By His Wounds We Are Healed

Isaiah 53:1-9

Isaiah 53 is sometimes called the John 3:16 of the Old Testament. Nowhere in all of the Old Testament is it so plainly and fully prophesied, that Christ ought to suffer and then to enter into his glory, as in Isaiah chapter 53.

With love and passionate desire of the Father and Son, we were made to be (at-one-ment,) in a new covenant signed and delivered by Jesus’ suffering and the shedding of His blood.

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24).

We are continuously being healed from the disease of sin through the sacrifice of Jesus' obedience to suffering and death. “He made Him who knew no sin, to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Who welcomed Him into the city now, the streets where He carried His cross? They cursed Him and spat on Him as He walked by. They nailed a sign over His head -"This is Jesus, King of the Jews."

Something else was nailed to the cross that no human eye could see. All of our sins, past, present and future were nailed to that cross with Jesus forever, (All, even our secret and unseen sin.) 

“My sin - oh the bliss of this glorious thought, my sin not in part but the whole, is nailed to His cross and I bear it no more, praise the Lord, praise the Lord oh my soul!”  It is Well with My Soul:  Horatio C. Spafford - 1873