John records a very remarkable saying of Jesus: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." This declaration strikes us with tremendous significance. The assurance stands, without limitation or qualification, that those who "believe" shall not only repeat but surpass the works of the Master.
All of Jesus' work was done in the destruction of evil. "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." This he did by his clear understanding that evil has no power beyond that conferred upon it by human belief. To break the apparent power of evil it was only necessary to break the dominant belief in evil, in the thought of those who needed his help. In doing this, and in the results which it brought, he likewise saw and proved the unreality of matter, for his works dearly demonstrated that divine Mind, working by and according to its own law, is the only power, and that material substance and material law are but the manifestation of the false sense which comes from the belief in any power or reality save the good,—God and His idea.
Here, then, is the point where humanity's need of a Saviour appears, for here it comes into bondage to its own self-imposed and self-assumed beliefs. Into the midst of a humanity hampered and afflicted by its beliefs of sin, sickness, and death, fully persuaded that life, substance, and intelligence inhere in matter; to those who, as Paul puts it, were "alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,"—to such came Christ Jesus with the knowledge and conviction of the truth of being that was able to dispel the ignorance and destroy the belief.
