Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53:5:
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. |
![]() God does heal and God can heal, but He doesn’t always heal. What Jesus did on the cross is surely able to reverse the curse of sin, which includes sicknesses (Matthew 8:17). That is what Heaven is about. In the meantime, while we await ultimate deliverance (Romans 8:18-22), sickness will continue to be part of our experience. We rejoice that Isaiah 53:5 is a promise primarily for spiritual healing today. Isaiah 53:6 talks about how we have gone astray due to sin, and how Jesus takes up the punishment for our sins. First Peter 2:24, which cites Isaiah 53:5, is also about spiritual healing today. 9. How should I approach sickness today? a) Examine my life for any unconfessed sin. b) Pray for healing and wisdom, and confess known sins. c) Ask fellow believers or the church to pray for healing. d) Seek medical help. e) Rejoice that God is working out His sovereign will for good even if He chooses not to heal. f) Remain humble and teachable in the journey of sickness. -Gospel Light
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Isaiah 53:7-9 moves the prophecy forward and asks an interesting and mysterious rhetorical question, He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. 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 For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. (NASU)
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Isaiah 53:12:
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. |
Because he became a mediator, standing between we who deserved nothing but wrath and judgment, and the Holy God, against whom we have sinned. He made His own life our sin offering. His sinless life , perfectly pleasing to God, becomes our only plea for pardon and favor.
The cross itself, which fixed him between heaven and earth, is the ultimate intercession, the final and complete act of interposition. He put himself between sinful man, and the Holy God! He took upon himself our judgment, our guilt and the sorrows that accompany our rebellion! --Bill Randles |