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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.

Jesus Is Greater than Moses

My Christian friends, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the faith we profess. (A)He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house. A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses. Every house, of course, is built by someone—and God is the one who has built all things. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

A Rest for God's People

(B)So then, as the Holy Spirit says,

“If you hear God's voice today,
    do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God,
    as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.
There they put me to the test and tried me, says God,
    although they had seen what I did for forty years.
10 And so I was angry with those people and said,
    ‘They are always disloyal
    and refuse to obey my commands.’
11 I was angry and made a solemn promise:
    ‘They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!’”

12 My friends, be careful that none of you have a heart so evil and unbelieving that you will turn away from the living God. 13 Instead, in order that none of you be deceived by sin and become stubborn, you must help one another every day, as long as the word “Today” in the scripture applies to us. 14 For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.

15 (C)This is what the scripture says:

“If you hear God's voice today,
    do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were
    when they rebelled against God.”

16 (D)Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses. 17 With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert. 18 When God made his solemn promise, “They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest”—of whom was he speaking? Of those who rebelled. 19 We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.

Jesus i jämförelse med Mose

Kära bröder, ni är alla kallade och utvalda av Gud för hans himmelska rike. Ha därför alltid Jesus, som vi ju bekänner oss till, i era tankar. Han är Guds budbärare och vår tros överstepräst.

Gud utsåg Jesus till överstepräst, och han var trogen mot Gud på samma sätt som Mose var trogen när han tjänade i Guds hus.

Den som bygger ett hus får mer beröm än själva huset. På samma sätt har Jesus mycket större makt än Mose.

Naturligtvis har varje hus en byggmästare, men det är Gud som bygger allt.

Och visst var Mose trogen i allt när han arbetade i Guds hus, men han var bara en tjänare, och hans uppgift var till största delen att vittna om och skapa förebilder till det som skulle uppenbaras senare.

Men Kristus, Guds trofaste Son, har ansvaret för hela Guds hus. Det huset är vi kristna, och han bor i oss så länge som vi bevarar vår frimodighet och glädje och håller fast vid hoppet om hans återkomst.

Varning för olydnad

7-8 Eftersom Kristus nu står över allting säger den helige Ande till oss: Lyssna till honom i dag om ni hör hans röst, och vänd er inte bort från hans kärlek, som Israels folk gjorde i öknen, när de gjorde uppror mot mig och satte mig på prov.

Jag hade tålamod med dem i fyrtio år, trots att de prövade mitt tålamod till det yttersta. Jag gjorde hela tiden stora under inför deras ögon.

10 Därför blev jag förargad på dem, för i sina hjärtan vände de sig alltid åt alla andra håll i stället för till mig, och de gick aldrig de vägar som jag ville att de skulle gå.

11 Fylld av vrede mot dem svor då Gud en ed och lovade att han aldrig skulle låta dem komma in i vilan i hans rike.

12 Därför ska ni se till, kära bröder, att ert inre inte är fullt av ondska och otro som leder er bort från den levande Guden.

13 Tala med varandra varje dag om detta, medan det fortfarande är tid, så att ingen av er gör sig hård och kall inför Gud, och blir förblindad av syndens tjusning.

14 För om vi är trogna till slutet och litar på Gud, som vi gjorde när vi först blev kristna, så ska vi få del i allt som tillhör Kristus.

15 Nu är ögonblicket inne. Glöm aldrig varningen: Om ni hör Guds röst tala till er i dag, så bli inte hårda och kalla som Israels folk när de gjorde uppror i öknen.

16 Vad var det då för människor som hörde Guds röst och ändå gjorde uppror mot honom? Jo, det var samma människor som lämnade Egypten med Mose som ledare.

17 Och vilka var det som drog på sig Guds vrede under alla dessa fyrtio år? Jo, samma upproriska människor igen. De syndade och fick därför dö i öknen.

18 Och vilka avsåg Gud när han med en ed intygade att de inte skulle få ro och vila i det land som han hade lovat sitt folk? Han talade till alla dem som inte lydde honom.

19 Varför kunde de inte komma in? Därför att de inte trodde på honom.