There is an
expression that is used in the streets quite regularly…”Who’s Your Daddy?” This
question is often asked when the lineage of an individual is not known. It is
really kind of a derogatory question that is surely not a complement…but a dig.
What has me
thinking of that question you may ask? It seems we have a plethora of “Quote on
Quote” Ministers these days all over social media calling themselves Apostles
and Prophets. The truth of the matter is anyone can contract Vista Print to
make Business Cards for them and can put whatever title they want on them.
Vista Print doesn’t care if it is true or not as long as you pay them for their
services.
There is a custom
in the Jewish faith that when a male child reaches 30 years of age, even though
he has already had his Bar Mitzvah at 13, that the Father of that male child
announces him as being fully matured and able to rule and take over the family
business. If you remember when Jesus was baptized by John, He was 30 years of
age. It was then at that baptism as He came up out of the water that the Father
announced Him as His Beloved Son in Whom He was well pleased.
If you recall in
First Corinthians chapter 4 when Apostle Paul wanted to send someone he could
trust to the church at Corinth; he said that he was sending his son Timothy. Timothy
was announced as his son by Paul. Jesus was announced as God’s Son by His
Father. The question remains: “Who’s Your Daddy?”
So many that are
saying I am Apostle this or Prophet that…have never been announced! Who is
their Father? Who trained them? Who raised them? Who sent them? Whose message
are they carrying? Jesus was and is the Pattern Son. Jesus said My message is
not my own, it is the message of Him Who sent Me. Jesus said whatever I see My
Father do…that is what I do.
In the natural a
child gets their DNA from their Father. Jesus had His Father’s DNA. When Paul
said he didn’t have anyone else that he could send…one that would say the same
thing that he would say…he sent Timothy. Timothy was a Sent Son…sent to Sons (Paul said that he had begotten Corinthian
Church…they were his sons). Jesus was a sent Son. Who’s Son are we? Who is
our Daddy?
The truth of the
matter is the Son carries the Message, the Method, the Mantle, the Mandate, the
Mindset and the Mission of the Father that sent them. Jesus did. Timothy did.
What about us today? As I see so many of these supposed leaders I ask: Who sent
you? Who announced you? Who’s DNA do you carry? Who’s Message, Mantle, Method, Mandate, Mindset and Mission are you carrying? Who’s your Daddy?
