We received an email from Scotty, he asks,

Jesus said, when the Holy Spirit comes, we will do greater works than Jesus Himself did.

What does He mean and how should these greater things be manifesting themselves in the lives of us as followers of Christ?

That is such a perennially good and important and hard question.

Let me just read the verse because you left out part of it and it might be the hardest part.

Truly true, this is John 14 to a truly truly SAQ, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do.

Not just greater, but that I do, which is mind blowing enough.

And greater works than these will he do because I am going to the front of that's the verse.

And so here are several things to observe.

Number one, if he is not a statement that certain Charismatically gifted people would do greater works.

This says, every single believer, every single believer, whoever believes in me will do my works and greater ones.

Okay? Everybody.

Nobody's off the hook here and we can't say, oh, there's a miracle happening over in Zion or something.

I got raised in the dead and maybe there's four of those and GC only did three, below me.

I just absolutely ridiculous. It's not what the verse is talking about.

And so the first thing we have to do is realize it says every believer will do my work.

So Jesus turned water into wine.

He blew the mind and read the mind of the luminance of Mary.

He healed the official son, the healed men, crippled for 38 years.

He turned a little pain of los and fishes and did enough to feed 5,000.

He walked on water. He opened a blind man's eyes and he raised Lazarus from the dead.

Every believer will do that, right?

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