Taking responsibility for your calling

Hebrews 3:1-6

The Messiah is Superior to Moses
Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household, because he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful in all God's household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later, but the Messiah was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.

I have been thinking a lot lately of this shadow and fulfillment idea. We so many times transport a inferior revelation of Old Testament understanding into the superior revelation in the New Testament Gospel understanding of Jesus our messiah. I blogged last time about the shadow of the tabernacle and the fulfillment of that shadow in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us as the tabernacle of His presence.
This week I have been thinking about our O.T. Understanding of leadership. We so often use Moses as a model of true Godly leadership and he is a great example of leadership in time of great struggle, but is he the perfect example or the shadow of someone greater?
I believe Jesus is the model we should look to in the N.T. Understanding of leadership. In Hebrews, he is shown to be the greater revelation of leadership. He is the good Shepard, the great apostle, and the high priest. He is the fulfillment of an imperfect shadow we see from the High priest of the temple era, moses as prophet, and even Abraham the apostle (the first apostle or "sent one").
In doing what Jesus did, he unleashed the Holy Spirit in a new way upon the world. No longer was the Holy Spirit upon people, but now is in us and therefore unlocking the Gifts of the Holy Spirit into each believer.
If this is true, Jesus is the head and we are the body. Our job as the body is to listen for the mind of Christ to speak and we are to act accordingly. Does only the finger move to pick up a glass? Does the palm have the only contact? Does the arm have no responsibly to move?
I believe pregnant in this new understanding of Gospel Revelation is that each member is being spoken to, not for their own edification, but the direction of the body as a whole! We demand that our leaders stand as prophet, high priest, apostle, pastor, evangelist, and teacher, but does this show our confidence in that leader, or does it show a disregard for our own responsibility in the body? There is only one who can bear all those callings and that is Jesus.
Moses was faithful as a servant of Gods house, but Jesus was faithful as a Son. If we believe scripture when it says:

Romans 8:29-30

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that the Son might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Then we have to begin to take responsibility for our calling as Sons and Daughters of the Father. No longer as mere servants of His house, but faithful in adoption!

What is God saying to you that when shared will edify and build up the body for a new dimension of Gods reality in your local gathering? He's speaking.....or you listening?

- Posted in the moment

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