Lesson 10, February 27-March 5
Sabbath Afternoon
Memory Text: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: The chastisement of our peace was upon him; And with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5
Lough Fook, a Chinese Christian, was moved with compassion for those of his compatriots who had become slaves in South American mines. He wanted to give them the hope of the gospel, but how could he have access to them? His solution was to sell himself for a term of five years as a slave. He was transported to Demerara, where he toiled in the mines and told his fellow workers about Jesus.
Lough Fook died, but not until 200 people were liberated from hopelessness by accepting Jesus as their Savior.
Such amazing self-sacrifice for the good of others! What an example!
By doing the unthinkable, that is, [He] humbly “took upon him the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:7), Jesus, too, had reached the unreachable—you and me and all the world steeped and lost in the abyss of sin.
This week we’ll see this incredible event prophesied hundreds of years before it happened.
