Christ Bruised, Us Healed

Isa 53:5 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.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

(vs 5) "While this is the assumption of men in general, the prophet makes it clear that in reality the Messiah will not be judged by God because of any failure of His own, but rather He is the one who will be wounded (mecholal, pierced through) for our transgressions (sins). The precise choice of words by the prophet could not express the nature of Christ's death by crucifixion more appropriately. The verb bruised translates the Hebrew word daka, meaning to be crushed. Holladay, A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon (p. 70), notes that its parallel forms include "oppressed", or "beat to pieces"........In light of the severe language (wounded and bruised ) used in this passage, it is obvious that the wrath of God for all sin for all time was poured out upon Christ who "became sin for us" (II Cor 5:21)." - Edward E. Hindson, Th.D., D.Min., King James Bible Commentary.

When one reflects upon what Jesus knowingly faced looking forward to the cross that He would bear, it crushes one's own heart when understood that the wrath which I deserved was taken by another, Jesus Christ, and no man would ever take on such a task for the sins of mankind, only a God with love beyond anything we could imagine. Sadly, there are those who would make light of what Christ has done. Christ did so much more than die on a Roman cross, as though that is not horrible enough, Christ suffered the crushing weight of the sins of the world. "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him" for Christ done it willingly and He done it for Love. For with his stripes we are healed. Jesus taking the wrath of God for us. What an Awesome Savior! Glory be to God!
Rom 11:33
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
Job 9:10
"Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number."

 

"Our Lord Jesus was appointed and did undertake to make satisfaction for our sins and so to save us from the penal consequences of them.

• [1.] He was appointed to do it, by the will of his Father; for the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. God chose him to be the Saviour of poor sinners and would have him to save them in this way, by bearing their sins and the punishment of them; not the idem-the same that we should have suffered, but the tantundem-that which was more than equivalent for the maintaining of the honour of the holiness and justice of God in the government of the world." - Mathew Henry -