Jesus died on the cross to provide us with both redemption and healing. Most people accept redemption but have a challenge with the healing and restoration aspect of Jesus’ work on the cross.
Let’s consider the days before the curse when Adam was in the garden. In Genesis chapter 2 FATHER spoke:
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
FATHER gave Adam a simple commandment to follow and also told him of the consequences of breaking the commandment. FATHER expected Adam to Love HIM and trust HIS Word but the serpent brought mistrust into the picture:
3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
Adam questioned FATHER’S Love, trust, and Word resulting in being removed from the garden and then he took on the fallen nature. Adam was taken in by the deception of the devil and began the process of dying though it took centuries to accomplish. But FATHER’S Love initiated a plan for redemption and restoration. First HE prophesied by various means and specifically in Isaiah chapter 53. Consider closely every word spoken:
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Jesus went to the cross to redeem us from the curse brought on by Adam. His blood dealt with our sins and His body taking on stripes dealt with all our sicknesses and diseases. Jesus satisfied the requirement for both redemption and restoration for His sacrifice was complete. Our bodies are meant to live and not die due to sickness or disease and Jesus’ sacrifice had no exclusions. Love is not incomplete in its Divine Intent. Before the fall, Adam had no sickness or disease thus after the work of Christ, we are meant to walk in the same state. Most people have accepted the salvation aspect of the cross but have yet to embrace the healing aspect. However Peter reminds us by THE SPIRIT in his first epistle chapter 2:
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
Our healing has already been accounted for at the cross. Let us embrace the fullness of Jesus’ sacrifice and honor Him by extolling Him with our praise and gratitude. FATHER’S Plan was not a partial plan of redemption but it considered all aspects of our life. Let not fear, uncertainty, or doubt enter in as we embrace all aspects of the cross for by His stripes you and I are healed… no exceptions!
When we take communion, let us receive His blood for our redemption and assimilate His body into ours for healing and restoration. Let us not receive His body as a “common” custom and grieve THE SPIRIT. As His body nourishes ours, the healing aspects of His Divine Life are to be received for our restoration. Think about it.