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.
An Ensign
53-0606 §31
I was talking to a man here not long ago. He said, "Preacher, do you believe that divine healing is by the atonement?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Why, if I prove to you that's wrong, will you believe what Isaiah said that about...?" I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "If I prove to you that's wrong, will you accept it?" I said, "Yes, sir. If you prove it's wrong, God knows I want to be right with God." I said, "I certainly want to be right with God." So, he said, "If I prove to you it's wrong, then you'll accept it?" "Ye...
God has a Provided Way
54-0404E §52
The serpent spake of divine judgment, to appease God. His judgments are divine. And, then, the pole represented the cross. And the serpent represented Jesus, the lovely Lord Jesus; He came down and was made sin. God Himself revealed Himself in a body, made like unto sinful flesh, to take away sickness and sin from the world. How beautiful! In there He made a way. Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up." Now, what was the brass serpent lifted up for?...
We would see Jesus
62-0627 §87
And now, if that man was sick, and anything I could do to help him, I sure would do it. I'd help him. I'd do everything I could to help him. And if I could heal him, I'd certainly do it right quick. But healing doesn't lay in me. Healing is something that's already been done. "By his stripes we were healed." Every sin was forgiven when Jesus died at the cross. Every sinner was forgiven. If it wouldn't, God would destroy the whole world now. It's the blood of Jesus Christ, like a bumper, that holds the world togethe...
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by
58-0524 §18
And you would say, "Well, Brother Branham, what about penicillin when he got a bad cold?" That's something like: What if you had a house full of rats and was eating holes through the walls? And you went and got some rat poison and poisoned the rats. That doesn't patch the holes. That only kills the rats. So that's the way it is with healing, see. Penicillin kills the germ, but God has to build up where it has been, see. God is the healer every time. God is the healer. So God does the healing. And He's already did i...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
55-0603 §5
Now, tonight being it's the beginning night, and everyone comes out, and just about one-tenth of the people has ever been in the meeting before. It becomes a place, no matter what I would talk about... First thing, we ought to place this on the Scripture. Have a little meeting tonight, and tomorrow night we'll gather again, if God willing, and continue on. And as you... If you don't understand, you just promise this: that you'll keep coming, looking into it, studying the Scriptures. Bring your pencil and paper. Run...