GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

320 God’s Workon the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:by whose stripes ye were healed.”This is astounding. Did you know that Christians are healed bymeans of the beating or the stripes that Christ endured? He sufferedfor all mankind! Jesus submitted to this beating without aword of complaint. Why do His stripes heal you? Also, what isit that gets healed?Whatever it is that heals you, stems directly from the beatings Hetook. Those who saw the movie, “The Passion,” said that Jesuswas so badly beaten that you could hardly tell He was human.Read the account in The Old Testament about this beating whichJesus endured. “…As many were astonied at thee; his visage[form] was so marred more than any man, and his form morethan the sons of men…” (Isaiah 52:14). As violent as the movie“The Passion” it was not violent enough to show the scourgings.The actual was much worse. No human was ever beaten so badly.You could not tell if He was human. The stripes Jesus took obliteratedall evidence that Christ was ever a human being. Yet, becauseof the stripes, all mankind will be healed.What Are These Stripes?Isaiah continues with the account and gives you the answer aboutwhy the stripes that Jesus accepted - are so important. The prophecythat Christ would be wounded, chastised, bruised and beatenwas for Christians to eventually receive peace. But this would goone step further and show that those stripes actually caused personalhealing (Isaiah 53:4-6). Peter states, “…by whose stripesye were healed” (I Peter 2:24).The prophecy continues relating how all humanity has gone astray