Title: Wounded Healer / Isaiah 53:4-6
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The wounded healer/Isaiah 53:4-6
Everyone in life has been hurt by sin.
Those wounds are the loneliness, frustration, and despair that we must always experience painfully. Also, all kinds of curses, diseases, and death that everyone must face. Because of this wound, all human beings had to live with pain. But Jesus suffered a great wound to heal this wound. By suffering a great wound, he became a great healer of our wounds.
1) He suffered from loneliness and loneliness.
He came to this earth as the Messiah, but his people did not recognize him. Birth itself was loneliness. At the age of 33 years, he had to be betrayed by a crowd, betrayed by a disciple he loved, and a sinner through the plots of the Pharisees and priests. This conspiracy and betrayal was a great wound to Jesus. But Jesus took this wound and we were healed. There are times in our lives when we feel lonely and alienated. But whenever we look to Jesus Christ, He heals us.
2) He was wounded a lot by the whip of the soldiers.
When Jesus was taken away to die on the cross, he was beaten many times with leather whips. This scourging wounded Jesus all over his body. But today's text speaks. He said that we are healed by his whip. He is the one who bears our sufferings. He is the one who took all our diseases and was whipped. By being wounded like that, He heals not only our physical diseases, but also our mental and spiritual diseases.
Because He is a wounded healer.
3) He was pierced by the cursed crown of thorns and suffered many wounds.
By wearing the crown of thorns, Jesus' forehead and face were torn here and there, and he was crippled with severe wounds. In Genesis 3:18, the thistle and thorns appear as symbols of a curse. Why do people commit suicide? The reason is the pain of thorns. Those cursed thorns pierce life so painfully that they die without being able to overcome the pain and wounds. In this world stained with sin, there is no place without thorns. There are thorns at home, thorns at work, and thorns in my heart. However, Jesus was wounded with a crown of thorns to solve all the curses of thorns.
4) Jesus suffered the death wounds of being nailed to the cross and pierced with a spear.
The wounds of being nailed to the cross and pierced in the side with a spear were Jesus' greatest wounds, and the most wretched and cursed pain. How great was the pain of being nailed to the cross, the pain of hanging on the cross for 6 hours, and the pain of being stabbed in the side with a spear in the midst of it? Then why did Jesus have to suffer like that? “He was pierced for our transgressions, and he was bruised for our iniquities.” It was to heal the wounds of soul and life caused by our transgressions and sins, and to save us as eternal children of God.
Our lives are like factories that produce sin. He is imprisoned in the city of sin and lives as a slave to sin every day. Because of that sin, he has no choice but to die forever. But Jesus Christ destroyed this sinful city through the event of the cross and saved me from there. Because of this wound of Jesus, we are blessed to be healed completely and eternally as far as our sins are concerned, and to become children of God forever.
But we sin even though we are children of God. Nevertheless, if we go to God with our bag of sins, the Lord forgives and heals us of all our sins. Jesus does not heal our wounds with technology, but He heals our wounds by taking care of my wounds for His own. When we go out with a bundle of wounds and a bundle of sins, the Lord always accepts them like a gift of joy, like a gift of fragrant aroma. Today, Jesus wants you to come out with all your wounds, your pain, your troubles, and your sins. The Wounded Healer Jesus Christ heals you, and you who are being healed want to introduce others to Jesus Christ the Wounded Healer and live a life of service to them.