Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Jesus, the Lamb of God, assumed the position of the Passover Lamb right on time and in every way prophesied by Isaiah. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says, “The weight of sin upon Jesus broke down His physical body that we might be healed.” (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
Habbakuk 2:20 The LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Yes, the Gospel was given in Isaiah 53. The Apostle Paul confirms it, “But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord who hath believed our report?” (Romans 10:16) Isaiah had already said, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?” (Isaiah 53:1)
The arm of the Lord is manifested by miracles, according to Exodus 6:6; Exodus 15:16; Deuteronomy 4:34 and 5:15. Remember that the Israelites were brought out of Egypt by a mighty miraculous hand. Jesus, then, could only come on the scene as a miracle worker: healing all manner of diseases, raising the dead back to life, and freeing victims from the possession of demons.
Isaiah said that the Messiah would grow up as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground and that He would have no desirable beauty (Isaiah 53:2). By worldly standards, Jesus was uneducated. He had no degree. He was from the ghetto of Nazareth. He was of the lower class and poor. He was the son of a simple carpenter. (Read John 7:15; John 1:46; Matthew 13:55; and Luke 1:48.)
Isaiah said that the Savior would be “despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3). It is no secret that the religious leaders of the day, the very ones who should have recognized Him best, sought every opportunity to lay hands on Him and have Him killed. They even convinced one of His own disciples to betray Him into their hands. And he did it with a kiss. (Read Matthew 26:16 and 59; Mark 14:45-46; John 10:39; and Luke 22:2.)
Then everyone forsook Him and fled, according to Mark 14:50, just as Isaiah had said. “We hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (Isaiah 53:3). When the benefactors of His healing grace and power had the one opportunity to spare His life, they allowed themselves to be persuaded otherwise by the chief priests and elders. (Read Matthew 27:20-23.) They only had the nerve to cry out, “Crucify him” (Mark 15:13). After that, the Romans took Jesus, stripped Him, whipped Him, mocked Him, spat on Him, and crucified Him. (Read Matthew 27:26-35.)
For Health’s Sake…
Before Jesus ever got to Golgotha, where He was crucified, He began to die. In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus began to be “exceeding sorrowful, even unto death” (Matthew 26:36-38). “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). Jesus sweated great drops of blood.
The tremendous weight of the world’s sin caused Jesus to begin losing blood in Gethsemane, before He ever got to the cross of Calvary. Sin had smitten Him with sickness. He was physically wounded. He was bruised. Matthew said that this was to be according to the prophecy: “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17).
Isaiah had said “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5).
Jesus was perfect in all His ways. Even Pilate said “to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man” (Luke 23:4). He was unblemished, as required of the Passover Lamb that was slain for the sins of the people.
Isaiah 53:6-7 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death” (Revelation 2:11). When we accept Jesus as our Savior, the Messiah, our Passover Lamb, the eternal second death passes over us. With His stripes truly, we are healed.