Hebrews 3:1-14

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We are Jesus’ house

3 Therefore, brothers and sisters who are partners in the heavenly calling, think about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. ²Jesus was faithful to the one who appointed him just like Moses was faithful in God’s house. ³But he deserves greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of the house deserves more honor than the house itself. ⁴Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. ⁵Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant in order to affirm the things that would be spoken later. ⁶But Jesus was faithful over God’s house as a Son. We are his house if we hold on to the confidence and the pride that our hope gives us.

Respond to Jesus’ voice now

⁷So, as the Holy Spirit says,

Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸    don’t have stubborn hearts
        as they did in the rebellion,
        on the day when they tested me in the desert.
⁹That is where your ancestors challenged and tested me,
        though they had seen my work for forty years.
¹⁰So I was angry with them.
I said, “Their hearts always go off course,
        and they don’t know my ways.”
¹¹Because of my anger I swore:
        “They will never enter my rest!”^[a]

¹²Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that none of you have an evil, unfaithful heart that abandons the living God. ¹³Instead, encourage each other every day, as long as it’s called “today,” so that none of you become insensitive to God because of sin’s deception. ¹⁴We are partners with Christ, but only if we hold on to the confidence we had in the beginning until the end.

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Footnotes

Hebrews 3:11 Ps 95:7-11

Psalm 95:6-11

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⁶Come, let’s worship and bow down!
    Let’s kneel before the Lord, our maker!
⁷He is our God,
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    the sheep in his hands.

If only you would listen to his voice right now!
⁸    “Don’t harden your hearts
    like you did at Meribah,
    like you did when you were at Massah,
        in the wilderness,
⁹    when your ancestors tested me
        and scrutinized me,
    even though they had already seen my acts.
¹⁰For forty years I despised that generation;
    I said, ‘These people have twisted hearts.
    They don’t know my ways.’
¹¹So in anger I swore:
    ‘They will never enter my place of rest!’”

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Mark 1:40-45

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A man with a skin disease

⁴⁰A man with a skin disease approached Jesus, fell to his knees, and begged, “If you want, you can make me clean.”

⁴¹Incensed,^[a] Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do want to. Be clean.” ⁴²Instantly, the skin disease left him, and he was clean. ⁴³Sternly, Jesus sent him away, ⁴⁴saying, “Don’t say anything to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifice for your cleansing that Moses commanded. This will be a testimony to them.” ⁴⁵Instead, he went out and started talking freely and spreading the news so that Jesus wasn’t able to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, but people came to him from everywhere.