Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Isaiah 53:4-12
by: Victoria Shephard.
“We are healed” (v. 5). Some people have taken this out of context and say that Jesus’ death ensures healing from all physical disease. But that ignores the clear statement of verse 6, where Isaiah states what Jesus took upon himself—not our physical illnesses but our sin. It is from sin and its final consequence of eternal death that we are healed. Jesus took what we deserved. Only someone fully human could die in humankind’s place, and only someone fully God could live a sinless life, bear the sin of the whole world, and rise again. Jesus is the only person who could fulfill this scripture.