Superior to Moses

Hebrews 3-4:13

1. Superior in His Blessings1. 3:1- made them partakers

2. 3:1-2- faithful apostle & High Priest

3. Eph. 5:29-30- nourished, cherished as His body

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the

church, because we are members of his body. (Ephesians 5:29-30 ESV)

1. Superior in His Blessings1. 3:1- made them partakers

2. 3:1-2- faithful apostle & High Priest

3. Eph. 5:29-30- nourished, cherished as His body

4. Heb. 6:4-5- enlightened as partakers of H.Spirit

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the

heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God

and the powers of the age to come, (Hebrews 6:4-5 ESV)

1. Superior in His Blessings1. 3:1- made them partakers

2. 3:1-2- faithful apostle & High Priest

3. Eph. 5:29-30- nourished, cherished as His body

4. Heb. 6:4-5- enlightened as partakers of H.Spirit

5. Heb. 12:7-8- treated as sons of God

…God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you

are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children

and not sons. (Hebrews 12:7-8 ESV)

2. Superior in His Ministry

• Moses WAS faithful• Acted as a servant• Part of the household• Served a copy, in the shadow

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the

tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that

was shown you on the mountain.” (Hebrews 8:5 ESV)

2. Superior in His Ministry

• Moses WAS faithful• Acted as a servant• Part of the household• Served a copy, in the shadow

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these

realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect

those who draw near. (Hebrews 10:1 ESV)

2. Superior in His Ministry

• Moses WAS faithful• Acted as a servant• Part of the household• Served a copy, in the shadow

• Jesus was faithful• Acted as a Son, over the house

• A faithful apostle and High Priest

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT…and all were baptized into

Moses in the cloud and in the sea, (1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV)

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPTdo not harden your hearts as in the

rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to

the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that

generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known

my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

(Hebrews 3:8-11 ESV)

WILDERNESS

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPTFor who were those who heard and

yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was

he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell

in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest,

but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because

of unbelief. (Hebrews 3:16-19 ESV)

WILDERNESS

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT WILDERNESS C ANAAN

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of

another day later on. (Hebrews 4:8 ESV)

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT WILDERNESS C ANAAN HEAVEN

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for

whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works

as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that

rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

(Hebrews 4:9-11 ESV)

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT WILDERNESS C ANAAN HEAVEN

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

(Romans 6:4 ESV))

SIN

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT WILDERNESS C ANAAN HEAVEN

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I

give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

(John 14:27 ESV)

SIN PEACEWILDERNESS

3. Superior in His Leading

EGYPT WILDERNESS C ANAAN HEAVEN

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may

fall by the same sort of disobedience. (Hebrews 4:9-11 ESV)

SIN PEACE HEAVENWILDERNESS

Blessing, ministry, and leading is through the living and active word.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division

of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the

heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to

whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:12-13 ESV)