BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.
Isaiah.53v5. 1Peter.2v24.

PREFACE AND CONTENTS. In this study we are going to dwell in particular upon the text "By His stripes we are healed," which literally translated means, "By His bruise we are healed." I am also going to include, in an accompanying folder, associated subjects that are vitally connected with the subject of Christ's bruising. Some of these studies have been included in my former discs, however, in this folder, some are upgraded and extended. These studies are extremely relevant to the subject of the terrible bruising of Jesus, which we are going to consider. William Turner. September 23rd. 2004.

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1. BY HIS STRIPES (Literally BRUISE), WE ARE HEALED.

Introduction and Hymn. "By the Cross of Jesus standing."
N.B.1. The incalculable bruising that occurred when the eternal God the Word became flesh.
N.B.2. Jesus bravely endured terrible bruising of His body, soul and spirit, for all of His life.
a. The main emphasis in Is.53v5. and 1Pet.2v24. is on forgiveness of sin.
b. In Is.53v4. God's promise of healing is an emphatic "SURELY," and "VERILY," not a doubtful "maybe."
c. Some more striking revelations about salvation in Jesus, found in the rest of Isa.53v5. and 1Pet.2v24.

2. THE LIFELONG SEVERE, CRUEL, AND BRUTAL BRUISING OF JESUS AT NAZARETH.

Hymn. Blessed be His Name!
N.B. 1. Jesus experienced dreadful and relentless conflict and bruising all of His life.
N.B. 2. Christ's continual bruising fights of faith, and His victories of faith at Nazareth.
The bruising conflicts Jesus experienced at Nazareth through Satan inspired people.

1. Jesus experienced great rejection, and an heartbreaking fight of faith in His home.
a. Jesus experienced some good early years with His family, then things went badly wrong.
b. Jesus was treated like a stranger and alien by His brothers and sisters. Ps.69v7-11. Mt.13v55,56. Mk.6v3.
c. We read in Mk.3v21., that Christ's family said that Jesus was insane when He upset the religious hierarchy.
d. We read in Jn.7v5., that His brethren did not believe in Him.

2. Jesus was bitterly criticised, and sceptically rejected by most of the people in Nazareth.
Moral, honest and sincere people at Nazareth admired Jesus in His early years, then things went badly wrong.
a. We read in Ps 69v12., that the elders who sat in the gate of the town, spoke against Jesus and criticised Him.
b. We read in Ps.69v12., that drunkards made up and sang vile and disgusting songs about Jesus.
c. When Jesus preached His first sermon at Nazareth, the inhabitants of Nazareth tried to kill Him.
N.B. The insights that the epistle of James gives us into the life of Jesus at Nazareth.

3. JESUS WAS BRUISED IN DEVELOPING HIS PROPHETIC AND HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY.

Jesus had dreadful fights of faith in prayer at Nazareth, while God prepared Him for His apostolic and High Priestly ministries. The apostolic and High Priestly ministries of Jesus were the product of Christ's prayer life at Nazareth.

a. The development of Christ's prophetic and High Priestly ministry was a truly bruising experience.
b. Christ's visit to the temple at twelve reveals His resolute and dedicated preparation for His ministry.
c. The qualifications to be our Great High Priest were gained at enormous personal cost to Jesus.
d. The excruciating burden and cost of Christ's prayer life at Nazareth.
e. Jesus had to set His face like a flint at Nazareth, as well as in His ministry and Passion.

N.B. Christ's prayer ministry at Nazareth placed huge demands on Him.
a. Jesus had to pray a revival into being from ground zero.
b. Jesus had to pray John the Baptist through.
c. Jesus touched the world with His prayer ministry.
N.B. Jesus won major battles in prayer all over the world during His prayer ministry at Nazareth.
d. The excruciating burden and cost of Christ's prayer life at Nazareth.
N.B. Jesus experienced real fights of faith, and painful bruising of His soul, while praying through for His ministry.

GOD DEVELOPED CHRIST'S PROPHETIC AND HIGH PREISTLY MINISTRY BY LIFE'S TRIALS.
a. God developed Christ's ministries in the stress and trials of daily living, and the hardship of real poverty.
N.B. Paul declares in 2Cor.8v9., that Jesus experienced the total poverty of a penniless beggar.
b. God trained Jesus through running the family business, and the hard work of providing for Mary's large family.
c. God the Father trained Jesus to examine and reject the false tradition of His times.
d. God the Father trained Jesus in prophetic prayer ministry, and in development of spiritual gifts.
e. God the Father rooted and grounded Jesus in a vital experience of the truth of the Scriptures.
N.B. Jesus fully partook of our humanity and victoriously overcame all areas of temptation.

4. WHY DID GOD HIDE AWAY CHRIST'S SUPERB PROPHETIC MINISTRY?

1. God the Father developed the ministry of Jesus secretly in the environment of home and work life.
2. Jesus was hidden by God until His prophetic prayer ministry was fully developed and perfected.
3. God protected Jesus from the jealousy, envy, and hostility of worldly people and carnal religious leaders.
N.B. It was to prevent Israel's religious leaders from being prematurely moved with jealousy and envy.
4. Jesus was hidden away until the fullness of time.

WHY DID JESUS HIDE AWAY MOST OF HIS PERFECT REVELATION MINISTRY?
a. It was obviously a command of God the Father.
b. Was it so that people would not tremble before Him as they did before Moses and Samuel?
N.B. Our Lord's revelation ministry was even hidden away in His healing ministry.

5. JESUS WAS BRUISED BY HIS CONFLICTS WITH ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

The traumatic effect on Jesus of His conflicts with Israel's religious leaders.
a. We must "look away to" Jesus, and "consider" Jesus. Heb.12v2,3.
b. Consider the astounding steadfast and brave endurance of Jesus in vicious opposition.
c. Consider the horrors Jesus endured which are recorded in Psalm 22.
d. Consider how Jesus was persecuted and murdered because of the envy in Israel's religious leaders.

6. JESUS WAS BRUISED BY EXCRUCIATING TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS FROM SATAN.

a. Jesus was badly bruised by Satan's attacks in the wilderness, and throughout His ministry.
b. There were many other attacks by Satan on Jesus besides the temptation in the wilderness.
c. We read in Lk.4v2., that Jesus was tempted throughout all of the forty days and nights.
d. There were many further attacks on Jesus by Satan, indirectly through people.
e. Satan tempted Jesus with real and bruising temptations from the flesh.

THE THREE LAST TEMPTATIONS OF CHRIST IN THE WILDERNESS.

1. SATAN TRIED TO ROB JESUS OF THE POWER OF GOD BY AN ATTACK ON HIS FAITH.
a. Satan aggressively attacked the reality of Christ's most holy and blessed experiences.
b. Satan tried by to undermine and destroy Christ's faith in God's Word.
c. Satan sneered at, disparaged, and maligned Christ's thirty years of love and devotion to God at Nazareth.
d. Satan fiercely attacked the Sonship and Deity of Jesus. N.B.Rom.8v14-17. 1Jn.3v1,2.
e. Satan attempted to undermine Christ's faith in God's provision and love for Him.
f. Satan viciously attacked the reality of Christ's spiritual gifts.

2. SATAN TRIED TO GET JESUS TO USE HIS GIFTS IN THE WRONG WAY. Mt.4v5-7.
a. Satan tried to get Jesus to misinterpret the Scriptures in a self willed, presumptuous and fanatical way.
b. Satan tried to get Jesus to use spiritual gifts in a spectacular way to win the praise of people.
c. Satan tempted Jesus to strive for and win position and prestige in men's religious power structures.

3. SATAN TEMPTED JESUS TO EXCHANGE GOD'S BLESSING FOR EARTHLY GLORY.
a. Satan tried to seduce Jesus with an offer of worldly wealth, prestige, and glory.
b. Satan tried to get Jesus to supplement the power of God with the glory of the world.
c. Satan tried to get Jesus to build a worldly or religious empire around Himself.

7. JESUS WAS GREATLY BRUISED BY HIS HORRENDOUS CONFLICTS IN GETHSEMANAE.

a. The horrific words used to describe Christ's awful depression, anguish and agony of soul in Gethsemane.
b. Christ's agonising praying was so physically destructive that God had to send an angel to strengthen Him.
c. Great sorrow was followed by even greater sorrow and heavy depression. Mt.26v37,38.
d. The great suffering of Jesus, which is seen in the parallel texts in Mt.26v37. and Mk.14v33.
e. Adam Clarke's enlightening commentary on Mt.26v37,38.
f. The sorrow, pain and anguish of Gethsemane were so severe that it nearly killed Jesus.

8. IN HIS PASSION JESUS SUFFERED EXCRUCIATING PHYSICAL PAIN AND SUFFERING.

a. The soul destroying fights with evil men and angels that Jesus bravely conquered.
b. The horrors of crucifixion recorded in Psalm 22.
c. The Jews erroneously thought that Jesus was stricken, smitten of God , and afflicted for His own sins,
d. The Jews erroneously thought that Jesus was being judicially stricken and abandoned by God.
e. The Jews erroneously thought that Jesus was being judicially smitten by God.
f. The Scriptures warned Jesus that He would be smitten "in the house of my friends." Zech.13v6-9.
g. The Jews thought that Jesus was being judged by God for His sins, but He was purchasing healing for us.
What are the hindrances in our churches that stop God from fulfilling His Word to heal us?

9. JESUS ENDURED THE AGONISING AND BRUISING BIRTH PAINS OF HADES.

The tragic failure of the Church to preach about and meditate upon our Lord's imprisonment in Hades for us.
The creed states that Jesus did descend into Hell.

THE WORDS THAT ARE USED FOR THE PLACES TO WHICH THE UNSAVED DEAD GO.
A. GEHENNA occurs 12 times in the New Testament.
B. HADES is translated as "Hell" 10 times in the Authorised King James Version.
TWO WORDS ARE USED DESCRIBE THE PART OF HADES IN WHICH EVIL BEINGS ARE INCARCERATED.
1. THE ABYSS, or, THE DEEP. Greek. "Abbisos."
2. TARTAROS.
C. PARADISE. The place in Heaven where Christians go to at death.
N.B. THE HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN OLD TESTAMENT AND A NEW TESTAMENT SAINT AT DEATH.
1. The Old Testament saint's fear and dread of death.
2. The New Testament Christians victory over Hades and joy in death.

D. JESUS SUFFERED THE PAINS OF HADES TO REDEEM HIS DEARLY LOVED SAINTS.
a. Christ's descent into Hades was the only way that the Old Testament saints could be released from Hades.
b. The agonies of Gethsemane were an anticipation and result of the agonies of Hades.

WHAT WERE THE BIRTH PAINS OF HADES?
1. The soul-agony of being separated from the Father.
2. The soul-agony of being made sin for us.
3. The soul-anguish of trusting God without His spirit and God's presence.
4. The soul anguish Jesus suffered in Hades was the greatest that He suffered.

E. THE GREAT JOY OF JESUS AFTER HIS GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OVER DEATH AND HADES.
1. Jesus had the supreme joy of restored fellowship and communion with the Father.
2. Jesus had the great joy of knowing that atonement had been made.
3. Jesus had the great joy of taking the multitudes of His beloved captive saints from Hades into Heaven.

F. JESUS PREACHED LIKE A HERALD TO THE IGNORANT AND WICKED IN HADES.

N.B. The words used for Jesus preaching to the dead, are the normal words for preaching the Gospel.

G. JESUS ALSO PREACHED GOOD NEWS TO THE REST OF THE DEAD.

H. IS THERE A CHANCE OF SALVATION AFTER DEATH?
1. Peter states that Jesus has ALREADY preached to the dead in Hades. 1Pet.3v18-20. 4v6.
2. The early Church fathers also testify that Jesus preached to the dead.
3. Seven further Scriptural proofs that salvation and forgiveness is possible after death.
1. In Rev.20v15., "And whosoever," "kai ei tis," should be translated, "And if anyone."
2. In 2Cor.6v2., Paul is addressing the Corinthians, who have had their opportunity of salvation.
3. In Heb.9v27., "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement."
4. In 1Tim.2v5,6., Paul tells us that the Christ who died for all, will give the testimony to all in due times.
5. The Judge of the whole earth will do right. Gen.18v25. Rev.6v10. 15v3. 19v2.
No one will be able to point an accusing finger at God, and every mouth will be stopped. Rom.3v19.
6. In Mt.12v31,32., Jesus said all sin can be forgiven in the next age but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit..
7. In Mt.11v20-24. Jesus said there was hope for those who in limited light had come under Divine judgement.

CONCLUSION. "BEHOLD THE MAN." "BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD."

THE GLORY AND VICTORY OF OUR LORD'S HUMANITY.
a. The apostle John tells us in 1John.4v2,3., that if we deny Christ's humanity we "are not of God."
b. A. T. Robertson states that Heb.2v17,18., teaches the true sympathetic humanity of Jesus.
c. In Rom.8v3., Paul states Christ's victory over the flesh.
d. The Expositor's Greek Testament also gives light on Rom.8v3..
e. Alford writes on Rom.8v3.
N.B. The Scriptures could not be clearer, or more emphatic, "by His bruise we are healed," Is.53v5.

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