11TH NOVEMBER, 2024
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
LOVING LIKE JESUS
John 14:12 ESV
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Here the Lord Jesus tells us that those who believe on Him will do the works He did and even greater works.
What will be greater than raising the dead after four days in the grave, as was Lazarus; or walking on water, paying tax with a gold coin from the mouth of a fish, or feeding over 5000 people with two pieces of fish and five loaves of bread?
In one sense, the spiritual work of getting men born-again and filled with the Holy Spirit is greater than any physical miracle of healing, or even raising the dead!
However, in addition to this, what else did the Lord Jesus mean by ‘greater works’?
Observe that the majority of the Lord Jesus’ miracles were miracles of healings, deliverance, or supernatural provision that primarily benefited the individuals that received those miracles.
When the Lord speaks of ‘greater works,’ He is referring to:
Political miracles that affect whole nations and empires, like He did through Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Dan. 3:28-29).
Economic miracles like He did through Joseph that saved an entire generation (Gen. 41:57).
Environmental miracles like the famine followed by rain He did through Elijah, that brought the whole nation of Israel to repentance (1 Kgs. 17-18).
These works are ‘ greater ’ in the sense that they brought God’s influence to bear on entire nations and empires, and not just on individuals.
The Lord, like every good parent, wants us, as His children, to do greater works than He did when He was here on earth, so He reserved these greater works for us, for this end-time or, third day!
In fact, it is with these greater works we will enforce the Kingdom of God upon the earth and so disciple every tribe, tongue and kindred, to bring this dispensation to a close (Matt. 11:12; Matt. 24:14).
These greater works will be accomplished by the release of the power of the Holy Spirit without measure, which will only be entrusted to us as we grow into the perfection and fullness of Christ, by perfecting the love of God in us (Jn. 3:34).
Matthew 24:14 ESV
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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