From Death to Life

Bore our sins…1 Peter 2:24

In both Hebrew and Greek, the word sin literally means to miss the mark; to fail. 

God gave us a precise code of conduct: do this and do not do that. All of the Ten Commandments are ways we could honor or fail God. Five were what we could do against others and five were what we could do against God. Breaking any one of them was a sin against God. The result of sin is always the same: death. For the wages of sin is death, Romans 6:23. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die, Genesis 2:17. 

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because all sinned, Romans 5:12. This death was spiritual. The spiritual reality of our separation from God. Therefore, Jesus came to bring us back to God. 1 Peter 2:22-24: Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth, who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

What a relief! Regardless of our sin, Jesus has taken it away. We think of sin as having degrees. Certainly, lying cannot be as bad as murder. God does not see sin this way. The lists of sins in the Bible contain lying and murder, along with other failures to love one another. 

This is the good news of Jesus. Jesus came and took away all the sins of the world; every man, woman, and child. His perfection healed our imperfection. His righteousness replaced our unrighteousness. His life paid the price of our death. For this reason, whoever believes in Jesus does not perish, but has everlasting life!