Jesus Beaten

Looking at Matthew 27 we firstly learnt that Jesus was Scourged – when we looked at what this meant we realised that he was beaten to being unrecognisable.

In Isaiah 53:5 it says
“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.”

We learnt that he was “defiled for our transgressions” and “destroyed for our iniquities” and “by his stripes we are healed.”

Picture that by being scourged Jesus takes on our sin, the most perfect precious person that ever lived took was defiled by our sin and every time he was whipped he was taken on our sin – It made him unrecognisable in how much he was beaten.  Why? Because sin destroys that which is pure.  

God allows sin to be destroyed completely, the spotless lamb Jesus was defiled by our sin and then beaten to pieces for our sin.   Jesus was not a criminal: But we are! Like the bond women who has been defiled by the wrong man(Leviticus 19:20); we have been defiled by the wrong man – We are supposed to be Gods but we have bowed down to the lusts of the World and the god of it namely Satan.  We are defiled and need that sin beaten from us but Gods grace means He gives His only Son to take that punishment for us which results in the last phrase of Isaiah 53:5.
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Jesus is scourged, His flesh is ripped from Him and He is unrecognisable.  He has taken all our sin our defilement on Him and then destroyed it; so that we can be healed or made whole.