A study of Hebrews Part III

05/26/2026 • View profile •

Before we get started, please read the previous article, A study of Hebrews Part II, and, hey, remember, I wrote a book.

“WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession;
Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much that he hath built the house, hath greater honour than the house.
For every hose is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.
And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said;
But Christ as the Son in his own house; which house are we if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.
Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith:
To day if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provacation; in the day of the temptation in the desert,
Where your fathers temped me, proved and saw my works,
Forty years : for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.
As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.
Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ; yet so we hold the beginning of substance firm unto the end. While it is said, to day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in that provocation.
For some who heard did provoke: but not all that come out of Egypt by Moses. And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the dessert? And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest but to them that were incredulous? And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.
(Hebrews 3:1-19).
So, put your eyes on heaven, because here's what really stands out to me.
“ WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession” (Hebrews 3:1).
So, what does it mean to be partakers of the divine nature? So, CCC 460 does an okay job defining it here, but, I think it's a ministration in the English version, CCC 460. But the divine sonship is sport on. We are partakers in the divine nature, but our union with the Son of God, by becoming adopted children of God.
In fact, let's like at v. 14, “. For we are made partakers of Christ; yet so we hold the beginning of substance firm unto the end”. Well, what does that mean?
Well, let's read the previous verse,
“ But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin”. So, the deceitfulness of sin, is what prevents us from being partakers of Christ.
Chapter 4 is coming Saturday. Stay tuned!