July 7, when another Christian hurts you. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree

that we might die to sin and live to righteousness by his wounds. You have been healed

1 Peter 2 24. What is the basis of our not holding grudges against Christian brothers

and sisters who repent? Our moral indignation because of a terrible offense done against us

does not evaporate just because the offender is a Christian. In fact, we may feel even more betrayed

and the simple, I'm sorry, will often seem utterly disproportionate to the painfulness and the

ugliness of the offence. But in this case, we're dealing with fellow Christians and the promise of

God's wrath against our offender does not apply because there is no condemnation for those who

in Christ Jesus, Romans 8.1. God has not destined Christians for wrath but to obtain salvation

through our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thessalonians 5.9. It looks like they're going to get away with it.

Where should we turn to assure ourselves that justice will be done, that Christianity is not

a mockery of the seriousness of sin. The answer is that we turn to the cross of Christ,

all the wrongs that have been done against us by genuine believers were avenged in the death

of Jesus. This is implied in the simple but staggering fact that all the sins of all God's people

were laid on Jesus. The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all as they are 53-6

for Peter 2.24. The sufferings of Christ was the real punishment and recompense of God on every

hurt you ever received from a fellow Christian. Therefore Christianity does not make light of sin.

It does not add insult to our injury. On the contrary, it takes the sins against us so seriously

that to make them right, God gave his own son to suffer more than we could ever make anyone

suffer for what they have done to us. If we go on holding a grudge against a fellow believer,

we are saying in effect that the cross of Christ was not a sufficient recompense for the sins of

God's people. This is an insult to Christ and his cross that you do not want to give.

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