If you’re a believer, you have an inward desire to live the way Jesus did when He was on earth. You long to BLESS people like He did. To lay hands on the sick and see them recover. To impart to them the Love and life of God.
Why?
First of all, because you’re born again in His image. Second, because Jesus Himself said that’s the way you’re called to live. “Verily, verily, I say unto you,” He said in John 14:12, “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.”
Notice Jesus didn’t say, “Those who are called to fivefold ministry will do My works and greater.” He didn’t say only apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors or teachers would do His works. He said, “He that believeth on me” will do them.
“Yes, I know that’s what Jesus said, Brother Copeland, but it doesn’t seem to be happening in the lives of most believers. So we must have misunderstood Him.”
No, we didn’t misunderstand. He meant exactly what He said. That, as believers, we’re to operate in God’s power the same way He did when He was on earth. He meant, as 1 John 4:17 puts it, “As he is, so are we in this world.”
What’s the holdup then?
We haven’t fully developed the consciousness Jesus had when He was on earth. He was very aware He could “do nothing of himself” (John 5:19), that on His own He was absolutely helpless. He was also very aware that His heavenly Father dwelled within Him through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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