Hebrews 3:6,7 - We are His house

3:6

Christ is also faithful, but He is faithful as a Son over the house, “and we are His house”. Jesus is God, He is Lord over all. Unless we understand Jesus aright then we will understand nothing. Seeing Jesus as a “good man”, as a “great teacher”, even as a “prophet” is not enough. He is all of these things, but He is also much more. So we must “hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory”. How do we “glory” in our hope? Glory has the aspects of splendour and significance (or weight). We see all the splendour in Jesus and what He has done and is doing, and we know that everything rests on Him. Our salvation is dependent upon Him alone, and the future of the world is determined by Him.

3:7

The writer now quotes from Psalm 95:7-11. The Psalm refers back to two main rebellion points in the journey after the Red Sea. One is Ex 17:1-7 when the Israelites complained at the Meribah that there was no water, and this is probably the primary reference. There may also be a reference to the failure to enter the Promised Land at the first time of asking (Num 13). Note the “As the Holy Spirit says”. It is assumed that God was speaking through the Psalms.