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Daily Bread - July 11, 2026 (The Seventh Day - Genesis 2:1-3)
1 Peter 2:24 - Who Himself carried our sins in His Own body upon the tree, so that being dead to sins, we might live righteously, “by Whose wound you were healed.”
The Cure For Sin, Sickness, and Disease
Sin is an incurable disease that is passed from generation to generation. The only cure for this terrible plague is the blood of Jesus. Through the bloody wound Jesus received on the cross, our sins were put to death, and the sicknesses and diseases which are a consequence of sin, were cured. When a cure for sin was provided in Christ Jesus, the cure for all sickness and disease was also revealed. For in Christ Jesus, we have forgiveness for all our iniquities and healing for all our diseases (Psalms 103:3).
God’s will is for every person to find freedom from sin through the power of the blood of Jesus, and healing for all their diseases through the wound which He bore. When people are healed from their diseases and sicknesses, it reveals how the Lord Jesus has power to forgive sin (Matthew 9:6). Through the prayer of faith in what Jesus has already accomplished for us, the sick are saved and sins are forgiven (James 5:15).
In both the Hebrew Bible (Leningrad Text/Cairo Text) and the Septuagint, this verse simply reads, “by his wound we were healed” (Isaiah 53:5). Peter, who was speaking for God in the first person, did not include himself, and therefore, used the word ‘you’ in an address by God to all mankind.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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