Monday, August 18, 2014

Son Over All God's House!




5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

The words "But Christ" refers back to "was faithful" in verse 2, in other words Christ was faithful in His house just as Moses was in his. The "but" however puts forth the major contrast between the two. The Hebrews were inclined to deify Moses and the Old Covenant as the ultimate expression of God. To them a human Messiah was merely to endorse and forward their national aims and establish the rule of the law of Moses and the law of separation between Jew and Gentile. They were the chosen and the Law was their badge of exaltation. But Paul is here exposing their fatal misconception. Moses himself said that a greater messenger was to come..verse 5..."And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after".
The law was the transcript of God's character but Christ, the Son, was God made flesh. The testimony of Moses bowed to Him as a servant bows to the Son of his master. God had long foretold that the glory of the Old was to be but a servant to the greater glory of the new covenant. Some take this to mean the law itself has been demoted. But this would be mistaken. Christ was to show the fuller glory of the law in a living expression written into the flesh He came to rescue. What Christ would do in the humanity He took would gloriously establish the love of God as the center of His law and the hearts of rebels would be turned to allegiance to God.
2 Corinthians 3:
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:


8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

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