hebrews 3: jesus greater than moses and warning against unbelief

 Here is the lesson plan for tonight in Bible class. If you can use it, feel free.

Hebrews: A New Day Coming
Hebrews 3: Jesus Greater Than Moses and Warning Against Unbelief

In the Batman movies, Batman’s alter ego Bruce Wayne is a wealthy man with a huge house. He has a butler named Alfred who is in charge of the house. Alfred is virtually indispensable to Bruce Wayne. However, when it comes down to it, Alfred is employed by Bruce Wayne and Bruce owns the house. Alfred is the servant, Bruce is the heir.

Moses was one of the greatest men who ever lived, according to Deuteronomy 34:10: Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. Yet Moses was a servant of God. Jesus was the greatest man that ever lived, bar none, but he was the Son. In many ways, Moses served Jesus (Hebrews 11:26). Moses could never be greater than Jesus because Jesus was the Son. No man, no matter how great he was, could ever be greater than Jesus.

Now, however, he gives us the opportunity to be like Jesus: sons of God, something that Moses, as great as he was, could never be. Jesus said that no greater man than John the Baptizer had ever lived, yet those in the Kingdom of God were greater than he (Matthew 11:1012). John was Old Testament, we are New. John was servants, we are children. The situation and the dynamic has changed.

So, Hebrews says, since the whole situation is different than before, we ought to work even harder than those before us. We have a sharing in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. We are his house (v6), but we are also sons.

It makes for a different relationship than before. It would be like Alfred being adopted by Bruce. Then he would be a son. All of the Old Testament people, no matter how great, were servants. All of the New Testament people, no matter how small, are children

QUESTIONS:
1. V1 What is the heavenly calling? How do we share in it?
2. Do you see yourself as greater than Moses? He was an awfully great guy.
3. V6 we are his house. How can we be a house and the sons at the same time? Matthew 16:18 says that Jesus built the house. Did he build us?
4. V11 How hard would it be to make God mad enough to desert you?
5. How can you know if you have a sinful, unbelieving heart? Can you know it? Can you have one without knowing it? How do you harden your heart, anyway?
6. V11 Why would God turn from people he promised would be with him forever?
7. How do we encourage one another daily? Is it something we do, or say, or what?
8. What is that confidence we had at first (v14)?
9. What would it take people to not believe when the power of God was right in front of them 24/7? How do you not believe when his power is so great? Is it that they are stupid? Or what?
10. What is his rest?