Daily Bread - Nov 27 2006

1 Peter 2:24 - "Who Himself carried our sins in his own body upon the tree so that the sins being removed we might live righteously by whose wound you were healed."

Sin is an incurable disease that is passed from generation to generation. The only cure for this terrible plague is the blood of Jesus. It was through the bloody wound that Jesus received on the cross that our sins were put to death and the sicknesses and diseases, which are a consequence of sin, were cured.

When a cure for sin was provided in Christ Jesus, the cure for all sickness and disease was also revealed. For in Christ Jesus we have forgiveness for all our iniquities and healing for all our diseases (Psalms 103:3). It is God's will that every man find freedom from sin through the power of the blood of Jesus and healing for all their diseases through the wound which He bore. When men are healed from their diseases and sicknesses it is made known that the Lord Jesus has power to forgive sin (Matthew 9:6). It is through the prayer of faith in what Jesus has already accomplished for us that the sick are saved and sins are forgiven (James 5:15).

In both the Hebrew Bible (Leningrad Text/Cairo Text) and the Septuagint this verse simply reads, "by His wound we were healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Peter, who was speaking for God in the first person, did not include himself and therefore used the word "you" in an address by God to all mankind. The Greek word 'molops' appears in the singular form in both Testaments and both languages it means "wound, bruise, strip, or mark". However, the Hebrew word in Isaiah 53:5, 'chaburah' primarily refers to 'wound'.

Be blessed,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org