So let's have a look at it, Isaiah 53, Verse 4: Surely He has borne our griefs, He's carried our sorrows; we esteemed Him stricken and smitten by God, but He was afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions, or pierced through for our transgressions. He was bruised for our inequities. The chastisement for our peace, lack of peace was upon Him. By His stripes we were healed, and we all like sheep have gone astray. We've all turned, every one, to his own way and the Lord put on Him the inequity of us all. Now I'm not going to open all that up but I'm going to go through piece by piece and have a look at where and how Jesus shed His blood, and you'll see all of them are included.
There are different things that the blood of Jesus was shed to do in our life. If you just say well He just shed His blood for my sins, Jesus, please forgive me and I'm getting on my way now, that'll be fine. Thank you for forgiving me. Now God will operate with you when you're a young Christian certainly, just through simple prayer like that, but as we grow He wants us to understand the completeness of the work, so we can lay hold of all the fullness of what He's done for us, because I've observed that many people come to Christ, they experience the initial joy of their forgiveness and salvation, and often don't stay in a place of life. Much of it is because of an internal wrestling with feeling guilty, something's wrong with me, not good enough. Something seems to keep landing on the soul they can't seem to get a victory over - struggles that go on, old issues seem to come up. There's a remedy for all of these things.
You've got to know what the remedy is, and how the remedy applies, so let's have a look at the first one then. So the first thing we'll do there is we're going to ask you then, if you can identify how many places you felt Jesus shed His blood? Probably you'll come up with a few of them. See if we can get all the seven? Where would be the first place that you can just think of? The head? The head was one, yeah, yeah, okay. Another one? Hands - must have been the hands, yeah, nails and hands. The back, yes, okay, the back, yes. Side, yes, spear in the side, yeah. Feet. Okay, we've got it. Five - internal bleeding, yes. And the blood - good, you got a whole seven, that's fantastic.
Okay, let's go through each one of them and have a look at each one of them in turn. The first - not necessarily in the order of importance, but I want to pick the last two are the very important ones, very, very important. First, Jesus, when He was crucified on the cross they drove great spikes through his wrists. When the Bible's talking about your hands, whenever the Bible's talking about your hands, it's always referring to the work you do, because you do things with your hands. If you have no hands, it's very hard to work, so with our hands we work, so when we talk about hands we're talking about the works that we do. In the Bible the first sin was committed with hands. You know, Even took the fruit with her hands. She gave the fruit to her husband. He took it and he ate it, with his hands.
The first murder was committed by the hands of Cain. Cain slew his brother, so the Bible tells us very clearly that by the hands of a man, sin came. In other words, your hands then is a picture of every work that you do, the things that we do. Now you can think of the things that you've done with your hands that you're a little ashamed of, things that you've done with your hands that you wish you hadn't done, areas of our life where we've done things with our hands, the works of our hands, literally the things we've done that we feel a sense of shame or guilt or regret about. All the works of our hands - now Jesus when He died on the cross, they pierced through. Now they didn't put it through His hand - it would have just torn off the cross. What they did is they drove two big spikes just at the base of the hand, right there just in this part of the wrist here where there's a gap between the bones. It is also the place where there's a major nerve. Now if you were to get your hand - if I hold my hand up like this and I just start to squeeze into my - now you can see like that, just involuntarily when I put my finger on that nerve that runs down inside my arm, the hand begins to shrivel up. You just can't stop it.