OUR FATHER WHO SENT HIS SON TO DO AND TO TEACH Part 22

Being part of the kingdom of God requires that we do the will of the Father who is in heaven.

Citizens of the kingdom of God are imbued with the power and authority of that kingdom but the Lord Jesus emphatically taught His followers  in Mathew chapter 7 verses 21 - 23 that the requirements for being classified as operating lawfully in the Kingdom of God while using its resources is that all such activities must be those aligned with the will of the Father.

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

It is possible for people to be given access to the kingdom of God and once there, find themselves able to deploy the utensils and powers of the kingdom under their own volition. They discover that they can invoke the powers of the kingdom to prophesy, cast out demons and perform signs and wonders and in doing so, come to believe that they are qualified to be admitted into the kingdom of heaven.

However, admittance to the kingdom of heaven is based on the close knowledge and love that is cultivated with the Lord and this relationship is predicated on adherance to the will of the Father and failing to do so is judged as lawlessness and disqualifies us from being with Jesus in the kingdom of heaven.

Once admitted into the kingdom of God by systematically selecting to go through the narrow gate and difficult path, we now must grow in the kingdom by seeking the will of the Father and doing it in the authority and power of the kingdom of God.

This is the lawful way of the kingdom of God that the Lord Jesus demonstrated as He declared in John chapter 5 verse 19;

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way.

Amen.

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