…we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

- v. 6

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

1. The “Apostle of our Confession”

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession… (v. 1)

The books of the Bible were not so much determined to be God’s Word but discovered as God’s Word.

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

2. Our “High Priest”

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession… (v. 1)

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever... - Heb. 6:19–20

“Jesus has opened for us the way of access to God so that we can continually ‘draw near’ into God’s very presence without fear but with ‘confidence’ and in ‘full assurance of faith.’”

- Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, 626,627

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

3. Greater Than Even Moses!

For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

3. Greater Than Even Moses!

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

3. Greater Than Even Moses!

to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son.

- vv. 3-6

Why Should I have confidence in Jesus?

Because He is:

4. A Son, while everyone else is a servant.

…but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. - v. 6

Christian maturity: Progressing toward contentment in Christ alone!