ISAIAH 53 PART 2

We will carry on looking at Isaiah 53 and what Jesus actually purchased for us at the cross. Again, I will use Rick Renners material.

“Yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted Psalm 53:4

We consider him punished or smitten by God. Smitten portrays someone who physically lays His hands on someone or something else to afflict or severely beat or strike with the intention to destroy. This was a military term to describe a ferocious attack on your enemy during a war with the goal of utter obliteration. Stricken conveys the notion of having someone or something subjected to a brutal, harsh, and forceful hand. It’s a word that is often used to describe when a person is visited with severity, and very frequently the severity manifests as physical disease, illness, or sickness. The word afflicted is added here, which is a Hebrew word that means to be utterly crushed.

When all this striking, smiting, and crushing occurred, God was unleashing a mighty blow against sin and the physical and mental disease, illness, and sickness that Christ had willingly absorbed into His being.  God was raging a war against everything Christ took upon himself on behalf of sinful, fallen mankind – sin, guilt, shame, lack of peace, and every ailment, disease, illness, sickness, and torment, both physical and mental. At the cross, God launched an attack that was aimed at eradicating them, and He delivered a decisive and fatal strike against them through Christ's suffering.