Lord, for Lord that could not
be. Todd's Road Grace Church would
like to invite you to listen to a sermon by our pastor, Todd
Nybert. We are located at 4137 Todd's
Road, two miles outside of Manowar Boulevard. Sunday services are
at 1030 a.m. and 6 p.m. Bible study is at
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For more information, visit our website at toddsroadgracechurch.com. Now here's our pastor, Todd Nybert. I'm going to speak to you this
morning on the subject of healing. Now, religion puts a big emphasis
on the healing of the body. And there is a lot of phoniness
going on, men claiming to be used of God to heal people. And
it's phoniness. But there is a healing that's
much more important. You see, something physical is
going to get you. You're going to die of something.
You're not going to be healed of everything. Now, if you're
healed, it's because God healed you. But you're going to die
of something. But there is a healing that's
much more important than physical healing. And that's what we're
going to consider this morning. I'm going to read from Isaiah
chapter 53. I'd like to read verses four
through six. Beginning in verse four, we read, Surely he hath
borne our griefs, or diseases, and carried our sorrows, our
anguishes. Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Now, who is the us and the our spoken of in our text? He was
wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His strife we are healed. Is this speaking
of every man? No, because not every man is
healed. It's speaking of those who believe the gospel, those
for whom Christ died. He bore our iniquities. Now, when Peter quotes this passage
of Scripture, this passage from Isaiah 53 is quoted twice in
the New Testament. When Peter quotes this passage
of Scripture, he says, "...who his own self bear our sins in
his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should
live unto righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed." And
when Matthew quotes this passage of Scripture in Matthew chapter
8, I'd like to read verses 16 and 17. When the even was come,
they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils. And
he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that
were sick, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sicknesses. Now, do you notice the difference?
When Peter quotes this, he speaks of him bearing our sins, and
when Matthew quotes this, he speaks of him bearing our infirmities,
or weaknesses, and sicknesses. And if you look in Isaiah 53,
both ideas are there. Surely he hath borne our griefs,
or diseases, and carried our sorrows, or anguish, But it also
says, he was wounded for our transgressions, that's our sins,
and he was bruised for our iniquities, and by his stripes we're healed. And Peter says, by whose stripes
you were healed, past tense. Now, sin, in many respects, can
be compared to a disease or a sickness. Do you remember the words of
the Lord Jesus? The whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. Sin can be compared to a disease
in several senses. First, sin is like a disease
that is inherited. Now, my wife has a disease she
inherited. It's called polycystic kidney. Her mother had it, and it's passed
on to 50% of the offspring of the one who has it. She got it,
her brother got it, her other sister didn't, but she was born,
when she was born into this world, she was born with this disease
called polycystic kidney. Sin is a disease we're born with. It was passed on to us from our
first father Adam. We're born with his evil nature. We're born sinners. We're born
with this disease of sin. You don't have to teach a child
how to lie. It comes natural. You don't have
to teach a child how to be selfish. It comes natural. We're born
that way. Now, sin is a disease that we're
born with, but it's just as true that sin is a disease that is
all our fault. Now, when somebody's born with
something, you feel sorry for them. There's nothing they can
do about it. They were born that way. But
in verse 16 of our text, it says, He healed all that were sick.
And the word in the original means literally all who were
evilly sick. all who had a sickness brought
on by their sin. For instance, substance abuse
can cause great sickness and great illness, or there can be,
through sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, and these
diseases are all our fault. Now, that doesn't mean we don't
pity someone that has them, certainly we do, but it's all our fault. Now, here's the point. Yes, we're
born sinners. We don't have any choice in that.
We're born sinners. But it's equally true that our
sin is all our fault. We have to take the blame. I
can't blame Adam. I can't blame my mom and dad.
All my sin is all my fault. I am guilty. I'm not a victim. I am guilty as charged. You see, I have a victim mentality
because of my sin. It's really not my fault. It's
somebody else's fault. And as long as it's not my fault,
I'm never really going to ask for mercy. I'm a victim. I'm never really going to ask
for grace. I think I have something coming to me. But if it's all
my fault, guilty as charged, then I'm going to ask for mercy. You see, You've never really
understood your sin unless you see that it's all your fault. Now, modern psychology, what
it's all about, all this counseling and so on, what it's mostly about
is trying to shift the blame. Shift the blame. It's not your
fault. You don't have to feel bad about
yourself. But my dear friend, my sin and your sin is all our
fault. And if I don't believe that,
I've never really confessed my sin. I've never really understood
what sin is in the first place. My sin is all my fault. Yes,
I'm born with it. And yes, it's all my fault. And disease brings with it such
problems. Stress. Pain. Anxiety. Depression. Despair. weakness, fear, all
of those are feelings associated with disease. And when you have
a disease, you feel as though you're possessed with it, like
those who were demon-possessed. You're possessed with it. Oh,
what a horrible disease is sin. That's why David said, my sin
is ever before me. There is such a thing as sin.
Because God is. God is holy. There is such a
thing as sin. We inherited it from our first
father Adam. We were born sinners. And it's
equally true that our sin is all our fault. Now, I want to
go back into Isaiah chapter 53 and look at this passage I read
at the beginning of this message. And then I want to go back into
Matthew chapter 8 and look at three instances of healing that
led to Matthew quoting Isaiah chapter 53. Now, let's go back
to Isaiah chapter 53. It says in verse 4, hath borne our sorrows and griefs,
and carried our sorrows." Now, those words are translated diseases
and anguish and affliction. Now, what I'm getting ready to
talk about, I really don't understand, nor does anybody else. All we
can do is believe. It can't so much be explained,
but declared and believed. From Gethsemane's garden, all
the way to that time when he cried, it is finished, and bowed
his head and gave up the ghost. He experienced all of the effects
of sin. That is why he sweat great drops
of blood, just the stress, the anguish of being made sin. He never sinned in his person.
He never thought a sin. He never spoke a sin. He never
did a sin. He's the only man to never sin. The perfect, holy, spotless Lamb
of God. The God-man who never sinned. Yet the Scripture says He was
made sin. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21 says,
For He, speaking of God the Father, have made Him, the Lord Jesus
Christ, to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be
made the righteousness of God in Him I can't explain that. How was the Son of God made to
be sin? I don't know, but He was. God
the Father can do that, and the reason God's wrath came down
upon Him, the reason God killed Him, is because He saw Him as
sin. It's not like the Father looked
at Him and said, well, I know He's not guilty. These are simply
the sins of His people being charged to account. No, on Calvary's
tree, He was guilty. That's why I said, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? God forsook him because he was
guilty. My sin literally became his,
so that he bore the shame of it. He bore the disgrace of it. He bore the humiliation of it.
All that sin is, he was made to be. who his own self, Peter
said, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. He has borne
our griefs and carried our sorrows. All that is associated with sin,
he experienced in Gethsemane's garden and then as he was nailed
to that cross. Now, we read in verse 5, it gets
even worse. It says, but he was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. Now, that word, wounded, is the
word that's generally translated in the Old Testament, profaned. He was profaned for our transgressions. It's translated, polluted. He was polluted for our transgressions. It's translated, defiled. He
was defiled for our transgressions. Oh, that... when I think about
that, it just... It just bothers me, it troubles
me to think of the Holy Son of God. I'm thankful, don't get
me wrong, I'm thankful that He bore this for me, but when I
think that He bore all the filth and all the hell of sin, and
it was all to be made to meet on Him, so that He was profaned
and polluted and defiled by it, so that the Father forsook Him.
Oh, that can be believed, understood, no. That's why darkness covered
the land when our Lord was on the cross. It was letting us
know that we don't much know what was going on. But He was
wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised, crushed under
the wrath of God for our iniquities. My sin so truly became His that
the Scripture says He was profaned by it. He was polluted by it.
He was defiled by it. No, He never sinned in His person.
I don't understand how this can be. He never sinned in His person.
But all that sin is, He experienced on the cross. We read in verse
6, All we like sheep, have gone astray." That's us. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way. And the Lord had laid or made
to meet on him the iniquity of us all. And Isaiah tells us,
by his stripes we are healed. Now this is the healing that
I want. healing from the disease, the
disease of sin. That's all my fault. I want to be healed. You see,
I am a sick individual, sin sick. And you are too, whether you
know it or not. I was born this way, and it's
all my fault. I'm possessed with it. Like the
man taken with the palsy that we are getting ready to read
of in Matthew chapter 8, where it said, he's grievously tormented. My sin is a grievous torment,
and I'm powerless to make myself better. And I need healing. The Scripture says in Luke chapter
9, verse 11, he healed them that had need of healing. Now, would that be you? Are you
someone who needs healing? Spiritual healing. I'm not just
talking about physical healing. Like I said, if you're sick,
I hope the Lord heals you. But you're going to die of something.
All this emphasis on physical healing is foolishness and nothing
more. I've had sickness and I've had
cancer twice. The Lord healed me twice. But
something's going to get me. I'm going to die of something.
Physical healing, I can do without it. If I don't have physical
healing, I'm okay. If I die, if I have spiritual
healing, if my sin is put away, if I'm cured from the disease
of sin. In Matthew chapter 8, before
Matthew quotes this, we have three instances of healing. And in these instances of healing,
we can find out what spiritual healing really is, how that by
His stripes, by His suffering on the cross, we are healed. Now, we have one instance of
healing by a will, one instance of healing by a word, and one
instance of healing by a touch. And we can see how all of those
were realized in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I
want to begin in Matthew 8, verse 1. When he was come down from
the mountains, great multitudes followed him, and behold, there
came a leper. This man, according to Luke's
account, was full of leprosy. You couldn't see a healthy ounce
of flesh on him. He was completely covered with
leprosy. And the scripture says, Behold,
there came a leper and worshipped him. Now get this, this leper
worshipped him before he was healed, and he didn't know whether
or not he would be healed. He had no idea, but he was coming
to the Lord knowing, if I'm healed, the only way I'll be healed is
if he heals me. It's up to him, but he's to be
worshipped for who he is, not for what he does, for who he
is. This leper worshipped him. He was worthy of being worshipped
if he didn't heal him. You know, the Lord is worthy
of worship if he passes me by because of who he is. He's the
Lord. Whatever he does is right. This
leper comes and worships him, saying, Lord, He knew who Jesus
Christ was. He was the Lord, the dictator,
the one who controlled all things. He came and worshipped Him, saying,
Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. He knew it was
up to the Lord. He didn't say, Lord, I will that
you make me clean. He didn't say, Lord, I of my
own free will have decided to accept you as my personal Savior
and I'm going to let you save me. That's foolishness. He didn't
come to the Lord like that. He said, Lord, if you will. He
knew it was in his sovereign hands. He could save him or he
could pass him by and whatever he did was right because he was
the Lord. He said, Lord, if you will, you can. You have the ability. To make me clean. I'm filthy
in myself and what I need is to be made clean. Lord, if you
will, you can make me clean. And listen to our Lord's words. Verse three. And Jesus put forth
his hand and touched him, saying, I will. Be thou clean. You see, my dear friend, there's
never been anybody who came to Christ like this leper did, that
he turned away. He says to everybody who comes
to him like this, I will. Be thou clean. You see, Hebrews
10.10 says, by the witch will. by God's will, by the will of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the supreme, sovereign will of Christ, by
which will we are sanctified once for all through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ. Now, there's healing by a will. Secondly, healing by a word. In verse 5, and when Jesus was
entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, a
Roman soldier over a hundred soldiers beseeching him and saying
Lord came the same way the leper did knowing who he was Lord my
servant life at home sick of the palsy he was a paralytic
grievously tormented and Jesus saith unto him I'll come and
heal him the centurion answered and said Lord I'm not worthy
that thou shouldst come under my roof. And we know from one
of the other accounts that he sent somebody to the Lord because
he said, I didn't think I was worthy to come to you. He said,
I'm not worthy. The Lord said, I'll come to heal
him. And he said, Lord, I'm not worthy for you to even come under
my roof, but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. For I'm a man under authority.
I have some understanding of authority, having soldiers under
me, and I say to this man, go, and he goes. And to another my
servant, do this, and he does it. And I know that all you have
to do is speak the Word only, and my servant shall be healed."
Now, don't miss this word, only. Christ is the Word. Remember, in the beginning was
the Word. And the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. And it is the Word only that
can heal us. Not Christ and. Not Christ and
your works. Not Christ and your sincerity.
Not Christ and your good intentions. Speak the Word only. Hebrews
1.3 says, when He by Himself purged our sins. You see, healing
is not a cooperative effort Speak the Word only. And this is what
He did on the cross. He by Himself, remember sin is
my disease, He took it away. Now once in the end of the world
He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. He
made it to where it's not. When God's wrath came down upon
Him, He satisfied all the demands of the law against sin by Himself
with no help from us. speak the word only and my servant
shall be healed and then we have salvation or healing by a touch
we read beginning in verse 14 of Matthew chapter 8 and when
Jesus was coming to Philip's house he saw his wife's mother
laid and sick of the fever and he touched her hand and the fever
left her And she arose and ministered to him." Now, touch has something
to do with coming into contact with. This woman taken with this
fever, burning up, he touched her and the fever left her, but
the fever went somewhere else. I'd like to read a passage of
Scripture in Luke chapter 8 that will give us a little bit more
light regarding this. Beginning in verse 43, and a
woman, having an issue of blood, of
menstrual disease, 12 years, which had spent all her living
upon physicians, neither could be healed of any. That's like
somebody going to this part of religion and that part of religion,
trying different things, trying to get you, oh, if I do this,
if I do that, if I start, never to any avail. But she came behind
him and touched the board of his garment, and immediately,
Her issue of blood stanched, and Jesus said, Who touched me?
When all denied, Peter and David were with him and said, Master,
the multitude throngs thee and presses thee, and sayest thou
who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath
touched me, for I perceive that virtue, saving power, is gone
out of me. Now, he knew exactly who it was
that touched her, but he was saying that so she would come
and confess what took place. You see, on the cross, there
was a touch that took place. My sin came in touch with Him. It left me and became His. And His saving virtue, His righteousness,
left Him on the cross and became mine. And now I'm the very righteousness
of God. That's how I'm healed. Not by
any works that I do, but solely because of what He did for me. All that I am, He was made to
be on the cross. And all that He is, As He is,
so are we in this world. Is He righteous? So are we. Is
He holy? So are we. Everybody He died
for, everybody who trusts Him, all that He is, they are made
to be. Now, I'd like to close by reading
a passage of Scripture from Hebrews chapter 4. The writer says, Seeing
then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession,
our confession. Here's my confession. He did
it all. He is my salvation. Four, we
have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities. The reason He can be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities is He has experienced them. No,
He never sinned in His person, but all that sin is, He was made
to experience on the cross, and therefore when I groan under
my weakness, my great high priest is touched by that, moved to
sympathy. For we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
but was at all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin,
let us therefore come boldly under the throne of grace that
we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. May God give you and I the grace
to approach this glorious throne boldly through the Lord Jesus
Christ to obtain mercy and to find grace to help in time of
need. Now that is healing. by whose stripes you were healed."
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