Is There Healing in the Atonement?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. Healing is in the atonement. Jesus paid for both sin and sickness when He shed His blood and was striped for us. By His stripes we are healed.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Isaiah 53:4-5: “Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows… with His stripes we are healed.” Matthew 8:16-17 applies this to physical sickness: “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
- 1 Peter 2:24: “By whose stripes ye were healed.” The same cross that removes sin breaks the claim of sickness.
- Psalm 103:3: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.” God ties forgiveness and healing together.
- Mark 2:9-11: Jesus showed that the authority to forgive sins and to heal the body stood together—“Which is easier…?”
- James 5:14-15: The church is commanded to pray for the sick, anoint with oil, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick. God would not ordain a promise without providing it in the sacrifice.
- Exodus typology: At the Passover (a type of Christ our Passover, 1 Corinthians 5:7), Israel came out and “there was not one feeble person among their tribes” (Psalm 105:37). The blood on the door spared, and the Lamb they partook of strengthened—pointing to salvation and healing in the Lamb.
- Numbers 21:8-9 with John 3:14: The brazen serpent lifted up for the bitten (sick, dying) foreshadows Christ lifted up. Looking and living shows healing flowing from atonement type.
- Exodus 15:26: “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” The Redeemer reveals Himself as Healer.
- 1 Corinthians 11:29-30: Not discerning the Lord’s body led to weakness and sickness—showing His broken body is our provision.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The Bible says He “bore” our sicknesses and “by His stripes we are healed.” If He bore it, we don’t have to carry it. Salvation and healing are twin benefits from the same sacrifice.
- Not all are saved though salvation is provided; it must be received by faith. So with healing—it is provided, and we receive by faith in His Word and promise.
- We still live in mortal bodies and await full redemption of the body at the resurrection (Romans 8:23). We are not promised to never die in this age, but we are given healings as a foretaste and token of that coming redemption.
- Sometimes there is delay or a trial, but unbelief limits the manifestation (Mark 6:5-6). Yet the promise stands, and the church is to obey James 5 and believe God’s Word.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the same Lord who forgives your sins is the One who heals your diseases. Come on the basis of the blood, confess His Word, be prayed for, and believe. It’s not three remedies or three works—one Lamb, one cross, one covenant—salvation and healing provided together.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
As the eagle stirreth
60-0403 §94
Now remember, healing ... If He was standing here with this suit on that He gave me, He couldn't heal you. If you come here to the platform, "Lord, will you heal me?" you know what He'd say to you? "I've already done that. I was wounded for your transgres-sions. With my stripes you were healed." Salvation and healing is a finished product. It's your faith to accept it. Now, He would do something to prove that He was Messiah. Now, these things don't prove that I'm any Messiah. I'm a sinner saved by grace. And no mat...
We would see Jesus
59-0422 §10
Now, I believe that all these things we're enjoying are of Christ, was finished for us at Calvary, that that told the story there that "He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquity, and the chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed." All something in the past, something that God has already done, and it's just our personal faith in a finished work that we get the benefits of His vicarious suffering and death at Calvary. See, it's something that God has...
Will I find faith when I return?
51-0508 §29
So I won't--we won't have to go in that because you taught that with these evangelists, and pastors, and so forth, till you know it's the truth. That the healing is in the atonement. Healing--sickness is an attribute of sin. And when Jesus killed sin, or atoned for sin, He atoned for every attribute. Everything down that was caused in the fall, Jesus atoned for it. Oh, my, that makes us feel our Methodist bones getting tickled up. Look. I don't want to get started preaching no more. So, my. Now look.
He swore by Himself
54-1212 §26
"He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace upon Him; with His stripes we were healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all." There it is. Oh, my! I think back there in the Testament, when them Old Testament prophets looked forward there, in a vision, and saw Him coming through Jerusalem going to Calvary, bearing away our sins yonder on the cross. And in there he said, "He was wounded for our transgressions." When Isa...
Hebrews, Chapter 2, part 3
57-0828 §32
No wonder Jesus could say that all powers in heaven and earth is given into My hand. God and man became One, heavens and earth embraced each other, and He was the One who could give reconciliation for our sins. That's the reason that in His name healing takes place. He knows your pains. Did you ever hear this little, old song? Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal, Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. (That's right. He knows.) When our body's racked with pain, and our health we can'...