Jesus was beaten for your wholeness.

August 5th, 2020
by Don Richey

…and by his stripes we ARE healed. Isaiah 53:5
…by whose stripes ye WERE healed. 1 Peter 2:24

If you study Roman law, you will find out that a criminal was either scourged for a lesser crime and then set free or crucified straightaway if guilty of a greater crime. But it’s important to know that Jesus was both scourged and crucified.

Pontius Pilate had hoped that after scouring Jesus and presenting His bloodied body to the people, they would be satisfied and willing to let Him go. But the people were not, and they demanded that He be crucified. But know for sure that the people did not have the power to inflict such pain and suffering on Jesus. It was all part of God’s plan and the scouring was necessary for only by His stripes are we healed.

Also, after study of the whip the Romans used for beating, you find out is was made of a leather strap embedded with glass, bone and metal hooks. With just one motion, the whip would have been wrapped around Jesus’ body, causing the glass, bones and hooks to cut deep into His flesh. And as the whip was pulled back, the hooks would have stripped His flesh off, exposing muscle and bone. We’re told in Psalm 22:16-17 that “They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me”. Also, in Psalm 129:3, we’re told “The plowers plowed on My back; they made their furrows long”.

We also know that it was only lawful to whip someone with 39 stripes. But I would imagine Jesus was whipped more than that because the Romans had no desire to regard Jewish law.

But we know from scripture that His back would have been reduced to a mass of bloody, mutilated flesh. That day, Jesus’ blood flowed freely from His body for your deliverance from every kind of disease and physical affliction. God allowed every one of those stripes to fall on His Son’s body so that your body need not be scourged with diseases.

Friends, if your sick and suffering from some physical condition, know for sure that Jesus took the scouring as full payment for you to be free of that condition. He bore those stripes so that, today, there is no sickness, no disease left for you to bear. Praise God, BY HIS STRIPES YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.