We Are His House

Hebrews 3:4-6,14 - 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…We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.


1 Corinthians 3:16 - Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

Romans 11:22 - Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Hebrews 6:11 - We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.

1 Peter 2:4-5 - As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Application:

· Jesus is equated with God, making it beyond question that Christ is greater than Moses
· The Christian life involves endurance or perseverance. Am I persevering?
· I am integral to God’s church
· Genuine believers do not become hardened. Instead they persevere
· When we ignore His kindness, God seems a ruthless tyrant; when we ignore His sternness, He seems a doting Father. Am I ignoring His kindness and/or sternness?
· Am I making my hope sure?
· God’s church is growing because the stones in it are living.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV