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GREATER WORKS THAN JESUS
Today's chapter is- Matt 12
No
we are not to do greater works than the Lord Jesus but more works
together look out over the whole earth, more works are done than
Jesus because. We are called to the evangelization of the world is
that so. One light shines, but more lights together shine
more.
Unbelief in the word of God must be confessed as
sin.
Faith must be received from the Holy Spirit. HE MUST ALSO
DO THE WORKS I DO! Jesus said this to the disciples, but they were
not to do the works in their own power. I AM GOING TO THE FATHER,
SAID JESUS. OH.14 16-17 “ AND I WILL ASK THE FATHER, AND HE WILL
GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY BE WITH YOU FOREVER, THE
SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHICH THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT
SEE HIM OR KNOW HIM; BUT YOU KNOW HIM, FOR HE DWELLS WITH YOU AND
WILL BE IN YOU.”
MAT. 12-28 “ BUT IF I CAST OUT DEVILS
BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME UPON YOU.”
Here
we see how Jesus ministered in the power of God, namely the power of
the Holy Spirit.
MAT.12-15 “ WHEN JESUS KNEW IT, HE WENT
THERE FROM THERE, AND MANY FOLLOWED HIM, AND HE HEALED THEM
ALL.
Jesus healed by the power of the Spirit.
When
Jesus says you shall do greater works than I do, he refers to the
Holy Spirit, whom he will pour out upon his church. Unbelief is happy
at the word: WILL POUR OUT UPON HIS CHURCH. But faith says: HAS
POURED OUT UPON HIS CHURCH. It happened on the day of Pentecost. Have
you, dear reader, received this power in your life? It is by this
POWER that you shall do greater works in faith than Jesus did.
THUS
WE MUST RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT = THE POWER OF GOD, SO
THAT WE CAN DO THE WORKS OF GOD! This applies to all born-again
Christians. Imagine if all born-again Christians were clothed with
the power of the Holy Spirit, so that they could do greater works
than Jesus. Then the church would look different out and not be so
filled with "reasonable unbelief"! But that was what Jesus
meant by pouring out the Holy Spirit.
Then there would not
be so many "faithful Christians" in the church, but far
more who by the power of the Spirit TRUST in faith in God's promises.
And by the Spirit did the works of God.
Now I hear through
some of my readers say: YES, BUT DO YOU DO IT YOURSELF? No, I don't!
Because if you look at me, you don't see it. And if you look for the
power in others, you don't see it. BUT IF YOU LOOK FOR THE WORKS OF
THE SPIRIT, YOU WILL SEE IT. But unfortunately many look for the
human and cannot distinguish the human from the spiritual.
JESUS
WALKED AMONG THEM, BUT THEY DID NOT SEE HIM.
In the
same way, the men of God walk in the midst of the church and are
witnessed by the Spirit, but they do not see them. THEY DO NOT SEE
THE FINGER OF GOD. They only see it human. THEY DO NOT SEE IN THEIR
UNBELIEF THE WORKS PREPARED IN ADVANCE. They shut down the free
movement of the Spirit of God. JOH.3-8 “ THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT
WILLS, AND YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF IT, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT
COMES FROM AND WHERE IT GOES, SO IS IT WITH EVERYONE WHO IS BORN OF
THE SPIRIT.” So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit,
unless you yourself are filled with the Spirit, you cannot judge the
Spirit in your brother.
YOU CANNOT SEE THE WORKS OF THE
SPIRIT IN AND THROUGH HIM.
In your unbelief you can easily
become an enemy of the Spirit of God. EPH.5 17-18 “ THEREFORE BE
NOT UNFOOLISH, BUT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WILL OF THE LORD IS. AND DO
NOT GET DRUNK WITH WINE, WHICH LEADS TO DEbauchery, BUT BE FILLED
WITH THE SPIRIT.” ACTS 2 2-4 “ THEN SUDDENLY A SOUND FROM HEAVEN
AS OF A MIGHTY BLOW, AND IT FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE
SITTING. AND THERE APPEARED TO THEM TONGUES AS OF FIRE, AND THEY
DIVIDED AND SIT ON EACH ONE OF THEM. AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THEY BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, AS THE
SPIRIT ACTUALLY GAVE THEM THEY.”
Then Peter spoke and
preached:
ACTS 2-22 “ FELLOW ISRAELITES! HEAR THESE WORDS:
JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO YOU BY POWERFUL
WORKS AND WONDERFUL SIGNS, WHICH GOD DID THROUGH HIM IN YOUR MIDST,
AS YOU YOURSELVES KNOW.”
Peter referred to the works of
Jesus as proof that God was with Him. In short, it is the same works
that must follow Christians who are baptized with the Holy Spirit
that prove that God is with them.
ACTS 3 2-8 “ AND A MAN
WHO HAD BEEN LAMB FROM HIS MOTHER’S WORSHIP WAS BEING CARRIED
THERE, WHO WAS USED TO SIT EVERY DAY AT THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY
WHICH IS CALLED BEAUTIFUL, TO ASK ALMIGHTY OF THEM WHO ENTERED THE
SANCTUARY. HE FOUND PETER AND JOHN AS THEY WERE GOING INTO THE
SANCTUARY, AND ASKED THEM TO GIVE HIM ALMIGHTY. THEN PETER LOOKED AT
HIM FAST, AND JOHN DID THE SAME, AND PETER SAID, “LOOK AT US!”
AND HE PAID CAREFULLY ATTENTION TO THEM, AS HE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE
SOMETHING FROM THEM.
BUT PETER SAID, “SILVER AND GOLD I
HAVE NOT, BUT WHAT I HAVE, THAT GIVE THEE: IN THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST OF NAZARETH, RISE UP AND WALK!” AND HE TOOK HIM BY THE
RIGHT HAND AND RAISED HIM UP. AND IN THE SAME TIME HIS LEGS AND
ANKLES BECAME STRONG, AND HE LEAPED UP AND STAND UP AND BEGAN TO WALK
AROUND, AND HE FOLLOWED THEM INTO THE SANCTUARY, WHERE HE WALKED
AROUND AND LEAPED AND PRAISED GOD.”
Petare referred to
the signs and wonders of Jesus in his sermon, but he also went out
after being baptized with the Holy Spirit and did the same works as
Jesus.
THIS IS WHAT WE CHRISTIANS ARE CALLED TO AFTER WE
HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
We not only have
faith in God's promises for our own situation, when it comes to our
temporal things and our own bodies, but also for the situation of
others around us.
LET US NOT BE UNBELIEVERS, BUT
BELIEVERS!
Amen
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