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you are paralyzed. You wouldn’t know anything; who you are or
how to relate to the world that you live in.

I’m not trying to impress you with facts about the brain. It’s a
picture of Christ. Your brain weighs about three pounds. Your brain
has nine million two hundred thousand nerves. It has more than nine
billion neurons. It’s an amazing thing that God has given us! And
it pictures Jesus in relationship and union with His body.

Colossians 2:19, “…and not holding fast to the head, from whom
the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and
ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.” The brain is a
giver. The body is a receiver. That is the simplicity of union with
Christ; His life flows.

Let me break that down into a couple of spiritual truths. As my head
and brain, Christ does two things. He not only commands me but
then He enables me to obey the command. He not only gives the
command but He gives the power to do it. The brain tells my hand
to move and then gives me the power to move. My brain tells my
foot to walk and then He gives me power to walk. My ear doesn’t
know it’s an ear but when God talks to my ear, my ear listens.

Christ is my head and He gives a command. So, Christ says,
“Husbands, love your wives like Christ loved the church.” Then He
enables you to do that. “Hold fast the head!” The head says,
“Rejoice evermore!” Then He enables you to do that. “In
everything give thanks.” Then He enables you to do that. My head
gives the command and then the power. Why could Jesus say to the
man with the withered hand, “Stretch out your hand?” It’s because
He enabled him to stretch out his hand. Why could Jesus say to the
crippled man, “Take up your bed and walk?” It’s because He
enabled him to take up his bed and walk. That’s the ministry of the
head and brain. Why could Jesus take a humped over woman of
eighteen years and say, “Stand up straight!” It’s because He enabled
her to stand up straight! Why could Jesus command, “Lazarus,
come forth?” It’s because He enabled him to live again.