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Welcome to Day 2234 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Hebrews-4 Moses, Messiah, and Me \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 05/07/2023 \u201cMessiah, Moses, and Me\u201d\xa0 Hebrews 3:1-6 Last week, we continued our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. We focused on Jesus: the \u201cPioneer of our Perfection,\u201d and learned three essential principles to have hope in suffering. Today in Hebrews 3:1-6 we will explore how the Messiah (Jesus) is greater than Moses. To fully understand the importance of this passage, we must take on the mindset of a first-century Christian Jew facing hardship and persecution. \xa0 Let\u2019s begin by reading today\u2019s passage on pages 1864-1865 in the Pew Bibles. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,\xa0who share in the heavenly calling,\xa0fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge\xa0as our apostle and high priest.\xa02\xa0He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God\u2019s house.\xa03\xa0Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,\xa0just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.\xa04\xa0For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.\xa05\xa0\u201cMoses was faithful as a servant\xa0in all God\u2019s house,\u201d[a]\xa0bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.\xa06\xa0But Christ is faithful as the Son\xa0over God\u2019s house. And we are his house,\xa0if indeed we hold firmly\xa0to our confidence and the hope\xa0in which we glory. \xa0 Though the very words of the book of Hebrews are \u201cGod-breathed\u201d/\u2014the inspired and inerrant Word of God\u2014/the chapter and verse numbers are not. They are artificial insertions to make citations and cross-referencing easier. Nevertheless, I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019d do without them. The chapter and verse additions are certainly helpful, but sometimes, they give the impression that the inspired author intended a hard break from one chapter to the next. \xa0 When we step across the threshold into Hebrews 3, we shouldn\u2019t imagine a door separating this passage from what precedes. Instead, the author ties together Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 with an essential logical connector\u2014\u201ctherefore\u201d\u2014which indicates continuity. (Clip lanyards together) We may be stepping from one thought to another, but we\u2019re stepping through an open doorway. The author expects us to take along everything he has been discussing up to this point. \xa0 In the previous chapters, the author continued to develop the theme that Christ is superior in His person and work. Not only is He superior to the prophets and angels /(chapters 1\u20132), but having persevered through temptation, pain, and death, /He is also superior to temptation, sin, and suffering. As such, His help is available to us right now,/ whenever we find ourselves threatened by rising floods or raging storms. /In addition, Jesus is always there to help us in trials or temptations\u2014faithful to come to our aid (2:16\u201318). \xa0 With this basic understanding of Christ as our superior prophet, priest, and king, the author of Hebrews is ready to hit his Jewish Christian readers where this truth would likely hurt the most: the ministry of Moses. (mindset) 3:1 Hebrews 3...