"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. 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. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." (John 14:10-14 NKJV)
How could anyone ever even come close to comparing to the Son of God in all His wondrous works? He healed the sick and crippled, gave sight to the blind, took authority over demons to cast out man's most ancient foes while all mankind had been helpless and powerless against them, raised the dead, forgave sins, and resurrected Himself to never die again, destroying the power and fear of death for all believers. He alone said truly that He always did and said everything He heard and saw the Father do and say. He was sinless and was the only One whom the Father from heaven declared to be well-pleasing and well-loved. And the apostle John said that there were many more works that Christ did that were not documented, and that even all the books of all the libraries probably couldn't contain them all.
Some have proposed that Christ was speaking here of the works of many Christians as being greater than the works of one Christ, emphasizing quantity over quality. However, it seems rather that the works Christ spoke of would be greater according to a different and superior classification. He said the believers' works would be greater based on the reality of His return ascension to the Father. Working from heaven the resurrection life and power into our personal experiences is greater than even Christ's own perfect, prophetic, pre-Pentecost works which included being crucified and bodily-resurrected, ascending to the Father, and becoming received by each believer in order to indwell (inspire) each believer as the fullness of the God-Man from the throne of the Father and Son through the Spirit. The greater work of the believer involves God's desire for the ascended, immortal God-Man, the Lord Christ Jesus, to be working resurrection from heaven through His Spirit within the deepest parts of mortal vessels and rippling outward to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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