![]() ![]() Death and blood were the payment for the human tendency to gravitate toward rebellion towards God, with whom the Jews had made a covenant.īut Isaiah gives more than a hint that the whole system was a placeholder for the ultimate sacrifice, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Not only did they have to sacrifice a perfect animal, but there were also myriad instructions for sprinkling blood on altars and priests. God saw to it that the fact was extremely clear. The Jews were well aware that “the wages of sin is death” (Gen 2:17). The Jews had a whole system of sacrifices and offerings for the forgiveness of sin and the restoration of the sinner back into the community and into holiness. This is a statement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the most profound and prescient prophets of the coming Messiah, Isaiah, foretold seven-hundred years prior the life of Christ what would happen and what kind of suffering servant he would be subject to when he did come. One day, I’m looking forward to seeing my friend and his wife, healed, restored, redeemed, forgiven-by the stripes of Jesus.“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Explanation and Commentary of Isaiah 53:5 All of this is summed up in the words by his stripes-it’s those five bleeding wounds Jesus received on Calvary that give us such hope.Īnd because we have received Jesus’ stripes as our own, we have reason to be hopeful, to have the earnest expectation that we are being and shall be healed. He took upon Himself the iniquity of us all. He received the chastisement that brought us peace. He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was our substitute, our replacement, who stood in our place and bore our punishment. How will this happen? How is it possible to have this confidence? We can have such confidence because Jesus was wounded for us: by his stripes-by his wounds-we are healed. Our spiritually renewed inner person shall be reunited with our restored outer person every tear shall be wiped away, every pain removed, all our physical ability restored-never to be wasted away again. ![]() That bodily healing will come in the last day and is guaranteed to us: “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Cor. We are healed in the inner person as we are transformed into the image of Christ.Įven more, this spiritual healing will involve not only our inner person, but our outer person as well-because our spiritual healing demands resurrection. By his wounds you have been healed.” The healing that God grants us through Jesus is one that involves a cleansing from our sin and living unto righteousness. That’s how the Apostle Peter uses the verse in 1 Peter 2:24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. It points us to a spiritual healing that comes by way of redemption. It wasn’t to be she died right before Memorial Day 2010, and he, too, went to be with the Lord eighteen months later.Īnd yet, there is a sense in which that text in Isaiah points us to healing. He had read some things on the Internet about that verse and so claimed it as a promise that his wife would be healed in this life through Jesus’ stripes. One of the texts to which he clung and with which he wrestled was Isaiah 53:5: “By his stripes, we are healed” (NKJV). I came to know him in that context as he wrestled for fourteen months with his wife’s condition, with his desire for her healing, and with God’s purposes in his life. Right before I was called to our congregation, his wife had a massive stroke. He was a business leader in our community, heavily involved with our local university and its athletic teams. ![]()
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