apostolos in Greek, apostle and high priest of our confession, Yeshua.

Now he's telling them, you see what he does? He's now leading them to consider Yeshua. And now in view of what's coming after Moses, the man Moses. But he called them two things that I think we need to take under consideration when we study the book of Hebrews. The first thing he does, he's calling them holy brethren. Now, let me tell you, a lot of people have a problem with the book of Hebrews because there are some verses that we're going to get there in due time if we'll ever get to those chapters. There are certain passages in the book of Hebrews which would cause some people to doubt their salvation.

Some people do doubt their salvation. Am I saved? Am I lost? Am I in? Am I out? Am I going to heaven or am I going to hell? Am I a believer or am I an unbeliever? What's happening with my life? Because somehow I got to produce something in my own life to prove my redemption, my being saved. My beloved brothers and sisters, this is a principle that everybody must recognize. We are never saved on the basis of how we perform. Because you and I never perform enough to be 100% holy. What are they, 50%? Maybe some of us, great, do 60% in their life. Maybe you think that you have done 70% or even 80%.

But God does not demand neither 50, nor 60, nor 70, nor 80, nor 90. God demands 100% perfection. Otherwise, you are lost. You are a sinful individual and need redemption. And that's why we have to see when he called them this expression. Notice he called them holy brethren. The Hebrew word here, of course, it's a Greek in the New Testament. It was written in Greek, so the word, of course, is in the Greek. But the Hebrew word is Achim, brethren. They have been his brethren or his Achim in the flesh. He is Hebrew. They are Hebrews. But they also were his brethren in the Messiah, in Yeshua, in the Lord. And so he called them holy brethren.

What does that mean to be holy? To be holy means to be set apart. To be brought into a condition or in a position in which your relationship with God is unique. You have been set apart by God for himself. That's what means to be holy. The Hebrew word Kadosh, we know we sometimes sing holy, holy, holy. You remember when Isaiah saw that vision of the temple shaking and he cried Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh. You know, God will not have one little sin without being judged. And that's how he could call them holy brethren. He could call them holy brethren because they have been set apart through the work of the Messiah.

Their sins have been dealt with. They have been forgiven company because they have accepted our blessed Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah. They are set apart. Let me show you. If you turn with me to the book of Corinthians. First Corinthians chapter one. Just turn there for a second. The Corinthians, you know, were in a very sad condition. If there is any letter in the Bible that is full of problems. What's in the Corinthians? There were Corinthians. Your whole first Corinthians has to do with problems and issues that the Corinthians has. And yet what we read the apostle Paul when he wrote to them, Shaul, in first Corinthians chapter one.

Look what he called them. Verses one and two. Paul called to be an apostle of Yeshua, the Messiah through the will of God. And Susanese, our brother. And then verse two, he says unto the church or the assembly or the congregation of God, which is at Corinth. To them that are sanctified in the Messiah, Yeshua, in Christ Jesus, called saints. Now, wait a minute. How can you call the people at Corinth saints? You just read about them in the whole book of Corinthians, the whole letter. In chapter three, they have an issue. In chapter five, they had an issue. In chapter six, they had an issue.

Every chapter, there is an issue that these Corinthians had. And yet the apostle Paul called them saints. Now, beloved, any one of us who is a believer in Yeshua, the Messiah, is definitely saint. We might not behave as saints many times. But positionally, we are called saints in the word of God. Set apart, holy unto God, set apart for God. That, by the way, makes us very much responsible to the Lord to say, Lord, if you have set me apart and call me holy. If you call me as he called his brethren in chapter three, the Hebrew called them brethren. If you call me holy, what does that demand from me in a practical way?

Should I live a careless life without to think of the things of the Lord? Without the things of my accountability and my responsibility for the Lord? No. In fact, because he is calling them holy. Because they are holy. They are having a responsibility to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord. Romans chapter one. Romans chapter one. One more verse. Seven. He is also writing to the believers at Rome. And again, I want you to see he calling them saints. Verse seven of Romans chapter one. One, to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called saints. You see? He is calling believers in Yeshua, the Messiah, saints.

And that's exactly what happened with those Hebrews. They were holy brethren. They were set apart for God. They were sanctified through the work of Yeshua, the Messiah. But not only this. You notice in the same verse. Verse one. The Messiah here is presented before them. But the writer is telling them that those people were changed people. There's something happened to them. They became sanctified, set apart. But the second thing in Hebrews chapter three and verse one. He called them partakers of the heavenly calling. Partakers of the heavenly calling. You know that? When you and I, when those Hebrews became believers in the Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, they were partakers of the heavenly calling.

Partakers of that, which is the calling of God. The heavenly company that belonged to our blessed Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah. But we must understand they were Hebrews. They were Jewish people who lived in the land in view of what was going on in the temple. And they had promises that God had given to our people Israel as a nation. And earthly blessings. And earthly calling. Now, when it's earthly, it doesn't mean it's bad. When it's earthly, it doesn't mean it's something wrong with it. No. But the earthly blessing that they were supposed to receive together with the rest of the nation had been postponed because of the rejection of the Messiah.

So now, they are partakers, as he called them, of a heavenly calling. Of a heavenly calling. You know what? You know, beloved brothers and sisters, every believer in the Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah today, our calling is a heavenly calling. We are not to improve the world here, even though, by example, in our life, we should be an impact. But our job, our ministry, is to pluck people outside of this world because this world is heading for judgment. God called the believers a heavenly calling. People that are heading towards heaven where the Messiah is presently today. He called them partakers or sharers of the heavenly calling.

That's what he called them. They are to understand their calling in this present time. Now, they probably were sitting there and thinking, Wow, God, you have given us so many promises to our nation, Israel. And we are part of this nation. You see, he didn't call them to stop to be Jews. He didn't call them to stop to be Israelis. He didn't call them to stop to be Hebrews. He only called them to understand that in this present time, after the Messiah had been rejected, God is now calling a people for himself, which the view with a view of going to be with our blessed Lord in heaven.

They call it a heavenly calling. And they were sharers of this heavenly calling. Now, that is important. Because now, even though they seem to think that they have lost so much. But actually, he tell them you haven't lost a thing. You haven't lost a thing. You haven't lost a thing. Because actually, what these people are going to benefit, they are in a sense going to benefit in two ways. Number one, they are belonging to the heavenly company. They are going to be with Yeshua the Messiah and all the body of Messiah, which is composed Jew of Gentile together in the heavenly realm, in the heavenly calling.

And yet, at the same time, they will enjoy to see the nation in a future day, Israel, restored and receiving all the promise inheritance that God has for this nation. But now, he said to them, you are sharers of this heavenly calling. Actually, heaven is our home. Really, in my father's house, Yeshua said in John 14, there are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you. He said, by the way, to the early disciples in the upper room in John 14. And if I go and prepare a place for you, he said to them, I will come again. And I will receive you unto myself.

That where I am, there ye may be also. You know, the shout might be at any moment. I might not finish the meeting today where the rapture of the saints can happen. We do not know when. We only know that the next thing on God's calendar is the snatching out from this world that is heading for judgment of everyone that they have trusted in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. So he's calling them two things, holy brethren and sharers of the heavenly calling. That tells me much. That tells me that those people were not ifes. They were not half in and half out. They were not 99% almost made it.

They were not might get it and might go out of it. No, he tells me that they are in. They are saved. They are believers. They are holy brethren. They are partakers, sharers of the heavenly calling. And by the way, they could not even go out by themselves, even if they wanted. Because the Bible teaches that no one is able to pluck them out of my hands. Now, he established the fact here. And for me, I know there are various teachings that are going on. And that's fine. If somebody believes that he can get saved and get lost, it's fine. It's up to you. But what I understand from my Bible, that our salvation is totally dependent upon the work of the Messiah and not one thing that I can do will ever bring me to receive redemption.

The only thing that I brought to the table is nothing but my sin and sins. And the Lord Jesus the Messiah brought to the table his precious, precious blood. He paid the price for our sin and sins. And so, as he continues in this first part, he is showing that these Hebrews had a change. They have a change. They have been transferred from the kingdom of this dark world to the kingdom of God's dear Son. They are holy brethren and they are partakers of the heavenly calling. And now, let's continue in the second half of this verse. And you notice what he does there. There he asked them to consider this Yeshua.

To consider him. You see, it says here in verse 1b. Consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Messiah Yeshua or Christ Jesus. Some said that the word Christ or Mashiach in this verse is not in the best manuscripts. It's simply saying, consider Jesus. Consider Yeshua. That's what he said. But who is he? Who is this Yeshua? Because they are telling them two things about Yeshua. Consider the apostle, number one. And the high priest of our confession. Two things he is telling them to consider. He is calling Yeshua. By the way, this is one of the only places as far as I know that the Lord Yeshua is called an apostle.

What is the meaning of the word apostle? Apostle means a sent one. One that had been sent. You see, when Yeshua left this world and returned to heaven, he sent those apostles for a mission, for a ministry. To proclaim the message of the gospel to the world. And here we have him being called by the writer and apostle. Apostolos in the Greek. In Hebrew, Shaliyach or Nishlach. A person that had been sent by God. Now that is very interesting. Some suggest that perhaps the book of Hebrews was written by Shaul, Paul. But the reason that Paul did not put his name into this letter is because the name apostle is applied to Yeshua.

Paul who usually writes a letter says, I am the apostle of Yeshua the Messiah, sent of Yeshua the Messiah. And he removed his name from this letter because he is not worthy compared to this one wonderful person. The true apostle. The true apostle. The true messenger. The true sent one. You see, he is saying to them, he says, consider this apostle. Consider him. Now I am going to show you, he is going to lead them to compare him to Moses. And I want you to see that he is greater than him. But consider him, he is saying to them. As a sent one. Now remember we sang today.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. You see, God the father sent his son. He sent him to this world. He came to this wicked world. And you know what men did to him? Instead of embracing him. And telling him, Lord, we want to acknowledge you as our Lord and our Savior. They took him. They rejected him. And they placed him on a tree and they crucified him. And they said, we will not have this man to rule over us. And beloved, that is exactly what happened today. Two thousand years later. The same thing. The sent one from God is being rejected of man.

He is despised and rejected of man. We read in a prophet Isaiah. They still reject him today. They still reject him today. I just, unfortunately, read in the Hebrew newsletter, very sadly, that just a few days ago, they burned hundreds of New Testament in one of the cities. And when you think about it, men still reject him. In Israel, in Canada, in the world around, people still reject the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. They would like to have religion, but just not the Messiah, not Christ, not Yeshua. That's the way we are by nature. We will have not this man to rule over us.

And yet, he was sent by God. He was sent by God into this world. He is the Shaliyah, the Apostolos, the one that is sent by God with a commission, with a message, with an action to do on behalf of man. Now, let me show you. If you turn to the Gospel of John, I want you to see some of the verses that are very interesting. You remember the verse that we have been singing, "For God so loved the world," John 3:16. Look at the next verse, after John 3:16. We have John 3:17. He says, "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved." That's why he was sent.

God did not send his Son to condemn the world, John 3:17. But God sent his Son to this world in order that the world might be saved. John 3:34. "For he whom God has sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not to him the Spirit by measure." "Him whom God hath sent." He sent by God, John 3:34. Same Gospel, John 5:36. We read, listen to this: "But I have greater witness than of John, for the works which the Father has given me to finish the same works that I do." "It bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me." That's what Yeshua said all the time.

"I'm here. I've been sent by God. I'm the Apostolos. I'm the Apostle. I'm the Shaliyach. I've been sent by God to finish the work here, to accomplish a redemption." Lovely verses to think about the Lord calling himself as the one that had been sent by God. And we can go on. Chapter 6 and verse 29 of the Gospel of John. "Yeshua answered and said unto them, "This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." Do you want real works to do for God? Believe on him whom God hath sent. That's the real works that you need to do, to believe on him whom God hath sent.

The same chapter in verse 57. "As the living Father hath sent me." "As I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he the same shall live." In other words, appropriate yourself. Believe on me. Accept me. I am the one that hath been sent by God. He is the Apostle that they are to consider. Interesting, eh? How the Lord is being called an Apostle. And that's I believe the only time in the Bible that he is called. But it simply means that he is a sent one. He is a sent one with a message to proclaim to this world. And there are more verses.

John 7:29. John 8:42. John 10:36. John 11:42. John 17 and verse 3. John 20 and 21. There are various verses that deal with the fact that he was sent by the Father to this world. Not to condemn the world, but that the world through he might be saved. Did they accept him? Did a multitude of accept him? Well, unfortunately, no. But here we have those Hebrews to whom the writer is writing and he said to them. You are holy brethren. You are partakers or sharers of the heavenly calling. Consider the sent one. Consider him. And you know, brothers and sisters, you and I have all the time to do this and exercise on a daily basis.

We need to consider him. To consider him every time. Try to compare what the world has to offer. What religion have to offer. What all the system of the world can offer to us. What all these religions that are existing today, what they can offer us in comparison with this one that was sent by the Father. Nothing. Nothing. They cannot offer anything in comparison to what Yeshua have offered. He gave his life. He shed his blood. He paid the price for our sin and our sins. He made us holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling. But he's not only this apostle. You notice it says he's also called here the high priest.

He's also high priest. Now we not going to dwell on the high priestly ministry of the Lord here because there are many chapters that deal with his being a high priest. What is the difference with a priest and a prophet? A prophet come with a message from God to the people. He was an apostle. That's what happened with Yeshua as an apostle. He came from God to the people with a message. What the priest does is executive reverse. He come from man unto God. He's back to the people. He's face to God and he's offering and sharing on behalf of the people. We can say it also in a different way which we have in Peter.

He is a royal priest. We are royal priests and we are also holy priests. The holy priest facing God. The royal priest facing the people. This is exactly what we have here. The two aspects. The Lord Yeshua the Messiah is an apostle sent from God to the people. But he's also the high priest on behalf of the people facing God and presenting us before this wonderful loving God of ours. And so he's telling them in this verse one. This verse one itself is filled with so much rich ministry to our hearts. The holy brethren partakers of a heavenly calling consider the one who is the apostle, the sent one, the one who is the high priest of our confession.

Did you confess the name of the Lord? You see, he said our confession, not only profession because the word here says profession, but actually should be confession. If thou shall confess with thy mouth Yeshua as Lord and believe in your heart that God had raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. Teaching us this. It's not only mere profession. I say something that I'm not, but it is the true confession. And he used that word, not only the Hebrews, but him and the Hebrews, because he says the apostle and the high priest of our, mine and yours, our confession. And then he says Yeshua using that name of this lovely name of the name of Yeshua in Greek.

Of course, Jesus translated into the English, Jesus, but actually it's his Hebrew name. And you shall call his name Yeshua, which means salvation for he will save his people from their sins. Consider him, consider him. And now he's moving on. And in the second verse, showing us that he's really greater than Moses. And notice what he does here in verse two. In verse two, he's showing to us the faithfulness of the Lord Yeshua and the faithfulness of Moses, which was very important to those Hebrews. He's saying who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his house. You see, he's showing to us now.

Okay, Hebrews, you always look up to Moshe Rabbeinu, to Moses. And it's true. We still look up and think of Moses. What a great man this man have ever been. And we are honoring the servants of God. We are to honor. And so he's showing to them, you know, you are looking up to Moses. You think very much of him. He's the one who gave you the law, the instruction for the sacrificial system. He is the one who gave you instruction how to build a temple, all of the holy place, the holy of holies, and all the articles that involve in the temple and so on.

Yes, he is to be respected and recognized. He was a faithful servant. But Hebrews, you need to also get a hold of the fact that here is another one that was faithful as well. And that's why he's saying to them, who was faithful to him, that appointed to him, just like Moses, who was faithful in all his house. Moses was faithful in all his house. And Yeshua, the apostle, the high priest, he was faithful to whatever God has sent him to do. You notice, he doesn't knock Moses. He doesn't tell them, oh, Moses is bad and Yeshua is good. No, he doesn't do that. He recognized the fact because even the writer himself understands the uniqueness of the person of Moshe, of Moses.

And he's making a comparison. He's showing them just the same like Moses was faithful, also Yeshua was faithful to the one who sent him. And you notice that it says there that Moses was faithful in all his house. What does it mean here? In all his house. He doesn't talk about his house with his wife and his two children or three children or whatever amount of children he had. Though we need to be faithful in our very little corner that God had placed us. But the house here is representative of the whole nation of Israel. When he's talking about the whole house, he doesn't talk only about the house that he lived in with his wife and children.

He's talking about the whole house of Israel. And indeed, beloved brothers and sisters, when we read the history of this man, Moshe, how faithful he had been, how committed to God he had been, how he loved the nation of Israel so much. He wanted the best for the nation of Israel and he was indeed this faithful servant of God for the nation of Israel. Do you remember the story in Exodus chapter 32 when Moses went up to the mountain to get the law? And when he went up to the mountain to get the law, the people of Israel said, where is this man? Where is this man?

He hasn't come down yet. So they went to Aaron and he said to him, Aaron, he says, this Moses hasn't come down yet. Make us a God. So what did Aaron do? Aaron told them, you bring me whatever you have, the gold and whatever they have had. They brought all the earrings and all the gold that they have had. And Aaron had prepared for them a golden calf. Beloved, even before the law came into the camp, the law was already broken. The first commandment, thou shall have no other God before you. And that golden calf. And lo and behold, Moses come down from the mountain.

And what does he see? See all the children of Israel that were just redeemed brought out of Egypt. Brought out of bondage and slavery. Instead of waiting on the God of Israel who brought them out. They were playing and worship his golden calf. And had he brought the tables of the law into the camp, the whole nation would have been consumed in a moment. But you know what he did? He broke the Ten Commandments. And he broke it into pieces and he refined that he made the nation, the people to drink out of it. And he said, if you remember, who is on the Lord's side?

Come unto me. If you remember in Exodus chapter 32. But I want to read the verses there in Exodus to show us how faithful Moses had been. Look what he did. Look what he did. Exodus chapter 32. Look what he did there after this have happened. You would think he would want to destroy the nation of Israel. And he didn't care for the nation of Israel. We read, listen, after the molten calf had been made in Exodus 32 and verse 4. Where Israel said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. At the end of the chapter we read. And Moses said in verse 29.

Consecrate yourself today to the Lord. Even every man upon his son and upon his daughter. That he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. And it came to pass on the more. That Moses said unto the people. Ye have sinned this great sin. And now I will go up unto the Lord. Preadventure. I shall make an atonement for your sin. And Moses returned unto the Lord. And he said, Oh, these people have sinned a great sin. And have made them gods of gold. Yet now if thou will forgive their sins. And if not blot me, he said, I pray thee out of thy book which thou had written.

Look at a faithful servant of the house of Israel. He says, God, this nation have sinned a great sin. And he says, I want you to forgive this nation. But if you will not forgive, then he says, God, blot my name from the book which you have written. That's the kind of servant Moses have been. The Bible call him a man that had been faithful unto God. In the book of Numbers chapter 12, look what God says about Moses. Numbers chapter 12 and verse 7. God says, My servant Moses is not like this. He is faithful in all his house. God has to say this about Moses. And indeed Moses was a faithful servant unto God.

And so now you see why Israel appreciated him so much. Because he was a faithful servant unto God. But, now he is telling them, in the second verse of Hebrews chapter 13, I want you also to see how faithful Yeshua has been. And brothers and sisters, you just read the history of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. You can see that every step of the way that he took upon the face of this world, he was a faithful servant of God. In fact, we read in the Old Testament in the prophet Isaiah, Behold my servant. God presented prophetically the Messiah as the faithful servant. A faithful servant.

And you know, that is saying so much. So many lessons we can learn from that. How many times, if we look at ourselves, And we can see how many times I haven't been faithful. Haven't been faithful to the Lord. Haven't been committed to where I go to the meetings. Haven't been faithful to maybe my children. Or my wife. Or my husband. Or my parents. How unfaithful we have been. Many times in our lives. We know that. We know that very well. God desires from his people to be faithful. In the book of Corinth, it says it is required from a servant that he may be found faithful.

That is what God is expecting from man. Now go back to the Gospel of John. And I just want to show you about Yeshua. How faithful he has been. Because he is presenting Yeshua here. He says, look. He says he was faithful to him that appointed him. Just like Moses was faithful in all his house. Look at this. John chapter 4. And verse 34. Yeshua is speaking. Listen. My meat and my drink, he says, is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work. He is talking to the people. He is talking to the leadership. And he says, you know, my food.

My meat and my drink is to do the will of God. The one who sent me. That's why I came to this world. I came to be faithful to finish the work that God had given me to do. John chapter 6. Verse 38. I came down from heaven not to do my own will. But the will of him that sent me. You know, we are so self-willed so much in our lives. Here we see a man that was not self-willed at all. I came down from heaven not to do my own will. But to do the will of him that have sent me. John 8. And verse 29. He is continuing speaking of himself.

He says, I do always those things which is pleasing him. John 8. Verse 29b. For I do always those things that pleases him, that pleases God. Do we do always the things that please God? What a challenge it is for us. And John 10. And verse 17. He says, Therefore does my father love me, because I lay down my life that I might take it again. That's why he laid down his life that he would take it again. And God have honored him. He loved his son because Yeshua the Messiah came to lay down his life. And so in this second verse, it says that Moses was faithful in all his house.

But Yeshua was also faithful to the one who has sent him. Consider him. Consider Yeshua. Look at him. Look at the beauty of this person. Look at this person. Look at the greatness of this person. And now he's continuing in verse 3. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses. Why? Inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honor than the house. You see what he's saying? He showed them Moses. He showed them Yeshua. And he presented both. And he says now consider him. If Moses was faithful in all his house, Yeshua was also faithful in everything that God has sent him to do.

Now he's saying in verse 3. This man, again you notice he's speaking about the humanity of Yeshua. He's talking to him about him as men. This man, namely Yeshua, counted worthy of more glory than Moses inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honor than the house. Now you notice that? Moses was faithful to the house, but Moses was part of the house. He was a servant in the house. He didn't build the house. He was a servant in the house. But Yeshua did not only was part of the house, but he builded the house. You see, he's the one who is the master builder, the one who built this house.

And now he's not talking about a physical house like we have here, a building with mortar and cement and brick and towers and steeples and stained glass windows. No. He's talking about the house of God, which compose every believer in Yeshua, the Messiah. That's why I don't like this expression. I go to church. Or I go to the house of God. That's not correct biblically. It's incorrect. You cannot go to the house of God. You can go to the building where the house of God or part of the house of God meet. But you don't go to the house of God. The house of God is a composition of every believer in Yeshua, the Messiah.

And I'm going to show you this in the next time. That the true house of God is a composition of all those that believe in Yeshua, the Messiah. We're going to talk about it in our next session. But I want you today just to meditate about this thought. Consider this apostle, the saint one, and the high priest. He was sent by God to finish the work on the tree. And now he's gone to God to represent the believer before God, lifting up his holy hands as this great high priest, interceding on behalf of his people after he finished the work which God has sent him to do.

May the Lord help us to consider him and to be occupied with him every day of our life.