9/28/2023 0 Comments By his stripes you were healedIf you must miss a lesson, please go back and complete it since each chapter topic is crucial to having a more complete understanding of Biblical healing. The topic of healing is too important NOT to explore thoroughly! Your health and the health of your loved ones may significantly benefit from your time here in the weeks ahead. This Bible study is a bit longer than some, but please don't let that keep you from choosing this study. how should I pray in regard to my own need for healing? The Bible has a lot to say about health and healing and we're going to dig it out, sift through it, and open our hearts to the Holy Spirit's illumination so we can KNOW what God has said in His Word and AGREE WITH HIM as we pray. We are all sinners, and we all need the Savior.Have you noticed that a large portion of the prayer requests at Bible studies relate to a need for healing, either for ourselves or our loved-ones? But in spite of that important, on-going need, very little is taught on healing from most pulpits and in most Bible study groups! What does the Bible tell us about healing? Can we know God's will regarding healing? How did Jesus pray for healing? What did He instruct His followers concerning healing? What about my own physical needs. Instead, Isaiah places himself in their midst and pictures himself as guilty as they. The prophet could have listed many sins of which the rebellious people of Judah were guilty, but he doesn’t do that here. Through the sacrifice of Christ, we are reconciled to God: “While we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son” (Romans 5:10).įinally, it’s worth a mention here of Isaiah’s perspective: he writes, “He was wounded for our transgressions” not “He was wounded for your transgressions.” That is, Isaiah placed himself among the transgressors who brought about the wounding of the Messiah. In the wisdom of God, the death of Christ was not only the penalty we deserved, but it was also the remedy we needed. The fact that Christ was wounded for our transgressions establishes a direct connection between the passion of Christ and our iniquities. 1 Cor 11:29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. Exodus 23:25 'So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). By His Stripes We Are Healed By His Stripes We Are Healed 2. He received the penalty our sins deserved, and we received, in exchange, the blessings His righteousness had earned. His death was vicarious-that is, He died for us sinners. ![]() The fact that Christ was wounded for our transgressions clearly points to the doctrine of the substitutionary atonement. ![]() It takes humility to acknowledge that it was our own sin that was laid on Christ and that He was mercifully taking the punishment that we deserved. Christ was suffering on the tree for our sake. Or, as the Message Bible puts it, “We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures.” But we were wrong. When we saw Christ hanging on the tree, we gasped and, in our pride, assumed that He must have done something horrible for God to punish Him in such a way: “We esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted” (Isaiah 53:4, NKJV). Christ, in His mercy and grace, was wounded to remedy the problem. It was our rebellion against God that caused the trouble. He had not rebelled against God in fact, He always obeyed the Father’s will (John 5:19 6:38). Isaiah 53:5 specifically says that Christ was wounded for our transgressions, for our rebellions. He is the “righteous servant” (verse 11), and “he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth” (verse 9).Ī transgression is a rebellion. The entire chapter 53 of Isaiah concerns the suffering of God’s Servant, the Messiah, as He takes the punishment for wrongs others have committed. The Suffering Servant pictured in Isaiah 53 is a Sin-bearer. The piercing of Jesus’ hands and feet (with nails), side (with a spear), and head (with thorns) give this prophecy of Isaiah’s a literal fulfillment. The Hebrew word literally means “pierced” or “bored through.” The Message Bible brings out the horror of the scene as well as the vicarious nature of Christ’s death: “It was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him-our sins!” Most modern translations of Isaiah 53:5 use the word pierced. The “wounding” spoken of here would result in a severe injury. ![]() In the last of Isaiah’s Servant Songs, we have this passage: “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5, NKJV).
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