Christ's Scars For Our Healing "a Healing Hope"

Intro:

Good morning/afternoon. It’s our 3rd week in the month of July with our month theme “A Healing Hope. For the last 2 Sundays, we discussed about how God heal us spiritually as Bro. Nordan taught us that our spiritual healing will only come once we are saved. Ptra. Mildred discussed about how Jesus heals us and why He is opted to heal every sickness and diseases. Truly, He heals us physically. And today, God will heal the 3rd aspect of our lives as He heals us emotionally and I pray that inner healing will manifest in our midst.

Today we will focus on our monthly text found on Isaiah 53:5 and all the rest of the verses found on chapter 53. For the last 2 Sundays we studied about the importance of His healing, but today we will focus on His scars where healing flows. We will have a short film as our introduction for today’s sermon entitled “scars”.

Play Video… “SCARS”

As the video tells us about scars, it has all stories to tell. How many scars did we have when we were young? We still remember each one of them for they leave a very memorable pain for every scar we had. Our scars stories may be about our pains and sufferings but God’s scar is about salvation and healing. Today we will learn how painful it is for Christ to suffer just for the sake of saving us and healing all kinds of sickness and pain. Today we will learn about…

Christ’s SCARS for our Healing

Isaiah 53:1-12 NIV

1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3He 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.

4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

5But 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.

6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,

and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.

9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

11After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

12Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Between Prophet Isaiah and our Lord Jesus is about 700 years apart, yet how vivid and a detailed sufferings and pain did the prophet saw the outcome of God’s ultimate sacrifice for men, a sacrifice that would give us healing not just on the outside but most especially from the inside. On these scars we can see and somehow feel if there are any more pain and sufferings that this world can discover other than our Lord Jesus received. Let us see one by one:

I. Contusions (pasa’) – An internal bruise caused by a blunt object such as a blow from a rod Isang panloob na pasa na dulot ng isang mapurol na bagay tulad ng suntok mula sa isang pamalo.

Matthew 26:67 KJV “Then they spit in His face and buffeted Him, and others smote Him with the palms of their hands.”

Buffet (b?f?t) verb which means to strike, as with the hand or fist; to strike against or push repeatedly; to attack “blow after blow”, as when waves buffet a boat. Christ was repeatedly struck with both fists and open hands in a sordid sickly sadistic mockery of the Lamb of God.