The Passion of Christ - Part 6

Scourged For Our Wholeness

In the scourging scene in the same movie, Jesus stood up again after the first round of scourging. If you watch the scene, you will feel like sating, "Stay down!" Because by standing up, He made the Roman soldiers angrier and they changed their whips to those with hooks to inflict more pain. According to historical studies of Roman scourgings, these hooks go right into the victim's flesh, and rip pieces of flesh from the body!

And Jesus was probably not scourged 39 times according to the Jewish law of 40 stripes minus one. (Deuteronomy 25:3, 2 Corinthians 11:24) The Roman soldiers who carried out the scourging hated Jews and would nt have observed their law. We do not know how many times Jesus was whipped, but it was enough to expose the bones on His back! In Psalm 129:3, it says, "The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long." In Psalm 22:17, it says, "I can count My bones. They look and stare at Me," You don't see that in the movie, so, actually, the movie is still not that violent.

The Bible also say that "by His stripes we are healed". (Isaiah 53:5) Jesus took every one of those painful lashes because He had to pay the full price for our health. By those stripes, your cancer died. By those stripes, your child's asthma died. By those stripes, we ar emade whole and strong!

Some people think that God has mood swings. If He is in a good mood today, He will heal you. If He is in a bad mood, He will not heal you. How can you put your faith in a God of moods? No, God of His Word. He will heal you because His Sin has paid the price for your healing. And His Son's work is perfect.

Till today, what thought runs in your mind?