For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Every house is built by someone, but the One who built all things is God, who is the builder and source of all things. As the builder has greater honor than the house itself, Christ has greater honor than Moses, for Moses was faithful as a servant within God's house as a testimony of things to be spoken afterward, while Christ is faithful as a Son over His own house. Believers are that house of Christ if they hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end, and they are made partakers of Christ if they hold the beginning of their confidence steadfast to the end.
The verse stands with the urgent call that today, when His voice is heard, hearers must not harden their hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when the fathers tempted and proved God and saw His works forty years, so that He was grieved with the generation that always erred in heart and did not know His ways and swore in His wrath that they should not enter His rest. Some who heard did provoke, though not all who came out of Egypt under Moses, and God was grieved forty years with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness, swearing they should not enter His rest because they did not believe, so that they could not enter because of unbelief. A promise of entering His rest remains and calls for fear lest any should seem to come short of it, for the gospel was preached to present hearers as well as to them, but the preached word did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it. Hearers must take heed lest there be in any an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God, and must exhort one another daily while it is called Today, lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
The wilderness life of Israel in all their marchings to and fro, in exposure to hunger, thirst and weariness, and in the striking manifestations of divine power for their relief, was chronicled for the benefit of the Israel of God until the close of time. It is fraught with warning and instruction for God's people in this age, serving as a school of preparation for the promised home in Canaan. God's people now are therefore to review the trials through which ancient Israel passed with a humble heart and a teachable spirit, that they may be instructed in preparation for the heavenly Canaan. Because God is the builder of what is done for Him, the glory belongs to Him alone, so people must not take credit for God's work or claim honors that belong to God, and when they return all glory to God and Christ He can safely bless and lead them.
Every house is built by someone, but the One who built all things is God, who is the builder and source of all things. As the builder has greater honor than the house itself, Christ has greater honor than Moses, for Moses was faithful as a servant within God's house as a testimony of things to be spoken afterward, while Christ is faithful as a Son over His own house. Believers are that house of Christ if they hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end, and they are made partakers of Christ if they hold the beginning of their confidence steadfast to the end.
The verse stands with the urgent call that today, when His voice is heard, hearers must not harden their hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when the fathers tempted and proved God and saw His works forty years, so that He was grieved with the generation that always erred in heart and did not know His ways and swore in His wrath that they should not enter His rest. Some who heard did provoke, though not all who came out of Egypt under Moses, and God was grieved forty years with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness, swearing they should not enter His rest because they did not believe, so that they could not enter because of unbelief. A promise of entering His rest remains and calls for fear lest any should seem to come short of it, for the gospel was preached to present hearers as well as to them, but the preached word did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it. Hearers must take heed lest there be in any an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God, and must exhort one another daily while it is called Today, lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
The wilderness life of Israel in all their marchings to and fro, in exposure to hunger, thirst and weariness, and in the striking manifestations of divine power for their relief, was chronicled for the benefit of the Israel of God until the close of time. It is fraught with warning and instruction for God's people in this age, serving as a school of preparation for the promised home in Canaan. God's people now are therefore to review the trials through which ancient Israel passed with a humble heart and a teachable spirit, that they may be instructed in preparation for the heavenly Canaan. Because God is the builder of what is done for Him, the glory belongs to Him alone, so people must not take credit for God's work or claim honors that belong to God, and when they return all glory to God and Christ He can safely bless and lead them.