Just before he was
about to ascend into heaven,
Jesus calls together his disciples.
And he tells them something that was
a little bit curious to them,
but it's an amazing promise for us today.
Listen to this in John 14:12-14 he says
"I tell you the truth,"
"anyone who believes in me will do"
"the same works I have done."
Basically saying, anybody married to me,
anybody in union with me will do the same works I have done
"and even greater works,"
"because I am going to be with the Father."
Now here's the promise, listen to this.
"You can ask for anything in my name and I will do it."
And he says it again so I think he means it, he says
"Yes you can ask for anything in my name and I will do it."
Well to those disciples listening
they were probably wondering, "How is it going"
"to be better that you leave, I mean aren't we"
"going to be powerless once again?"
"We were pretty pathetic when you weren't here,"
"what's gonna happen when you're gone?"
"How can we do even greater things?"
Well Jesus could promise that they would do
greater things than when he was on earth
because he was giving them the power of his name
to bring his presence into any situation
at any time.
See when Jesus was here on this earth he could only be
in one place at one time, but now with him gone,
they could use his name and the power of his name
to bring his presence into any situation, in any place,
and at any time.
And then he says you can ask for whatever you want
using my name and I'm going to do it.
Now I bring this illustration of marriage up at this
point here because when Jesus says you can ask for anything
in my name, basically what he's saying,
is that you can ask for anything according to who I am,
according to my history, according to my character.
Well, in order to know the history or character of somebody
you have to be in close relationship with them.
And so his disciples, could ask for things and expect
that they would happen because they had spent time with him.
Just like my close friends.
They know that they can ask me for certain things
and because they know me, that I'm gonna do them.
They can ask me to preach a message for them,
they can ask me to help somebody out, and they'll know
that I'll do it because it's according to my character.
But they also know that there are things they can ask me
that I'm not gonna do,
because they closely know me.
They know that I'm not gonna rob a bank,
I'm not gonna steal a car, that's outside of my character.
They also know that they can't ask me to eat raw fish
or drink coffee.
I know I might have just offended some of you
coffee drinkers, but I have tried but I just can't do it.
Friends of mine have even tried to spike my brownies
with espresso beans and I tell you what,
it would gag the dog.
So my friends know that they're not going to get me
to do that kind of stuff.
And it's the same way in our relationships with Christ.
We can ask for things and expect for him to do them
and to give them to us because we know him,
we know what we can ask for, what he will do,
based upon his word,
and our history with him and we know what he won't do
based upon our relationship with him.
So we can ask for peace, we can ask for joy,
and we can ask for strength, and we know
that he will give those to us.
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