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.
Fellowship
55-0813 §15
The reason that God included divine healing... How could you take it out of the gospel when He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed? The same blood from the same man on the same day: One for salvation, one for healing. To deny one is to deny the other. They've just turned it around today. In the days of Jesus here on earth in a physical body, they said, "We know He can heal, but He makes Himself God by forgiving sins." Now today, they say, "He's all right, He can forgive sins, but He...
Sirs, we would see Jesus
57-0104 §67
Now, if Jesus was raised from the dead, and He was standing here tonight with this suit on that He gave me down in Africa, and... Now, if this man was sick and say, "Lord, I want You to heal me," what would Jesus say? "I've already done that, child of Mine, don't you know I..." He don't do things twice. He can only do it once. He can't make an atonement for healing, then turn around and make another atonement for it. He's done made the atonement and that settles it. But He would know him, would be something like He...
We would see Jesus
58-0523 §14
And now, how do we teach divine healing today? That He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. Now, when you say... If I say in this little group tonight, "How many of you've been saved, got saved last year?" Well, some of you'd raise your hands. "How many got saved twenty years ago?" Some would raise their hands. Well, that's potentially the truth, but yet it isn't all the truth. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you. You just accepted your pardon a year ago...
The healing of Jairus' daughter
55-0227E §12
Our Heavenly Father, as we come upon the grounds of the shed blood of Jesus, O God, give us the vision tonight, of seeing what that was. When Emmanuel's veins were plucked and drawed out the blood cell of the dying Lamb of God. Through there, through sin, breaking the blood cell, freeing the life inside, that now the worshiper coming to God, comes through the shed blood of the innocent Lamb of God, entering into Zoe, the life of God, Himself, becoming then a son and daughter of God, upon the basis of the shed blood...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0207 §17
Now, the corporal body was a dwelling place of God. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And this body was put to death at Calvary for an atonement. There's where He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. And God lifted that body up on the third day, alive again, and it sits at His right hand tonight in glory to make intercessions upon our confession. He is our High Priest. He is to intercede for us where we make a confession. And anything that He did in His all-sufficie...