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.
While Christmas is a story of birth, we know ultimately the reason that Jesus was born was to die. His birth was a foreshadow of how He came to rescue us.
Jesus didn't come to display His power by conquering all His enemies in great force. He came in humility and surrendered in death. He entered into humanity to save us from our greatest enemies, and He did it in the most surprising way.
Peter reminds us that Jesus died for us, so that we might die to sin. When Christ was nailed to the cross, our sin was nailed to the cross with Him. But that is not just a nice way of describing our sin. It is a literal declaration of what happened on the cross.
Jesus bore "our sins." When He died, I died along with all my sin.
Jesus bore "our sins." When He died, I died along with all my sin. Now, the life I live is not the same. It is a new life bought with the blood of Jesus. Now, we live to righteousness. We are free from the Law, we are free from sin, and we are truly alive because Christ rose from the grave.
In the birth of Jesus, we see the wisdom of God to overthrow the wisdom of the world and to defeat the greatest enemies of sin and death on full display. Our Father has brought healing to us by the wounds of His own Son.