We are now on the first trail of 1
Peter 2:24. It is set in the
context of Christ being our example as recorded in 1
Peter 2:21-25.
The
verse is telling us that the beloved Son of God in the flesh as Jesus of
Nazareth had Himself carried our sins in His body and that by His stripe, we
have been healed. It reminds me of 1
John 4:17 which states that “As
Jesus is, so am I in this world”.
For example, as Jesus is healthy, so am I in this world because by His
stripe, I have been healed.
As
we have earlier seen in Matthew
8:17 from the seventh trailhead of Isaiah
53:4, it is beyond a shadow of any doubt that the beloved Son of God in
the flesh as Jesus of Nazareth has carried our physical ailments and healed us
physically.
Sin
has wounded mankind both spiritually and physically. When we were at the trailhead of Isaiah
42:4 of the first Marker of this five-part series, we saw that the
moment Adam blatantly disobeyed God and ate from the forbidden tree, the
process of death kicked in. It started
with the human spirit being separated from God and then the physical body
beginning to decay, leading to death. In
the process, the physical body is subject to pains and infirmities.
There
is a co-relation between the forgiveness of sin and physical healing. As can be seen from 1
Peter 2:24, our healing, both spiritually and physically, is a result
of the forgiveness of sin wrought by Christ crucified. We see
this in Matthew
9:5-7 and Luke
5:23-25 where healing came as an immediate aftermath of Jesus declaring
that sins have been forgiven. When Jesus
cried out, “It is finished!” in
John
19:28-30, the penalty for our sins had been fully paid. And when He was raised from the dead, God
effectively declared us righteous. It is
akin to the judge of the highest court of justice passing a verdict of
acquittal. This divine judicial verdict
is recorded in Romans
4:25.
This
substantiates the truth that physical ailments are the result of sin, which
entered the world through Adam as stated in Romans 5:12. Now that we have been forgiven of that sin,
or that sin has been removed in us, sicknesses and infirmities have no right to
be in us.
We
know that mankind has been living under the curse since the Fall. I see the Lord Jesus having removed the viral
strain of “s” from the curse such that we are cured. I would like
to paraphrase Romans
5:17 to mean:
If I
was sick because of the trespass of Adam, how much more shall I be healthy
through Jesus Christ?
Hence,
the tenet of 1 Peter 2:24 is:
“The sins of the world have fallen on Jesus
of Nazareth”.
It
also points to spiritual healing in addition to the physical healing that we
saw fulfilled in Matthew 8:17.
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