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That’s why He was crying and sweating blood and falling. But before He went to the Cross,
there was something else. He was tied to the scourging post, His clothes were ripped off, and He
was beaten. He was beaten like a criminal who deserved to be beaten.
When Isaiah writes about it, he is not seeing Romans. Isaiah is seeing in the Spirit centuries
before it happened. What does it say that he saw? God is bruising Him. God is putting Him to
sickness. Oh friend, get this in your mind. The Romans, soldiers, or whoever it was, were hitting
Him and hitting Him, and when they were hitting Him, it was causing wounds, it was causing
bruises. But what you could not see is when God struck Him with the core. Some say, “For our
sins…” No, that’s not what it said. God struck Him with the spiritual root of every disease and
every sickness that mankind would ever know, so when the Romans were beating Him, from the
hand of the judgment of God this was coming on His spirit, on His soul.
You understand that you can take cancer cells and look at them under a microscope, and there’s a
life in them. There’s a spiritual mobility in them. What is keeping them alive? What is making
them grow? It’s spiritual. There’s a spiritual root, core, and cause of every disease. You can’t see
it with a microscope. God laid that on Him and beat Him with that when the Romans beat Him
physically.
Here’s the lie. The devil will say, “Well, yeah, God can heal, and He loves you and all that, but
you’ve messed up. You’ve missed God. You missed His plan for your life, and you messed up so
badly, and you failed so badly.” Exactly. That’s why He was beaten. To say I can’t be healed
because I’ve messed up doesn’t make sense, and yet it’s one of the favorite lines of the enemy.
“Well you messed up, you’ve come short, and you failed, so you don’t have a right.”
If you have messed up and deserve to be punished, including being broke and sick, that’s why
Jesus is there at the whipping post taking your beating for you, taking your sickness for you,
taking your disease, taking your spiritual beating for you—which is sickness and disease.
Can you see this? Don’t let this get away from you. Meditate upon this, talk about it, and think
about it until it gets built up in your spirit, because the revelation of this will heal you; it will heal
you right where you are, just like a man can be born again right where he is, just by believing the
Word. This is the same Bible.
This is the great exchange. This is the Good News. We need to major on this, not minor on it.
Isaiah 53:3 says, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of pains, and acquainted with
sickness.” If you don’t have that in your Bible, you ought to write it in there. I’ve given you
numerous reasons, and study it out for yourself, but write it in there, and write Matthew 8:17
right beside it.
“A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs,” our sicknesses, “and
carried our sorrows:” our pains, “yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.”
Who smote Him? God did. “But he was wounded for our transgressions,” not His, “he was