Thursday, September 03, 2020

And with His Stripes




By His Stripes We Are Healed – Perfect Chaos

Wounded for our transgressions
Bruised for our iniquities,
The chastisement of our peace was upon him
And with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

Healing of the physical
There is no doubt
But when dealing with this verse
We must count this out.

Transgressions and Iniquities
Speak to the spiritual,
And the chastisement of our peace
Does not mean the physical.

Of what are we healed?
Of transgressions and iniquities:
The wounds of one man
Is the healing of humanity.

He was wounded, he was bruised,
The chastisement of our peace was upon him,
It is with his stripes that we are healed:
The remedy for humanity’s sin.

When we check out the tense
Thrice the author uses “was”,
But notes he switches to “are”
To point out what is the goods.

The goods here is the healing
That is both past and present,
A continuing reality
For the saved and the penitent.

Jesus: The Way, The Truth, & The Life: John 19:1-4 - Jesus identifis with  human sin as the Servant of the Lord

Those stripes were indicative
Of the skin stripped from Christ’s back,
It’s with those stripes that we are healed
And the new birth becomes fact.

Healed of sin’s dominance
As expressed in our walk in the Spirit,
Where once the children of disobedience
Now, obedience is our habit.

It was not for his sins
Jesus was punished on the cross
But for our transgressions and iniquities
As all humanity was lost.

Some use this verse
To source a miracle of healing
But for such we must look elsewhere,
It’s to the spiritual this verse is appealing.

With one man’s wounds
All the nations are healed
Of their transgressions and iniquities
When to Jesus they appeal.

By confession and repentance
Regarding their sin,
On the acceptance of Jesus
Spiritual healing is wrought within.

Healing in His Wings
That beautiful hymn by Mary J. Nichols
Aptly expresses the healing therein
As the healing that is spiritual.

Regarding healing of the body,
In this life, that is only temporal,
But in Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 5,
The healing here is eternal.

Stewart Russell © April 2020

Then by Charles Wesley
“Five bleeding wounds, he bears,
Received at Calvary,
They pour effectual prayers
They strongly plead for me.
Forgive him, O forgive, they cry,
Nor let that ransomed sinner die.”

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