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and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life.
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Surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham;
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therefore, he had to become like his brothers in every way, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expiate the sins of the people.
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Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.
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class="outline">III. Jesus, Faithful and Compassionate High Priest
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class="inline-h3">Jesus, Superior to Moses. Therefore, holy “brothers,” sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
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But he is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself.
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Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of all is God.
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Moses was “faithful in all his house” as a “servant” to testify to what would be spoken,
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but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if [only] we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope.
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for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, “They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.”
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As I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter into my rest.”’”
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Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
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Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.
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We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end,
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Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?
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With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?
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And to whom did he “swear that they should not enter into his rest,” if not to those who were disobedient?
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And we see that they could not enter for lack of faith.
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class="chapter">Chapter 4
class="inline-h3">The Sabbath Rest. Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.
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For in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened.
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For we who believed enter into [that] rest, just as he has said: “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter into my rest,’” and yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of the world.
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and again, in the previously mentioned place, “They shall not enter into my rest.”
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Therefore, since it remains that some will enter into it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,
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And whoever enters into God’s rest, rests from his own works as God did from his.
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Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall after the same example of disobedience.