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NASB | 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed. |
Subject: Healing by Strips physical or not |
Bible Note: Excelent post of the compassion of our Lord. As one who believes it is always God's will to heal, even though many do not receive, it saddens me a lot when brothers and sisters conclude erroniously that just because we believe this we are somehow condemning them. All of us have suffered lose of some kind in this war, and scripture clearly says we are in a battle, and the battle Satan wages is to discredit God's Word and take souls to hell. To suffer lose is not defeat, but rather a challenge to dig deeper into the truth of God's covenant. I never lose touch with the fact that I am human and although I have been born again, my mind is continually being renewed to the truth. My spirit is constantly being taught by the Holy Spirit, of if my mind is BEING renewed and my spirit is BEING taught..there are things of God I do not yet know. When I am knocked down, for me that means I need to dig into God's word more and pray more for a deeper understanding of His will,(Colossians chapter 1 and Ephesians chapter 1) not that I should condemn myself or deny truth, but rather that I accept His grace an move on. I always look at Jesus teaching in Matthew on the sower sowing the word....the thief comes to steal the word sown in my heart....How does he steal the word? By lying to me and telling me the Word does not work. the Word is not true, if it were, this would not happen or that would not happen. If God is love, why are children suffering? If God's will is to heal everyone, why is everyone not healed? If it is God's will that no one perish, why are people still lost? There are cults present today because of these very questions....None are lost, all are saved... None are really sick...the mind just 'thinks' we are sick and in reality, our mind is lying to us. If we can change our mind, we can see our circumstances as they realy are. The Word says we are transformed by the renewing of our mind...but the renewing is to God's Word which does not deny the existence of evil opposition. This is Satan's way of distorting the truth..he is real, God is real, a battle is raging in the spirit rhelm. But the truth is Jesus defeated the powers (dominions of darkness). Bbut he is still lose attempting to deceive the world into believing Jesus is not Lord. Faith does not deny the existence of negative circumstances, faith speaks the Word of God against these circumstances. Faith believes God's Word(Jesus is the Word made flesh) is supreme and circumstances must bow their knee. And when we are knocked down, and sometimes we will be(not because the Word is not true, but because we are not yet perfected, we still rely on our human vision more that God more often than not) we get up, brush off and continue forward. Let God's Word be true even though I myself, or any other human being, be found a liar! Why should this offend me? God is God! God bless |