In part two of the series, Sharon Knotts takes us through Isaiah 53 and the undeniable link between Christ’s suffering and our healing. With insightful interpretations of the original Hebrew and New Testament confirmations, this episode unveils the physical dimensions of healing promised through scripture. Sharon encourages listeners to embrace the fullness of God’s healing covenant, challenging misconceptions and highlighting the all-encompassing nature of Christ’s sacrifice for our wellness.
Greetings, friends and new listeners, and welcome to The Sound of Faith. I’m Sharon Knotts, thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today’s message is part two of the three-part message, Why God Wants You Healed. The most stunning Old Testament messianic prophecy, Isaiah 53, describes the horrendous suffering Jesus endured at Pilate’s whipping post before he went to the cross. And every drop of blood that spurted from the deep wounds of his back was for our healing. In part two, the whipping post. You have to know how much God loves you in order for you to receive all the blessings he has for you. If you don’t know how much God loves you, that lion devil will come and say, well, it’s not for you. But you have to know how much God loves you and he’s a good, good father. Amen. It’s good to be in the house of the Lord this morning. Amen. Hallelujah. The last time I ministered, I ministered on why God wants you healed. And we began with Psalm 103. So just as a refresher, we’re going to look quickly at Psalm 103, the verses that we began with last time. Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his. benefits and then we got what they are who forgives all our iniquities heals all our diseases redeems our life from destruction crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercies I tell you that is a mouthful I could spend 20 minutes on just that who satisfies your mouth with good things so your youth is renewed like the eagles and I call these the beneficent bundle Amen. In other words, it’s a package deal. When you receive salvation, the atonement of Christ, you get it all. Amen. And we saw especially that salvation and healing are inseparable. Amen. It is God’s will for everyone to be saved. How many believe that? I ministered on that a few weeks back. It’s God’s will to save everyone. And it is also God’s will for all of his children to be healed. Because we come under the healing covenant. And we talked about this Exodus 15, 26. When God brought them out of Egypt into the wilderness. And he told them, if you will obey me, if you will walk with me, if you will take heed to the things I tell you, then I’m going to remove sickness and disease from the midst of you. I’m not going to let come on you the diseases that come on the ungodly because I make a covenant with you. And that is, I am the Lord that heals thee. I am the Lord your healer. Amen. Now, some people might suggest or even object and say, but Sister Sharon, that’s talking about the Jewish people. That was their covenant that he made with them. But you know, Galatians 3.29, Apostle Paul tells us, if you be Christ. Anybody here? If you be Christ, then are you Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. And he said in 1 Corinthians 1.21. And all the promises. All are yea or yes and amen in Christ. So just go looking through the Bible and get all of them. Amen. Because they all belong to us. And so we asked the question last time, is it God’s will to heal everyone? And is it God’s will to heal every sickness, every infirmity, every disease? Amen. And what we did is we looked at the ministry of Jesus. And we saw that he came as the expressed image of the Father. And we saw, we read all the verses in John where Jesus said, everything I do, I saw my Father do. Amen. And everything I say, I heard my father say. I do nothing of myself. My doctrine’s not mine. Nothing I do or say is mine. And all I saw and heard my father. So knowing that, we decided, well, let’s see what you said and did. And when we went through the gospels, we saw that Jesus healed the sick all. All the time. Every time he healed them all. We read the verses. Even if it was a multitude of people. It said he healed them all. He never turned anyone away. For healing. In fact he kind of like. Stepped over into the future. Into the next dispensation. When the cross would be in effect. And when two Gentiles came to him. And asked for healing. He didn’t say no. He healed them. Amen? And we discovered all of that the last time that we ministered. And we kept in mind that all of those healings and miracles that we looked at all occurred before the cross. Amen? We just looked at it as Jesus being the son of righteousness with healing in his wings, as was prophesied in Malachi 4.2. And we looked at everything that occurred before the cross. And because of that, while we were still in the Old Testament, I purposefully skipped over what is probably the greatest messianic prophecy in the Old Testament. And then in the book of Isaiah, who he has many messianic prophecies. And we skipped over the one that is the most important. Isaiah 53. Why? Because what Isaiah prophesied will take place on the cross. And that’s where we’re going to go now. Isaiah 53. And we will focus on the healing verses. If I preach the whole chapter, all 12 verses, it would take much longer. So we’re going to stick with the healing because that is what we’re preaching about. Isaiah 53 and verse 1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. And he has no form or comeliness. And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. In other words, he was an ordinary looking man. He didn’t look like some Hollywood star that would make people want to follow him. He just looked like any other ordinary Jewish man. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs. Surely he has carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. In other words, the Jewish people rejected him and they said he was being crucified for his own sins. You’re getting what you deserve. You’re a blasphemer. And you’re getting what you deserve. And God is judging you. That’s how they saw it. But… The prophet said, but. Oh, what a big but there. But I want you to know he was wounded for your transgressions. He was a pure lamb. He had no sin. He was wounded for your transgressions. He was bruised for your iniquities. The chastisement of your peace was upon him. And with his strikes, we are healed. You see, I find it intriguing that Isaiah started off with the question, who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And the arm of the Lord was just a figure of speech that was a messianic title. And so he was saying, who believes the report? Who will believe that this is the Messiah? And then he goes on to say, they’re not going to believe that he’s Messiah. They’re going to reject him. Amen? We are aware of that. And so because of that, this beautiful, powerful, prophetic word has been rejected. Okay, first of all, the Jewish people have rejected him as their Messiah. Do you know that most Jewish people do not even know that Isaiah 53 exists? No. Because in the synagogues, they never read it. They skip from 52 to 54. And they don’t read 53. Hmm, that should tell you something. I mean, that speaks volumes, amen? And then, if you were to go in a private meeting with, you’d have to go in a private meeting to discuss it, because they’re not going to do it in synagogue. And the rabbi would tell you all the reasons why it could not be Jesus. which we won’t go into maybe another time, I will, but not today, because we’re sticking with our healing message. So I want you to see that they rejected it, and we’re shaking our heads like, it’s unbelievable, because look how it described the crucifixion. And if we took it apart, I mean, I’d take you in the New Testament and show you every verse, boom, boom, boom. And we’ll do that another time. But then I have to say to myself, well… There’s another group of people that have rejected, in a way, part of this. And I’m talking about the Gentile Christians. What do you mean, Sister Sharon? What I mean is there are some who have taken the part on healing and they have spiritualized it. They said it doesn’t mean physical healing. It means mental healing. It means emotional healing. It means spiritual healing. But it doesn’t mean physical healing. How many are aware that there are some denominations that preach that? And because of that, their sick people never really go to God thinking, I am healed. Instead, they pray that prayer you should never pray. If it be your will. God, if it be your will, please heal Sister Susie. If it be your will, please heal my brother. It’s God’s will to heal. And what we see here proves it. Amen. I wanted you to look at what we read in verse 4. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Unfortunately, when they translated the Hebrew scriptures into the English language, they used words that really don’t sound like we think of. And I want to give you the Hebrew words. I won’t load you down with them, but these are important. The first one, what is the Hebrew word for grief? It’s Koli. Say Koli. Koli. And what does Koli mean in the Hebrew? If you look it up in a Hebrew concordance, you will see that it means sickness and disease. If you’re wondering what is that, that is the blue Bible app I keep telling you to look up. It does so many things that I’m still learning it, and I’ve had it for several years. It does everything you can imagine. I just discovered something new it did the other day. But just get started to look up a word. So it means, Koli means sickness and disease. So when you read the grief here, I’m thinking of somebody who’s really upset and sad. No? It means sickness. It means disease. And what is the word sorrows in the Hebrew language? It’s macabre. Say ma. Macabre. Macabre. And what does it mean? It’s the worst four-letter word in the language that we speak. You say, what is that? P-A-I-N. It means pain. That’s what macabre means, pain. So let’s read the scripture. You’ll see that they both refer to physical sickness and physical pain. Even though many theologians try to make it all mental, spiritual, emotional. But when we read it the way it is written in the Hebrew, it says, Surely he has carried our sickness and disease. And surely he has carried our pain. Amen. So we see this is what we’re talking about here. We are talking about physical healing. Physical healing for sickness and disease. When God gave them the healing covenant, when he brought them out of Egypt, the scripture says that when they came out, there was not one people, one amongst them. And you think a couple million people, there are going to be thousands of sick people. Especially knowing they were slaves. Especially knowing they were probably mistreated and didn’t have the greatest life and diet and health and all that. And just add to the fact that many of them were elderly. They didn’t leave the old people behind. Amen. They didn’t say everybody 50 and younger gets to go. So elderly people have conditions. Amen. The body starts wearing out and they have conditions. But there was no one hopping on a cane. There was no one walking with crutches. There was no one with a walker. There was no one in a wheelchair. He healed all of them. It was the greatest mass healing crusade ever in the history of humanity. At one time and one night. All they had to do was eat the lamb. All they had to do was eat the lamb. And he brought them all out, amen, and said, now I’m going to make this covenant with you, this healing covenant. And so it says in Psalm 107, 20, he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction. And we know in the new covenant, John 1, 14 says, and the word of God was made flesh and dwelt amongst us. Amen. He became flesh and blood. Why? So that he could be the lamb. The lamb. He had to be flesh and blood so he could be the lamb upon the cross that Isaiah is talking about. If we look at verse 5 here where we are in Isaiah 53. The Hebrew words can be where it says he was wounded for our transgressions. He was pierced for our transgressions. another synonym of that is he was wounded for our transgressions where it says he was bruised it could mean he was crushed it’s it’s a very heavy word he was crushed for our iniquities where it says chastised he was scourged he was beaten for our peace and where it says stripes he It can be, and by his wounds, we are healed. Now, the word healed. We are healed. This word is going to be familiar to you. I’m going to tell you what it is in Hebrew, and you’re going to say, oh, I know that one. I can speak a little Hebrew because that word is Rapha. By his stripes, by his wounds, we are healed. It’s the same exact word that we just quoted a moment ago in Exodus 15, 26. Jesus said, I am the Lord that heals thee. It’s the same word, Rapha. By his stripes, we are healed. We like to say Jehovah Rapha. We even sing that song, I am the Lord that healeth thee. And I sing it usually in the morning. I’ll sing it, I am the Lord that healeth thee. And where it says, I am the Lord, your healer. I say, you are Jehovah Rapha. Amen. And we know that what that word means. And we know that it means physical healing. Amen. So clearly, you know, that word Jehovah Rapha, it can mean to heal, to cure. And it is even used for doctor. So you are the Lord my doctor. You are the Lord my physician. Amen. I sing that too. You are the Lord my doctor. Amen. And sometimes I start naming the different kinds of doctors. Because how many know you got a doctor for this and a doctor for that? And you got more doctors than you know what to do with. Amen. The thing I like about him is he’s like that old song that we used to sing that I love to hear Shirley sing. He specializes. Amen. He’s a specialist. You got a problem with your heart? Well, he’s a heart doctor. You got problems with your kidneys? He’s a kidney doctor. You know, there’s a doctor for every specialty. Well, he specializes. He’s your specialist. Amen? Amen. So… I want you to see that we’re going to prove now going into the New Testament that Isaiah specifically meant and was talking about physical healing. So let’s go to Matthew chapter 8 verses 16 and 17. When the evening was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils. And he cast out the spirits with his word and he healed all. Somebody say all. He healed all that were sick. Now we know in the beginning it said they brought many. And so he healed all of the many. Like we preached last week. And here’s what I want you to see. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. So now we have it in the New Testament. We’re going to have it in Greek words. I’m not going to bother to give them to you because just suffice to say that he is now confirming that Isaiah 53, 4 and 5 refer to physical healing. Because now where it says griefs and sorrows, he comes right out and says infirmities and sicknesses. Right. So there’s no absolute, no argument, but that Isaiah 53, 4 and 5 refers to physical sickness, disease, infirmity, etc. Amen? That’s what Matthew says. And we saw, like we preached last week, healed all that were sick. Now, I will tell you, because I think you will like this one, the Greek word there for healed. Now, we’re in New Testament, which means we’re now in Greek instead of Hebrew. And the Greek word for healed in this verse is theropulo. Theropulo. And we bring it into the English as therapy and therapeutics. So we see that he’s talking about physical healing. Amen? And I’m not going to give you the Greek words, but the word for infirmity in Greek, if you look it up, it’s going to tell you bodily weakness, feebleness, and sickness. If you look up the word for sickness in Greek, it’s going to tell you sickness, disease, and infirmity. But wait, we got another confirmation in the New Testament. That in the mouths of two or three witnesses, let every word be established, saith the Lord. So let us turn to 1 Peter 2.24 and get a second confirmation that what Isaiah is saying is talking about physical healing of physical sickness, disease, weakness, and infirmity. And now we’re in 1 Peter 2.24. Who his own self, speaking of Jesus, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. That we being dead to sin should live under righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. How many see that? You were healed. And the Greek word there for healed, we’ve already said what it means. It means to cure, to heal, to make whole. And Peter is directly quoting from Isaiah 53 verse 5. It’s a direct quote. See, Isaiah was looking telescopically through time 700 years in advance to the cross. But now Peter is looking directly. the past back at the cross and that’s why he said you were healed now what what difference does it make in other words the Holy Spirit is speaking through Peter saying you were healed at Calvary you were healed at Calvary Just like we know that Jesus is never going to come back again and be crucified again for our sins. He did it once and for all. One time. He will never do it again. The work was done at Calvary. And in the same way, the price was paid for our healing on the cross. Amen. And so what he’s saying is you were healed at Calvary. When Jesus took the stripes on his back at the whipping post, he paid the price for our healing. And then he took that wounded back and they nailed it to the cross. And on the cross, he paid the price once and for all for our salvation and once and for all for our healing. Amen. And this proves that it’s God’s will to heal everyone. Just like it’s his will to save everyone. When Jesus took his last breath on that cross, John 19.30 says that Jesus said, It is finished. It is finished. And that meant the price was paid in full. Amen. The work was completed. The job was completed. There was nothing else for him to do. And that also, that was a financial term that actually meant paid in full. It’s like taking a rubber stamp on a bill and say paid in full. How many like it when you see those bills that say paid in full? Amen. How many have ever done that yourself? You know, that was the last time you’re paying on that credit card. And the last time that you’ll ever have to write that check out to that company and you say paid in full, well, that’s what Jesus did. On the cross, he said, it’s paid in full. Your salvation and your healing. Amen? So let’s talk about those stripes that Jesus took upon his back. I’m going to give you just a very quick medical look at it. I’m not going to be very deep on it, but I did get this from a medical, supposedly from a doctor. Well, first of all, let’s discuss this. The whip that they used on Jesus. That whip was made of leather. It wasn’t one big thick strap. It started off as one piece. But then they cut it so it was a whole bunch of pieces of leather. So that it was spread out. So you can imagine that when it was thrust forward. They all spread out. And that meant it covered a large area. And they had embedded in those leather straps. Lead and sharp pieces of bone. So that when that hit the back, it would dig into the skin and into the flesh. They would tie the hands of the victim. They would tie both hands together on a post above their head. And then it wasn’t one soldier that would whip them. It was two. One would stand on either side. So one would… Do the whip, lash, and when he would come back, the other one would come right on. When he would come back, the other one, it was just boom, boom, boom. How many understand the picture? So when the one soldier had whipped forward, and as he was taking his arm back, the other one that quick had whipped. So it was just, it was, oh, it was cruel. It was gruesome. It was horrendous. It was awful. Amen. Amen. And so when they first began to whip, it would bed into the skin and it would begin to rip the skin out. And how many know if you just barely cut yourself, it just bleeds and bleeds and bleeds. But imagine now that whip. And imagine it’s two men every other time doing this. And it’s spreading out those straps with the lead and with the bone. And it’s just ripping into the flesh. And because of it being like that, it meant that it not only hit the back, it also hit the shoulders. It hit the buttocks. It hit the top of the legs. And so at first it was just ripping skin. But as they continued then to go over top of the ripped skin, then it began to go down deeper into the subcutaneous tissues. And now capillaries are starting to bleed and the blood is starting to come out. But then they continue. And then it’s going even deeper than it begins now to get down into the muscles. And now arteries are being torn and blood is spurting out. Blood is now spurting out. And I’m telling you that we can’t even begin to think of what Jesus went through, what that was like. And finally, by the time they finished, the skin on the back was hanging in ribbons of mutilated, bloody flesh. And now they’re going to take him with that wounded, mutilated back and put him on a rugged cross and press that back into that wood, splintered and rugged. I don’t know if you’ve ever saw the passion of Christ. And some people think, oh, that’s over the top and oh, they overdid it. No, they didn’t. Isaiah 52 said that his body and his face were marred more than any man. They didn’t overdo it. What I just described to you lets you know how awful it was. And we’re not even describing the other things because I’m preaching healing. I’m not going into plucking out his beard, beating him with rods, putting thorns on his head. I’m not even talking about that. I’m just talking about his back. Amen? What he went through. And then they put the cross beam, because what they would do is they would make what they call the criminal. I’m going to call it the victim. And they would take the cross beam. Now, see, the cross was two pieces, this beam and then that beam. But in the beginning, they would just put the cross beam on the back of Christ. the victim and make them carry it to the place where they would be crucified. And I know we, we usually see it carrying the whole cross. Perhaps there were times they did that, but It doesn’t matter. Jesus was so beaten. He was so mutilated that he lost so much blood that when they put that cross beam on his back and said, now you got to go, he could not do it. He fell beneath it. That thing weighed like 30 or 40 pounds. On that mutilated back that was ripped open. His nerves were screaming. The blood was spurting. And he was so weak and had lost so much blood that he fell beneath the cross. And you know that they had to give someone else to carry it on to Calvary. I pause here because, you know, I know a little bit about pain. I know a little bit, a lot about back pain. I’m talking about spinal pain. And sometimes that my pain was so intense that I really could barely speak. All I could do is really just… Just weep and to cry. And tears just call upon Jesus and ask the Holy Spirit to help me. Amen? With groanings which cannot be uttered. It’s terrible. Back pain, nerve pain is terrible. I’m not talking about a backache. Everybody gets a backache. Everybody pulls a muscle and has a backache. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about screaming, throbbing nerve pain. That your whole body is just, everything is just focused on that pain. Amen? The muscles are knotted. The nerves are inflamed. The joints are radiating pain. But you know what? In the midst of that pain. The Lord showed me one day, and I really saw this for the first time, and I realized that what I was experiencing, even though it was horrendous to me, it was nothing. It was nothing. It was nothing compared to what Jesus suffered at that whipping post. And the first time I really realized that I sobbed and I sobbed and I sobbed when I realized what Jesus suffered at that whipping post. Amen. For our healing. Amen. And then the next thing that I realized that hit me was he didn’t have to do it. He had to go to the cross and die for my sins. But he didn’t have to suffer at Pilate’s whipping post. He did not have to suffer that. He didn’t have to do it. Amen? He chose to drink that cup of suffering so we could be healed. He chose to take our sickness, disease, and infirmities so that we could have healing. Amen? That’s why God wants you healed. Amen? I said, that’s why he wants us healed. The father was looking down and the angels of heaven were weeping when they saw that whip over and over again, ripped through the back of Jesus. Amen. So I come to realize that he didn’t have to. It was his choice. In the garden, he said, Father, you can find another way. You can let this cup of suffering pass from me. Because he knew what was coming. Up on the Mount of Transfiguration a week earlier, Elijah and Moses appeared unto him and told him. And then Gethsemane said, Father, we can find another way. Surely all things are possible for you. But then he said, nevertheless… Not my will, but thine be done. And he drank the cup of sufferings. Amen. And so it was his choice. Here’s a good verse for you. Isaiah 50 and verse 6. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. And I hid not my face from shame and spitting. This is Isaiah. And then in the Psalms, David wrote in Psalm 129 and verse 3. The plowers plowed upon my back and they made long the furrows. Can you get a mental picture of that? Can you get a mental picture? And you got to remember, this is old times, not modern times with tractors, but out there plowing the field, plowing that deep, deep rut so that they can plant seed. Amen. And he said, the plowers made deep the furrows in my back. He didn’t have to do it. The cross was enough. The cross was enough. But he chose to go to Pilate’s whipping post. I want to tell you about a saying amongst the Jewish people. And it is day anu. Day anu. What does it mean? It means it would have been enough. And so let’s look at it the way they would see it. When God rescued them out of Egypt and he spared them when the death angel came through, but they had the blood on the door of their homes and it passed over them and they didn’t lose one of their children. They didn’t lose one of their firstborn sons. They said, day I knew if all you did was spare our firstborn sons, it would have been enough. Amen. It would have been enough if that’s all you did. But then you brought us out. You brought us out. You delivered us. And we escaped Egypt. And we were on our way to the promised land. If that’s all you did, day I knew it would have been enough. But then Pharaoh and his armies came after us. And they were fast and furiously catching up to us. And there we were facing the Red Sea. And Pharaoh and his chariots were on the way. But you opened up the Red Sea and you took us over. And if that’s all you did, it would have been enough. Deion knew it would have been enough. And we got over on the other side. And that would have been enough. But all of a sudden, we heard the noise and we looked and we saw that Pharaoh and his chariots and his armies, there they were coming across the same path that you brought us over. And we knew that they were going to catch up to us again. But when they got halfway over… When they were in the middle of the passageway, you closed the Red Sea and you drowned them. And just like Moses said, you will never see them again. You will never see this enemy again. Amen? Dayan knew that would have been enough. But what did he do? A few days later, he began to rain manna down from heaven. And he fed them. And he brought water out of the rock. Amen. And they began their journey to the promised land. And you know, when I think about this word day, I knew it would have been enough. I think about Jesus going to that cross. And I think about all the things that I didn’t preach this morning. Because it’s another message. But when I thought about it. And I thought if that’s all you did Jesus. Was go to the cross. And have your hands pierced. And your feet pierced. And your side pierced. And your head pierced. If that’s all you had done. It would have been enough. But you went to Pilate’s whipping post. But you went to Pilate’s whipping post. Amen. And you suffered there that we could have healing. Amen. Before they pierced his hands. Before they pierced his feet. Before they did any of that. He suffered. At Pilate’s whipping post. We’re going to go back to Isaiah 53 and we’re going to read one last verse. And that’s verse 10. Isaiah 53 10. I want you to see this in closing. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grief. First, let me point out that the word grief there is that same word koli that we read earlier in verse 4. That means sickness. So let’s read it the right way. He has made him sick. He has made him sick. It pleased the Lord to put him to grief, to make him sick. To put all our sicknesses on him. What I want you to see is God is the one who made Jesus sick. Do you see that? God was the one who made him sick. God is the one who sent him to the whipping post. God is the one that allowed him to undergo that horrible beating. Jesus was not a victim of the devil. This wasn’t Satan’s triumph. Amen? And it surely was no political power’s triumph. It wasn’t Romans doing. It wasn’t even the Jewish leaders and religious ones who sent him there. It wasn’t their doing. I want you to know that this was something that pleased the father. How could it please the father to put his son through this terrible thing? Because he knew. That in the suffering of his son, in his brutal beating at that whipping post, he knew that we would have healing. We would have healing. And that’s why you should never pray if it be God’s will. Amen. Heal me. If it be your will, Lord, heal me. If it be your will, heal my daughter, my son, or whomever it might be. Amen. God proved that it was his will for you to be healed when he let Jesus go to Pilate’s whipping post and suffer all those things. Amen. Jesus bled in seven places. You may know this, but it all began in Gethsemane when his blood began to fall with drops of blood. So much sorrow. He said, my soul is exceedingly sorrow even unto death. In Gethsemane. And then we know that blood flowed from the thorns that they pierced his head with. And then plucking out his beard and taking rods and beating him in the face. Till his face was marred more than any man’s. And then we know that he bled from his hands when they pierced them. He bled from his feet when they pierced him. He bled from his side when the Roman soldier pierced his side. And he bled from his back. All those other things were for our salvation. But when he bled from his back. It was for your healing. And it was for my healing. Amen. Amen. Amen. Can we stand this morning? The next time I have an opportunity that a minister. I’m going to continue in this vein. But I’m going to show you that all sickness. comes under the curse. And I’m going to show you that the cross is greater than the curse. Amen? What Jesus did on the cross is greater than the curse. Amen. Isaiah 53 describes in astonishing language the horrendous beating Jesus endured at the whipping post before he went to the cross. The blood loss was tremendous and every drop was for our healing. Written in Hebrew, griefs and sorrows means sickness and pain. And both Peter and Matthew in the New Testament verified this. Isaiah said it pleased the Lord to bruise him. The Hebrew literally says to make him sick. Why? He was bearing our sicknesses and by his stripes we are healed. Today’s message, The Whipping Post, is part two of Why God Wants You Healed and is available on a three CD album for a love gift of $20 or more for the radio ministry. Request SK226. Mail to soundoffaith, P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland. 21203, or go online to soundoffaith.org. But to order by mail, send your minimum love gift of $20 to P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203, request SK226. Till next time, this is Sharon Knott saying, Maranatha.
In part two of the series, Sharon Knotts takes us through Isaiah 53 and the undeniable link between Christ’s suffering and our healing. With insightful interpretations of the original Hebrew and New Testament confirmations, this episode unveils the physical dimensions of healing promised through scripture. Sharon encourages listeners to embrace the fullness of God’s healing covenant, challenging misconceptions and highlighting the all-encompassing nature of Christ’s sacrifice for our wellness.
