THE CALVARY MINISTRY - ONLINE THE CROSS OF CALVARY 🙏🏼 SUNDAY 5TH JULY, 2026 📜 🔑📖 KEY VERSE:``` "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). Peter writes to believers who were suffering unjustly. He doesn’t tell them to fight back or give up. He points them to the Cross. Jesus left us an example, but more than that, He carried our sin. He didn’t just preach righteousness — He bore the penalty so we could live it. The Cross is not only where we are forgiven; it’s where we are freed. Three truths from the Cross in 1 Peter 2: One, He carried our sins personally. “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.” Your sin wasn’t abstract to Jesus. It was heavy, real, and He carried it up Golgotha for you. Two, He died so we could live differently. “That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.” Calvary breaks sin’s claim. You are not who you were. You don’t have to obey the old master. Three, His wounds bring our healing. “By whose stripes ye were healed.” This is healing for the whole person — soul first, then body, then mind. The Shepherd who suffered now restores every wandering sheep. Are you going to church today with hidden wounds? Guilt from yesterday, shame that won’t leave, habits that keep returning? Come to the Cross this Sunday. He already bore it. You were like sheep going astray, but now you are returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your soul (verse 25). Don’t carry what He already carried. Don’t nurse what He already nailed. Prayer Lord Jesus, thank You for bearing my sins in Your own body on the tree. I was dead in sin, but You died so I could live unto righteousness. I was wounded, but by Your stripes I am healed. I was lost, but now I have returned to You, my Shepherd. Help me to follow Your steps today. Let the power of Your Cross break sin’s hold and heal every broken place, in Your name I pray. Amen. May the Lord heal you by His wounds today. May the power of the Cross make you dead to sin and alive to righteousness. May you walk in freedom as a sheep kept by the Shepherd, through Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. 🙏🏼