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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.
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
