Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on him… I. GOD HERE TREATS SIN AS A DISEASE. Sin is a disease — 1. Because it is not an essential part of man as he was created. It is something abnormal. 2. Because it puts all the faculties out of gear. 3. Because it weakens the moral energy, just as many diseases weaken the sick person's body. 4. Because it either causes great pain, or deadens all sensibility, as the case may be. 5. Because it frequently produces a manifest pollution. 6. Because it tends to increase in the man, and will one day prove fatal to him. II. GOD HERE DECLARES THE REMEDY WHICH HE HAS PROVIDED. 1. Behold the heavenly medicine. 2. Remember that the sufferings of Christ were vicarious. 2. Accept this atonement and you are saved by it. 4. Let nothing of your own interfere with the Divine remedy. Prayer does not heal, but it asks for the remedy. It is not trust that heals; that is man s application of the remedy. Repentance is not what cures, it is a part of the cure, one of the first tokens that the blessed medicine has begun to work in the soul. The healing of a sinner does not lie in himself, nor in what he is, nor in what he feels, nor in what he does, nor in what he vows, nor in what he promises. It is in His stripes that the healing lies. III. THE REMEDY IS IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE. How are we healed? 1. Our conscience is healed of every smart. 2. Our heart is healed of its love of sin. 3. Our life is healed of its rebellion. 4. Our consciousness assures us that we are healed. If you are healed by His stripes you should go and live like healthy men. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. |
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