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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
there is one life in the body.” If one hand is related to my head,
and the other hand is related to my head, it’s perfect unity. If
you are related to Jesus and I’m related to Jesus, we are one.

We don’t need to have unity in the church by having many
programs. The way to be one is to hold fast to the Head. I want
to show you the difference between light and life. The strength
of unity is in life. Different Christians have different light.
Some see it one way and some see it another way. When you
base unity on light, there is division. The Calvinists see it one
way and he goes that way. The Armenians see it another way
and he goes that way. The dispensationalists see it one way and
he goes that way. Those in the Covenant Theology see it
another way and they go that way. One person says, “We need
all the spiritual gifts.” Another says, “The gifts don’t exist