In the first two chapters, the preacher was showing that Jesus Christ is superior to the angels. Now in chapter three he shows that Christ is superior to Moses. Let’s take a look.
III Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honor than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
It is postulated that the reason for this sermon was that many Jewish Christians were abandoning the faith to return to the comfortable old ways of sacrifices and rules. Perhaps they didn’t have a very high opinion of Jesus Christ. This is why the preacher is comparing Jesus in this passage to Moses. Moses was a servant of the householder, that is God. But Jesus is the heir, and therefore, He is the reason the house is held. And the house of God’s construction is the entirety of the known (and unknown) universe.
As the heir, Jesus had a hand in the construction of the house. He laid the foundations and erected the walls all according to the plan of the Father. Nothing that is came into being without the direct action of Jesus Christ (see the Gospel of John 1:2). So while Moses was a faithful servant over the things of his Master, Jesus is faithful over His own things, a much greater motive. Moses is holy, yet the Bible records mistakes that he made. Jesus is much holier, and He has never made a mistake. The law was given to Moses, but Jesus was the one who spoke to him in the bush, the cloud and on the mountain top. So Moses may be called the “Lawgiver,” but he is really just the recipient of the Law that was given to him by Jesus, and then when He was incarnate Jesus was the first to completely fulfill the Law.
So these verses tell us that the faith of Jesus Christ is superior to the Law of Moses, because Jesus is the One Who built the universe and Who shall inherit the same. All we have to do to be members of Jesus’s household is to remain steadfast in the faith until the end. We can do that much.
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