Can we really do the works that Jesus did? And greater works than these will he do

The biggest problem with the perception of the supernatural and Christianity

The biggest problem with the perception of the supernatural and Christianity is that it ties heavily into the uneducated, poor countries of the third world, and it is out of fashion with the educated western first world. That mentality is precisely what blocks the flow of the supernatural I’m on the church or Christians. Also the I did that that has been grossly affected in an influence by the enlightenment period in the 1600s that essentially put science and logical thinking recently on the throne and replaced God as a supernatural. In fact, model philosophy in science essentially find ways and means to remove anything supernatural from the Bible and reject them, but embracing the moralistic teachings of Christ without the spirit of the supernatural. And that has in my opinion, largely hampered, the growth of the church, especially in the western world. I heard from Jon Tyson’s podcast, so interesting. He shared his crew leaving New York City to go to do missions in Latin America. He said that just before leaving for Latin America, they’ve done the same thing praying for the sick and nothing much happened at all. But when they arrived at Latin America and laying hands and praying for the sick, healing begin to happen. He’s spoken just that it’s almost like when you’re boarded the plane in LaGuardia or JFK, flight attendant announced, welcome and getting ready as we are embarking towards the destiny of the supernatural. Funny it may sound, but there’s a lot of truth in it.

The biggest need is to have a intellectual discourse and papers and books published regarding the simplicity in the validity of miracles from the ministry of Jesus. We talked about it. We argued against it, we argued for it, or worse just being silent about it, meaning apathy, but Jesus just did it.

Greek word “do” in John 14

John 14:12–14 (ESV)

¹² “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. ¹³ Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Do…. ποιέω (Hom.+)

of divine activity, specifically of God’s creative activity create (Hes., Op. 109; Heraclitus, Fgm. 30 κόσμον οὔτε τις θεῶν οὔτε ἀνθρώπων ἐποίησεν, ἀλλʼ ἦν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ ἔσται;^[1]

The Creative Power of God in Healing

When Jesus said whoever believes in me will do the works I’ve been doing, and they would do even greater things than this, because I’m going to the father, that word do means a divine activity called specifically of God’s creative activity. So in order to do the works of Jesus in this world like he promised here, we essentially are called and privileged enough to do the creation work of God and that makes sense because God has called us to work with him to renew all things on earth and that involves new creation.  Matt 19: ²⁸ Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

For a man or woman to be transformed and be renewed in our heart of soul by the by the word of God and the Holy Spirit, that is a new creation.  Rom 12 ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Think in terms of the creation power of God

And that’s why Jesus called us to do healing, praying for the sick and cast out demons etc and that applies to this modern day as well, it means to be involved in the creative power of God and in that sense and only in that sense, we will do even greater than what Jesus has been doing from there overall perspective of the body of Christ the Church of Jesus. Helpful in order to see the works of the supernatural in our life in the 21st century in America in the big cities like New York City, we will need to think in terms of the creation power of God and that will wake us up to totally realize that it is a supernatural work of God my hip alone.

The Danger of throwing out the Supernatural because of some bad past historically

And along that line, to refute the supernatural works in our modern days it’s essentially refueling the creation activity of God through us. Do not think that God is not doing any more creation activity today because it is finished in Genesis chapter 2, or at the end of Acts, but the ongoing work as Romans 1 says, “be transformed by the renewing of our mind”, and that is the creative activity of God the Holy Spirit. And that’s why Jesus said, “unless you are born again you can enter the Kingdom of God,” (John 3:3)— that again is a new creation activity of God in the name of Jesus by the Holy Spirit. And therefore it would be foolish for us to abandon all this supernatural mindset, and just dwell in our comfort zone of intellectual zone because that will be denying the creative power of God in our modern times.

What we need is a totally new once intellectual understanding of the supernatural through biblical theology and systematic theology

So that we can do offer it to the body of Christ the supernatural in how Jesus did it and not how it’s been all squandered and mired up in the charismatic excess, sadly, that we have heard like the Toronto blessings for example and the rest. We must not let some bad apples destroy our pursuit on what Jesus said greater things you shall do. And indeed Paul himself also said do not stop speaking in tongues and eagerly desire to prophecy.

1 Corinthians 14:38–40 (ESV)

³⁸ If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. ³⁹ So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. ⁴⁰ But all things should be done decently and in order.

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^[1] William Arndt, Frederick W. Danker, Walter Bauer, and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature, 2000, 839.