CHRIST HEALS HIS PEOPLE

HEALING BY THE STRIPES OF CHRIST

 “By His stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).  

We must not think that by self-loathing, self-deprivation or self-humiliation we will be healed of the disease of sin.  The healing of our spiritual disease is to be found in the humiliation of Christ, not in ours; in His agonies, not ours; in His sufferings, not ours; in His death, not ours.  

To look to, rely upon or trust in anything other than the crucified, buried, risen and exalted Redeemer is to set up a rival to Christ.  Do not beat-up on yourself over your sins thinking that God will be more pleased with you.  God is only pleased with His Son.  Look outside of sinful self to the successful Savior and His sacrifice for sin.  Spiritual healing is by the stripes of the Savior, not the stripes of the sinner. 

-preacher Jim Byrd

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