{"id":28776,"date":"2023-11-15T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hebrews-2_11-18-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T02:05:09","slug":"hebrews-3_1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hebrews-3_1-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Your Thoughts on Jesus and Experience His Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hebrews 3:1-6<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is\u00a0Hebrews\u00a03:1-6.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews\u00a03:1\u00a0(NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse\u00a01:\u00a0\u00a0Could you use more\u00a0joy, peace, hope, love or perseverance?\u00a0 Then do what verse\u00a01\u00a0tells us to do:\u00a0fix<\/em>\u00a0your thoughts on Jesus.<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t just think about Jesus occasionally, but focus your attention on Him.\u00a0 Fix your gaze on Him.\u00a0\u00a0 As the writer of\u00a0Hebrews\u00a0will later write: \u201cLet us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith\u201d (Hebrews\u00a012:2).\u00a0 When we spend long extended times looking at and thinking about Jesus, we gain joy, peace, hope, love and perseverance that the world cannot give.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 3:2-6 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 2-6:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In chapters\u00a01\u00a0and 2 we are shown how Jesus is greater than the angels.\u00a0\u00a0Now in the first part of chapter\u00a03\u00a0we are shown how Jesus is greater than Moses.\u00a0\u00a0When it comes to great leaders in the Bible, you will be hard pressed to find anyone who played a more significant role in building God\u2019s house, or who served God and His people more faithfully, than Moses.\u00a0\u00a0Both verses 2 and 5 state that \u201cMoses was faithful in all God\u2019s house\u201d. \u201cGod\u2019s house\u201d being referred to here is not a physical building, but the people of God.\u00a0\u00a0As verse 6 says, \u201cwe are his house\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Yet as great as Moses was at serving God\u2019s house and being a part of God\u2019s house, Jesus is greater still, \u201cjust as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself\u201d (v3).\u00a0\u00a0All the work Moses did was preparing the people for what Jesus would later do and say, and this way Moses was \u201ctestifying to what would be said in the future\u201d (v5).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0Jesus is the builder of His house.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0As Jesus says in Matthew 16:18, \u201cI will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Like Moses, all of us are stones that Jesus is using to build His house.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0As Peter (another rock on which Jesus built His church) would later write, \u201cyou also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.\u201d (1\u00a0Peter 2:5).<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, thank You I find all the hope, peace, joy, wisdom, courage, love, perspective and perseverance I need when I fix my thoughts on You.\u00a0\u00a0I worship You as the builder of God\u2019s people, and I thank You for choosing me to be a stone on which to build Your house.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is\u00a0Hebrews\u00a03:1-6.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews\u00a03:1\u00a0(NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.<\/p>\n

On verse\u00a01:\u00a0\u00a0Could you use more\u00a0joy, peace, hope, love or perseverance?\u00a0 Then do what verse\u00a01\u00a0tells us to do:\u00a0fix\u00a0your thoughts on Jesus.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just think about Jesus occasionally, but focus your attention on Him.\u00a0 Fix your gaze on Him.\u00a0\u00a0 As the writer of\u00a0Hebrews\u00a0will later write: \u201cLet us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith\u201d (Hebrews\u00a012:2).\u00a0 When we spend long extended times looking at and thinking about Jesus, we gain joy, peace, hope, love and perseverance that the world cannot give.<\/p>\n

On verses 2-6:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In chapters\u00a01\u00a0and 2 we are shown how Jesus is greater than the angels.\u00a0\u00a0Now in the first part of chapter\u00a03\u00a0we are shown how Jesus is greater than Moses.\u00a0\u00a0When it comes to great leaders in the Bible, you will be hard pressed to find anyone who played a more significant role in building God\u2019s house, or who served God and His people more faithfully, than Moses.\u00a0\u00a0Both verses 2 and 5 state that \u201cMoses was faithful in all God\u2019s house\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28779,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions\/28779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}