DIVINE HEALING
1 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 you were healed.”
We are healed physically by the stripes of Jesus. Jesus was scourged and beaten, and Isaiah 52:14 says it was beyond human recognition. Isaiah 53:5 foretold that Jesus would take the beating for our sicknesses and diseases. Jesus was beaten beyond human recognition so that we could be made whole. He not only took our sins so we could become righteous, but He also took our sicknesses and diseases so that we could be healed. He was lashed with stripes on His back and took every sickness and disease upon Himself on the cross so we could walk in divine health. Because of what Jesus did, you have the ability, as a new creature in Christ Jesus, to walk free from sin. You also have the ability in Christ Jesus to be healed and live free from any sickness and disease. Jesus didn’t just take care of the sin problem, but He also took care of the sickness and disease problem. Jesus took care of both at the same time. When Jesus ministered on the Earth, He caused quite a stir when healing a man because He told the man, “Your sins are forgiven” (Luke 5). Then, because of the crowd, He said, “Which is easier to say? Your sins are forgiven or rise up, take your bed, and walk.” Jesus was saying that the two are equal, and that He was the cure for the sin problem and the sickness problem.
With the Lord, it is not one or the other. It isn’t that sins are easier to forgive than healing someone’s body. This was all done at the same time. He became sin so we could be made righteous. He became and took every sickness and disease so that we would have divine health available to us. We receive both by grace through faith. They are both equally free gifts and both equally easy to receive from God’s side. We have made receiving forgiveness for sins easy and getting healed hard. Jesus, through His finished work, clearly offers us divine healing for our bodies, so let’s walk in it!