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earth. You can’t breathe without your brain. You can’t 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.