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digest your food without your brain. Voluntary and involuntary
movements are from your brain. All of your five senses are
controlled by your brain. All your emotions are controlled by
your brain. If your brain is broken, 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,
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