The Crucified Saviour

I. CORRECTING SOME HERESY—HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT

A. Hearing from the Heretics

1. “We are told God must heal you if you are speaking by faith just like he saved you by faith. No Christian should be sick or have anything physically wrong with them.” Kenneth Hagin—died in 2003 after being admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit.
2. “I know that I am healed because he said that I am healed and it makes no difference what the symptoms may be in my body.” E.W. Kenyon—died in a coma, brought on by a malignant tumor.

B. Defining Healing

1. Consider things healed in the Bible
a. Land (2 Chronicles 7:14)
b. Water (2 Kings 2:21-22)
c. Diseases (Psalm 103:3)
d. The earth (Psalm 60:2)
e. Egypt (Isaiah 19:22)
2. In a basic sense, the word healing means a restoration to wholeness.

C. The Phases of Restoration

1. Spiritually (1 Peter 2:24)
a. Peter declared the application of healing in the atonement to be past tense.
b. How could Peter say, “ye were healed?”
c. He was writing to people who had been healed spiritually by means of salvation (1 Peter 1:3-5).
2. Physically
a. The ministry of Christ (Matthew 8:17; Isaiah 53:4)
b. The present suffering
1.) The creature (Romans 8:19-21)
2.) The creation (Romans 8:22-23)
3.) The believer (Romans 8:23)
i. Timothy (1 Timothy 5:23)
ii. Paul (2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Galatians 4:15)
iii. Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20)
iv. Epaphroditus (Philippians 2:25-27)
c. The waiting glory (Romans 8:18, 23; 1 Corinthians 15:49)

II. THE METHOD OF JUDGMENT

A. He Was Wounded—to cause injury

1. The place of His wounding—“in the house of my friends” (Zechariah 13:6)
2. The source of His wounding—“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd” (Zechariah 13:7)

B. He Was Bruised—to crush by a blow which discolors the skin

1. The promise of His bruising—“thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis 3:15)
2. The source of His bruising—“it pleased the LORD to bruise him” (Isaiah 53:10)

C. He Was Chastened

1. Chastening is typically reserved for those who are out of the way and stand in need of correction.
2. Christ obviously was not out of the way.
a. He had done no violence (Isaiah 53:9).
b. There was no deceit found in His mouth (Isaiah 53:9).
c. He knew no sin (2 Corinthians 5:21).
d. In Him is no sin (1 John 3:5).
3. Yet, He was chastened. Perhaps because “he [God, the Father] hath made him [God, the Son] to be sin for us…that we might be made the righteousness of God in him [God, the Son]” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

III. THE CAUSE OF JUDGMENT

A. Our Transgressions

1. He was wounded
2. In response to our transgressions—crossing the lines appointed by God

B. Our Iniquities

1. He was bruised
2. In response to our iniquities—unequal actions demonstrating hostility toward God’s ways

C. Our Peace

1. He was chastened
2. In response to our loss of peace as far back as the garden

IV. THE OUTCOME OF JUDGMENT

A. His Stripes

1. He took the wounding.
2. He took the bruising.
3. He took the chastening.
4. He suffered the stripes.

B. Our Healing

1. I got the healing.
2. I will get the healing.