Healing Is a Part of Redemption
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So if He did buy and pay for healing in His work of redemption, to how many does redemption
belong? Some still say, “For some, it’s God’s will to be healed, and for some, it’s not.” Hold on.
If it’s true that He bought and paid for healing through the work of redemption, why couldn’t
you say that about other parts of redemption? Why couldn’t you just as equally say it’s God’s
will for some to be born again, and for some not to be born again? If He bought it, if He paid for
it, and if He accomplished it through substitutionary sacrifice, it belongs to whosoever will
believe, all the time, forever. Glory to God.
Beginning in Isaiah 53:1, it says, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
L
ORD
revealed?” The answer to the last is the answer to the first. To whom has the arm, the
power, of the L
ORD
been revealed? To the ones who believe the report. “For he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.”
All sorts of romantic notions about Jesus have been brought up and tossed around, and people
portray Him in His earthly life operating as the Son of God. But no. I know this may sound hard,
but do you believe the Scriptures? “There is no beauty that we should desire Him.” What does
that mean? Jesus met people on the street by the droves, and they didn’t look twice. He looked
very ordinary, very regular to the masses, and it got worse from there. Verse three says, “He is
despised and rejected of men,” and He was.
Now, a cross to us is honorable and holy. But in that day, it was not so. You see people all the
time with crosses hanging on their necklace or on a bracelet, but in that day it would be like
having an electric chair on your necklace, or a hypodermic needle that said “lethal.” I know some
people don’t like to hear that, but that’s what it was. It was the most gruesome death reserved for
the worst criminals. It is written in the Bible, “Cursed is one who hangs on a tree” (Galatians
3:13), and everyone assumed that if a man died that kind of death, he was cursed of God; he had
it coming, and he deserved it. That’s what the masses who knew about it believed.
When you read the scripture verses, you’ll see that some of the people were saying, “Well, He’s
a good Man,” and others were saying, “No, He’s deceiving the people,” and there were quite a
few people on the fence. But when He actually was hung on the cross, the masses said, “Well,
there it is. He’s cursed of God. He can’t be a good man. He’s the worst of criminal sorts.” I know
that’s hard for people to hear, but you need to hear it to see what happened. Verse 3 says that He
was despised and rejected of men. The previous verse says He wasn’t noticed. So He went from
being unnoticed to being despised and treated as the worst criminal.
Verse 3 continues the description, “…a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” It’s kind of
sad that the King James Version translates it this particular way because it’s building up to the
fourth and fifth verses, which deal with our healing. The word that is translated “grief” here is in
other places, in the same Bible, translated “sickness,” and the word that is translated “sorrows” is
in other places—in the same King James Bible— translated “pains.” Don’t take my word for it;
study it out for yourself.
The Young’s Literal Translation, which is a very highly-respected translation, says He was “a
man of pains, and acquainted with sickness.” “Surely our sicknesses He hath borne, And our
