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Daily Bread - August 29, 2026 (The Seventh Day - Genesis 2:1-3)
John 14:12 – With absolute certainty, I tell you, that he who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. Also, he will do greater than these, because I am going to the Father.
Jesus equates His going unto the Father to the disciples being empowered with extraordinary power. The Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, would only come when Jesus left to go to the Father. Those who believe in Him will do the same works and greater because they will be in the Father and in the Son – just as Jesus was in the Father and the proof of Jesus’ oneness with the Father was in the works He did (John 14:11).
Jesus both promised and testified here regarding the magnitude of power the Holy Spirit would give to them. They would be so infused with power from the Holy Spirit that they would do the mighty miracles He did and even greater ones. The only way the Holy Spirit would come and be poured out was for Jesus to first be glorified (John 7:38-39). Jesus would not be glorified until He died for our sins and ascended up on high. When Jesus ascended up on high, He would receive the Promise of the Father and begin His ministry as the One Who baptizes in the Holy Spirit (Luke 24:49; Matthew 3:11; Acts 2:33) Jesus emphasized this fact when He said, “It is expedient for you that I go away (go to the Father); for if I do not go away, the Paraclete (Holy Spirit) will not come” (John 16:7).
Although the Holy Spirit came 2000 years ago, we may have the same experience they had. Peter testified concerning the house of Cornelius about nine years after the Holy Spirit came upon them in Acts 2: “Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons”, and “Seeing, then, that God gave them the same Gift that He gave us” (Acts 10:34, 11:17).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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