The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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CHRIST AND MOSES.
III.— 1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus.
2. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all
his house.
3. For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so
much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house.
4. For every house is builded by some one ; but he that built all things is
God.
5. And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, for a testimony of those
things which were afterward to be spoken
6. But Christ as a Son, over Ms house ; whose house are we, if we hold
fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm vmto the end.
The writer had just spoken (ii. 17) of Christ as a nwrciful
and faithful High Priest. Later (iv. 14-v. 7), he will speak
again of Him as merciful.
Here he wishes first to set before us
His faithfulness. To this end he compares Him to Moses, of
whom God Himself had spoken (Num. xii. 7) : " My servant
Moses, who is faithful in all My house." But he goes on at
the same time to prove that Christ the Son is more than Moses
the servant. We have seen that Christ is more than the angels
through whom the law was given ; we
shall yet see that He is
more than Aaron, through whom the law was ministered ;
He
is more than Moses too, the mediator of the law, the servant
in the house of God. In every aspect the New Testament has
more glory than the Old.
Moses and Aaron together represented God in Israel ;
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