The Greater Works Of Those Who Believe

When I speak poorly or act sexually inappropriately, or whenever I live according to the ways of the world, watch me repent, and watch me confess, and watch me state that's contrary to God. I was disobedient in that moment. He is still my Lord and King. I want to repent, make amends, and begin to walk with him again." If that is not a normal part of your life, then you might be a church attender, you might be a regular attender, but you are an irregular believer, or something far worse. What this verse is telling you is full devotion is normal. Everybody who believes the works Jesus did, even greater works will he do.

There are a couple of things I have to do here. First of all, I have to say if by greater works we mean more miracles, all of us are in trouble. Every single one of us. I've never turned water into wine. I have never healed a dying political official's son. I have never walked into Scottish Rite and had lame people begin to walk because of me. I have never fed 5,000. I've never walked on water. I've never healed a man born blind. I've never raised anybody from the dead. That's called 0 for 7, just in John alone.

I don't know anybody who has. Benny Hinn? No. People have offered Benny Hinn, who seems to like money, tens of thousands of dollars if he can substantiate even one miracle he has done medically that can be authenticated. It hasn't been collected yet. Let me tell you something. If you misunderstand this text, you're going to be given off to all kinds of crazy things. You're either going to become an individual who is prone to emotional experiences, counterfeit evidences that God is at work in your midst…

You're going to give yourself over to intellectualism. You're going to give yourself over to what I would call deadness and ritual. You're going to be bored to death, and the church is not going to look like God's work on earth. It's going to be craziness, or it's going to be comatose. Those are two things you see most often in the church, because people misunderstand what the works are. If by greater works we mean more miracles, we are deeply in trouble.

Can I just tell you something? There was this thing. For centuries, the church has always believed greater works were not directly associated with signs and wonders. Then, really in the 70s and 80s, there was this whole signs and wonders movement that really rose up, and it just resurfaces in little blurbs here and there all along the way. I got involved with some folks who were trying to help deliver and rescue people who were caught up in the signs and wonders movement.

We did some investigative work on them. We saw the chicanery, old carnival tricks, the deception that was being used right here. Dallas, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma were the epicenter of them. I could tell you stories that would just make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and make you go, "These are false teachers who are exploiting men, who mingle some truth with great deception in order to make people think they are prophets and apostles of God."