Hold Firmly In Hope to the Call

Hebrews 3:1-6 

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

We who are in Christ are holy in Christ and share in the heavenly calling, the calling out of the chosen by God toward heaven in His presence forever after death.  The one we trust is the messenger and one who administers the sacrifice of Himself to atone once forever for our sins, Jesus the Christ who was faithful to fulfill all the Law, to every jot and tittle, and accomplish the work for our salvation.  The comparison to Moses is made to show Christ is no mere man of promise, but the one promising and fulfilling the promise to as many as our God will call (Act 2:39).  He built the house, the temple, both that in the heavens (Hebrews 8:5) and ourselves (1 Corinthians 6:19).  God builds it all, Moses was a fellow servant in God’s house, but the Son of God and Man owns the house and all in it.  These things were prophesied and promised long ago, and God is faithful to bring all to pass in His times and seasons.  This is the house we all are part of (1 Peter 2:4-5) by this faith in which we stand, feet firmly planted on the Rock of its foundation.  Therefore we can hold firmly in confidence through all doubts and fears, looking forward to rejoicing which will one day never falter nor end.