The word "stripes" in the following passage, is actually singular in the original language. The stripe is referring to the single blow from the Father. For a moment in time, God the Father abandoned Christ on the cross because He could not look at the sin that was laid upon Him, for the world.
1 Peter 2:24 "who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed."
God is not nearly as concerned about our physical well-being as He is about our spiritual, which will take us to either heaven or hell depending on whether or not we have trusted in Christ.
When Christ said; "Father forgive them they know not what they do, He was asking the Father to extend forgiveness to the world but each individual had to repent to be born again. The world had the opportunity but would not be saved unless they wanted Christ to change them into a new creation.
The world that dwells in the church today wants us to believe everyone is forgiven therefore we ought to forgive anyone even if they are not repentant. This is nothing more than psychology that has inculcated itself within the church to corrupt God's way of restoring relationships.
Relationships are not genuinely healed by just letting sin pass. Relationships are healed by someone confessing their sin and the other party forgiving. These are two sides of the same coin, they cannot be separated.
The reason so many people within the apostate church believe everyone is going to heaven and that God just winks at sin is because of this false psychological teaching that says; "just let it go." This is the devil's way, he wants people to believe they are being kind by allowing others to remain in sin without repentance because it then keeps them from repenting to God.
Sin is so terrible in God's eyes that someone had to die to pay for it. No human being can die for their own sin because it had to be the blood of the Perfect Lamb shed in order to pay for our sin. Even the Father had to look away from the sin that was laid upon Christ on that cross. Would it make any sense that God would not care about sin when He allowed His own Son to be killed because of it? NO!!!
God never took sin lightly nor does He now. He hates it, it cannot be in His presence, which is why we have to trust in Christ and be changed by Him.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
When we have been changed by Christ we no longer love the sin we used to do, we love the things of Christ. When someone falsely says: "My sin is no big deal because I am under the blood" are trampling on Christ all over again, even lying against Him.
We are trapped in this sinful flesh which is why we are to crucify it daily. We are to ignore our feelings, our inclinations that do not honor Christ to follow His principles and commands.
Our Spirit is born again, a new creation but our flesh is weak. Notice when we die our body does not go with us, it's because it is corrupted. Only our spirit lives beyond this flesh, it either goes to heaven because it has been changed into the likeness of Christ, having been changed into a new creation by Him, or it goes to hell for those who refused to be changed by Christ through rejecting Him.
If you have been playing the "religion" game, in which you attend church, say all the right things but remain rebellious against Him and His Word, you have never been born again until you repent.
Don't be one of those who hear these terrible words as you approach the gates of heaven;
Matthew 7:21–23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
Imagine coming before the Lord to give an account and hearing that you are going to hell when you thought you were going to heaven. I cannot think of anything more frightening.
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