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Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.

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Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

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He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

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Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

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Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

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For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

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For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

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“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”a bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.

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And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

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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.

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Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,

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Do Not Harden Your Hearts

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

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do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,

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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’

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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

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So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”b

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So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

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The Dangers of Unbelief

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

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As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”c

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While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

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Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

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For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?

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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?

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And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

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So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

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So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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