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well thank you so much for joining me
once again we're going to continue our
chronological study through the new
testament right now we're in matthew
chapter eight and previously we were
looking uh dissecting i should say
matthew chapter 8 and verse number 17.
you might want to open your own bible
and see what it says for yourself there
i want to start today by reading that
one verse once again matthew 8 and verse
number 17.
this was to fulfill
what was spoken through isaiah the
prophet he himself took our infirmities
and carried away our diseases and
if we read the context we know of course
exactly what
matthew was writing about this was to
fill what
the people whom jesus just healed in
capernaum not to mention the fact that
he had healed a capernaum servant as he
came into capernaum
a a centurion servant as he came into
capernaum and healed a leper
right outside of capernaum a lot of
healing in this chapter up until this
point and so matthew
ever conscious of his jewish audience
his jewish readership wants to once
again show this is indeed the messiah
whom the old testament foretell foretold
us would be coming the messiah in isaiah
chapter 53 the most well-known messianic
chapter in the entire old testament
foretold that jesus would indeed be a
healing messiah he would be anointed to
heal as a matter of fact
and
we went back last time into isaiah
chapter 53 ourselves and read it there
and although it doesn't say it exactly
like matthew quotes it as we
you know delved into
the hebrew the original hebrew words we
saw that really
they ought to be translated in isaiah
chapter 53 and verse number four surely
our sicknesses or our illnesses he
himself bore
and our pains he carried
matthew translated it as he himself took
our infirmities and carried away our
diseases
now one more thing i want to say by way
of review and that is
was matthew claiming
that
jesus completely fulfilled isaiah's
prediction his prophecy and isaiah 53
verse number 4 did he fulfill it
completely and in total
that night there when he healed lots of
people in capernaum and we concluded the
answer has to be no of course not
if matthew did think that he was
mistaken but i don't think he did think
that and there's no evidence that he
thought that because when we go back to
isaiah chapter 53 we we see very clearly
the word hour over and over again and
it's a universal hour and there are
there are verses in the first
there are sentences rather in the first
couple of verses
of isaiah chapter 53 where all
theologians all biblical scholars all
evangelical christians believe that when
you see the word hour it's a universal
hour it refers to even our you know
ourselves
can we go back
and read isaiah chapter 53 and verse
number four surely our griefs should be
translated sickness he himself bore and
our there is again second time pains
he carried now it says sorrows what we
showed last time had be better
translated pains yet we ourselves
esteemed him stricken smitten of god and
afflicted now verse number five same
passage right
but he was pierced through for our
transgressions now when when isaiah
wrote that was he speaking just of the
people in capernaum who gathered at
peter's doorstep on one night in history
no
everyone knows he's referring to even my
transgressions jesus died for the sins
of everybody he gave his life as a
ransom for for all and he was crushed
now the second sentence he was crushed
for our iniquities
the chastening for our well-being fell
upon him so everyone agrees that the
hour and the three hours we've just read
in isaiah chapter 53 and verse 5 apply
universally to everybody so wouldn't the
same thing be true in verse number four
of course it would and then the last
phrase and by his scourging or by his
stripes
we are healed who are we
we are the same people as the our people
who you know that we've been reading
about
verse number six
all of us like sheep have gone astray
that's the we that's the hour each of us
has turned to his own way but the lord
has caused the iniquity of of us all to
fall upon him so i i'm bringing this up
because i just want to expand on the
idea a little bit uh in this broadcast
um
certainly the the body of christ those
who are true followers jesus are divided
on this issue so i know that you know
there's some controversy here there are
those
like myself who subscribed to
oh you know an understanding of isaiah
chapter 53 and verse number four that
there's some element of healing that it
that was contained in the atoning
sacrificial work of jesus christ by his
stripes we were healed it's not just
speaking of a spiritual healing from
sickness because it's within the context
of jesus
bearing our diseases carrying our
sicknesses you know taking our
pains just like he took
our sins in his body
okay and so
that's the reason i believe it is
because i think if we're just honest
with the scripture we have to believe
that there are those who say oh no no no
no you know
in the atoning work of jesus christ what
we've got there is uh
the remedy for sin but there's nothing
to do with sickness or disease well so
so how do you explain this well maybe
that's why in so many translations they
mistranslate isaiah 53 4 like the new
american standard and they say something
like surely our grief see himself poor
and our sorrows he carried because they
don't want to say what
the hebrew actually says sicknesses and
pains or as matthew who who you know
obviously believe that in isaiah 53
verse number 4 we find
healing of sickness and disease
and if they and if they resist that then
you've got to find some way to wiggle
out of it well it's very hard it's very
hard to wiggle out of this you have
matthew against you matthew translated
sickness and disease it's in isaiah
chapter 53
you know and matthew relates it to
people who are healed of physical
sickness and disease not just spiritual
sickness and disease okay you got it all
right so think about this make a
decision for yourself i think if you're
going to be honest you're going to have
to say wow isaiah is talking about
healing and it applies to our sicknesses
just like it applies to our sin
i'll see you next time
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