Hebrews 3 ~ For every house is built by someone, but the Builder of All Things is God

Hebrews 3.3-13 

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Hebrews 3

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. 

3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. Firm to the end.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,

where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.

Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’

As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 

13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

~When we are studying Scripture we are... looking for God's heavenly calling to us.
~We want to be in Father God's path and in His plan and giving Jesus the Love He has given us.
~We want our path to affirm the gifts and talents He gave us.
~We ask blessings and protection. We ask the ones we love to be blessed.

As we walk day by day with Jesus, we never see Him grabbing His Crown or His Holiness and radiating that to impress the people who would go out of their comfortable every day to follow Jesus.


Jesus begins this interest by telling us the example of Jesus going all over in unusual places - is our example. Jesus is going to be the one to confess to. To be honest and tell Jesus when we could do better or not do that at all. When we sin.

From time to time - Jesus is going to put an action, kind words, help, a change of direction or Something We Know God is Putting Upon us To Do. You hear His Voice. In understanding, in sight, in remembrance, in fragrance, in prayer, in reading God's Word.

We should believe Jesus.
We know the nature of Jesus and then we know the nature of Father God.
Do not be in unbelief

The House where Jesus is Honored

You always think I'm somewhere on a mountain top

But never think behind bars

You'd be amazed the places that I'd go to be with you

Danny Gokey - More Than You Think I Am.
Lyrics about Jesus.

 
We cannot reach godly people other than the ways Jesus has.
Jesus Works. Today. Jesus reaches people by sitting with them. In their worst hour - Jesus did not say what they did was fine - just that He saw in them a hope and a future. God believes He sees the ability to Rise up. God sees Heaven as their Home.

How will we emotionally and spiritually move people to understand, God really loves them?
We have to do this LIKE JESUS!!!
How can we say God does Love them?
When we look at effective ways to reach people - we find that they do what Jesus has done.

The best evangelism I ever heard was a man who knew his friends loved him and his father died. He cried, he had loved his father but he really doubted his dad had loved Jesus at all. He was not lied to. The man who was telling him about Jesus didn't say "I'm sure everything is fine." He said Jesus loves your dad more than you do. I can't answer what is with your dad, I didn't know your dad. "I want you to Know Jesus and Go to Heaven with me. I want to be sure."  This is REAL Jesus work. Jesus was with the son in grief. Jesus was not spreading parkay margarine savey-save. This is a man who was crying in grief. Jesus sat with this man in grief and gave this man - Jesus.

The effect of Jesus on this grief? This man rose up to lead others to know the God of Love.

What if you are called to the House of Bitterness and Grief?

What if you are called to be with the bitter and in trouble loved ones?
How will you bring them to understand Father God loves them?
What will we say to the ones we love who are bitter and in unbelief?

Will we say, oh well, and shrug our shoulders.
Look at the example of others. Not really very effective.


The Word of God is so very vast.
If you look at the end of Psalm 137 or Psalm 139. We do not quote it often. Why would that be in the Book of God?
There are some really not politically correct things in the Bible. WHY?

God would make us understand that our Vivid and Emotional Responses to Real Life - are understandable to Father God who creates the Universe. These people did not hush but trusted Father God with the depths of their cries.

We need to go where our loved ones are to tell them, show them - God understands completely - not that we forgive them for things like bitterness - but to say Jesus Sat With the Woman at the Well. Jesus Sat with the Woman in Adultery. Jesus goes places we will need to go - for our loved ones.

God works with bitterness.
We can read the words of bitterness in the Bible and explain they found Hope.
Bitterness doesn't work as well with those who don't see even Biblical people have bitterness and need to know this still can become a place of Hope.

How Comfortable Can We Be?

This is not the 1950s A.D.We have more brokenness. We have less belief in the Salvation of God covering others. We cannot shun people with brokenness to find more peace for ourselves. In times of decreasing morality - we don't just pat people on the heads and move on with our judgements. We need solutions for the ones we love. What we will say to them about Father God.

We can't say to the grieving - surely God was saving the man who didn't love Jesus.

We can't say to the bitter - you are no fun. No salvation for you.

This is more like 70 A.D. People wonder what the Living God says to them.

The God of Book of Acts.
Every day. Prayers to gather.
Every day a meal that brings people together.
Every day a joy for Jesus. Looking for what WE can bring to Father God.


70 A.D.
You have a job. You learn how to bless people with God's love.
Get around in the hospitals.
Go to pray with your neighbor.

What if God is calling you to the House of Unbelief?

I have cried horizontal tears to hear my loved one denied God is Love. Jesus is God.

The truth is we need to listen to what the people say who don't love Father God. Because maybe what they are describing is not the real God. These conversations need to occur. Jesus has something to say about how far we will go to listen. We have to understand we are for God - FIRST. We cannot love someone more than God. Then we have placed an idol destined to and will fall in the first place of our Heart.

God upholds the universe in His Word.

We are told the cosmos will absorb us in death. We are like Mufasa and Simba - the stars of the sky - we become part of the energy of the Universe. It does no harm to put in a teachable moment. God calls these stars by name.

Psalm 147:4
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

John 1
The Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

We can tell the ones we love - yes there is a brightness in you. A light of God.

Matthew 5:14 In Jesus.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

God equips all of us with gifts and talents. Tell your loved one what makes them chosen, special, precious in the eyes of their Father God. Reveal what God has placed in them.

John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.



Father God, when Jesus met Mary Magdalene, He said,"My Father and Your's." Help me today to tell people that You Are - OUR Father God and Our Jesus. Let us tell each other what Father God sees in us to Delight as a Father. Help us to tell others our righteousness comes from believing You, Father God. I give great thanks for the conversations I had today with People right there on the Path, with people in Journey on the Path and are in humility, with People hoping to get going on the Path again or for the first time.

Bless and equip us to draw our Loved Ones to You. Help us to be effective when we "Walk Across the Room" for You. Bless this Nation to discover their ability to proclaim God is Love. Help us believe in giving Love to one another, Spiritual Vitamin C. We ask in Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †