Focusing on Jesus: Our Anchor in Distraction
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"Distractions can be annoying, but distractions can also be lethal or they can be deadly. I've read the story of a young nurse in India. She was 23 years old and she was by a railroad track trying to take a selfie. And she was with some friends. So it was a scenic railway bridge. And they wanted to get that kind of in the background. They were taking pictures for social media. And she wanted to get a train behind her as she was going. And she didn't realize how close she was and was hit and killed by the train." [00:02:48] (42 seconds)
"So I'm going to talk about how that Jesus is faithful like Moses. I'm going to talk about that as good as Moses was, Jesus is better. And finally, that our eternal destiny depends on Jesus and not Moses. And we're going to talk about this from this text here this morning. So Jesus is worthy of our prioritized attention and focus. Let's pray, ask God's blessing, and then we'll talk about three reasons why. Father, I pray as I have this wonderful privilege to teach from this text here this morning that I would do so in a faithful way, that is faithful to your word, that is faithful to you, and that would bring you honor and glory because you deserve it, God." [00:06:41] (40 seconds)
"Well, why is he pulling Moses into the conversation here? As he's bringing this word of exhortation, he's trying to encourage these people, and all of a sudden he brings up Moses. He brought up angels. We talked about that was because they were the ministers of the former covenant of the law, and so they said, you know, Jesus is better than that because they were tempted to go back to that. He says, you know, no, he's better than that. Now he's bringing up Moses. Well, there's a couple reasons why he would do that. First of all is because of Moses' status with the people. In the people's eyes that he was writing to, the status of Moses is almost impossible to be overemphasized and overstated." [00:07:19] (40 seconds)
"Like Exodus chapter 33 verse 11, this is what it says, thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. That's why they reviewed Moses so much. It's because it was like God would speak to him as a friend in some ways. He had such a tremendous status and position that God was using him for. In Deuteronomy chapter 34 verse 10, it says, And there has not risen, arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel." [00:08:37] (46 seconds)
"So it was a mission that God gave him, lead him in the Exodus. He delivered the law. It was God used Moses to deliver the law to the people. He's the one that set up the system of temple worship. We read it in the book of Leviticus. We're studying that in Adult Discipleship Hour. We saw in the very beginning how it was Moses who set this up and then passed it on to Aaron and passed it on, but it was Moses who set this up. He authored the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, which makes it kind of interesting when you go back to these passages here that Moses wrote this. Kind of interesting here." [00:10:43] (41 seconds)
"Notice what the text says about Jesus here. It says in verse 3, it says, let's see here, for Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the builder of a house. And then later on, it says that now Moses, verse 5, was faithful in all of God's house as a servant, verse 6, but Christ is faithful over God's house as what? A son, right? And so here, Jesus is the son who built God's house. So this is the point that he's making here. He's making to them, he said, consider Jesus, focus your attention, focus everything about him, prioritize your attention, your focus on Christ, consider him." [00:21:24] (44 seconds)
"Very exclusive message of Jesus is the only way. He is the only way that we can have eternal life. Jesus uniquely helps us in ways that Moses could never help us. Because Jesus lived as a man, and he endured all the temptations, and he resisted them, and he lived a perfect life, and then he died a death he shouldn't have died. It's like we talked about earlier here. So we are his house, but how do we get into God's family? How do we be part of this household? The Bible is abundantly clear. It is only through Christ. So he's pleading, this author here is pleading with the people who are hearing this. He's saying, don't go back, because it's not Moses that secured your salvation. It's Jesus." [00:26:29] (49 seconds)
"And so he demands your full attention. He demands your life. He demands everything because of what he's done for you. But now there's this interesting thing here. Verse 6, it says, and we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our conscience and our boasting and our hope. This is coming up a lot in the book of Hebrews, these if statements. And we talked about one in chapter 2. There's going to be more coming up here where it's like, you know, yes, if you hold on. In chapter, later next week, we're going to look at another one. It's in verse 14, for we share." [00:27:27] (42 seconds)
"We have this idea of Jesus says, no man can be snatched from my Father's hand. And so we have this idea of that if we're saved, that then Christ saves us here. But then we have these verses here that talk about, well, if you hold fast or if you stay true, what is going on here? He's talking about like this idea of perseverance. He's saying that we have to persevere. The best way to understand this is that we have to understand who he's writing too. He's writing to people who have claimed to be Christians, right? And that then they are saying, I no longer want to be a Christian here. So that's what he's saying here." [00:28:24] (34 seconds)
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"So I'm going to talk about how that Jesus is faithful like Moses. I'm going to talk about that as good as Moses was, Jesus is better. And finally, that our eternal destiny depends on Jesus and not Moses. And we're going to talk about this from this text here this morning. So Jesus is worthy of our prioritized attention and focus. Let's pray, ask God's blessing, and then we'll talk about three reasons why. Father, I pray as I have this wonderful privilege to teach from this text here this morning that I would do so in a faithful way, that is faithful to your word, that is faithful to you, and that would bring you honor and glory because you deserve it, God." [00:06:41] (40 seconds)
"Well, why is he pulling Moses into the conversation here? As he's bringing this word of exhortation, he's trying to encourage these people, and all of a sudden he brings up Moses. He brought up angels. We talked about that was because they were the ministers of the former covenant of the law, and so they said, you know, Jesus is better than that because they were tempted to go back to that. He says, you know, no, he's better than that. Now he's bringing up Moses. Well, there's a couple reasons why he would do that. First of all is because of Moses' status with the people. In the people's eyes that he was writing to, the status of Moses is almost impossible to be overemphasized and overstated." [00:07:19] (40 seconds)
"Like Exodus chapter 33 verse 11, this is what it says, thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. That's why they reviewed Moses so much. It's because it was like God would speak to him as a friend in some ways. He had such a tremendous status and position that God was using him for. In Deuteronomy chapter 34 verse 10, it says, And there has not risen, arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel." [00:08:37] (46 seconds)
"So it was a mission that God gave him, lead him in the Exodus. He delivered the law. It was God used Moses to deliver the law to the people. He's the one that set up the system of temple worship. We read it in the book of Leviticus. We're studying that in Adult Discipleship Hour. We saw in the very beginning how it was Moses who set this up and then passed it on to Aaron and passed it on, but it was Moses who set this up. He authored the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, which makes it kind of interesting when you go back to these passages here that Moses wrote this. Kind of interesting here." [00:10:43] (41 seconds)
"Notice what the text says about Jesus here. It says in verse 3, it says, let's see here, for Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the builder of a house. And then later on, it says that now Moses, verse 5, was faithful in all of God's house as a servant, verse 6, but Christ is faithful over God's house as what? A son, right? And so here, Jesus is the son who built God's house. So this is the point that he's making here. He's making to them, he said, consider Jesus, focus your attention, focus everything about him, prioritize your attention, your focus on Christ, consider him." [00:21:24] (44 seconds)
"Very exclusive message of Jesus is the only way. He is the only way that we can have eternal life. Jesus uniquely helps us in ways that Moses could never help us. Because Jesus lived as a man, and he endured all the temptations, and he resisted them, and he lived a perfect life, and then he died a death he shouldn't have died. It's like we talked about earlier here. So we are his house, but how do we get into God's family? How do we be part of this household? The Bible is abundantly clear. It is only through Christ. So he's pleading, this author here is pleading with the people who are hearing this. He's saying, don't go back, because it's not Moses that secured your salvation. It's Jesus." [00:26:29] (49 seconds)
"And so he demands your full attention. He demands your life. He demands everything because of what he's done for you. But now there's this interesting thing here. Verse 6, it says, and we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our conscience and our boasting and our hope. This is coming up a lot in the book of Hebrews, these if statements. And we talked about one in chapter 2. There's going to be more coming up here where it's like, you know, yes, if you hold on. In chapter, later next week, we're going to look at another one. It's in verse 14, for we share." [00:27:27] (42 seconds)
"We have this idea of Jesus says, no man can be snatched from my Father's hand. And so we have this idea of that if we're saved, that then Christ saves us here. But then we have these verses here that talk about, well, if you hold fast or if you stay true, what is going on here? He's talking about like this idea of perseverance. He's saying that we have to persevere. The best way to understand this is that we have to understand who he's writing too. He's writing to people who have claimed to be Christians, right? And that then they are saying, I no longer want to be a Christian here. So that's what he's saying here." [00:28:24] (34 seconds)
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