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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 right foot wanted to go one way and the other foot
wanted to go the other way? There would be chaos.