"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." 1 Peter 2:24
Jesus did bare our sins in His own body. This fact is very important because by this we know that He didn't bare our sins in His soul or spirit. His soul and spirit were free of sin. Since He bore our sins in His own body only, His suffering ended on the cross when He died bodily. No wonder He said on the cross, it is finished. When this truth is not known and taken into account, people assume that He went to hell and suffered to make our redemption complete. But this is not true.
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" 1 Peter 3:18
Notice that He suffered once for sins, and this happened when He was put to death in His body on the cross. If He went to hell, then He must have suffered more than once.
"Forasmuch then
as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased
from sin;" 1 Peter 4:1
Again,
we are told that Christ suffered for us in the flesh. This is the truth
taught in all the scriptures, and when all truth is put together, it
cannot be reasonably concluded that Christ suffered outside the body and
went to hell after He died on the cross.
Toni
