耶穌超越摩西

因此,同蒙天召的聖潔的弟兄姊妹,你們應當仔細思想那位我們公認為特使和大祭司的耶穌。 祂向委任祂的上帝盡忠,就好像摩西向上帝的全家盡忠一樣。 然而祂卻比摩西配得更大的榮耀,因為建造房子的人當然比房子更尊貴。 所有的房子都有建造者,但建造萬物的是上帝。 摩西以僕人的身分向上帝的全家盡忠,為將來要宣告的事做見證。 但基督是以兒子的身分忠心治理上帝的家。我們若堅強勇敢,持定引以為榮的盼望,我們就是祂的家了。

不可存剛硬的心

因此,正如聖靈說:

「你們今天若聽見祂的聲音,
不可心裡頑固,
像從前在曠野試探祂、悖逆祂一樣。
當時,你們的祖先試我、探我,
觀看我的作為達四十年之久。
10 所以,我向那世代的人發怒,
說,『他們總是執迷不悟,
不認識我的道路。』
11 我就在憤怒中起誓說,
『他們絕不可進入我的安息。』」

12 弟兄姊妹,要謹慎,免得你們當中有人心存惡念,不肯相信,背棄了永活的上帝。 13 趁著還有今日,要天天互相勸勉,免得有人被罪迷惑,心裡變得剛硬。 14 如果我們將起初的信念堅持到底,便在基督裡有份了。

15 聖經上說:

「你們今日若聽見祂的聲音,
不可像從前那樣硬著心悖逆祂。」

16 聽見祂的聲音卻又悖逆祂的是誰呢?不就是摩西從埃及領出來的那些人嗎? 17 四十年之久惹上帝發怒的是誰呢?不就是那些犯罪作惡並倒斃在曠野的人嗎? 18 上帝起誓不准誰進入祂的安息呢?不就是那些不肯信從的人嗎? 19 可見,他們不能進入上帝的安息是因為不信的緣故。

My brothers, you are holy. You are also called to go to heaven. Take time to think carefully about Jesus. God sent him. He is the high priest we believe in.

He did what God sent him to do, just as Moses did in God's house.

But Jesus is much greater than Moses - as the one who builds a house is greater than the house itself.

Every house is built by someone, but God is the one who builds all things.

Moses did what he was told to do as a servant in all of God's house. He showed things that God would say later.

But Jesus Christ was true as a Son over God's house. We are God's house if we keep on believing and telling others what we hope to have.

So as the Holy Spirit says, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard.

That is what happened when the people tested me in the desert and I became angry.

There your fathers tested me and tried me. And they saw what I did for forty years.

10 So I was very angry with the people of that time. I said, "Their minds are always dark. They have not known my ways."

11 I said when I was angry, "They will never go into my resting place." '

12 My brothers, take care that not one of you has a heart that does not believe. Such a heart will take you away from the living God.

13 But talk to each other every day while `Today' lasts, so that wrong ways will not fool any one of you and your hearts become hard.

14 We have our part with Christ if we go on to the end and believe in him as we did at first.

15 God is still saying now, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard. That is what happened when the people turned against me.'

16 Who were the people who heard him and yet made him very angry? It was all the people whom Moses led out of the country of Egypt.

17 With whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with the people who had done wrong. And they died in the desert.

18 Who were the people God said would never go into his resting place? They were the people who would not listen to him.

19 So then, we see that they could not go in because they did not believe him.