Dr. Bernard in John 1412, Jesus said something that frankly sounds a little incredible.

He told his disciples, and I'm quoting, he said, most assuredly I say to you,

he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than these he will do

because I go to my father. Now, I think about the fact that Jesus walked on water,

multiplied bread and fish to feed thousands of people. He cleansed lepers. He made the lame walk.

He had caused blinded eyes to be open and even raised the dead.

I don't even, I don't think the most faith-filled person in a church would say they have done

greater works than Jesus did. So if that's the case, how do we interpret what Jesus told his disciples?

I think the answer is fairly simple, understanding the word greater.

In the Greek from Megas, we get mega.

The simple explanation is it doesn't mean greater in quality, but greater in quantity.

So normally this word would mean more bigger, larger, taller, greater, more numerous,

multiplied. And so I think the very simple understanding is Jesus is making a very practical

statement. You're going to do more works than I did. You know, I healed X number of sick

people over the course of time. Believers are

going to be filled with the spirit. The church is going to spread around the world. You're going to

pray for people and you're going to have thousands of people healed more than what I did.

So there were certain miracles that do seem to be unique to Jesus as representing

his deity and obviously we're not God like Jesus is and so we're not going to duplicate that

only Jesus could forgive sins we cannot do that Isaiah 45 says that Yahweh is the only Savior

there's no one else so we cannot save like Jesus. We cannot

die for people's sins. We cannot forgive people's sins. We cannot do creative miracles. There could be

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