In recent weeks, I have begun a new series of talks in which I am doing something that I am not used to doing. Instead of finding a topic, and searching for scripture about that topic, I chose a book, and we are working our way through it, a chapter, section, verse at a time.
I got the idea from our pastor. He does an incredible job of this. Since I have been on staff at SCC, he has been working through 2 Corinthians, giving due diligence to the Word and not ignoring the minutest of details. This is something I wish to do better. So, to start, I decided to simply do it.
Personally, it has been rather incredible at how the word of God is clear and concise in its message. Especially looking at Hebrews. The author takes foundations of the Jewish faith, and displays how Christ is greater than those things. First, Angels. Second, Moses, Third, the High Priest. Methodically displaying the superiority of our Savior above these things. I always knew these things about Christ, but never read about them so plainly in Scripture. It’s awesome.
But, I have been stuck on how Jesus is leading us (believers) like Moses lead the Israelites. Out of captivity, in our case to Sin, and into God’s Rest, for the Israelite the Promised Land. It made me think of how the Israelites have never once fully possessed all that God had promised them. How maybe they missed the greater point. I firmly believe that God is leading us to a much greater place than the Promised Land. That God is leading us to a final Sabbath Day of rest. When the great work that He is doing is finished, we will know what it means to rest. To be fulfilled. To know longer be pursuing anything. Just being, in our God.
Hebrews, so far, has been full of this. How Jesus was fully God and fully Man, and how he has made all believers “children of God” and therefore heirs to this promise of arriving at “rest”. And how, like Moses, he is leading the journey to the “Promised Land”, that is, ushering in the Kingdom of God.
I am so looking forward to delving into more of Hebrews, and discovering more about Jesus Christ, who he is, and what he is up to!
