Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest 1 UDB My fellow believers, God has set you apart and has chosen you to belong to himself. So consider Jesus. He is God's apostle to us and is also the high priest whom we say we believe in together. BSB BSB: Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
2 UDB He faithfully served God who appointed him, just as Moses faithfully served all of God's people, whom we call God's house. BSB BSB: He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 UDB Now just as every house is made by someone, God made everything. So God has considered that Jesus is worthy for people to honor him more than they honor Moses, just as the one who builds a house deserves for people to honor him more than they should honor the house. BSB BSB: For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
5 UDB Moses very faithfully served God as he helped all of God's people, just as a servant faithfully serves his master. So Moses testified about what Jesus would say later. BSB BSB: Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 UDB But Christ is the Son who rules over God's people, and we are the people he rules if we continue to courageously believe in Christ and confidently expect God to do all that he has promised to do for us. BSB BSB: But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Psalm 95:1–11)
7 UDB The Holy Spirit caused the psalmist to write these words: "Now, when you hear God speak to you, BSB BSB: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 UDB do not refuse to obey him, and do not let your desires be more important that what God says, for if you do, you would be just like your ancestors long ago when they turned away from God and did not obey him. BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 UDB Your ancestors repeatedly tested me, to see whether I would be patient with them, even though for forty years they saw all the amazing things I did. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 UDB So I became angry with those people, and I said about them, 'They are never faithful to me, and they do not understand how I wanted them to conduct their lives.' BSB BSB: Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
11 UDB I was angry with them and solemnly declared, 'They will not enter the land of Canaan where I would let them rest!'" BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
The Peril of Unbelief 12 UDB So, fellow believers, be careful that none of you stops trusting in Christ because of evil in your heart, which would cause you to reject the only God who actually lives. BSB BSB: See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
13 UDB Instead, each of you must encourage each other every day while you still have the opportunity. If you are stubborn, others will deceive you and lead you to sin. BSB BSB: But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
14 UDB We are now joined to Christ if we continue to seriously and confidently trust in him from the time we first trusted in him to the time when we die. BSB BSB: We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
15 UDB The psalmist wrote in the scripture that God said, "If you hear me speaking to you today, do not stubbornly disobey me as your ancestors did when they rebelled against me." BSB BSB: As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
16 UDB Who were the ones who rebelled against God even though they heard him speak to them? It was all of God's people who Moses led out of Egypt. BSB BSB: For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
17 UDB And remember who it was with whom God was disgusted for forty years. It was God's people who sinned, and their dead bodies lay there in the desert. BSB BSB: And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 UDB And remember about whom God solemnly declared, "They will not enter the land where I would let them rest." It was those who disobeyed God. BSB BSB: And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 UDB So, from that example we know that it was because they did not keep trusting in God that they were unable to enter the land where God would allow them to rest. BSB BSB: So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
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