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“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.
Christ is our head. My hand does not know that it’s a
hand. My foot doesn’t know it’s a foot. My ear doesn’t know
it’s an ear but if my hand lives for the pleasure of my brain, and
my foot lives for the pleasure of the brain, there will be no
problem in my body. Christ is not only the One who gives and
provides but as the Head He is the unifier. When the members
receive the life from the Head, they have one life. There is no
life center in my hand and no life center in my leg or in my foot.
My paternal grandmother had sugar diabetes and a very severe
case. They had to amputate her right arm. She still lived
because there is no life center in her right arm. Then it got
worse and they had to amputate her left arm. She was still alive
because there is no life center in her left arm. Then they had to
cut off both her legs. She was just a stump but she was still
alive.
The body has one life and that life is Christ. As the body
gives life to the members, the members are united to the brain
and they are also united to each other. If you are rightly related
to Jesus and I’m rightly related to Jesus, we are one. When I
get up in the morning I don’t have a committee meeting with
the members of my body. I don’t say to my hand, “Alright
hand, take the covers and pull them off. And right foot, you get
out of bed first and then left foot, you make sure you follow.”
Imagine if my right hand had a will of its own and my left hand
had a will of its own and my foot had a will of its own and my
right foot wanted to go one way and the other foot wanted to go
the other way? There would be chaos.
My nose might say, “I want to go out and smell flowers.”
My back says, “I want to go to bed.” My mouth says, “I’m
hungry.” My hand says, “I want to throw a ball.” What
confusion! That’s the confusion in the church today. It’s
because they don’t have one life. Every Christian has his own
life. One wants to go one way and one wants to go the other
way. That’s why He says, “Hold fast the head because then
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