Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Through His sacrifice on the cross, Jesus conquered sin and death. He won a victory which He now shares with you. The last part of that verse is equally true, “ by whose stripes you were healed.” We need a revelation of that truth so it becomes real to our hearts. Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree so you can live in His righteousness. When you grasp this reality, sin loses its grip on you. Jesus bore our sins in His body on the tree so that we, having died to sins, can live a righteous life before God. The apostle writes in 1 Peter 2:24 that Christ Himself…īore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-by whose stripes you were healed. He puts everything in the past tense because on God’s side of the ledger it has been done. Peter references this verse in his letter, looking back on Calvary, on the accomplished redemption. Verse 5 says,īut He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities he chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. Surely, He has.Ĭhrist put your sin to death on the cross, breaking its power over you.
And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.” When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. In fact, the Holy Spirit used Matthew to translate Isaiah 53:4. The Hebrew word translated as grief literally means sickness and disease. The word translated to sorrows here is translated elsewhere in the Scripture as physical pain. And that’s certainly good news for those whose souls have been beaten down by evil people, for those whose souls have been crushed by the calamities of life.īut there’s more than just soul suffering. When we think of griefs and sorrows, we generally think of emotional and mental suffering. “ Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But how was He acquainted? The next verse tells us. Isaiah says Jesus was a Man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. As He hung upon the cross and the sky turned dark, when our sin was laid upon Him, He cried out, “ My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” The Father with whom He had eternal fellowship turned His face away when Jesus identified with our sin. Christ was rejected by His own Father as He took our sin upon Himself. He was rejected by His own disciples.Īnd He faced the ultimate rejection. He was rejected by the brothers that He grew up with.
He was rejected by the nation from which He sprang. He was rejected by the world that He had created. Jesus was utterly rejected, but not just by men. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. There’s so much in that one chapter about what the Lord suffered on our behalf, what He went through in our place-as our substitute-and today I want to point out four vital things Isaiah 53 says Jesus did for you and me on the cross. In fact, Isaiah chapter 53 has been referred to as the great redemptive chapter of the Old Testament. Isaiah saw the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, and he prophesied about it in amazing detail. Seven hundred years before our Savior went to Calvary, God revealed what Jesus would endure and accomplish for us on the cross. I want to share something with you that I believe is truly amazing.
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