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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.

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