What is the highest achievable goal in our Father’s Kingdom?
I remember when I was 18…I came from a father who was involved in drugs and drinking alcohol.
I was telling my son tonight a little bit about my testimony.
I would steal from my dad, write checks in his name… I was just a worldly sinful person, right?
There was this lady named Ms. Dickey. She would come to the grocery store where I worked and tell me,
“Joseph, you need Jesus.”
I said, “Ms. Dickey, I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m a Catholic.”
She would give me these Chick tracts. You remember those Chick tracts?
The little comic book ones? Well, I saw this little guy falling into hell at the end, and I said,
“Well heck, I don’t want to go to hell.”
So, I started asking God to show me… and in His way, He made himself known to me.
Then I saw in the Word where they told Jesus,
“Your mother, your brother, desire to see you.”
And He responded,
“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and
sister, and mother.”
Matthew 12:46-50.
So, I don’t just say “brother” to anyone out there in the world.
I know without a doubt that they are not doing God’s will,
then therefore, they are not my brothers or my sisters.
The Scripture in Hebrews 2:10-11
says that Jesus was not ashamed to call them brothers,
because He had worked with these men—trained, disciplined, and taught them for three years.
He taught them the ways of God after the Spirit, not after the law.
Jesus worked closely with twelve men. Sure, he had the multitudes—5,000, 10,000.
He said, “I know why you’re following me—you want food.”
They weren’t interested in a committed relationship with Him.
But He still loved them, ministered to them, cast out devils, healed the sick,
raised the dead, and cleansed the lepers.
John 6:26 KJV
Jesus answered them and said,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles,
but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
He had the seventy that in Luke 10:17-20 says they returned with joy
because they had power to cast out devils, raise the dead,
make the blind see and the deaf hear.
But Jesus told them,
“Don’t rejoice in this, but rejoice that your name is written in the
lamb’s Book of Life.”
Then He had the twelve. And among them, He had the three:
Peter, James, and John.
The message he had for the multitude was not the same as the message for the seventy.
And the message to the seventy was not the same as the message to the twelve.
And the message to the twelve was not the same as to the three.
Jesus was committed to raising sons of God into maturity.
So let me ask you a question.
What do you think is the highest achievable goal you can attain in the Kingdom of God?
As a son or daughter of God—a Christian—what’s the highest place you can go?
Is it a pastor of family life, is it a pastor of music, is it an associate pastor,
is it an apostle so and so, or a prophet, or an evangelist, or a teacher?
I was reading a scripture in
Ephesians 5:1 TPT
“Be imitators of God in everything you do,
for then you will represent your Father as beloved sons and daughters.”
The highest goal one can achieve is to be a son or daughter of God
that represents the Father just as Jesus did.
That’s it. There’s no higher place to go.
That’s when you have God’s favor on your life and entrance into the throne room of God,
Hebrews 4:16.
You have children, right? Are any of them more important than the others? No.
Even if one becomes a lawyer, another a doctor,
are you going to love them less or more based on titles and money?
No. They are still your children.
This is called Sonship.
Sonship is the highest goal that you can achieve in the Kingdom of God.
Paul wrote for us to be imitators of God.
Jesus was the model.
He was the pattern, Son.
When you see “Son of Man” or “Son of God”
in the Bible referring to Christ,
it’s the Greek word huios (pronounced hwee-os).
Huios means fully matured son.
Now, as your children grow up and you think about their future and inheritance,
would you give it to them as babies?
No.
Galatians 4:1-2 says: “Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant,
though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors
until the time appointed of the father.”
So, as a father, you wait for your children to mature.
You don’t put a two-year-old on a bicycle before they’re ready.
You give them what they need at the right stage to help them grow,
and to bring them to stability.
And when you pass or die, you leave them a contract—your last will and testament.
In order to understand this will and testament, it has to be explained by a lawyer, correct?
In our walk with God, the Word of God is the contract, it is the will of God.
And this will of God must be interpreted to us as sons and daughters of God by the Holy Ghost—
and the Holy Spirit (attorney) is always going to show us Christ and the Word or Will of the Father.
When Jesus said, in Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,”
was He a child then?
No, He was a fully matured Son, he was a uihos.
Did He know all things had been given to Him by the Father?
Yes.
Mat 11:27 KJV
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
So what does this tell us?
Does the world need immature Christians—or does the world need us to
grow up into maturity as Jesus was in the earth?
The world needs us to grow up!
As Paul wrote, in I Corinthians 15:58,
always abounding in the work of the Lord.
You do the work of God at your current level, but as you mature,
God has greater purposes—to make disciples, to raise up
mature sons and daughters in the ways of God.
It’s not enough just to have babies. That’s easy.
But it takes a lifetime to raise them.
It’s the same with our Father God.
He didn’t save you just to leave you on your own.
He trains you. He raises you up.
But we must be willing to go through the process of
discipleship from promise to performance.
Romans 8:14 says: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons (uihos) of God.”
So, I’m encouraging you—grow up in the Lord. Be led of the Spirit as you do the work of God.
As Paul said in Romans 2:21-22,
If you’re trying to teach someone not to steal—are you stealing?
If you’re involved in drugs—can you tell someone else to get off drugs?
You can’t lead others out of what you’re still trapped in.
The number one way to get delivered from perversion is to get closer to God.
Jeremiah got upset with the Lord and didn’t want to do the work of the Lord.
But God told him:
Jeremiah 15:19 KJV
“If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me:
and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth.”
In Luke 10:42,
Jesus told Martha:
“Martha, you are busy with so much.
But Mary has chosen the good thing.”
Mary chose to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn before going out to do work.
She chose to understand the ways of the Kingdom of God first.
So I am saying: the way of deliverance for us and all of mankind is for us to get closer to God.
