Study Desk

You put everything under his control." If God put everything under his control, then there was nothing left that he did not rule. But we don't yet see him ruling over everything.

God—the one who made all things and for whose glory all things exist—wanted many people to be his children and share his glory. So he did what he needed to do. He made perfect the one who leads those people to salvation. He made Jesus a perfect Savior through his suffering.

He says, "God, I will tell my brothers and sisters about you. Before all your people I will sing your praises."

He also says, "I will trust in God." And he says, "I am here, and with me are the children God has given me."

For this reason, Jesus had to be made like us, his brothers and sisters, in every way. He became like people so that he could be their merciful and faithful high priest in service to God. Then he could bring forgiveness for the people's sins.

So, my brothers and sisters, those chosen by God to be his holy people, think about Jesus. He is the one we believe God sent to save us and to be our high priest.

God made him our high priest, and he was faithful to God just as Moses was. He did everything God wanted him to do in God's house.

Every house is built by someone, but God built everything.

Moses was faithful as a servant in God's whole house. He told people what God would say in the future.

don't be stubborn as you were in the past, when you turned against God. That was the day you tested God in the desert.

So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has the evil thoughts that cause so much doubt that you stop following the living God.

That's why the Spirit said, "If you hear God's voice today, don't be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God."

And who was God angry with for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned. And their dead bodies were left in the desert.

And which people was God talking to when he promised that they would never enter his place of rest? He was talking to those who did not obey him.

And we still have the promise that God gave those people. That promise is that we can enter his place of rest. So we should be very careful that none of you fails to get that promise.

Only we who believe it are able to enter God's place of rest. As God said, "I was angry and made a promise: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.'" But God's work was finished from the time he made the world.

Yes, somewhere in the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week. He said, "So on the seventh day God rested from all his work."

But in the Scripture above God said, "They will never enter my place of rest."

So God planned another special day. It is called "today." He spoke about that day through David a long time later using the words we quoted before: "If you hear God's voice today, don't be stubborn."

We know that Joshua did not lead the people into the place of rest that God promised. We know this because God spoke later about another day for rest.