Mike Hutchings: Healing TRAUMA Through Jesus' Suffering

Mike Huitchings: Healing Trauma Through the Suffering of Jesus You have been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2) Pay it forward! For more videos, subscribe to King of Kings YouTube Channel here: https://bit.ly/2TRObAR If you need help with a personal problem email [email protected]. Donate to King of Kings here: http://www.kingofkingswc.com/donate/ #kingofkingsworshipcenter #mikehutchings Amen It's significant that we see this and understand it because that's what Jesus came for. Isaiah 53:5 is very significant to an understanding of the healing of trauma because, in Isaiah 53, it is a description of the suffering servant. He talks about all that the servant, that is, Messiah, was going to have to go through. In Isaiah 53:5, it says, "By his wounds we are healed." Now, I know that some translations say stripes or what have you, but literally, the translation there is by discouraging, we are healed. So, we understand that Jesus suffered on the cross, but how many of you know that he suffered before he went to the cross? He was turned over to the Roman soldiers, they beat him, they tore out his beard, they spat upon him, and then they turned him over to a professional torturer who had a Roman instrument of torture called a flagellum. With that flagellum, it had stripes of leather with bits of bone and stone at the end. They stripped Jesus naked, tied him to a whipping post, and this man beat Jesus 39 times with this flagellum. The reason why they didn't beat him 40 times is that the Romans had enough experience in this form of torture that most of the victims who went to 40 times died. So Jesus was beaten to the very edge of death. They say that after they were done with this, he was just a bloody mess. No movie, including The Passion of the Christ, could fully depict what he went through. If you think of all of the skin stripped off, you could see his bones, you could see his organs. That’s why he couldn’t carry the cross all the way. But it's important that we understand this. In 1 Peter 2:24, Peter writes, "By his wounds we were healed." What Jesus went through on the whipping post had a redemptive nature. Jesus suffered trauma on our behalf so that our trauma can be healed. I meet men and women all the time who are afraid to talk to anybody about their trauma because they say, "Nobody will ever understand." Let me say this to you—that's actually a ploy of the spirit of trauma. If I keep that stuff hidden, if I stuff it down, it's going to continue to torment me and affect me for the rest of my days. But if I allow Jesus to touch it and actually bring it up out of the darkness, then he can heal it. By the way, Jesus understands your trauma because very few people have gone through the trauma that Jesus went through. He understands. I hear people all the time talk about themselves like onions—you know, the layers thing. They think about their trauma as being so deep and so dark that they don’t ever want to go there because it's going to be too painful. "I don’t want to peel back the layers," they say. Well, guys, I don’t know anywhere in Scripture where Jesus refers to us as a vegetable. We’re not vegetables. We’re not onions. We’re human souls. What you carry are not layers of trauma—what you carry are wounds of trauma. If you allow the Holy Spirit access to those wounds, he will put his finger on each wound that he wants to deal with, and he'll heal you—if you allow him to do so. But the lie is that it’s going to be so painful to go there that I’m just afraid to even deal with that trauma. I’m saying to you—it’s not your job to deal with the trauma. It’s Jesus' job to deal with your trauma, to heal you, and to restore you in Jesus' name. It’s really important that we understand that. Ray, I’m going to flip you through a bunch of slides real quick because it’s time for lunch. I’ll go back to these later, but just advance for me a little bit until I tell you to stop. I’m not going to go through all of the symptoms of PTSD. I don’t want to trigger you for lunch and then, you know, be all a mess. We’ll do that after lunch, okay? But this is what I’m going to end with for lunch. In Japanese art culture, there’s this amazing process called kintsugi or kintsukuroi. First of all, the Japanese artists believe that every expression of art that a potter or painter creates is actually a sacred expression of their soul. Whenever a piece of pottery is broken, instead of throwing it away and making a new one, they actually take that piece of pottery and use gold or silver lacquer to put the pieces back together again. So when the pieces come back together again, not only is the original dream and design of the creator of the piece restored, but it is actually more beautiful and more valuable for having been broken. You see, you need to understand—no matter how broken you are, no matter how devastated and traumatized you are—God doesn’t throw you away. God doesn’t reach for a new one.