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Let me give a second principle. Union with Christ is not only
Lordship, it’s the flow of His life. There are two great pictures. One
is the vine and the branches and the other is the title that Christ is
the head of the body. In the New Testament the word “head” is used
several different ways. One is that Adam was the head of the race
and Christ is the last Adam, the head of the race.

Sometimes the word “head” is like the head of a company.
Ephesians 1:22, “And He put all things in subjection under His feet,
and gave Him as head over all things to the church.” 1 Corinthians
11:3, “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every
man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of
Christ.” It’s the head like an authority. Colossians 2:10, “…and in
Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule
and authority.”

I don’t want to talk about the federal headship of Christ. I don’t
want to talk about headship being about authority. Colossians
2:18&19, “Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by
delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking
his stand on visions he has seen inflated without cause by his fleshly
mind, 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.” Christ is the head of the body
and the body is to lay hold of the head. But in Colossians the word
“head” is the word “brain”. He’s the head of the body and it’s saying
that he is the brain of the body. His life flows like life from the
brain.

My grandmother used to call me “Butchie” and she was always
arguing with me. She kept saying, “Butchie, use your head.” What
she meant was to use my brain to think! My grandmother didn’t
give me a lot of spiritual advice but through the years I remember
those words, “Use your head,” because my head is Christ. I want to
use my head. Jesus is my head.