The Great Exchange
Christians proclaim to follow God and to believe in His Son, Jesus. We call Him Jesus Christ, but Christ is not his last name. That word in the Greek means the Anointed One. In the Old Testament, it points to the word Messiah. Do you know what the name of Jesus means, or in Hebrew, Yeshua? In Matthew 1:21, we see that Mary will bear a Son, and she will call Him Jesus. Then she was told what her Son would do. He will save his people from their sins. The name Jesus directly means Savior and is derived from the Hebrew verb yasha, which means to save, to rescue, or to deliver.
Lately, my studies focus on His Name, His purpose, and His Cross. The main passage of Isaiah 53, along with other companion passages, as well as a teaching by Derek Prince, caused me to refocus on the work of the cross.
Many years ago, during a worship service, the Holy Spirit gave me a vision. As Jesus and I walked up a hill, a cross came into view. He said to me, I want to teach you more about the cross. At the cross, a great exchange took place, and we often overlook the finished work. Let’s look at 7 or 8 great exchanges Jesus did for us on the cross. This is certainly not all. These exchanges are taken largely from Isaiah 53.
Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven. The sin issue is finished. It was finished on the cross. Jesus said so.
Jesus has borne our pain and carried our sicknesses that we might be healed. He was wounded that we might be healed! He took 39 stripes on His back, every sickness and disease known and unknown to man, He bore it.
Jesus was bruised for our iniquities and crushed (in His soul) that we might live free and righteous. (II Corinthians 5:21/Isaiah 53:10). The Hebrew word for iniquity is avon is means moral perversity, guilt, consequences, wrongdoing, fault.
Jesus was made sin for our sinfulness so that we may be made righteous with His righteousness!
Jesus tasted death for us, that we might share His Life. As Christians, we will not die the second death unto perdition (Hebrews 2:9).
Jesus became a curse for us so that we may receive the blessing. (Galatians 3:13-14, Deuteronomy 28)
Jesus endured our poverty that we might share in His wealth. (Philippians 4:19). We are seated with Jesus in Heavenly places, called to be joint-heirs with Him. All that is His He has given to us.
These last two, I believe, we deal with today possibly more than the others. If we do not believe that our sin debt was paid for on the finished work of the cross, we will forever carry our shame and guilt, feeling rejected by the only One who can truly accept us.
Jesus endured our shame that we might share in His Glory. Paul tells us in II Corinthians 3:18 that we go from glory to glory. The more that is revealed to us about the cross, the more we glory in the risen Savior.
Jesus endured rejection that we might receive acceptance. Psalm 22, a prophetic Psalm of David, declared the words that Jesus would say from the cross. “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? For a moment in time, as Jesus took on all the sinfulness of the world, He was rejected by the Father, only to be accepted, through His obedience of the cross, and to be exalted in the Heavens.
Listen again to the list above. Pick one and meditate on it. Ask Father God to get it in your spirit. First, we believe it is true, and then understanding will come.
I pray you spend some time with the Father this week. Thank you for your time. Share with a friend your faith and watch your faith grow.
Before the foundation of the world, the Lamb was slain - Jesus said yes to His Father to be the substitute for all of mankind.
What satan stole through lies and deception, God bought back through the sacrifice of His Son.
Learn more about the great exchange in the video link by Derek Prince.
https://youtu.be/ooHwUHikehg?si=c8d4O3NG648qtdye
Dr. Michele Morgan
September 7, 2025
