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Healing is Paid For!
"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"
(Isa. 53:5).
The blood of Jesus Christ has
purchased our freedom. Yes, He purchased our freedom—spirit, soul, and body.
When we read chapter 53 of Isaiah, we can clearly see this truth exposed. In
verse 4 we read: "Surely He (Jesus) has borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted."
The Hebrew word for "grief" here is "choliy." This word
actually means anxiety, calamity, disease, or sickness. It is derived from a
root word "chalah" which means to be weak, sick or afflicted.
When we see this word translated "grief" in the King James Version of
the Bible we can see that it includes a whole lot more than just grieving.
Now take a look at the word "sorrows." The Hebrew word for
"sorrows" is "makob." This word has in it the definitions of
anguish, poverty, affliction, and pain. It is derived from a root word "kaab"
which means to feel pain, to have pain, to make sad.
As we begin to dig into the Word of God we begin to uncover priceless treasures,
and life giving truth, that only His Word has to offer.
A more accurate translation then of Isaiah 53:4 would be: "Surely He has
borne our anxieties and sicknesses, and carried our anguish, and pain."
Praise God! Do you know what this means? Jesus bore our anxieties and
sicknesses, so we wouldn't have to bare them. He also carried our mental anguish
and pain away so we wouldn't have to endure them as well.
To fully understand this, we need to look at two other words in this passage of
scripture.
The first is the word "borne." The Hebrew word for "borne"
is "nasa" which means to bear in a sense of suffering punishment for
something.
In Leviticus 5:1 we see it written: "And if a soul sin...then he shall bear
(nasa) the punishment for his iniquity." This means Jesus became our
substitute. He bore the punishment of sickness in our stead.
This same Hebrew word, "nasa" is used in Hebrew 53:12, "and He
was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare (nasa) the sin of many, and
made intercession for the transgressors."
How did Jesus bare our sins? He did it vicariously, as our substitute. No one
argues with that fact that we needed a divine intercessor for our sins. But I
want you to realize that Jesus also came and vicariously bore our sicknesses,
poverty, and pain the exact same way!
Yes it is true: Jesus Christ not only suffered emotionally, by being rejected,
but He shed His blood for our sin nature and for our physical bodies as well.
First Corinthians 6:19-20 makes it clear:
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
The word "bought" here
means "I buy or redeem." Christ has bought us wholly, making us His
property at the price of His shed blood. The work of the cross was complete.
Nothing was left undone. He has purchased our freedom, from spiritual death,
physical sickness, mental illness, and material lack.
Galatians 3:13 says,
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree."
The word "redeemed" here
is actually a stronger word than bought, and it actually means to purchase out
or redeem away from.
You Are Free
In Deuteronomy 28, you will see everything that the curse of the law has to
offer. Sickness, poverty, and lack are all included in the curse. And we have
been purchased out and away from it all.
I want to boldly proclaim something to you today: that Christ has purchased you
out of, and away from, the curse of sickness in all its forms. Glory to God! You
have been set free; your healing is paid for.
Now when the devil tries to imprison you with sickness, poverty, pain, or any
other curse that is in the law, just remind him, and yourself, that Jesus has
already paid for your freedom!
You don't have to get entangled again into that bondage, FOR YOU ARE FREE!
By
Rory Synoground