17/08/2023
Jesus Bore Your Sicknesses
Jesus took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. Since He
bore them, why should we bear them?
Isaiah 53:4 says, “Surely he hath borne our GRIEFS, and
carried our SORROWS: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted.” In the Hebrew, the words “griefs” and
“sorrows” mean sicknesses and pains. So Jesus bore our
sicknesses and carried our pains. That’s the same thing as
saying, “. . . Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses” (Matt. 8:17).
Another reference in the New Testament is First Peter 2:24:
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes ye were healed.” The Bible says, “In the mouth of
two or three witnesses let every word be established” (Matt.
18:16). I’ve given you three references right here.
So settle it in your mind and heart once and for all that God
wants you healed just as much as He wants you saved. God has
provided for you to be healed physically, just as much as He has
provided for you to be born again—to receive the remission of
sins and become a new creature in Christ Jesus.
Confession:
It is written in Matthew 8:17 that Himself, Jesus, took my
infirmities and bare my sicknesses. What He bore, I need not
bear! Because He bore my infirmities, because He bore my
sicknesses, I’m healed! I’m free!
