JESUS,
AUTHORITY OF

GOD’S program is the summing up of all things in Christ. God’s program is quite simple. God’s agenda is bringing everything, everywhere, every how, under the tutelage, the authority, and the dominion of Jesus Christ.512

Matt. 11:27; Phil. 2:10; Col. 2:10

BRAINS don’t walk. Brains don’t talk. Brains don’t move. Brains are the control center of thought, the mind. The job of the body is to pull off the actions, movement, and operations that come from the brain’s direction. In medical science, there is the disease called myasthenia gravis and it is a disease of the nervous system. As nerves intersect with muscles, on the end of those nerves is a motor-in plate. This motor-in plate receives the signal that has been sent by the brain to the muscle and it is relayed to the muscle via the motor-in plate. If a person thinks to himself or herself, “Move your arm,” the arm would cooperate because the brain sends a message through the nerves to inform the muscle what the brain wants done. But in myasthenia gravis, there is a relay switch that’s not working. Even though the brain is sending the message, the muscle doesn’t get it because the relay switch, the motor-in plate, doesn’t transmit it. This results in the neurological disease. Now, in order to fix that, you’ve got to fix the motor-in plate.

Now, here is the problem Jesus has. The church’s motor-in plate isn’t working. Jesus sends signals and we don’t hear. It’s evident the church doesn’t hear because we don’t move. If a person tells his or her arm to move and it doesn’t, something is wrong with the brain or the arm. If the church isn’t moving, something must be wrong with either the church or the head. Jesus is the perfect Head. He’s thinking sound and only giving correct instructions. Nothing is wrong with the head. The problem is with God’s children.513

[Church, Role of; God’s Will; World, Impacting the]

1 Cor. 12:27; Eph. 1:10