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.
Hear ye Him
56-1215 §71
Now, I want to say to you, last night we took... Tonight was evangelistic call. Friends, divine healing is just a minor. And you can never major on a minor, as I said. Salvation of the soul is much greater than divine healing. Divine healing was included in the new atonement, because the old atonement had healing in it and the new one's much better, see, than the old. If the old one could furnish healing, what about the new one? But divine healing is not on the same basis as salvation. When you're born again you ge...
Gifts and callings are without repentance
50-0300 §29
...s believe Him with all of our hearts while we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, we just love You with all of our hearts. We're so thankful that Thou has redeemed us. To think that one time we were aliens, without God, without mercy. And Thy Son Jesus, came to the earth, and born a virgin birth, and He lived a spotless life, and was offered up as a sacrifice for us at Calvary. He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we are healed. Oh, the Blood that makes atonement. And tonight, by that Blood a...
God's Provided Way
53-0513 §17
He said, "Well, Rev. Branham, I want to ask you something." He said, "If I'll prove to you by the Bible that Isaiah's prophesy has already been fulfilled and done away with, according to..." He said, "Took our infirmities and so forth and bruised for our iniquities... And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "All right, Matthew 8 said that when evening was come, they brought to Him the multitudes of people that He might heal them, and He healed them all, which was to fulfill which Isaiah the prophet said, 'Himself took our...
Sirs, we would see Jesus
54-1205 §12
Now, and in there, there was an Angel came down every certain season, maybe once a month. And it troubled the water. You know what troubled waters are? Living close to this river you should know. It's when the river is coming down this way, flowing, and the wind is blowing up that way, chops it. It's very dangerous water. And when this water, with no circulation of current nowhere, but yet it chopped it and troubled it like that. An Angel come down and troubled the water. It would chop up and down. And the first ma...
Witnesses
56-1004 §19
I called him up long distance, and I said, "Sir, I want to ask you something. If a man had pneumonia tonight, and the doctors come and could give him no hope, give him some penicillin. Tomorrow he comes back, and finds out he's well on his road to recovery. In two or three days from now, the man has passed a physical examination that he's perfectly normal, no symptoms at all. He goes out and works for two years. Again takes pneumonia and dies. Was the man healed at the first place?" I said, "You don't class divine...