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Although this beheading
is figurative and not literal, it nevertheless has a deep
significance.... It signifies, not only death to self-will but
also to be cut off from all other heads, governments and law-givers,
and to recognize no “Head” but Jesus, whom God has appointed to be
the Head of the Church, which is His Body the Head of every member
of it. It means not only to be cut off from institutional
heads and authorities but also to cease to have heads and wills of
our own, and to accept, instead, the Headship, the will, of our Lord
Jesus. It is the same thought that is drawn to our attention by the
Apostle in Rom. 6:3, where he declares that the Little Flock have
been baptized into the Body of Christ, as members of that
Body, under the one Head, Christ, by being baptized into His death a
full consecration of the wills, and a full laying down of the lives,
faithfully unto
death. |
