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READ: ISAIAH 53:4-12; COLOSSIANS 1:22; HEBREWS 9:11-28; REVELATION 5:12\n\n\n\nYou gave up Your life,You are the Perfect Sacrifice\u2014God\u2019s precious Son,The Holy, Just, and Righteous One.Speak to us softly, O Lord, we pray,Speak to us clearly, O Lord, this day!You alone are good,Teach us, Lord, to live as You would\u2014Holy and pure,By faith, Your blood the costly cure.Speak to us softly, O Lord, we pray,Speak to us clearly, O Lord, this day!Risen from the dead,You are Life, the Living Bread\u2014Lamb that was slain,Bearing the curse, took up our pain.Speak to us softly, O Lord, we pray,Speak to us clearly, O Lord, this day\u2026Speak to us, Lord,that we might obey.\n\n\n\nSometimes, when I try to describe the sacrifice of Jesus I am stilled into silence. Trying to put the most profound mystery in the universe into everyday words is sort of like visiting the Grand Canyon and bringing home a single snapshot. The photo is accurate, but it\u2019s simply incapable of capturing the grandeur you see and feel\u2014 gazing across a chasm so vast that the bottom is a hazy blur. Only by hiking down inside can you begin to experience the canyon\u2019s true depth and beauty.\n\n\n\nThat\u2019s sort of what it\u2019s like when we think about the matchless glory of the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. It simply cannot be experienced from afar\u2014it is something we must enter into. Christ\u2019s blood was shed on the cross, for us. He not only bore our sin, but He took up our suffering and pain (Isaiah 53). Come, and gaze with me there. \u2022 G. Kam Congleton\n\n\n\n\u2022 Throughout the Bible, Christ\u2019s sacrifice is portrayed in many ways. For example, we find similar descriptions in Isaiah 53:12 and in Hebrews 9:28. What do you notice is included in Hebrews that is not mentioned in Isaiah? Why do you think this is?\n\n\n\n\u2022 The life-changing truth of the gospel is deeper than any words can convey, that because of the sacrifice of Jesus\u2019s shed blood, God Himself can dwell with us\u2014and in us\u2014making us one with God. (More on our \u201cKnow Jesus\u201d page.) Which description of Jesus\u2019s sacrifice resonates with you most today?\n\n\n\nGod presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood\u2014 to be received by faith. Romans 3:25 (NIV)