When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. ( Isaiah 53:8-10)Ĭhrist was led to death, yet death could not hold His perfect, sinless body. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him He has put Him to grief. And they made His grave with the wicked- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. "The shepherd of Israel, and now of the whole world also" (Gregory of Nazianzus) became "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" ( John 1:29). For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. ( 2 Corinthians 5:20-21) This is the message Apostle Paul proclaims in 2 Corinthians: Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. The Lord, God the Father, delivered Him, God the Son, to die for our sins. By His bruise, we are saved from an eternity of suffering and estrangement from God.
#Bible by his stripes we are healed free
( Isaiah 53:5-7)Ĭhrist, who was free from sin, took our chastisement and gave us peace. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. All we like sheep have gone astray We have turned, every one, to his own way And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. "O marvel at the loving-kindness of the Word, that for our sakes He is dishonored, that we may be brought to honor." (Athanasius the Great) We are Healed by His Stripesīut He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. God became dishonored, for Christ assumed a true human nature. "He has no form or comeliness" relates to Christ as He sat upon the foal of an ass He was despised among the people and humbled Himself even unto death. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. ( Isaiah 53:1-4) 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. He has no form or comeliness And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
O Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground.
Let's go through the 53rd chapter of Isaiah and explore the meaning of its text in relation to Jesus Christ.
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