Daily Devotions
1 Peter
"Might live for righteousness"
Text: 1 Peter 2:24
LIVING IN THE FIRST CENTURY
It was challenging to live as Christians in the first century. There were so many difficult problems.
1. Persecution
2. Problems that could not be easily resolved:
a) Racial problems.
b) Societal problems.
i) Masters
ii) Slaves
LIVING RIGHTEOUSLY
Peter continued to urge believers to live for the Lord as consciously as possible.
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—
by whose stripes you were healed.”
1 Peter 2:24
1. “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree”
a) Believers must never forget how Jesus Himself bore our sins personally.
b) This was a teaching that Peter was impacted by from the writings of Isaiah (Isaiah 53).
c) The phrase “On the tree”.
i) This phrase was drawn from Deuteronomy 21:22-23.
“If a man has committed a sin deserving of death,
and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
his body shall not remain overnight on the tree,
but you shall surely bury him that day,
so that you do not defile the land which
the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance;
for he who is hanged is accursed of God.”
Deuteronomy 21:22-23