Christ Is Superior To Moses Series

ii. “he that built all things is God.”

1. If one who builds a house receives more honor, one must remember that God built the resources to build the house

2. This is a direct reference to Jesus being God.

God’s Existence

Imagine a family of mice who live all their lives in a large piano. To them in their piano-world came the music of the instrument, filling all the dark spaces with sound and harmony. At first the mice were impressed by it. They drew comfort and wonder from the thought that there was Someone who made the mu sic-invisible to them-yet close to them. They loved to think of the Great Player whom they could not see.

Then one day a daring young mouse climbed up part of the piano and returned very thoughtful. He had found out how the music was made. Wires were the secret; tightly stretched wires of graduated lengths which trembled and vibrated. They must revise all their old beliefs: none but the most conservative could any longer believe in the Unseen Player. Later, another explorer carried the explanation further. Hammers were now the secret, numbers of hammers dancing and leaping on the wires. This was a more complicated theory, but it all went to show that they lived in a purely mechanical and mathematical world. The Unseen Player came to be thought of as a myth. But the Pianist continued to play.

b. Jesus is the son of the house as opposed to Moses only being a servant of the house v. 5-6

i. Moses was faithful in his house.

ii. Christ is faithful over his own house.

iii. Both are faithful but Christ is better because of his position in his own house.

1. In the book of exodus;

a. Moses’ house is delivered from Egyptian bondage but Christ has delivered us from sin.

b. Moses ate the Passover lame, but Jesus was the Passover lamb.

c. The Red sea was a hindrance in the way of liberation, but Jesus has liberated us from all hindrances to God.

d. Moses ate manna from heaven but Jesus was the bread of life come from heaven.

e. Moses brought water from the rock but Jesus is the living water.

2. In the book of Leviticus;

a. Access to God was made through sacrifices and offerings, but now Christ is the Sacrifice for all ages.

b. Access to God was made through Priest, but now Christ is our high priest.

c. In Leviticus we see the five feasts, but in these last days Christ calls us to “come and dine.”

d. In Leviticus we find the “year of Jubilee,” but Christ kingdom is Jubilation forever.

3. In the book of Numbers;

a. Christ is the Smitten Rock

b. Christ is the Brazen Serpent

c. Christ is the City of Refuge

4. In the book of Deuteronomy we are called to remember;

a. The giving of the Law

b. The covenant

c. The past slavery

d. The great deliverance

e. The divine leadership

f. The sins of the past

g. The divine Judgments

h. The Ancient of Days

5. These sentiments are mimicked in this lesson from Hebrews.

III. A Warning to the House of God v. 7-19

Fear of Death

Alfred Krupp of Prussia, the great cannon king, was literally a manufacturer of death. However, he had such a fear of death that he never forgave anyone who spoke to him of it. Every employee throughout his vast works was strictly forbidden to refer to the subject of death in conversation. He fled from his own home when a relative of his wife suddenly died there, and when Mrs. Krupp remonstrated, he became so enraged that lifelong separation ensued. During his last illness he offered his physician a million dollars if he would prolong his life ten years. But no amount of money could buy an extension of his life. How different it was with Jesus Christ, because He was not only God but man at the same time. When He became man, He came down for a definite time, that by His death and resurrection death might be conquered.