Aug
31
Biggest Builder
Filed Under Devotional
There was a time in my life when my family enjoyed touring the Street of Dreams exhibitions every year. I saw more than my share of big houses with impressive amenities. After a few tours, I started to recognize the names of the various builders. I could connect who was building the big homes, who was doing the best kitchens, and who was building the high tech homes. Certain names would slightly impress and others we’d go out of our way to see.
Understanding the skills and capabilities of the builder helped you to understand more about that person or company and what they were capable of. If a person were to be in the market for a ginormous home, he could decide who to choose based on the track record and understanding what the builder could do.
This is the point the author of Hebrews is making when comparing Moses and Jesus. The Israelites rightly held Moses in high regard, so the author uses him as a yardstick to describe Who Jesus is.
“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. 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 3:3-6
Moses did some impressive building and did some legendary serving. But Jesus is the Builder and we all serve in His house. And it only makes sense that we honor the Builder over the handiwork.
This is a useful tactic when describing Jesus to anyone new to the Gospel. Jesus wasn’t another in a line of prophets and teachers. Jesus was the Teacher, the High Priest, and the Builder. He is something very different and unique.
Jesus is God.