1 Peter 2:11-25 (NKJV)

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul,
12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against
you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in
the day of visitation.

As sojourners and pilgrims – we are just passing through – this world is not our home.
So we are in the world but not of it.

The day of visitation – a time when God draws near in mercy or judgment.

13 Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake,
whether to the king as supreme,
14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers
and for the praise of those who do good.
15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men—
16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and
gentle, but also to the harsh.
19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief,
suffering wrongfully.
20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently?
But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before
God.

2:16 Act as free men. We are not in bondage or slavery to civil authorities. We need not
live in servility or terror. After all, we are the Lord’s free men. But that does not mean we
are free to sin. Liberty does not mean license. Freedom does not include lawlessness. So
we must never use our freedom as a pretext for evil. Sinful disobedience should never be
justified by some pseudo spiritual excuse. The cause of Christ is never advanced by evil
masquerading in religious clothes. Believer's Bible Commentary

Many so called Christians today have no idea what sin is or why they shouldn’t be doing
certain things. This is not NT Christianity! Being free does not equal being lawless. The
whole point of salvation is to set you free from your sins – so they should no longer
dominate you.

21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
example, that you should follow His steps:
22 “Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not
threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
24 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.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and
Overseer of your souls.

2:24 The Savior’s sufferings were not only exemplary, but expiatory as well. We cannot
imitate His sufferings in this respect, and Peter does not suggest that we should. Rather
the argument seems to be as follows: The Savior’s agony was not brought on by His own
sins, for He had none. It was for our sins He was nailed to the cross. Because He has
suffered for our sins once for all, we should never allow ourselves to get into the position
where we have to suffer for them too. The fact that He died for them should cause us to
die to them. And yet, it is not simply a matter of negative goodness; we should not only
die to sin but live to righteousness. Believer's Bible Commentary

G2390 - healed
ιαομαι iaomai; a prim. vb.; to heal: - curing (1), heal (4), healed (16), healing (2), heals (1),
perform healing (2). NASEC

Isaiah 53:3-8 ESV

(3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.
(4) Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him
stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
(5) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon
him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb
that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he
opened not his mouth.
(8) By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who
considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the
transgression of my people?

Do you think Peter read Isaiah? We know Matthew did – in Matthew 8:16-17. Both men
were certain that Isaiah 53 referred to Jesus and His atoning work on the cross.

On the tree = on the cross.

Deuteronomy 21:23 ESV

(23) his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day,
for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD
your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Galatians 3:13 ESV

(13) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is
written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"--
The three most important scriptures related to the atonement are Isaiah 53:4-5, Matt 8:16-
17 and 1 Peter 2:24. Both Matthew and Peter were convinced that Jesus’ atonement
provided healing for us. Paul gives us further insight in Galatians when he explains that
anyone hanged on a tree was cursed – Jesus thereby bearing the curse for us – that we
should be free from it.

What is the curse? Read Deuteronomy 28. There the blessings and cursings are laid out.

Deuteronomy 28:21-22 ESV

(21) The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the
land that you are entering to take possession of it.
(22) The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and
fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you
until you perish.

Sickness is under the curse of the law. Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Therefore, healing is in redemption.