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Luke 11:1
Prayer focused on the greater works of God
Matthew 11:
Here is the responsibility - The concern of prayer
We pray believing God can do “greater works” through us
Here is the responsibility -
The responsibility is not to build us a better life (which most of our prayer life is centered around) but our responsibility is to build the church of Jesus Christ
Jesus already promised us a better in fact a perfect life in verses 1-7 but it is not here on earth.
He has promised us a fruitful abundant life here but not one free from suffering and trials.
Jesus had dedicated His life and would literally pour out His life’s blood to build the church
Matthew 16:
The church is the universal church and spiritual body but the local church is the visible and physical manifestation of that Body
Christ is the Head of that Body
A responsibility that can be accepted with confidence - Most assuredly - The word of Christ
A responsibility based upon a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ
A responsibility modeled by Jesus Christ
A responsibility confirmed by the ascension of Christ
Here is the promise - The confidence of prayer
Based upon the authority of Jesus word
Based upon our relationship with Jesus Christ
We have the absolute assurance of an answer based upon our relationship with Jesus Christ - he who believes in Me
We have the absolute assurance of an answer because our request is based upon the greater works of God
The apostles would do the same works Jesus had done and greater works through their prayers
What are the greater works?
Jesus’ works were controlled by the will of His Father
We work for and with the Father as He did
Matthew 11:2
John 5:17
John 9:4
John 14:10
John 17:10
The apostles’ greater works were to be done for the glory of the Father
They were not greater in comparison to Jesus’ sign works
John 11:47
John 14:11
DA Carson View
But what does “greater” mean?
Shall Christians perform more sensational acts?
It is difficult to image miracles more sensational than those of Jesus; “greater” surely doesn’t mean that.
Might “greater” mean “more numerous” or “more widely spread”?
In that sense.
Christians have indeed done “greater” things than Jesus did… The greater works may therefore be the gathering of converts into the church through the witness of the disciples (cf.
17:20; 20:29), and the overflow of kindness that stems from transformed lives.
—D.A. Carson
The “greater works” are; Now that Jesus has accomplished the atoning work on the cross; His Church has the mission to spread the Gospel around the world through their sharing the word of God and doing good works
Matthew 5:16
John 17:1-
and the mission of the Church to spread the Gospel
The greater works are produced by a relationship with Jesus Christ
“…participation in the “greater” works that flow from Christ’s work, and participation in truly fruitful prayer.
“ —D A Carson
John 15:
They are greater because Jesus has gone to the Father having accomplished the way of salvation and we now work under His authority
They are greater because the Holy Spirit, our Helper, is with us to enable us to accomplish the mission
God the Father revealed Himself to Old Testament believers before the coming of His Son and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty.
Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in His own proper person was the delight of His people's eyes.
At the time of the Redeemer's ascension, the Holy Spirit became the head of the present era, and His power was gloriously displayed in and after Pentecost.
He remains at this hour the present Immanuel--God with us, dwelling in and with His people, quickening, guiding, and ruling in our lives.
Is His presence recognized as it ought to be?
We cannot control His working; He is sovereign in all His operations, but are we sufficiently anxious to obtain His help or sufficiently watchful lest we grieve Him and He withdraws His help?
Without Him we can do nothing, but by His almighty energy the most extraordinary results can be produced: Everything depends upon His revealing or concealing His power.
Do we always look up to Him for our inner life and our outward service with the respectful dependence that is appropriate?
Do we not too often run before His call and act independently of His aid?
Let us humble ourselves this evening for past neglect, and now entreat the heavenly dew to rest upon us, the sacred oil to anoint us, the celestial flame to burn within us.
The Holy Spirit is not a temporary gift--He remains with the church.
When we seek Him as we should, we will find Him.
He is jealous, but He is full of pity; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy.
Condescending and tender, He does not grow tired of us but constantly displays His grace.
—Charles Spurgeon
Sin has been hammering my heart Unto a hardness, void of love.
Let supplying grace to cross his art Drop from above.
Our confidence in prayer is in Jesus Christ
The “And” of verse 13 connects it’s promise to verse 12
“Here is the project I want you to complete.
I have given you some things you will need to work on the project, but if you need anything else let me know and I will get it for you.”
We pray concerned about the glory of God
Peter and James
Prayer is exemplified by Christ
Here is the command - The obedience of prayer
We can’t be living in disobedience
We can’t be selfish and attempting to satisfy our own lusts
Our love for Christ and His word must rule
Here is the Help - The answer to Jesus’ prayer
Charles Spurgeon
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Remember the Holy Spirit
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your good Spirit.
Common, too common, is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit.
This is folly and ingratitude.
He deserves better from us, for He is good, supremely good.
As God, He is good essentially.
He shares in the threefold ascription of "Holy, holy, holy" that ascends to the Triune God.
He is unmixed purity, truth, and grace.
He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills, quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for heaven as a loving father trains his children.
How generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God.
He is good operatively.
All His works are good in the most eminent degree: He suggests good thoughts, prompts good actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments, and leads to good results.
There is no spiritual good in all the world of which He is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect character of its redeemed inhabitants to His work.
He is good officially: Whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier, Quickener, or Intercessor, He fulfills His office well, and each work is filled with the highest good to the church of God.
Those who yield to His influences become good; those who obey His impulses do good; those who live under His power receive good.
Let us then act toward Him according to the dictates of gratitude.
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