This message from "Grace Inspirations" devotional by Joseph Prince is a very good explanation of what JESUS accomplished for us through his death, burial and resurrection!
Scourged For Your Wholeness
…and by His stripes we are healed.Isaiah 53:5
Under Roman law in Bible times, a criminal was either scourged
for a lesser crime and then set free, or crucified straightaway if guilty of a
greater crime. But Jesus was both scourged and crucified.
Pontius Pilate had hoped that after scourging Jesus and presenting His bloodied
body to the people, they would be satisfied and willing to let Him go. But the
people were not and demanded His crucifixion instead.
Don’t think for a moment that the people had power to inflict
such suffering on Jesus. It was all part of God’s plan and the scourging was
necessary for only by His stripes are we healed.
The Roman whip used for scourging was made of leather straps
embedded with glass, bone and metal hooks. With just one strike, the instrument
would have been wrapped around Jesus’ body, causing the glass, bones and hooks
to cut deep into His flesh. And as the whip was pulled back, the hooks would
have stripped His flesh off, exposing muscle and bone. Indeed, the psalmist
says, “They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look
and stare at Me,” (Psalm 22:16–17) and “The plowers plowed on My back; they
made their furrows long”. (Psalm 129:3)
Although 39 was the maximum number of times one could be whipped
according to Jewish law, I believe that Jesus was whipped more times than that
because the Romans, who were not likely to regard Jewish law, carried out the
scourging.
Whichever the case, His back would have been reduced to a mass
of bloody, mutilated flesh. That day, Jesus’ blood flowed freely from His body
for your deliverance from every kind of disease and physical affliction. God
allowed every one of those stripes to fall on His Son’s body so that your body
need not be scourged with diseases.
My friend, if you are sick or suffering from some physical
condition, know that Jesus took the scourging as full payment for you to be
free of that condition. He bore those stripes so that, today, there is no
sickness, no disease left for you to bear. By His stripes you have been healed!
Thought For The Day
Jesus bore the terrible scourging to purchase for you
deliverance from every kind of disease.
Knowing just what JESUS did for us, and why, is what is needful to walk in the benefits of all that He has accomplished! Even the people that Jesus healed during His ministry were healed because of THEIR faith in the Messiah Who was expected to come! Under our New Covenant blessings, We receive by faith in the Messiah Who has already come, conquered, and is coming again! AMEN! Get to know just what belongs to you BECAUSE OF JESUS! Then walk in the VICTORY of it! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Like It Is (In Heaven)":
Shalom in Him!
