Jesus is the better One. Better than Moses. To Gentiles these words do not carry the impact or the gut punch that they would have to the Hebrew people. Moses was their deliverer, their savior, their redeemer. He is the one that brought them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, through the wilderness and pointed them to the promied land. Moses is a larger than life figure in history for the Hebrew people. 

When Hebrews 3:3 says, “Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses”, these would have been fighting words. These words meant Jesus was the new king of the Hebrew hill, symbolically, and it might not have sat well with especially the religious leaders. 

How did Jesus speak a better word, bring a better covenant, do greater works than even Moses? Oh friends, if we can get this it will change the way we think, preach and operate as believers in Jesus the Christ. 

Exodus 7 says, “With the staff that is in my (Moses) hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.

The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.’ Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.”

That was Moses, water to blood. This is Jesus, water to wine. John 2 says, “When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine. Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.” 

Moses water to blood was not drinkable, but Jesus’s water to wine was the best wine. One brought trouble, the other brought rejoicing. Our words are like water, when we speak them are they turning to blood or wine in the hearts of the hearer? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org