THE SUPREME BUILDER

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

The builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

Hebrews 3:3b-6

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

In the beginning, God.

These are the four words that launch the rest of the Bible story in the first chapter of Genesis.

Before anything else existed, there was only God who we know came to earth incarnate in the form of Jesus. He was and is one with His Son (John 10:30) and so this places Jesus at the beginning as well. The opening chapter of John’s Gospel attests to this truth.

Everything we know was created by our Lord. He was the supreme Builder and master Maker of all things in Heaven and on earth. All that we bear witness to in creation was done by the might of His power. The created are to worship and be in awe of the Creator.

As we read the words for today from Hebrews, we learn that we, all created people, are compared to being God’s house and being that He constructed the “house”, He deserves to be given greater honor than anyone in the “house” itself. To drive this point home, we find the writer of Hebrews again use Moses as an example as he pens this letter to the Jewish Christians of the first century.

Moses was a revered, beloved person in the Jewish faith as he was the one who God chose to lead the Israelite people out of their oppressive captivity in Egypt so they could enter the land God had promised to them, a land overflowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:8, 17). He was a faithful servant in carrying out what God commanded him to do but he was in no way greater than God Himself. Not even close. Moses may have been given the opportunity to serve the “house” but he wasn’t superior to God, the “house” builder.

Comparatively, the same wasn’t true for Jesus. While He and Moses shared commonality as servants of the God Most High, Jesus was granted the prestige of a supreme appointment, granted sovereign authority over all things in Heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18). After His ascent to sit at His Father’s right hand, Christ Jesus remained faithful in His duties as the “Son over God’s house”, namely all Christians who have placed their belief in Him as Savior.

This position of power that Jesus holds over “His house” includes the prerogative to serve as the Judge over all mankind and one day, Jesus will return to do just that. Those who are not members of “His house” will be cast into eternal torment and damnation while those who are His will be relocated to a new “house” for all eternity, a mansion He has prepared for all Christ believers and will relocate them to as this Heaven and earth as we know it passes away (Revelation 21:1).

It’s this blessed assurance of salvation that allows all Christians to live in bold confidence and glory in hope every day because they know God is true to His promises and will carry out what He pledged to do through Jesus His Son. For indeed He so loved the world that He gave up His one and only Son Jesus so that whoever would believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Today and forever more, let’s give thanks and praise to God, our Supreme Builder, and Jesus, His Son and our Savior, who rules supreme over all creation and will one day bring “His house” to eternal life, to their new permanent, glorious home.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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