3:4
“For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything”. The Jews, along with all humanity, had a habit of focusing on the created rather than the creator. Without God there is nothing at all. So why do we have this habit of worshipping the created? It is because when God does stuff, He almost always involves us in doing it. So we see ourselves as active in the process, as indeed we are, and that is the way God planned it, and the way He wanted it to be. So we rightly see ourselves as involved in the process, but easily forget that we are only part of the process, that we are part of what God is doing. As it says in Ps 127, unless the Lord builds the house, the labourers labour in vain. We must labour, but without God we can do nothing (Jn 15:5).
3:5
“Moses was faithful as a servant in God’s house”. Again, the writer makes it clear that he is not denigrating Moses in any way. But it was vital that they rightly understood Moses’ role. He was a servant. Moses also understood that someone greater was coming in the future (Deut 18:15). Moses understood his place in the grand scheme of things, it was the non-believing Jews who did not understand.
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