Jesus paid the price willingly, bearing our chastisement and sheddinng His blood to give us peace of mind.
We can live in the peace of God!
Jesus wore a crown of thorns so we could be crowned with glory and honor.
Because He bore our chastisement, we can live in peace now, free from depression and mental anquish.
Jesus was beaten.
He was whipped until His back was laid open.
His beard was pulled out.
A crown of thorns pushed onto His head.
He was nailed to the Cross.
None of His suffering was without a purpose.
Everything that happened to Him was for us!
The second benefit mentioned in Isaiah 53:5 takes care of our health problem,
"the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
"By His stripes we were healed"
(1 Peter 2:24)
The first benefit mentioned in Isaiah 53:5 takes care of the sin problem.
Jesus died on the Cross to pay for our sins.
He shed His blood for us because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. (Hebrews 9:22)
Some think the spiritual is more important.
In the realm of eternity it is.
But God never required us to choose whether we want our spirits, or our souls, or our bodies taken care of.
He paid the price for all three so we can receive the benefits for all three.
Mankind had a triple problem and Jesus gave him the triple answer.
Jesus went to the cross as our substitute,
bearing our sins,
the chastisement of our peace,
and our sicknesses and diseases.
He paid the same price for all three, all three are equally important.
When man fell, he fell spirit, soul and body.
God responded with a plan to redeem them with the blood of Jesus.
God wasn't interested in doing just half a job; He wanted to redeem all of man.
In the New Testament, Matthew 8:17 says, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses."
Isaiah 53:4 was fulfilled during Jesus' ministry as He healed people physically.
Isaiah's prophecy looked ahead to when Jesus would purchase healing for our bodies.
Anyone who says sickness and pain are blessings from God doesn't understand His nature.
"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."
Matthew 8:17
Read Isaiah 53:4
In the Hebrew, it actually says, "Surely He has borne our sicknesses [our diseases], and carried our pains."
Griefs and sorrows are caused by sicknesses, diseases and pains.
Jesus took on Himself our pain and sickness because He loves us.
By faith we receive the divine healing and health that His sacrifice gives us.
Jesus didn't have any sicknesses, diseases or pains but we did.
We lived in this world under the curse of the Law.
Jesus bore it all for us.
He came as our substitute.
He chose to do it, He didn't have to.
We deserved the curse, but Jesus carried it away for us.
When Jesus bore our sins, sicknesses and pains, He didn't just help tote them along; He took them from us; He didn't have any of His own.
"Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."
Isaiah 53:4
'borne' means to lift up, bear away, convey or remove to a distance.
Both 'borne' and 'carried' imply substitution or bearing another's load.
If we want God's power revealed to us, then we must believe His report, His Word!
God reveals and demonstrates His power for those who believe His report, His Word.
The choice isn't God's, it's ours!
God loved us while we were yet sinners to the extent that He sent His own Son to die for us.
God loved us while we were yet sinners to the extent that He sent His only Son to die for us.
God is no respecter of persons.
He doesn't have favorite children.
What He does for one, He does for anyone.
He loves the whole world equally!
We are in covenant with Jehovah-Rapha, the God who heals us.
We live in divine health, if we continually believe Him.
The good news in James 1:17 says that God never changes.
If He was the Lord who healed His people then, He's the Lord who still heals His people now!
Even in the first covenant, there was a connection between hearing and healing.
God said, I am the Lord that healeth thee, not will or was!
God put a few conditions on His new covenant:
"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give ear to his commandments. . ."
The Hebrew says, "I am Jehovah Rapha"
Millions of Israelites left Egypt trusting God.
They went out with silver and gold, and the Bible
says there was not one feeble person among them in Psalm 105:37.
THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE
was God's first healing covenant with His people.
In the Hebrew it is premissive not causitive,,,God will allow, not put, diseases on thee, which He allowed, not put, upon the Egyptians. He finished by saying that He is the Lord that healeth thee.
We are children of Abraham.
We are loosed from every Satanic bondage.
We have the same rights and privileges as Abraham did, but we live under a new and better covenant, established on better promises including the promise that by Jesus' stripes we are healed.
Jesus is in the business of loosing people!
One of the promises of God is that we can be loosed from every bondage of the enemy!
Sickness and disease is bondage.
Sickness and disease comes from Satan.
Satan can keep us bound for years.
But Jesus said we can be loosed.
Any sickness or disease that attacks our bodies is a bondage.
No sickness is from God.
Jesus came to set us free from every sickness and every disease, so that we can accept our healing.
