1 Peter 2: 24 # daily devotions # scriptures # Bible studies
“He himself bore our sins” in his
body on the cross.
Jesus was
both a man and God when He came to this earth two thousand years ago. In his
person as a man He demonstrated that in His human abilities, he could endure
the long persecution and suffering he had to go through including bearing all
our sins on Hiss body. He became the sacrificial lamb and the scape goat for
our sins. In the OT practice the high priest would hold the scape goat by the
horns and then he would pray and transfer the sins of the people on to the
scape goat.
When Jesus
came He took the place of the sacrificial scape goat and He became the perfect
sacrifice which was free from sin and blemish. He bore all our sins once and
for all and then after there is no further need for any other sacrifices
because Jesus was both man and the Son of God. As the Son of God He paid the
highest price possible and then after God was satisfied and does not require
any more sacrifices.
Through this
act of sacrifice of His Son, God reconciled all sinners back to Him. Prior to
Jesus’ sacrifice, all men were condemned to eternal death but that sentence had
been abolished and now, no matter how sinful a man can be, God is willing to
forgive and receive the sinner back to Him on the condition that the sinner
receives Jesus as His Savior and repent from all His past sins.
By sending
Jesus to die on the cross, God had made a way for the sinners to be forgiven
and be reconciled back to Him. What a privilege this is for man because even
the angels who had sinned against God and fallen are not forgiven and they are
now the demons that follow Satan and would be finally locked up in the pits of
hell when Jesus returns. This is another study which can only be dealt in
length in another setting.
The message
today is the message of redemption and salvation. Let us remember that God is
merciful and He knows that man on his own will never be able to come back to
Him. God therefore made a way for all men who have become completely lost to
turn around and find his way back to God. Without this love and grace of God,
we would never have been saved.
What is in
the spiritual can only be achieved through spiritual means and not human means.
Jesus came as the way, the truth and the light and no man can come to the
Father but through Him.
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