By His Stripes part 2

By His Stripes

Hello to you a are having a wonderful and blessed  day.

On my last post I spoke about By His Stripes.  I referenced Isaiah 53:3-5

Isaiah 53:3-5
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.  Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.  Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by god, stricken by him, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

I discussed the pain and suffering the Lord went through and described in detail all the pain he received as well as the mental, emotional and spiritual pain He suffered.

To day I would like to discuss the last phrase in Isaiah 53:3-5  by His stripes we are healed.

I discussed what the stripes contained and how they were created.  I also discussed how Jesus was very familiar with pain.

I would like to discuss something I think we forget about Jesus,  when He was living His last days on earth.  The pain and suffering He went through. We already discussed the pain He went through in part 1.  Today I would like to discuss the spiritual pain He must have went through.  Below are scriptures that tell you of the pain He felt knowing that His Father God had looked away during the last moments of His life because our Father God loved us so much to turn away and not rescue His Son for us.

In psalms 22:1 this book is in the old testament but repeats exactly what Jesus says on the cross

Psalms 22:1

My God, my God why have you forsaken me?  Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my criers of anguish?

Matthew 27:46
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eli, Eli lema sabachtanin? (which means My God, my God why have you forsaken me?

This statement Jesus spoke can tell you He was completely alone and the Father turned His head away from His beloved Son for us.

Isaiah 53:6

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.

In Isaiah 53:6 it tells us that Father God put all of our sins on Jesus in that one moment in time. When we are full of sin and do not have Jesus in our heart and have not given our lives to the Lord.  Father God can not see us, all He see's is our sin.  So when Jesus called for Father God, God could not look at Jesus He turned His face away because of our sins.  Our sins were all laid on Jesus so the Father could not look at His own son because of the sin.  God can not look at sin.

We know that Jesus Christ became sin for us, so that we may know the Father.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us. that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Habakkuk 1:13

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness.

In Habakkuk we see that the God the Father can not behold any evil or look on any wickedness.  So with this scripture we can confirm that Father God could not look on Jesus because of the sin Jesus beheld.

I could not imagine to go through such spiritual suffering Jesus went through to know that your Father could not look at you or help you in any way the desolate pain Jesus must have suffered.  Also we should look closely at God the Fathers pain, knowing what Jesus was going through and still to look away.  But remember He looked away for us.

God the Father and Jesus Christ went through major suffering both physical and spiritual for us.  So that "by His stripes we are healed".

If you have any bodily diseases, sicknesses or pains in your physical body He can heal them. Do you have any mental wounds that need to be healed God can heal them.  

1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed.

Psalms 30:1-2
I will extol you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up, and have not let my foes rejoice over me.  O Lord my God, I cried out to you, and you healed me.  O Lord, you brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


So you must remember that Jesus died for you so you may know God.  Also remember God has many names but this one I want you to remember:

Jehovah Rapha - The Lord your healer!

I hope you are blessed by this teaching.

Remember you are truly loved.

God bless you all.

You are loved

Do you know that you are truly loved by your creator the Lord God Almighty?  He created you for his own pleasure.  He longs for a relationship with those whom He created.  A relationship with God is like no other relationship you may have experienced. God has a unique kind of love for you. It is unconditional not based upon meeting certain conditions. God loves you because He loves you.  I have been talking about having a faith walk with the Lord.  This is where it comes from having a relationship with the Lord and walking faithfully with Him on the path He has carved out for you.

1 John 4:9-10

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

He does not love you based upon your performance, what you do and what you don’t do. There is nothing you can do to cause God to love you any more than He already does, and there is nothing that will cause God to love you any less. He loves you, even more than you love yourself.

Until now you have probably only experienced conditional love. Conditional love is based upon what you do. Perform well on the job.  Having conditional love in your family or in the relationship,  Only God loves you with an unconditional love.  

In opening your life to Christ, you have found total love and acceptance. That may be hard to comprehend if you’ve never felt totally loved and acceptance by anyone. But it’s true! Unfortunately, you won’t always feel that God loves you. There will be times when you find yourself doubting not only His love, but also His existence. You’ll feel like giving up, but don’t.

Jeremiah 31:3

God says, I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving kindness

We will be walking many miles in life with the Lord.  Some miles may be difficult, hard, but you will also have miles where they are easy and full of joy.  The knowledge that God loves you will keep you going when the next mile seems intolerably long.  This is where your faith in Him will need to rise up and keep you going.

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Our faith rests in what God has revealed about Himself to us. He specifically wants us to believe and rely on His love for us:

Psalms 147:11

The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love

Psalms 33:18

Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.

King David, whom God referred to “as a man after my own heart”  trusted God’s love:

Psalms 59:16-17

I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. O my strength, I sing praise to you; you, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.

To grow in your understanding of God’s love for you, take some time over the next few weeks and read Psalms 103, John 15, and 1 John 4, and note all the ways that God’s love is described.

May this find you walking faithfully with your Lord.