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When Jesus was in the Garden, and He sweat drops of water and blood, in such agony, was He
recoiling over being beaten with the Roman’s instrument and hung on a cross? If He was
responding like that, it’s said that some of His followers after Him acted with more bravery. I
know we don’t like to hear that, but we need to have our eyes opened. There was so much more
that He was considering—what was going to happen to Him in spirit. When that was happening
to His body, something else was happening in His spirit.
Isaiah 53:10 says, “Yet it pleased the L
ORD
,” to do what? “to bruise him.” Who bruised Him? By
His bruising, or we say “stripes,” we are healed. Was it the bruises the Romans put on Him? No.
Who bruised Him? This sounds strange: “It pleased the Lord.” How in the world could it please
the Lord to bruise Him? Because He who sees the end from the beginning could see your face
and mine, and He knew that His beloved Son would be strong and would do it and would rise
from the dead and would soon be at His right hand in glory. He could see your face, and He
could see mine.
Some might say, “He was bearing our sins.” He did, but not specifically in this verse. It said
earlier, “He was bearing our sicknesses and carrying our pains.” This has not been preached. It’s
been mentioned, alluded to, and touched on quickly. This is Bible, and it’s true, and He did it for
you.
“It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; he hath put him to grief.” If you’re paying close attention,
you see it’s the same word “grief” that the translators had a fainting heart over and wouldn’t
include. It is the Hebrew word for “sickness.” He has put Him to sickness. Don’t take my word
for it; look it up.
The Young’s Literal Translation says, “Jehovah has delighted to bruise Him. He has made Him
sick.”
The Jewish Publication Society Version says, “It pleased the Lord to crush Him by disease.”
The J. B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible says, “He has laid on Him sickness.”
Who did it? I’m not trying to minimize this now. Being beaten and being nailed to a cross was
awful, but that was not the half of what happened to Him. That was the small part of what
happened to Him. What made Him sweat drops of blood in the Garden? What made Him pray
and say, “If there’s any way, Father, let this cup pass from Me,” and then bring Himself back to
it and say, “Nevertheless, not My will”?
You understand that Jesus is not weak. Jesus is strong, and He’s looking at this and shaking His
head. He’s crying. He fell on the ground from being overcome with the pressure of it. Why?
Because He’s going to hang on that cross in a few hours, and all of the ugly, terrible, evil iniquity
and sin of every man from Adam to the last man that’s going be born and live on the earth is
going to converge on His sinless, spotless, spirit, and He’s not just going to empathize with it,
He’s going to become it. When He becomes this, God is going to turn away His face from Him,
and He’s going to be separated from the Father. Why do you think He cried out, “My God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me?” The full brunt of God’s judgment is going to come on Him.