Episode 352: I’m Talkin…Whipped

I’m talking episode 352 for January 12th, 2025.

This is Joel from the I’m talking microcast, where I share my thoughts on a topic that has piqued my interest this past week.

This week we’re talking whipped.

So I have to go backwards a little bit.

Last week, my word was planned and I told you I was trying to come up with a way to record or what was I going to do for this year’s microcast.

And what I’ve chosen to do is to, I’ve got a number of verses.

I think it’s 30.

It may be a little bit more, um, that I found an article that said all Christians should have these verses memorized.

And so I’m going to work on memorizing those throughout this year.

And in that I’m going to take a verse as I work on its memorization and pick a word or maybe two words or three words, however many I feel like I want to do and have those be the word for my microcast.

It may be a little different because I might not always get into what the world thinks of these words.

And then going into the, as a Christian we’re challenged the way I’ve done it in the past, I don’t know, few hundred episodes, I guess, but we’ll see how it goes from here.

So the first verse I’m working on is Isaiah 53, five that says he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sin.

He was beaten so we could be whole.

He was whipped so we could be healed.

And so that is where the word whipped comes from.

I’m using a new living translation to do this Bible memorization a little bit, maybe easier just in the wording to memorize it, I think, in my opinion.

So whipped is an interesting word and a word that the world does use oftentimes in reference to being very, very tired after a long day, maybe, or in a sports reference where one team just dominated the other team.

And we could say they were whipped or the day has whipped me or I’m feeling whipped.

Those are the things that the world uses in reference to this word.

But the challenge for those of us who call ourselves Christians is to view it in an entirely different light.

Maybe one of the more common or well-known versions of this verse uses the phrase, he, by his stripes, we are healed.

And it has a similar connotation, obviously, that the stripes come from being whipped and, and the references to his death on the cross.

So this is something that Isaiah is writing about centuries before it ever came to pass.

And anyone actually knew what the day of crucifixion for Christ was going to be like.

But I don’t think we understand the word whipped in the sense that it was used on our savior and it’s hard to visualize.

And there’ve been movies, you know, the passion of the Christ and it’s hard to watch.

But the, but the reality is the idea there is that he bore the penalty for our sin.

That’s what the beginning of the verse talks about crushed for our sin.

He made a way for us to be righteous before a Holy God.

He made a way for us to be quick, to be declared worthy of a presence with a Holy God.

And that is what it means to be healed.

So when it says he was whipped so that we could be healed, that means we don’t have to go through that pain and agony.

Christ did that for us and gave us salvation, gave us the right to be called children of God, and it’s something we should be thankful for daily.

And when we remember it should humble us and maybe even regularly bring tears to our eyes.

Until next week, this is Joel from the I’m Talking Microcast.