"Christlike: Walking in the Power He Gave Us"
✝️ Sermon Overview
Dr. Jameson Yeo opened with Acts 11:26, noting that the believers at Antioch were first called "Christians" by outsiders — not because they claimed the title, but because outsiders saw their changed lives and heard their changed words. The name "Christian" simply means "Christ-like."
He then moved into the heart of his message, John 14:12–15, walking through it phrase by phrase. Jesus begins with "truly, truly" (amen, amen) — a declaration from the One who is Himself called "the Amen," the faithful and true witness, guaranteeing that what follows will come to pass. Jesus tells "whoever believes in me" (not just the disciples 2,000 years ago, but every believer today) that they will do the same works He did — and even greater works — because He was going to the Father.
Dr. Yo unpacked four categories of works believers are called and empowered to do, just as Jesus did:
- Preaching, teaching, and witnessing — not with human eloquence, but with power and authority.
- Healing the sick — a privilege for every believer, not reserved for pastors or elders alone.
- Working of miracles — things impossible in human strength, released when we yield to God.
- Casting out demons — authority over the spiritual realm, carried by every believer because the Holy Spirit lives in us.
He emphasized the word "also" in verse 12 — meaning equal value, not lesser power — and "greater works," meaning believers today, empowered by the Spirit and unlimited by Jesus's earthly constraints of time and place, can reach more people than He did in His three-and-a-half-year earthly ministry.
The source of this power, Dr. Yo explained, is the baptism in the Holy Spirit — the "promise of the Father" that Jesus went to secure so believers could be "endued with power from on high" (Acts 1:8) and become totally covered by divine power, just as an egg yolk is entirely covered by white, membrane, and shell.
He closed by returning to the challenge verse — John 14:15 — "If you love me, keep my commandments" — noting that "keep" in the original language means believing, trusting, and doing. Love for Christ is proven not by sentiment but by obedience and action.
As the service closed someone from the Congregation shared a personal testimony about his mother praying in a "dark room" of a haunted house in Sri Lanka, casting out spirits that had occupied it — illustrating that the spiritual world is real, and believers are not meant to fear it but to walk in authority over i