Key Thought : This week we will look at some of the themes of sacrifice that help us understand Jesus and what He was doing through the sacrificial system.
May 10, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Hebrews 10:3-10.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What does this passage teach us about the sacrifices offered in the Old Testament?
3. Personal Application: How can we protect ourselves from simply going through the motions od Christianity? How can we experience depending totally in Jesus’ sacrifice for us as our only hope for salvation? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, If the animal sacrifice didn’t actually save people, then why did they offer them at all? Was it because they were saved by obedience in the Old Testament?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Exodus 12:1-11, Isaiah 53:7,8; I Cor. 5:7; Rev 5:6.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these passages teach us about Jesus as the Passover sacrifice?
3. Personal Application: How can we better reflect the character of Jesus in our own lives? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What can we learn about God through the fact that the plan of salvation was already in plce before we needed it?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Haggai 2:7-9.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What did Haggai say about the new temple being more glorious than the previous one? What did he mean by that?
3. Personal Application: Besides the cross, what are other ways we can see and experience the reality of God’s love? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “This is a cold and uncaring world. If God doesn’t exist, there would be no help or hope for anyone. But if Jesus came to die for us and save us, why is there still so much death, hatred, and misery in this world?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Isaiah 6:1-5, Revelation 4:7-11.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What elements of these two visions are similar? Pay attention to the order of events.
3. Personal Application: Why was the life, death, and resurrection of Christ the only means by which the human race could be saved? What does such a cost tell us about how bad sin must be? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Sunday 4th of May 2025

Sometimes contrasting two ideas can be very instructive. Much can be learned about the nature of sacrifice in the biblical perspective from when God actually rejected the sacrifices of His people.

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This tragic episode in Israel’s history was not the first time that God rejected a sacrifice; something similar happened near the beginning of salvation history, when Abel’s sacrifice was approved and acknowledged by God, and Cain’s was not. That early episode gives us another opportunity to contrast acceptable and unacceptable sacrifices. (See Genesis 4:3-7 and Hebrews 11:4.)

In Isaiah’s time, Israel was going through the motions, mentally checking off religious boxes in a minimal attempt to appease God, all while living as they pleased. Their sacrifices were anchored in self, just as Cain’s were, and not in an attitude of surrender and submission to God.

It is the same spirit that animates the kingdoms of this world: the spirit of self-sufficiency. Cain would live as he pleased and render mere ritual to God on his own terms. One can only assume that he viewed God as an inconvenience, a roadblock to setting his own course, but he feared God just enough to go through the motions.

Abel, however, offered the sacrifice God had requested, the sacrifice that exhibited the promise God had made of a coming Messiah (Genesis 3:15): a lamb, pointing forward to the saving act of Christ at Calvary.

“Abel grasped the great principles of redemption. He saw himself a sinner, and he saw sin and its penalty, death, standing between his soul and communion with God. He brought the slain victim, the sacrificed life, thus acknowledging the claims of the law that had been transgressed. Through the shed blood he looked to the future sacrifice, Christ dying on the cross of Calvary; and trusting in the atonement that was there to be made, he had the witness that he was righteous, and his offering accepted.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 72.

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 3rd of May 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Isaiah 1:2-15, Hebrews 10:3-10, Exodus 12:1-11, 1 Corinthians 5:7, Haggai 2:7-9, Isaiah 6:1-5, Revelation 4:7-11.

Memory Text:

“And they sang a new song, saying: ‘You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation’ ” (Revelation 5:9, NKJV).

When Jesus came toward him, John the Baptist declared: “ ‘Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’ ” (John 1:29, NKJV). This was an unmistakable reference to the idea of animal sacrifice, all of which pointed to Christ’s substitutionary death in behalf of all humanity.

In the Bible, we cannot escape the theme of animal sacrifice; it runs like a scarlet thread throughout its pages and plays a central role in the grand scene in Revelation, where John is escorted into God’s throne room (Revelation 4:1-11 and 5). The fact that Jesus appears in this pivotal scene, looking like a slain lamb (Revelation 5:6), is an important key to understanding the entire prophetic episode.

This week we will look at some of the themes of sacrifice that inform our understanding of Jesus, the slain Lamb, the clear protagonist of the throne room scene. He is accepted as worthy, where no one else is, and His unique worthiness speaks volumes about what the Lord was doing through the sacrificial system. It reveals Him as a God of infinite love who made the ultimate sacrifice, an act that we, and the other intelligences in the universe, will marvel at for eternity.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, May 10.

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Our Sabbath School program has always been linked to the support of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission program. This video provides a little insight into this important work.

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