Lesson 7 *November 9–15 Christ, Our Sacrifice sabbath afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Isa. 53:2–12, Heb. 2:9, Heb. 9:26–28, Heb. 9:12, Exod. 12:5, Heb. 4:15.Memory Text: “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24, NASB).Catholic Priest Maximilian Kolbe was imprisoned in Auschwitz for providing shelter to refugees from Greater Poland, includ- ing 2,000 Jews. When a prisoner in his barracks vanished (perhaps he escaped), the SS picked ten prisoners to be starved to death in reprisal. One of the selected men cried out, “Oh, my poor wife, my poor children. I shall never see them again.” At that point Kolbe offered himself in the man’s place; that is, he asked that he be the one to starve, not the distraught family man. The surprised SS officer agreed, and Kolbe joined the ranks of the doomed while the other man survived.However moving, Kolbe’s sacrifice is only a shadow of the One who willingly took our place, an act symbolized in the sanctuary ser- vice. The New Testament identifies Jesus with the two major aspects of the Old Testament sacrificial system: He is our Sacrifice (Hebrews 9, 10), and He is our High Priest (Hebrews 5–10).This week we will study different aspects of Christ’s ultimate sacri- fice and see what His once-and-for-all death has provided for us.
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