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May 13 - Hebrews 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 13th of
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  May, and I'm delighted that you have chosen to take a moment out
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  of your busy day to spend it with me and God's Word so that
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  you and I can dance to the rhythm of our God's words in our
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  life. And part of that rhythm, part of
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  the rhythm really kind of got cracked open for me last week
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  with our proverbs, A proverb that spoke about planning for
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  peace and experiencing joy. I have really, really been
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  making an effort to work out how do I make space in my life for
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  God's joy to bubble over, to plan for peace and let his work
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  happen. Oh, what a glorious, what a
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  glorious project to be to be working toward.
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  So friends, I hope that you 2 are finding moments of joy,
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  moments where you are aware of God's incredible blessing for
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  you. And this is exactly what we're
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  reading about this week. God's incredible blessing for us
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  through everything who Jesus is and that Jesus achieved for us
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  during his life. Just wow.
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  And today the writer of Hebrews is going to do a big flex and
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  say you thought Moses was impressive.
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  This Jesus character, he takes the cake way bigger than any of
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  the patriarchs that you might throw on him.
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  So you ready? Let us hear this argument
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  together as we read together Hebrews chapter 3.
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  And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and
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  are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about
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  this Jesus, whom we declare to be God's messenger and high
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  priest. For he was faithful to God, who
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  appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was
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  entrusted with God's entire house.
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  But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a
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  person who builds a house deserves more praise than the
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  house itself for every house as a builder.
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  But the one who built everything is God.
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  Moses was certainly faithful in God's house as a servant.
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  His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal
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  later. But Christ as the Son is in
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  charge of God's entire house, and we are God's house if we
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  keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.
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  That is why the Holy Spirit says today, when you hear His voice,
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  don't harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled,
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  when they tested me in the wilderness.
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  There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though
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  they saw my miracles for 40 years.
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  So I was angry with them and I said their hearts always turn
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  away from me. They refuse to do what I tell
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  them. So in my anger I took an oath.
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  They will never enter my place of rest.
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  Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters, make sure that your
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  own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away
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  from the living God. You must warn each other every
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  day while it is still to day, so that none of you will be
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  deceived by sin and hardened against God.
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  For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly
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  as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs
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  to Christ. Remember what it says to day
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  when you hear His voice. Don't harden your hearts as
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  Israel did when they rebelled. And who was it who rebelled
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  against God even though they heard his voice?
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  Wasn't it the people Moses LED out of Egypt and who made God
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  angry for 40 years? Wasn't it the people who sinned,
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  whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
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  And to whom was God speaking when He took an oath that they
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  would never enter His rest? Wasn't it the people who
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  disobeyed Him? So we see that because of their
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  unbelief, I have a not able to enter His rest.
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  Our Lord, we certainly don't want our hearts to be hardened
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  against you. What we want more than anything
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  else is our hearts to beat as one with yours.
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  So the things that break your heart also break ours, and that
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  things that drive you and your angels to celebrate, whoop and
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  cheer in heaven also make us respond with joy.
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  God, transform our hearts from the inside out, take away our
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  stubbornness, take away our hardness, take away our self
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  centeredness and replace it with the fruits of Your spirit that
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  look always to build up and encourage with gentleness and
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  kindness and yes, even self discipline.
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  We want nothing more than to be your hands and feet here on
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  earth, sharing your grace around us.
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  So as the author of Hebrew says, Lord, soften our hearts, let
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  them not be hardened so that we can live according to your ways
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  and bring about your Kingdom, the Kingdom of our mighty,
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  mighty Saviour. That's you, Jesus, and we love
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  you when we pray all of this in your precious name, Amen.