Christ Our Healer
Jesse M. Hendley
Isaiah 53
Let us turn now to Isaiah, the 53rd chapter. Today we are taking up Christ, Our Healer, and the passage is found in verse 5. "By His stripes we are healed." Those six words you will want to keep before you. Also you will want to keep in mind Exodus 15, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." And Psalm 103 "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities and who healeth all thy diseases." Psalm 107, "The Lord is good and His mercy endureth forever." It is good to meditate on these passages referring to divine healing.
I wonder if Isaiah 53 is not the most outstanding passage in the Old Testament when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. Someone has called this book "The Gospel of Isaiah" because it is so evangelical. It tells us about Jesus dying for us, just as the Gospels do. In the great heart of this Book is Isaiah 53. And in the heart of Isaiah 53 we have the core of all 66 chapters of the Bible. In the middle of this great chapter we read, "With His stripes we are healed." The reference is to Christ, our Healer.
You remember Acts, chapter 8, where the Ethiopian eunuch was riding along reading in the book of Isaiah. Phillip heard him reading and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And the eunuch said, "I don't know of whom he is speaking." Phillip then told him that the reference was to Jesus Christ. This great 53rd chapter of Isaiah presents a picture of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is not a more graphic picture of the crucifixion than this chapter or Psalm 22. "With His stripes we are healed." The word HEALED means to cure and to bring into well-being. Literally, "it has been healed to us." It means we have been pardoned and that there is healing to the body, soul and spirit.
Now this 53rd chapter of Isaiah is primarily Israel's FUTURE CONFESSION OF CHRIST. Isaiah is sneaking as in the future for Israel. "Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm o ...
Jesse M. Hendley
Isaiah 53
Let us turn now to Isaiah, the 53rd chapter. Today we are taking up Christ, Our Healer, and the passage is found in verse 5. "By His stripes we are healed." Those six words you will want to keep before you. Also you will want to keep in mind Exodus 15, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." And Psalm 103 "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities and who healeth all thy diseases." Psalm 107, "The Lord is good and His mercy endureth forever." It is good to meditate on these passages referring to divine healing.
I wonder if Isaiah 53 is not the most outstanding passage in the Old Testament when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. Someone has called this book "The Gospel of Isaiah" because it is so evangelical. It tells us about Jesus dying for us, just as the Gospels do. In the great heart of this Book is Isaiah 53. And in the heart of Isaiah 53 we have the core of all 66 chapters of the Bible. In the middle of this great chapter we read, "With His stripes we are healed." The reference is to Christ, our Healer.
You remember Acts, chapter 8, where the Ethiopian eunuch was riding along reading in the book of Isaiah. Phillip heard him reading and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And the eunuch said, "I don't know of whom he is speaking." Phillip then told him that the reference was to Jesus Christ. This great 53rd chapter of Isaiah presents a picture of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is not a more graphic picture of the crucifixion than this chapter or Psalm 22. "With His stripes we are healed." The word HEALED means to cure and to bring into well-being. Literally, "it has been healed to us." It means we have been pardoned and that there is healing to the body, soul and spirit.
Now this 53rd chapter of Isaiah is primarily Israel's FUTURE CONFESSION OF CHRIST. Isaiah is sneaking as in the future for Israel. "Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm o ...
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