Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Our Beloved Lord Jesus Christ “was bruised for our iniquities”; not for any wrong that He had done, but “for our iniquities”! We were all conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5) and are all guilty of sin (I John 1:8-9); we are all in such a low state of Depravity that we have no way of recovering ourselves. But, the Blessed Son of God willingly offered Himself to be “bruised for our iniquities”, to endure the wrath of God against sin on our behalf. He “was bruised” to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21). We should not be surprised that he was “bruised” (Crucified) in the place where Ornan’s Threshing Floor was (1 Chronicles 21:20-23; II Chronicles 3:1). Ornan used that place, where there was a large flat rock to bruise (crush) his grain to break the husk off the kernel, and then the kernels were ground to make bread. Ornan’s threshing floor is on top of the mountain, where there is steady wind to blow away the husks, chaff. They would toss (lift up) the crushed grain into the air, the wind would blow away the chaff, but the good kernels would drop back to the threshing floor, thus separating the chaff from the wheat kernels. Thus, our most Beloved Lord Jesus Christ was “bruised” (crushed) and lifted up on the Cross and then He separated us (the kernels) from our sins (the chaff). When He had fully and finally removed our sins (chaff) from us, He authoritatively Proclaimed, “It is finished” (John 19:30). It is summed up this way, we “know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin” (I John 3:5) and He “hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Timothy 1:9)! And now, we joyfully herald, “thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Corinthians 15:57)!