Are You Sick & in Pain? – Part 2

Have hope! Your healing is done and paid for already!

Apr 24, 2024

The title states that your healing is done and paid for. Let’s find out how the Lord Jesus paid for it. While the Lord was still on the cross, right before He died, He said, “It is finished.” (Joh 19:30). Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane and first taken to the high priest, where he was beaten and mocked by the guards, and later to Pontius Pilate. According to Pilates orders, the Roman soldiers then scourged Him and put a crown of thorns on His head. This was not the customary forty-less-one lashing of the Jewish people, but real scourging with a Roman flagellum that tore His flesh off the bones, making bloody stripes on His back. He suffered this for us even before beginning his journey to Golgotha carrying the cross. Finally, He was crucified on the cross, and there He died, finishing the work of redemption that the Father had given Him. (Joh 4:34).

All that He did that day and finished was spoken by the prophet Isaiah more than six hundred years before He was born. Isaiah had prophesied and 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.” (Isa 53:4-5).

photo of brown wooden cross at cliff — “It is finished.” (Joh 19:30).

Most of us have already seen the dramatization of the final hours of Christ, leading up to His crucifixion, in the movie “The Passion of the Christ.” It was not an easy one to watch. However, according to the Scripture, what they really did to the Lord must have been worse, for it says, “As many were astonished at thee: His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.” (Isa 52:14). I believe, by the time they were done with Him, he was like a piece of meat, so bloodied and bruised that he could not even be recognized. Jesus, the Son of God, did all this for us—to cleanse us from our sins and to break the power of sin, satan and death. But, with the scourging He received on our behalf, according to the Scriptures, He has healed us.

This is not just an Old Testament truth, but something that is quoted twice in the New Testament by men who walked with Jesus as His disciples and who were a part of all that he did. The following Scripture is not only a look back at the prophecy of Isaiah, which we saw earlier, but it is also a confirmation of the works that Jesus did and why. “When the even was come, they brought unto Him many that were possessed with devils: and He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esias the prophet, saying, Himself took out infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” (Mat 8:16-17). These words were recorded by Matthew, one of the disciples of Jesus, an eyewitness to much of what the Lord did.

Peter in His first epistle said, “Who when He was reviled, reviled not again: when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously: who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes we are healed.” (1Pet 2:23-24). Here again, the two or three witnesses principle applies, for I have given you two witnesses from the Scriptures to prove that by the stripes that Jesus took on His body, we are healed. This is God’s provision for our healing in His word through His Son, who was the word of God manifested in the flesh. (Joh 1:14). The real question we should ask ourselves is, “Do we truly believe this?” Every promise of God is yes and amen in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 1:20), but we have to appropriate the promises by believing in them and then walking them out in Christ because He has finished all that was needed to be done for us to do it.

What is the basis for this teaching? Is it just a bunch of theory that I have learned from the Scriptures and put together from different books/teachers? Let me answer these questions as briefly as possible. Of course, it is the Scriptures! Yes! Books and other teachers have also played very important roles. But, no, it is not just a bunch of theory or stuff I have heard from various sources. These are things I have experienced first-hand and live by, and therefore the basis for this teaching is the revelation that all that the Lord has spoken and done is true and is true today just as it was during His time.

During the 2014–15 season, I used to experience severe lower back pain due to an injury that I had suffered many years before. My back condition had a sciatic component that made my right leg numb and painful, and it was progressively getting worse. I never went to the doctor or received treatment for it. The Lord gave me the faith to believe in Him for my healing. So, I plodded through the pain and discomfort in faith for about two years and hardly ever shared this with anyone except a few who I trusted for prayer. This was the season when I became a believer in Christ. Being a new believer, I didn’t know much about healing from the Scriptures. (For the sake of brevity, I am not going into much detail.) But I just trusted the Lord to heal me by His grace. In March 2016 the Lord healed me from that condition and restored me completely, and that was my first personal healing experience.

However, even before I had received my own healing, I had been praying for others and seeing impressive results. To summarize, in these last eight to nine years, I have seen many healings and miracles firsthand. It is not our goodness or greatness or ability but the grace of God and our faith in His name that reveals His glory through healings and miracles and deliverances.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and for ever.” (Heb 13:8).

All praise, honor, and glory to Him alone. This teaching about divine healing is not an exhaustive one. But however weak it may be due to my limited knowledge and experience, it is still the result of the truth of the Scriptures made real by the power of the resurrected One, Jesus of Nazareth by His Spirit.

To be continued…

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