John 14:12 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.

Jesus brought people back from the dead, healed the lame, restored sight, drove out demons, caused lepers to be whole again, how in the world could we do greater works than these? That question plagued me for some time. It wasn’t until the Lord showed me when He said it, that it started to make sense.

Jesus said this before He died on the cross and was resurrected. That one event changed the world. The Good News wasn’t the Good News when He said it. Now it is. If you will consider that all the works Jesus did before the cross was only temporal and that they had no effect on the eternal, then what came after is a greater work.

Lazarus isn’t some two thousand year old man walking the earth still, he died again. The sick that were healed, they got sick again. But we get to deliver the Good News and that lasts for all eternity.

2 Corinthians 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

This is our greater works.