-August 5, 2025-
Good morning beloved, happy Tuesday,
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.”
(1 Peter 4:18).
Peter, a disciple, an apostle, spent three years with Jesus. God transformed him from a sinner to a saint. Christ turned him from a fisher of fish to a fisher of men.
Jesus is our Savior who died in our place on the cross. I was the one who sinned, I was unjust, I was separated from God, I was under condemnation, I was the one who was lost. He was sinless, holy, blameless, and undefiled. That is mercy, that is grace, that He would take our place.
Peter writing of Christ said, “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” (1 Peter 2:24).
Our sins were imputed to Christ and He bore them in His own body. He paid our sin debt. We should have died and been banished to hell forever. He was bound so that we might go free. He was punished so we might be pardoned through His sacrificial death on the cross.
Just as our sins were imputed to Christ, so too, God has imputed Christ’s righteousness to us. We who were far from God have been brought near by the precious blood of Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
May we rejoice today that through Christ’s substitutionary death we have salvation, forgiveness of sins, and eternal life. Have a blessed day living for our Savior and serving Him.
“ For by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous (Roman’s 5:19).
Dean
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