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Hebrews 3:5. CLV.
And Moses, indeed, was faithful in His whole house as an attendant, for a testimony of that which shall be spoken.
The word doulos is used over 100 times in the New Testament to convey the idea of being a bondservant or purchased slaves of Christ.
This one time the word therapon is used which means an attendant. This is the word from which is derived therapeia and the English word therapy. As the therapon to the church in the wilderness Moses attended to the needs of the people, particularly to maintaining a right relationship with the Spirit of the Lord.
To have a zeal for the church and body of Christ, we are being called like Moses to be faithful in all his house. The significance of this statement is only understood from the visitation of the Lord in Numbers 12.
Numbers 12:6-8. And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all My house. With him will I speak face to face, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Hebrews goes on to say that now we all can come boldly before the throne of grace. We have the same access, the same opportunity to come into the Lord’s presence. After spending time in the sanctuary of the Lord we can speak without presumptuous error and offence. We can be faithful in all His House.
Hebrews 3:13. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
A Faithful and Wise Servant
Luke 12:42. Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his lord will make *ruler?? over his household (therapeia) to give them meat in due season?
Consider now the application of the previous word study for attendant, and the introduction of the word therapon, from which we obtain therapeia, to a correct understanding of this teaching of Christ Jesus.
To properly understand Jesus when he teaches on stewardship we must always remember his statements “the words that I speak to you are spirit and life” and “the flesh profits nothing”. [John 6:63]The concern here is not flesh, Jesus said “I have meat to eat that you know not of, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me.” [John 4:32-34.]
Jesus is seeking elect stewards like Moses who can be faithful in all his house, to see to the spiritual health of the congregation. To be a therapon to provide therapeia (healing) for the body of Christ.
As in the two other uses of the word therapeia in Luke 9:11 and Revelation 22:2, where the word is translated healing.
Luke 9:11. And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
Revelation 22:2. On either side of the river was a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
*Does the Lord want us to rule people or heal people?
And Moses, indeed, was faithful in His whole house as an attendant, for a testimony of that which shall be spoken.
The word doulos is used over 100 times in the New Testament to convey the idea of being a bondservant or purchased slaves of Christ.
This one time the word therapon is used which means an attendant. This is the word from which is derived therapeia and the English word therapy. As the therapon to the church in the wilderness Moses attended to the needs of the people, particularly to maintaining a right relationship with the Spirit of the Lord.
To have a zeal for the church and body of Christ, we are being called like Moses to be faithful in all his house. The significance of this statement is only understood from the visitation of the Lord in Numbers 12.
Numbers 12:6-8. And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all My house. With him will I speak face to face, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Hebrews goes on to say that now we all can come boldly before the throne of grace. We have the same access, the same opportunity to come into the Lord’s presence. After spending time in the sanctuary of the Lord we can speak without presumptuous error and offence. We can be faithful in all His House.
Hebrews 3:13. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
A Faithful and Wise Servant
Luke 12:42. Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his lord will make *ruler?? over his household (therapeia) to give them meat in due season?
Consider now the application of the previous word study for attendant, and the introduction of the word therapon, from which we obtain therapeia, to a correct understanding of this teaching of Christ Jesus.
To properly understand Jesus when he teaches on stewardship we must always remember his statements “the words that I speak to you are spirit and life” and “the flesh profits nothing”. [John 6:63]The concern here is not flesh, Jesus said “I have meat to eat that you know not of, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me.” [John 4:32-34.]
Jesus is seeking elect stewards like Moses who can be faithful in all his house, to see to the spiritual health of the congregation. To be a therapon to provide therapeia (healing) for the body of Christ.
As in the two other uses of the word therapeia in Luke 9:11 and Revelation 22:2, where the word is translated healing.
Luke 9:11. And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
Revelation 22:2. On either side of the river was a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
*Does the Lord want us to rule people or heal people?
