By His Stripes

1 PETER 2:24 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 ye were healed.

GALATIANS 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

HEALING IS NOW
1. Peter looked back to the scourging and the cross.
2. Paul looked back at the scourging and the cross.
3. Healing has already been purchased, past tense.
4. The first step to walking in divine healing and in redemption is to know that healing is already yours.
5. Faith begins where God’s will is known.
6. Healing must be settled in your heart, beyond a shadow of a doubt. You must know that it is yours before you can walk in it.

ISAIAH 53:1-12 THE GREAT REDEMPTIVE CHAPTER.

WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE
What you believe determines how you live and what you live with when it comes to sickness and disease.

All throughout the Word of God, we see what happens when people believe and when people do not believe.

  1. Believing says, “God can.”
    2. Doubt says, “Maybe God can and maybe God can’t.”
    3. Unbelief says, “God can’t.”
    4. In Numbers 13:32, unbelief is an evil report before the Lord.
    5. In Mark 6, Jesus could not do any mighty works because the people did not believe.
    6. Belief is a choice.
    7. In Mark 9:23, Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
    8. Jesus said that IF you can believe, ALL things are possible.
    9. Believing caused the impossible to be possible.
    10. Mark 10:46-52 – Blind Bartimaeus.
    11. Mark 5:25-34 – Woman with the issue of blood.
    12. Luke 5:17-39 – Paralyzed man.

THE ARM OF THE LORD
1. The Word of God talks about the hand of God coming on the prophets.
2. The Word of God talks about the finger of God.
3. In other places, the arm of the Lord is revealed.
4. John 12:37-41
5. Ephesians 1:19
6. Two questions are asked: #1 Whose report will you believe? #2 To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
7. The arm of the Lord is symbolic and representative of the manifested power of God.
8. The arm of the Lord is revealed to those who believe the report of the Lord.

THE CROSS
1. Death by crucifixion was for the worst of the worst, criminals, murderers, etc.
2. Isaiah 53:3 – They despised Him; soldiers spit in His face and mocked Him.
3. The cross was the worst reproach that there was, and this is how our Master died.
4. Place of extreme torture.
5. A place reserved for the lowest of the low.
6. Jesus was mutilated beyond recognition.
7. For six hours, Jesus hung on the cross.
8. Seven things He said on the cross.
9. “IT IS FINISHED,” was the last thing Jesus said.
10. The covenant that God made with Abraham is finished.
11. We have a new covenant; Jesus is the Mediator of the new covenant.
12. God has moved Himself from a temple made with human hands and has taken up residence in us.
13. 1 Corinthians 3:16

JESUS OUR SUBSTITUTE
Isaiah 53:3-5

  1. He was smitten of God; God placed our sin, punishment, judgement, sickness, and diseases on Jesus.

Notice the words used:
• Despised
• Rejected
• Man of sorrows (pains)
• Acquainted with griefs (sickness)
• Stricken
• Smitten
• Afflicted
• Wounded
• Transgressions
• Bruised
• Iniquities
• Chastisement

2. He was wounded for our transgressions, not His own.
3. He was bruised for our iniquities, not His own.
4. THE LORD LAID ON HIM THE JUDGEMENT AND PUNISHMENT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BORNE; WHAT 5. WE SHOULD HAVE BORNE CAME ON HIM.
5. He paid the price for us.
6. He bore our sin.
7. He bore our sicknesses and diseases.

BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED
1. The scourging.
2. Two Roman soldiers whipped Him.
3. Each stripe was Jesus taking our sicknesses and diseases.

HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH
1. He said nothing.
2. He could have opened His mouth and been delivered.
3. He said nothing because His purpose was to redeem mankind.
4. In Acts 22, Paul opened his mouth and was delivered.
5. Jesus could have opened His mouth and God would have delivered Him.
6. By His stripes, we are healed.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Psalms 127:3 KJV

Children come from God. They are created by Him as a blessing to us.

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 AMP

We are not evolved from amoeba of frogs or monkeys; we are created by Almighty God, male and female, in His image. He made the first man and woman and He placed in them the ability and desire to pro-create – to bring forth new life and more men and women, in the form of babies, who grow in the womb and are born into the earth. Mankind knows what to do to create (conceive) a baby, but it is God who guides the whole creative process and who forms the baby.

I made the earth and created man upon it. I, with My hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. Isaiah 45:12 AMP

For thus says the Lord — Who created the heavens, God Himself, Who formed the earth and made it, Who established it and did not create it to be a worthless waste; He formed it to be inhabited — I am the Lord, and there is no one else. Isaiah 45:18 AMP

God created the heavens and earth – not to be a worthless waste – but to be inhabited by His creation.

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself. Isaiah 44:24 NKJV

Thus says God the Lord — He Who created the heavens and stretched them forth, He Who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, He Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it. Isaiah 42:5 AMP

The God who made heaven and earth also made you and me. He formed us in the womb and He gives life – breath and spirit – to every one of us.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:13-16 KJV

For thou hast possessed my reins:

For You formed my inward parts. “Possessed”, here, does not mean to possess or control; it means to own; acquire; set up; erect – to fashion, or form, or to cause to grow together in the womb. “Reins” literally mean “kidneys” and figuratively, it means the mind or inner self. It is referring to the foundations of our existence as a person. It could even be referring to what we now know as DNA. God is the owner and creator of the blueprint that created you and me.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

The creation of a person, from conception to birth, from one cell to billions of cells, in a perfectly functioning creation, is an awe-inspiring process. Ecclesiastes 11:5 NKJV says that, “As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.” We are indeed wonderfully and marvelously created by our Creator.

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret:

My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret. My substance, or my frame, was hidden from everyone except God as He made me in secret – in a special protected and private place – my mother’s womb.

Curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth:

Skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. “Curiously wrought” means: to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate; embroiderer, needlework, make curious work. My frame – of bones (the skeleton), and the external covering of muscular flesh, tendons, veins, arteries, nerves, and skin were skillfully and intricately woven inside the womb, which is the center of the body – from conception to full development.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect:

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. “Substance” (not the same word as “substance” in the previous verse) means: a wrapped-up and unformed mass; referring to the embryo being imperfect or not yet fully developed. Even though it is “unformed” to the eye, at this stage, it is still a perfect little human being in process. A baby’s heart already begins to beat 18 days from conception, and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood through a closed circulatory system. A baby’s brainwaves can be detected at 6 weeks from conception

And in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them:

This is referring to the embryonic stage of growth, from the fertilized egg until the organs have developed sufficiently so that it can live independently. Even in this stage, the scripture says that all the human members or parts are contained or written in God’s book and that they are fashioned in accordance with God’s original pattern established when He created Adam and Eve. You were perfectly formed down to the smallest detail. Even all the hairs of your head are planned and numbered.

Even everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, whom I have made. Isaiah 43:7 AMP