The Son Gives Life

John 5:20-21 – For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

John 14:12 – Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

2 Corinthians 1:9 – Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

John 11:25-26 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 10:10 – The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Application:

• ·         These “greater things” depended on Jesus’ going to the Father, because they are works done in the strength of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus would send from the Father.
• ·         God’s grace is all-sufficient; Christ strengthens us when we are weak.
• ·         Jesus not only is life, but He also conveys life to believers so that death will never triumph over them.
• ·         Christ’s interest is in His sheep, whom He enables to have life to the full.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV