"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
This verse of the Bible is a categorical statements regarding the atoning work of Christ on the cross: "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, even though He bore our sins on His own body. 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 to heart, people tend to assume that He went to hell and, there, 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, according to this verse, 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, and the bible does not teach this.
"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 see 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 that He went to hell after He died on the cross.
This verse of the Bible is a categorical statements regarding the atoning work of Christ on the cross: "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, even though He bore our sins on His own body. 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 to heart, people tend to assume that He went to hell and, there, 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, according to this verse, 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, and the bible does not teach this.
"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 see 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 that He went to hell after He died on the cross.
(I did an extensive exposition of this subject in my book, The Portrait of True Grace, which can be gotten from Amazon).
Toni
Toni
