HEBREWS:One Better than Moses; " For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end!"

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. (Hebrews 3:1-4)

The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians.  It's very important to understand that, because conversion to Christianity was very hard for the Jews.  They were God's "chosen people", so they thought that automatically made them right with God.  For thousands of years, they had observed all the teachings and strived to obey the 613 commandments God had given Moses, contained within the first five books of the Bible, which is also called the Hebrew Bible. (Exodus 19:5)  

Moses was their "messiah", and most of the Jews did not convert to Christianity, including the religious leaders, whom Christ always had a difficult time with, therefore Christ rebuked them repeatedly. (John 5:9-47) And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (Hebrews 3:5-6)

Moses was good, very good, but he was not perfect.  He lead the children of Isreal out of Egypt at the age of 80, and was with them in the wilderness for 40 years, and then at the age of 120, even he disobeyed God and was not allowed to go into the promise land (Numbers 20), but died in the wilderness along with the entire generation that came out of Egypt.  Only his generation's descendants went into the promise land, lead by Joshua (Deuteronomy 34). Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ [Psalm 95:7-11]”

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." (Hebrews 3:7-15)

For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Hebrews 3:16-19) But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. (Jude 1:5)

Most of us may not be Jewish, so we may not quite graspe the difficulty in knowing we were chosen by God to be a special people, and that Moses was very important because God gave him the commandments and books of the laws; nor may we understand the emphasis the Jews place on obey all the laws for centuries, so the difficulty they have in changing their way of thinking that all they have to do is believe in Christ Jesus to be saved, not only them but ALL people.  But that indeed is the Truth and the Word of God (Luke 24:44-49). Jesus told them, You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.  But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. (John 5:39-40)

Knowing the Word of God is good, but believing the Word of God is what saves! For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." [Isaiah 29:14]

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.  For Jews request a sign, and Greeks [non-Jews] seek after wisdom;  but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks [non-Jews] foolishness,  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks [non-Jews], Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (I Corinthians 1:18-25) AMEN!