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耶稣比摩西更伟大

一同分享天堂召唤的神圣的兄弟们,想一想耶稣,我们所承认的使徒和大祭司吧。 他忠于任命他的上帝,就像摩西在上帝的居所尽忠一样。 耶稣比摩西配得上更多的荣誉,就像建造房屋的人比房屋本身配得上更多的荣誉那样。 每个房屋都是由人建造的,但是,上帝是所有一切的建造者。 摩西在上帝的居所像一名仆人处处都是忠诚的,他向人们证实了上帝所说的未来的一切。 基督做为上帝的儿子,忠实地管理着上帝的家务。如果我们继续对希望充满勇气与信心,我们就是他的家庭成员。

我们必须继续跟随上帝

正如圣灵所说:

“今天,如果你们听到了上帝的声音,
不要固执,
不要像从前在荒野中
试探上帝时那样反抗他,
你们的祖先考验我,试探我,
尽管他们看到了我的所作所为,
10 达四十年之久。
这就是为什么我对那一代感到
气愤的原因,所以,我说道,
‘他们的思想总是误入歧途,
这些人从未认识我的道路。’
11 所以,我一怒之下发誓说:
‘他们绝不能进入我的安宁。’” (A)

12 兄弟们,你们要当心,谁也不要存罪恶和不信、背弃活生生的上帝之心。 13 只要还存在“今天” [a],你们就应该每天都互相鼓励,这样,你们才不会有人受到罪恶的愚弄,心肠变硬。 14 只要我们自始至终坚定不移地坚持我们当初的信仰,我们都会与基督共享。 15 正如《经》里写到的:

“今日,如果你们听到上帝的声音,
不要固执,
不要像过去那样对抗上帝。” (B)

16 谁是那听到了上帝的声音,却依然对抗上帝的人呢?难道不是那些被摩西领出埃及的人吗? 17 是谁惹怒了上帝整整四十年?难道不是那些做了孽、结果陈尸旷野的人吗? 18 上帝发誓不让谁从他那里得到安息呢?难道不是那些不服从上帝的人吗? 19 因此,我们知道,因为他们没有信仰,所以他们没有从上帝那里得到安宁。

Footnotes

  1. 希 伯 來 書 3:13 今天: 意为现在做这些事情很重要,此字出自第七节。

Jezus is belangrijker dan Mozes

Broeders en zusters, God heeft jullie geroepen om bij Hem te horen. Daarom moeten jullie alleen letten op Jezus Christus.[a] Hij is het die ons het goede nieuws gebracht heeft. En Hij is ook de Hogepriester van ons geloof. Hij is trouw aan God, die Hem die taak gegeven heeft. Net zoals Mozes trouw was aan God in het huis van God.[b] Maar Jezus heeft veel meer eer gekregen dan Mozes. Net zoals iemand die een mooi huis heeft gebouwd, meer wordt geprezen dan het huis. Elk huis wordt door iemand gebouwd, maar degene die dít alles gebouwd heeft, is God. Mozes was een gehoorzaam dienaar in het hele huis van God (de tent van ontmoeting). En wat hij deed, had te maken met dingen die later nog zouden komen. Maar Christus is als Zoon Meester over zijn eigen huis. Wij zijn dat huis.[c] Maar dan moeten we wel tot het einde toe aan ons geloof vasthouden en blij op de Heer blijven vertrouwen.

Vergelijking met het volk van Israël in de woestijn

Daarom waarschuwt de Heilige Geest jullie. Hij zegt: "Als jullie Mij vandaag horen spreken, wees dan niet koppig en ongehoorzaam, zoals de Israëlieten in de woestijn. Want zij maakten Mij daar boos met hun koppigheid en ongehoorzaamheid. Jullie voorouders daagden Mij daar uit. Ze zagen 40 jaar lang wat Ik allemaal voor wonderen voor hen deed. Maar steeds stelden ze mijn geduld op de proef.[d] 10 Daarom was Ik boos op hen. En Ik heb tegen hen gezegd: 'Ze lopen aldoor bij Mij weg. Ze willen nooit doen wat Ik zeg, ook al hebben ze alles gezien wat Ik voor hen heb gedaan.' 11 Daarom heb Ik in mijn boosheid gezworen: 'Zij zullen nooit de rust binnengaan die Ik hun had willen geven.' "

12 Let er dus op, broeders en zusters, dat niemand van jullie besluit om de levende God niet langer te gehoorzamen. Want zo iemand is koppig en ongelovig. 13 Moedig elkaar elke dag aan om God te gehoorzamen, zolang er nog dagen zijn. Dan zal niemand zich door het kwaad laten opstoken om koppig en ongehoorzaam te worden. 14 Want wij hebben Christus gekregen. Tenminste, als we tot het einde toe ons geloof vasthouden.

15 Er wordt dus gezegd: "Als jullie Mij vandaag horen spreken, wees dan niet koppig en ongehoorzaam, zoals de Israëlieten toen ze Mij boos maakten." 16 Wie waren dan die mensen die God boos maakten toen ze Hem hadden horen spreken? Dat waren al die mensen die met Mozes uit Egypte waren vertrokken. 17 En aan wie heeft God zich 40 jaar lang geërgerd? Aan de mensen die God niet hadden willen gehoorzamen. Daardoor stierven ze en lagen hun lijken in de woestijn. 18 En aan wie zwoer God dat zij niet de rust zouden binnengaan die Hij hun had willen geven? Aan de mensen die Hem ongehoorzaam waren geweest. 19 We zien dus dat ze door hun ongeloof Gods rust niet konden binnengaan.

Footnotes

  1. Hebreeën 3:1 'Christus' is niet Jezus' achternaam! Het woord 'Christus' is Grieks en betekent 'Gezalfde'. (Het Nieuwe Testament is in het Grieks geschreven). 'De gezalfde' is in de Joodse Boeken de man die speciaal door God met zijn Geest is gevuld ('gezalfd') om Israël te redden. In het Hebreeuws, de taal waarin het Oude Testament is geschreven, werd hij de 'Messias' genoemd, wat hetzelfde betekent.
  2. Hebreeën 3:2 God had lang geleden aan Mozes de taak gegeven om alles voor de tent van ontmoeting te maken. Lees bijvoorbeeld Exodus 40. Mozes had trouw alles gedaan wat de Heer tegen hem zei.
  3. Hebreeën 3:6 Lees ook 1 Korintiërs 3:16.
  4. Hebreeën 3:9 Lees Exodus 17:7

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,(A) who share in the heavenly calling,(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge(C) as our apostle and high priest.(D) He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) “Moses was faithful as a servant(H) in all God’s house,”[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,(K) if indeed we hold firmly(L) to our confidence and the hope(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(P)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(Q)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (R)[b](S)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(T) 13 But encourage one another daily,(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(V) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(X) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[c](Y)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(Z) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(AA) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?(AC) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

The Son Was Faithful

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as (A)Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as (B)He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but (C)He who built all things is God. (D)And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as (E)a servant, (F)for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as (G)a Son over His own house, (H)whose house we are (I)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.

Be Faithful(J)

Therefore, as (K)the Holy Spirit says:

(L)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

(M)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 (N)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, (O)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And (P)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of (Q)unbelief.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end
  2. Hebrews 3:13 encourage