Wounded for Me

Wounded for me, wounded for me,
There on the cross He was wounded for me;
Gone my transgressions, and now I am free,
All because Jesus was wounded for me.

The Lord Jesus Christ was despised and rejected of men; He was not honored among the men of this world.  Jesus was harmless, sinless, innocent, meek and lowly in heart. His apostles, disciples and audience were fishermen, beggars, publicans and harlots.  Jesus was despised because of His birth, parents, education and outward appearance.  Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.  His entire life was one long continual string of sorrows.  He faced the hardness and unbelief of men's hearts daily.  He was exceeding sorrowful in the garden of Gethsemane, and on the Cross of Calvary He endured the wrath and justice of God the Father, and endure the pains and agonies of a shameful and accursed bloody death for His enemies' sins.

Jesus bore my sins in His own body on the tree and made satisfaction for them to divine justice.  God the Father collected all of my sins into one bundle and laid them on the Son of God.  The just judgment of God fell upon the Lamb of God - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.  Chris Jesus was wounded for my transgressions, not for any sins of His own, but for all my sins; for my rebellions against God, my transgressions of the divine law.  Our evil sin nature leads us to go the way of our own choosing and approving, into crooked paths which lead to destruction. We have turned away from God, sinned against Him, become alienated from the life of God, and His justice must now be satisfied, or we must pay for our sins.  Jesus made Atonement and Satisfaction for my sins with His own blood.

My sins were the causes of His sufferings and bloody death.  My sins were taken upon Jesus by Himself to answer for them to divine justice on my behalf.  He loved me and gave Himself for my sins.  The Blood of God manifest in the flesh has freed me from the punishment due to my sins against God.  Christ Jesus was bruised for my iniquities.  He was crushed under the weight of my sin, and the punishment due to it.

On Calvary's Cross, divine justice found my sins on Jesus; my sins were laid on Him by imputation; He voluntarily laid down His life for me; divine justice demanded full satisfaction from Him; the sin debt I owed to God was required of Him; the payment for all my sins was called for and Jesus paid the whole thing and cancelled my sin-debt with His own sinless blood.  The punishment of my sins was inflicted upon Jesus, and my peace and reconciliation with God was made by His atoning blood alone.  The vindictive justice and wrath of God took vengeance on my sins in the person of Jesus of Nazareth on Golgotha.  Jesus' suffering has appeased divine wrath, satisfied justice, and made peace with God for me.  For my transgressions was He stricken.

With Jesus' stripes my sin-sick soul has been healed.  He was beaten black and blue for my soul's sake. Sin is an inward spiritual disease which belongs to all men and women; a natural, hereditary, incurable disease which can only be cured by faith in the Precious Blood of Christ.  The healing of this disease is the forgiving of sins, and this healing is to be had in no other way, than through the wounds, stripes, blood and sacrifice of the dear Son of God.  Christ Jesus is the great Physician of the soul; He heals souls by taking our sins upon Himself, by becoming Sin, and being wounded and bruised for those sins, by enduring the blows from the angry hand of Almighty God, and suffering even death itself for those sins.