A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Luke 6:40

There is exactly one reason why we do not see miracles on the order of Jesus.  We have not understood and applied His teachings.

This is not to question anyone’s authenticity in the Gospel, nor their sincerity, but the truth remains, that we as a church as a whole have fallen far short of the Gospel Jesus preached.

Jesus’ commission in the Kingdom, from the Father, was this:

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;
To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,
To grant those who mourn in Zion,Giving them a garland instead of ashes,The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Isaiah 61:1-3

Jesus’ mission was to save, heal, and deliver, destroying the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).  When He left the Earth, He told His followers, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” (John 14:12).  It is fruitless to try to say whether this is greater in quantity or in quality.  It was already apparent through the book of Acts that greater works were already being done.  Peter’s shadow healed (Acts 5:15) and handkerchiefs at the hand of Paul were causing healings and deliverances throughout the body (Acts 19:11).  While Jesus’ works were great, both past and present church testimony record greater works.  More than 5,000 being fed by an abundance of food, people being radically delivered and healed at large in the world, etc.  This is, of course, to the Father’s glory, not man’s.  This in no way lessens the work of Jesus, but adds to it.  By the very verse above, it is happening for one simple reason, because He, Jesus, has gone to the Father.

The weight of responsibility when it comes to the Kingdom of Heaven is laid upon us, whether we will heed Him, and seek and obey Him.  God has given us everything pertaining to life and to godliness.  Even when it comes to the words of the Gospels, Jesus’ own words speak to the laborer in His vineyard today.

 If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

John 7:17

Jesus said that the most notable feature to the world of being His disciple should, at some point, be our love towards one another (John 13:35).  He said that signs would follow those who believe (Mark 16:17).

Take the opening verse.  “Everyone”, note that. Everyone, after he is fully trained, will be like his teacher.

It doesn’t matter on some level if you don’t reach some certain class of miracles.  The issue here is the heart, the issue here is the choosing the life of the Spirit over that of the flesh.  The issue here is total surrender of mind, will, body, and emotions to the person of the Holy Ghost.  This is Kingdom living, the life of Christ.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says you are not your own, you are bought with a price.

It isn’t an easy process.  The door is not wide, but narrow.

But, it is a better covenant.

Everything about it is better.  The love is deeper, the power is greater, the glory does not fade away.

Jesus said that if we listened to His words, we would find His life.  But, do we know His words?  Do we seek to understand His words?  Do we follow after Him?  If we abide in Him, and His words abide in us, we are truly His disciples.

And what does Jesus require of us?

And this is the verdict, that light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light. (John 3:19).

Whenever we choose to suppress pain, anger, disappointment, jealousy, and other such things, they will always come out later.  They will come out in anger and resentment (Matthew 5:21-22), adultery and divorce (Matthew 5:27-30), needs for something other than one’s word, which implies lack of faithfulness to one’s words in the first place (Matthew 5:33-36), revenge (Matthew 5:38-41), or some other departure from the law (Matthew 5:17-20).  It will always go directly against Jesus’ call to love our enemies (Matthew 5:43-48), because, outside of a pure heart of reliance upon the Holy Spirit, we must choose to protect ourselves or die.

Jesus wants to be our shield, and our exceedingly great reward (Genesis 15:1).

But, Jesus’ basic instruction was to equip us to walk in the same way that He did, in the same Spirit He did, yet, with Him having gone before us to secure our victory.  He is at the Father’s right hand, and we enter into that victory, living solely by His life within us, and by that, and by faith in that, we overcome.