

Hebrews 3
The Supremacy of Christ – Stability in the Life of Faith
Pastor Brandon Ball
02/09/2022
1. Stability for the believer is based on God’s
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. —Hebrews 3:1-2
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. —Hebrews 2:17
Faithful (πιστός) – faithful; reliable; believing.
Propitiation (ἱλάσκομαι) (hilaskomai) – propitiate; conciliate – to win or regain the favor of
2. Stability gives resistance to
5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. —Hebrews 3:5-6
If the confidence in your salvation comes from your ability to remain sinless, you will live a life as a prisoner to guilt.
If your boasting is about what you’ve done to attain salvation, you diminish to the perfect work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
3. Stability depends upon firmness of
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” 12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. —Hebrews 3:7-12
Unbelieving (ἀπιστία) – unbelief; distrust; lacking confidence; in doubt.
For the believer, unbelief is synonymous with unfaithfulness. The author parallels the Israelites with Christ-followers/believers.
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? —Hebrews 3:16-17
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