Is healing in the atonement?
Part ... I think this is part five.
Hi.
Welcome to today's little lesson, another special edition in the DR Congo in Central
Africa.
So happy that you've joined me.
We're considering this question about whether physical healing is included in the atoning
sacrifice of Christ one of the benefits provided by the death of Christ.
And if you missed the first four, of course, we've covered a lot of ground, and I can't
go back.
I'm not going to punish the people that watched those already.
So if this is your first one, you're probably making a mistake.
Find the other ones and watch those first.
Here's where we've come real briefly.
We've looked at a chapter in Isaiah, the 53rd Chapter.
Irrefutably agreed by all Christians that it's chock full of references to the atoning
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
"He himself bore our iniquities," Isaiah said in Isaiah Chapter 53:5.
"Our transgressions he carried and by his stripes we were healed."
And the verse above it, "Just as much as Jesus carried our transgressions and our iniquities,
he carried our sorrows and our griefs," Isaiah said, but we've proven beyond any shadow it
out that the better translation of those words that are translated sorrows and griefs in
many translations is sicknesses and pains because that's how the identical Hebrew words
are translated most times in the Old Testament.
And we don't have to even worry about that because in our last lesson we went to Matthew
Chapter 8:17 where Matthew quotes Isaiah Chapter 53:4 and he says, after Jesus healed a bunch
of people, he says, "This was to fulfill what Isaiah said," and now I'm going to read you
from Matthew 8:17.
"This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the Prophet.
He himself took our infirmities and carried away our diseases."
So Matthew believed that Jesus didn't just carry our sorrows and our griefs and our iniquities,
but Jesus carried our infirmities and our diseases.
And Matthew didn't believe that it was just our spiritual infirmities and spiritual diseases.
Because this quotation of Isaiah 53:4 is in the context of Jesus's physical healing ministry
in which he healed all who came to him.
And so here's what Matthew believed.
And if you believe the Bible, this is what you will believe.
If you don't believe the Bible, you will not believe what Matthew believed.
Matthew believed that Isaiah 53:4 is a reference to the fact that Jesus carried our, our infirmities
and diseases, and that was the basis on which Jesus healed all those people in Capernaum
on that night.
Some people will foolishly ... I just want to be gracious about this because I want to
say imbecilically ... say that Isaiah 53:4 was completely fulfilled and it was finished
in its fulfillment in that one night in Capernaum where Jesus healed a few people.
Now that's asinine.
Why don't you claim that when Jesus forgave the woman who was caught in adultery that
completely fulfilled Isaiah's promise that Jesus carried our iniquities?
It'd be just as foolish.
You see, every person who's ever been forgiven from Adam on, was forgiven on the basis of
Christ's death on the cross.
There's no other way.
And anyone who's ever been healed by God has been healed on the basis that Jesus carried
their sicknesses and their diseases in himself on the cross, just like he carried their iniquities.
Because you're not going to be forgiven except by the grace of God through the atoning sacrifice
of Christ.
And you're not going to be healed through the atonement that Christ provided through
his grace and through his great mercy on the cross.
And that's what Matthew believed.
And so when we read that verse in Isaiah 53:5 which says that Jesus bore our inequities
and carried our transgressions and so forth, and by his stripes we were healed.
Of course, so many theologians are so quick to say, "Oh, that's talking about our spiritual
sicknesses.
We're healed spiritually."
Well, how can you say that with a straight face?
How can you say that with a straight face?
I mean, just a couple of sentences before Isaiah said, "By his stripes we were healed,"
he said, "Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried our pains."
And Matthew quoted as infirmities and diseases.
Right after Jesus healed people.
We've made an irrefutable case here, and so to pervert the words of the Holy God spoken
through Isaiah and to say that, "By his stripes we were healed," is only a reference to spiritual
healing, how can you look at yourself in the mirror?
With that kind of deception that you're trying to pull the wool over peoples' eyes when the
Bible is so clear.
And when people read in First Peter Chapter 2:24 when Peter quotes from Isaiah 53:5, "By
his stripes we were healed," and then they say, "Peter must have been referring to spiritual
healing."
Oh my goodness.
Now, as I made reference to, I think in one of our early little lessons on this subject,
people say, "Well, this is dangerous because what you're saying is that everyone who is
a Christian will be healed."
Oh no.
Au contraire Monsieur.
I never said that.
Christians can and do get sick.
Absolutely.
Jesus said, "I was sick and you visited me."
James said, "Is any among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the church.
Let him pray over them.
Let him anoint him with oil.
The prayer of faith will restore."
So Christians can and do get sick.
Paul left Trophimus sick in Miletus.
Paul told Timothy, "Take a little wine.
Don't drink water exclusively.
Take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments."
And I can talk about that in depth.
So Christians do get sick.
Sickness is a reality.
Just because you get sick doesn't mean you're not a Christian, but your Bible is chock full
of examples that make it so plain and simple that even a child can understand it, that
a main component in healing is faith.
And people get mad about this.
Oh, they get so mad about this because they don't want to hear it.
"You're saying, I'm not healed because I don't have enough faith."
Actually, I wouldn't say that.
I might say sometimes we fail to receive healing because we don't have faith.
Because if you have faith like a mustard seed, the Lord Jesus Christ said you can move a
mountain.
So it's not a matter of how much faith you have.
It comes down to if you have faith, and very few of us have any faith for healing because
all the faith that we might've had has been robbed from us by these unbelieving preachers
who are always telling us why it might not be God's will for us to be healed and driving
us away from the word of God into people's experiences rather than the promises, the
clear promises of God.
God's a healing God.
Jesus never turned away anyone who came to him for healing.
Many times it says, "He was moved with compassion and he healed people."
Now there's much more to be said.
I think I'll say some more about this as we continue in this series just to try to answer
folks' questions.
But if you don't like it, don't watch it.
Stay sick, be miserable, don't have any faith, go on your life.
Enjoy forgiveness of sins.
But personally myself, if God's still in the healing business and I'm sick, I want to tap
into that.
And I'll bet there's many of you that are in that same category.
All right.
Hope to see you next time.
God bless you.