We Are To Do The Same Works Jesus Did
...And Greater


 

Before Jesus ascended, He gave the disciples what we call the Great Commission, which is recorded in all the Gospel accounts in Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-20; Luke 24:47-49; John 20:21-23. It is of utmost importance that we understand the full implications of Jesus' command and for us to obey!

Jesus taught us by word and example, as He said in John 5:19, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

And according to John 5:30, it states, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which hath sent Me.”

In John 8:26, 28-29 “I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him. I can do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.”

The very fact that all writers of the Gospel accounts record this Great Commission, emphases its importance, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20 states, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. God ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

Mark 16:15-20 says, “And He said unto them, God ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

At the age of twelve, Jesus said to His parents in Luke 2:49, “Wist thou not that I must be about my Father's business?”(Greek: ta = the things of)

In Luke 4:18-19, we read, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Luke 24:47-49 proclaims, “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”

John 10:10 states, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”

And in John 14:12-14, Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.”

In John 20:21-23, Jesus said, “As My Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

According to Acts 1:1-8, Luke records, “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, all that Jesus began both to do and teach. Until the day in which He as taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen: To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God: And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence...But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

And in I John 3:8, it is recorded, “...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”

In light of the Scriptures above, we are taught that we as His Body are to do the works that Jesus did, and even greater!