Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. 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. (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 to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Hebrews 3:2-6

For several years, I had occasional lunch appointments with an Orthodox Jew in Cincinnati. On several occasions, we met at a little kosher deli in Blue Ash and he was always very careful to keep his dietary restrictions and prayer. He had a small scroll containing the Shema from Deuteronomy 6: 6-9 on the doorpost of his door at work. He has mentioned to me how highly he holds Moses and while our talks are often engaging, he rejects the claims of Christ and of Christians.

Moses was faithful to God. Deuteronomy 34: 10-11 tells us “there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land…”

It is all too easy to put someone else on a pedestal. During the transfiguration in Matthew 17, Moses and Elijah appeared with Christ and what happened when Peter suggested to honor each of the three? God spoke plainly – This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.

Moses was faithful as a servant. Jesus is faithful as a Son.