Hebrews 3:4 NASB
“For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.”
Spiritually speaking, God has a house over which two faithful men have been given the divine mandate to oversee. The two men are Moses and Jesus Christ. Perhaps it was due to the weight of their divine mandate that the devil, acting through Pharaoh and Herod, sought to kill Moses and Jesus, respectively, shortly after their births—not to no avail. Moses and Jesus were also the duo to whom God spoke verbatim to commission them to their tasks. Strangely, the earliest part of the ministries of the two had to do with dealing with serpents, as if to set the stage by first triumphing over what Adam succumbed to in the Garden of Eden.
While the similarities between Moses and Christ are so compelling, the latter bears a distinct honour from the former. The Scripture says, “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” (Heb 3:5-6 NKJV). Hallelujah! Given that both men were faithful over God’s house, what exactly made the difference? The Word says, Moses was faithful “as a servant” over God’s house, but Christ was faithful “as a Son over His OWN house”. Hallelujah!
Christ’s peculiar Sonship to God outweighs Moses’ servanthood to Him, and “…this One [Christ] has been counted worthy of MORE glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house” (Heb 3:3 NKJV). Hallelujah! Blessedly, the Word says that we are Christ’s house, built upon Him as the foundation and cornerstone. It is the spiritual house of glory, as the Owner Himself; it is the house in which we are so blessed to be servants, and also given the right to be called sons and daughters of the most high God (Joh 1:12)! No wonder, the gates of hell are all out against Christ’s house but shall NOT prevail!
Pst. Emmanuel