You Will Do Even Greater things Than These

You Will Do Greater Things Jonathan Rue John 14:12 07.12.09 ‘The Outrageous Claims of Jesus’ Series Next weekend is Breathe festival 2009! Please remember that we won’t be having JHouse next week. We have titled this year’s Breathe Festival—Revolution— because the life, the teaching, and the ministry of Jesus were nothing short of a revolution; an overturning of the way the world works and a restoration to the way that God intended the world to be. Jesus was a revolutionary. SLIDE: Jesus the Revolutionary He didn’t simply fit into the well-oiled grooves of society. He cut across religious belief and practice. He cut across political allegiances. He cut across social norms and practices. Every word Jesus spoke, every person Jesus loved, every religious and social rule Jesus broke was an act of turning the world upside down--an act of revolution. But this is not what you'd expect of a revolution. There are no guns or propaganda or grabbing of power. This is the revolution of living is dying. The revolution of gaining is losing. The revolution of strength is weakness. The revolution of Jesus centered around the central fact that God is King and ruler over all of the earth, not Caesar, not any political power, not any wealthy business man or religious leader. No one holds sovereign power of the earth, but God alone. And God is setting in motion the reclaiming of his territory. So Jesus came proclaiming the message of the ...