Sun.’s Devo - Greater Works

Read: Luke 10-11; John 10:22-42
As I was reading today’s scriptures Luke 11:51 caught my attention. Jesus was condemning their generation because they had huge monuments in honor of prophets that their fathers had killed. Jesus told them that from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, it would be required of their generation. Abel was the son of Adam and Eve who presented God with the perfect sacrifice. He was murdered by his own brother because of envy and jealousy, and because his brother, Cain was evil. Zacharias was the son of Jehoida, the priest. He stood up in a time of apostasy and told the nation to repent. He was also murdered. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice who came to earth in a time of great apostasy in the church and he would be murdered by evil men because of envy and jealousy.
We are living in a day where men are calling good, evil and evil, good. It is hard to comprehend how things can get so twisted and justice can be so unjust, but Jesus explained it when the Jews confronted him and wanted him to say he was the Messiah. He told them that his works should be enough for them to figure it out but they couldn’t because they were not his sheep. The sheep hear the voice of the shepherd and follow him. They wanted to kill him for this statement but he escaped because it was not yet his time to die.
These good works of Jesus are what is missing from the church. This has to happen before Jesus comes back. I think that the church doing signs, wonders and miracles are going to be the last movement of God before Jesus comes back. This will happen in the church and especially outside the church. Miracles are a sign to the unbeliever so they will believe. Jesus said that we will do greater works than him because he goes to his father. John 14:12.
Lord, help us to believe for “greater works”.