Greater Works

Read John 14

"Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going,

so how can we know the way?"

     Jesus answered, 

"I am the way and the truth and the life.

 No one comes to the Father except through me.

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; 

or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 

 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.

 He will do even greater things than these, 

because I am going to the Father." 

                                                                                              John 14:5,6,11,12
Here Jesus makes it clear, once again, who He is:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life.

  No one comes to the Father except through Me... "

                                                                                                                 John 14:6

He can’t make it any clearer than that.  According to this statement Jesus is the only way to get to the Heavenly Father.
He tells Thomas to believe Him for what He is saying or at the very least believe Him for the works that were done.  The miracles he seen.
This is a choice that we all must make, even today.  There is no grey area about Jesus, we must either accept Him for what He is or reject Him.  The choice is yours.
Later  on, in the chapter in verse eleven Jesus states clearly that:

 "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."

Here is another potentially controversial statement.  “and greater works than these he will do,” How can we do greater works than the miracles Jesus did?  It comes down to what you think are greater works.
In my mind, the greatest work any Christian can do, is presenting the Gospel of salvation to someone.  To see that person receive Christ as LORD and Saviour.
After all, if a person is healed, then, they are going to die eventually, and if they are not saved, they are not going to heaven.
Even Lazarus, who was raised from the dead by Christ, would one day die.  He like us, had to make the choice to believe or not.
Presenting the Gospel to anyone is probably the greatest work, anyone can do and not only getting the person saved, but teaching  them in the Word of God, so that they grow strong in the LORD and bear fruit themselves.

Something to think about:

All the other works a Christian's do, do have their place, and they prove the power of God.  But giving an individual the opportunity to receive eternal life in Christ Jesus is the greatest work a Christian can do.
1 Corinthians 13:8 states,
“Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues they will cease;  whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”
Verse 13 of 1 Corinthians 13 goes onto state:
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
    The greatest gift of love is offering to all those we know the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus.
Think about it.