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.
The waters of separation
55-0606 §26
How can you, brother, teach the Gospel, without including divine healing? Can't be done. It's inseparable. He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. Same Christ; same thing; same blood. Sickness is a penalty of sin. All sickness come from sin. May not directly from your sin, but inherited. Before we had any sickness, we had no sin. When sickness came... When sin came... Sickness is an attribute, or a result of sin. And you cannot deal with sin in any matter, unless you deal with sickne...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
52-0810E §3
In the garden of Eden, He told man, He made a covenant with man not to eat of that tree. But they did it anyhow. But then after that, He said, "I will put enmity." See? "I will." That covenant doesn't break. That's what God did, see. And He turned men and women back to the dust of the earth, from where they come. They go right back. And someday He's promised to redeem that again to its original state. He will do it. Now, God will do it. And that's what we're all striving for, for the good of salvation to lost souls...
Hear ye Him
57-0125 §11
And may the Lord add His blessing to the reading of His Word. Now, for a text tonight, if it should be called that... And no matter in any kind of service, the Word should have preeminence. It should be first. And the healing of the soul is always first, for when a man is born again of the Spirit of God, he has immortal, eternal life, and shall never perish. But when a man is healed of his body, it is just for a limited time. But salvation of the soul is forever. He becomes a new creature in Christ when he's healed...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0312 §20
Now, there's not a medicine in the world can heal you. Now, remember that. There's no medicine, no doctor, no clinic, ever healed one person. All healing comes from God. Could you hear that? All healing is from God. I believe that God's Word is so infallible that there is not one iota of it that's wrong. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord who heals all your diseases." If there could be anything else heal you besides God, then God told something wrong. And remember, when the circumstances arise, and the way God acts i...
God provided a Lamb
56-0614 §5
Someone not long ago was discussing it with me---a very fine scholar, and he could speak words that I know nothing about---and so, he said, "Brother Branham, I believe you're sincere, but" said, I'm sure that you're wrong when you teach divine healing, because you can't place divine healing in the atonement." He said, "Do you preach divine healing from the atonement?" I said, "Every redemptive blessing is by the atonement." And he said, "Well, I'll prove to you that it isn't in the atonement." I said, "Well, I woul...