“He Himself bore our sins” in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by His wounds you have been healed.”
Jesus not only died to pay the price for our sins, but He also died “as” us and “in place of” us. They were “our” sins, but He bore the punishment for us so that we would never need to be punished for them. As the sinless Son of Man, He paid the full burden of the accumulated sins of the whole world…past, present, and future. He also identified with all who would believe on Him so that we might assume ourselves dead to those sins as we live our Christian life. Everyone who trusts in Jesus as their Savior is considered by God to be His spiritual seed. While Jesus walked this earth, we were considered to be “in” Christ so that when He died, we died “in” Him…so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. Jesus not only died for the sin of the whole world, but also on behalf of all believers, by His death on the Cross and separation from the Father on our behalf. The eternal separation we all deserve was paid for by Christ in His body on the cross so that we might be eternally united with the Father, walking in spirit and truth as we abide in Christ. Jesus complied to not only die for our sins but to take the cruel punishment in His body. He suffered thrashings, and lashings, and beatings, and humiliation…for us. For He was pierced for our rebellion and crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole; spiritually whole. He was whipped so we could be healed from the curse of sin and death and eternal separation from the Father. May we never become so familiar with the story of the Cross, that we minimize it in our minds, just what the Lord Jesus did for us: “He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed.”
Spiritual Steve 