Building kingdom thinking means seeing yourself the way the kingdom of heaven sees you, and on this Mother’s Day the pastor applies that to women. His message is that mothers are honored for far more than giving birth: in the kingdom of heaven there is no male or female, every believer is an heir and a king, and God wants to use women as powerfully as He uses any man.
This message continues from Building Kingdom #3: God’s Love Through Every Administration (Easter Message). Below you will find the full video, a structured summary, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps you can take this week.
Sermon at a Glance
This Mother’s Day message was posted by NTC Ministries on May 13, 2025, as part of the Building Kingdom series. The pastor explains that he is not usually a theme preacher, but the series had reached the point of asking how the kingdom of heaven is governed today, and the place of women fits right into that.
He opens by praying that every element of past governance would be broken off God’s children. The message runs about 58 minutes, includes a humorous Mother’s Day video, and ends with a blessing.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Speaker | The pastor of NTC Ministries (not named in the recording) |
| Series | Building Kingdom (#6, Mother’s Day) |
| Main text | Galatians 3:28 and Galatians 4:1–31 |
| Key theme | Women’s full place in the kingdom of heaven |
| Length | About 58 minutes, ending with a blessing |
More Than Birthing Great People
On Mother’s Day, the pastor says, ministers often praise mothers because they gave birth to someone remarkable, someone who went on to deliver a whole nation. That is good, but it misses the mother herself. God is not simply saying, “You’re doing good at birthing.” Women have a place, a role and a function of their own, and it is not limited to being pregnant and in the kitchen.
He grounds this in Psalm 139:14: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” Who is God speaking to there? Everyone, the pastor says, men and women alike.
He then explains why this matters. People are like a suitcase with nothing inside, or like a glove made in the image and likeness of a hand. The glove is useless until a hand fills it. In the same way, we are made in the image of God but cannot fulfill our true purpose until God comes into us, which is what it means to be born again. With God inside, we are capable of God things, because what is impossible with man is possible with God (Matthew 19:26).
Natural thinking, especially when a church is trained more under the old covenant law than the kingdom of heaven, holds people back from what God wants to do through them. And God, he says plainly, wants to use women just as much and just as powerfully as any man.
Religion or Relationship: David and Saul’s Armor
The pastor looks back at the previous week’s teaching on religion. Religion knows about God but has no intimate relationship with Him. Saul was a head taller than anyone in Israel and knew the ways of God, but he did not walk with Him. When Goliath challenged Israel for forty days, everyone hid (1 Samuel 17:8–11).
Then David came from tending his father’s sheep to bring food to his brothers, who belittled him for his boldness. Yet David never despised them; he still called them the armies of the living God. When he told Saul he had delivered the sheep from a lion and a bear and would do the same to this Philistine (1 Samuel 17:34–37), Saul put his own armor on him.
Why would a king put his oversized armor on a teenager? Because, the pastor says, if David won, Saul wanted everyone to think it was him out front. That is religion: it has no intimacy with God but wants to take credit for the power of God working through those who do. David refused the armor because he had not proved it, took a sling and five stones, and killed Goliath. Then the whole army rose up with boldness and chased the Philistines out.
Religion, he says, will not embrace God’s power because it is bound to its own works and strength. God does not require education or physical strength, only an intimate relationship. Again and again through history He chooses the weak and foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27–28). That, the pastor says, is Christianity, our family, us with God.
Building Kingdom Thinking: Kings and Priests
The pastor reviews the dispensations taught earlier in the series. He explains that dispensation means administration, like an economy, and that an economy flows from its leadership; when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice (Proverbs 29:2). The kingdom was governed under innocence with Adam, then human government, then promise with Abraham, then law, and now grace.
He notes that the Bible calls it the kingdom of God many times and the kingdom of heaven many others, and he teaches that “kingdom of heaven” describes this present stage. Jesus came as the last Adam, took our shame, guilt and iniquity, rose and now sits at the right hand of God ruling. He is in our hearts, but He reigns from heaven, and every born-again believer is seated there with Him.
He has made us kings and priests to God (Revelation 1:6), and Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 19:16). The pastor points out that it does not say King of kings and queens, or Lord of lords and ladies. Women, he says, have to get used to thinking kingdom and seeing themselves as kings.
Men face the reverse challenge; in Bible college, the Lord told him to meditate on being the bride of Christ. When we keep our minds on the natural, we lose so much from God. We are natural beings, but we are spiritual beings first.
A New Heart, Not a Hard Heart
At the center of the message is Galatians 3:28: in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female. Nationality, wealth and gender make no difference to God under the governance of the kingdom of heaven. “There’s no difference to God. None. Zero. Zip,” the pastor says.
It could not be that way before, he explains, because of the hard heart. The harder people’s hearts grew toward God, the more laws and restrictions were placed on them. Adam was given seeds and nuts to eat; after the flood Noah was told he could eat anything (Genesis 9:3); then, as hearts hardened again, the law listed what could and could not be eaten. The law was a reflection of their hearts, and the liberty we have in the kingdom of heaven reflects a new heart. That is why we keep our heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23).
Many men, he says, still carry hard hearts that restrict women, and such minds are snared by hardness toward God. Nothing past, present or to come can separate us from the love of God (Romans 8:38–39). Your best day and your worst day, he says, are the same to God, because His goodness rests on Him, not you.
To show that God deals with the heart, he compares several people in the Gospels and Acts:
| Person | What happened | The pastor’s point |
|---|---|---|
| The man testing Jesus | Told to sell everything and give to the poor | His heart was hard and he was trying to trick Jesus |
| Zacchaeus | Freely gave half to the poor and repaid fourfold | Salvation came to his house; he came to the end of himself |
| Mary of Bethany | Poured costly perfume on Jesus before His burial | No one required it; it came from her heart |
| The early church | Sold possessions and laid the money at the apostles’ feet | Generosity flowed from new hearts |
The passages are Luke 18:22, Luke 19:8–9, John 12:3 and Acts 4:34–35. In the kingdom of heaven you are born again with a new heart, and everyone can be used. The pastor says he may function apostolically, but that makes no difference between him and anyone else; God can raise up men or women apostolically. All it takes is a heart that says, whatever You want for me.
God established three institutions, he says: the family in Genesis 2, human government in Genesis 9, and the church in Acts 2, which represents God’s kingdom on earth. Each must stay in its lane, and each exists to serve, just as Jesus came not to be served but to serve (Matthew 20:28). Parents are responsible to train up a child in the way he should go (Proverbs 22:6).
When the church lives by the kingdom of heaven, blessing flows from the top down, like the oil running down Aaron’s beard in Psalm 133:1–3, where the Lord commands the blessing. He adds that every governing authority, including the order of the church, comes from God (Romans 13:1–2).
Heirs and Sons: Heaven Is Our Mother
When Nicodemus came to Jesus, Jesus told him he must be born of water and of the Spirit. The pastor notes that mothers understand being born of water. Then Jesus said that no one has ascended to heaven except the One who came down from heaven (John 3:12–13). You cannot go to heaven unless you came from there, the pastor says, and if you are born again, you did. God is our Father, and heaven is our mother.
He reads Galatians 4:1–7. As long as an heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he owns the whole estate. But God sent His Son to redeem those under the law so that we might receive the adoption as sons, and because we are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying, “Abba, Father!” Is a woman any less an heir than a man? No. If someone puts chains on you and you believe them, they keep you a child.
That is why Scripture says sons, the pastor explains: in that culture, sons received the inheritance. In Christ, women receive the full rights of a firstborn son, with nothing held back, not position and not gifting. He points to Job, whose restored family included daughters who received an inheritance along with their brothers (Job 42:15), something unheard of then. Every heir gets everything, not a share of it, because we are joint heirs with Jesus.
A king’s responsibility is to train his children to reign. The pastor recalls Moses, set in a basket in the Nile and drawn out by Pharaoh’s daughter (Exodus 2:3–10). He relates a historical account that she was brilliant and that Moses was raised to be king in Egypt, until by faith he refused to be called her son (Hebrews 11:24–26). Jesus, likewise, is raising every believer to function as a king.
Paul asks why, now that we know God, we would turn back to weak and beggarly elements (Galatians 4:9). In Galatians 4:21–31, Abraham’s son by the bondwoman was born of the flesh and represents slavery, while his son by the freewoman was born of promise. “But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.” Cast out the bondwoman, the pastor says; get rid of the bondages that say you can’t.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). Even under the law Moses wished all the Lord’s people were prophets (Numbers 11:29), and when the church gathers, each one may have a psalm, a teaching, a tongue or an interpretation (1 Corinthians 14:26). He tells mothers their example is heaven itself, which shows no partiality, just as his own parents treated him, the rascal, as well as his sister.
Strong Where Others Are Weak: The Building Kingdom Role of Women
After a light-hearted Mother’s Day video, the pastor says that mothers matter far beyond raising children. Older women are to teach younger women (Titus 2:3–5), and he says that means more than homemaking: how to become a strong son of God, walk in an anointing, preach, write, prophesy, plant churches and establish the kingdom. A couple of verses taken out of context, he says, have brought bondage because of hard hearts.
It is no coincidence, he says, that a mother’s attributes resemble heaven’s. Heaven blesses us with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3), brings hope, wipes away every tear (Revelation 21:4), comforts, strengthens, gives joy and peace, gathers families and gives a future to all who call on Jesus.
A woman, he observes, multiplies whatever she is given: give her a house and she gives you a home; give her groceries and she gives you a meal. Give her frustration and she will multiply that too, so if you don’t like what you’re getting, change what you’re giving. Why would the church withhold half of what God has placed in His people to strengthen and bless others?
He closes with Genesis 2:15–18, where God says it is not good for man to be alone and He will make a helper comparable to him. Modern readers hear “helper” as secondary, but the pastor explains that the Hebrew means to be strong where the other is weak; it also means warrior, a perfect match and lifesaver. God uses the same idea of Himself as a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1), and the Holy Spirit our Helper is not lesser than us.
So, he says, women have been made strong where men are weak. To any woman pushed back or browbeaten by men, he asks forgiveness on their behalf. The church needs to be functioning on all cylinders in these last days, and women have a voice, empowerment from God and a calling He wants to use mightily.
Living as Kingdom Women and Men This Week
The pastor ends by blessing husbands to honor their wives as God does and women to embrace their gifts, some as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, rising up strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10). Practical steps from this building kingdom message:
- Think like a king. Whether you are a man or a woman, meditate on being both the bride of Christ and a king and priest to God.
- Refuse borrowed armor. Lean on intimacy with God rather than religious performance or someone else’s approval.
- Drop the chains. Identify a restriction you were taught that Scripture does not place on you in Christ, and lay it down.
- Serve in your lane. In family and church, ask how you can serve rather than how you can be served.
- Mother someone. Older women, invest in a younger woman’s walk with God, gifts and calling, not only her household skills.
- Change what you give. Husbands, give your wife honor and encouragement, and watch what she multiplies.
Timestamped Outline
- 0:00 Women in the kingdom and opening prayer
- 2:22 More than birthing; Psalm 139:14
- 3:29 Saul knew about God; Goliath’s challenge
- 6:34 Saul’s armor and religion taking credit
- 7:38 God chooses the weak
- 9:01 Dispensations and the kingdom of heaven
- 10:05 Kings and priests, not kings and queens
- 12:18 The glove and the hand
- 13:41 No male or female in the kingdom
- 16:03 The law reflected hard hearts
- 18:12 Zacchaeus, Mary and the heart
- 20:35 Everyone can be used
- 21:54 Three institutions God established
- 24:16 Every institution exists to serve
- 28:08 Psalm 133 and governing authorities
- 30:42 Born from heaven: John 3:12–13
- 31:38 Galatians 4: heirs, not slaves
- 33:59 Job’s daughters receive an inheritance
- 37:30 Moses raised to be a king
- 39:44 Galatians 4: the free woman
- 42:09 The Jerusalem above is our mother
- 47:29 Mothers teaching younger women
- 52:01 A woman multiplies what she is given
- 53:25 Helper: strong where others are weak
Building Kingdom Series
This message is part of the Building Kingdom teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:
- First message: Building Kingdom #2: A King, a Kingdom and a Royal Family
- Previous: Building Kingdom #3: God’s Love Through Every Administration (Easter Message)
- You are here: Building Kingdom #6: Mother’s Day — Women’s Full Place in the Kingdom of Heaven
- Next: Building Kingdom #10: Baptized Into Heaven’s Rule — Water Baptism, Authority and the Seven Baptisms
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the Bible call believers “sons” if women are included?
The pastor explains that in that culture it was the son who received the inheritance. By calling every believer a son, Scripture is saying that women receive the full rights of the firstborn, with nothing held back. He points to Job giving an inheritance to his daughters as an early picture of this, and to Galatians 4, where every believer is an heir of God through Christ.
What about the verses that say women should keep silent?
The pastor touches on this only briefly and says he will address misused Scriptures the following week. In this message he says Paul was speaking of the basic principles of the world his readers had been living under, trying to spare them rather than instill them, and that a couple of verses taken out of context have been used to bring bondage.
Does this message mean men and women have no differences at all?
The pastor’s focus is standing and calling in the kingdom, not erasing distinctions. He celebrates what women uniquely bring, such as multiplying what they are given and being strong where others are weak, while teaching that in Christ there is no difference in inheritance, gifting or position. Both men and women, he says, must learn to think as kings and as the bride of Christ.
Scripture References
All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:
- Psalm 139:14 — fearfully and wonderfully made
- Galatians 3:28 — neither male nor female
- Galatians 4:1–7 — no longer a slave but a son
- Galatians 4:21–31 — the Jerusalem above is our mother
- Revelation 1:6 — kings and priests to God
- 1 Corinthians 1:27–28 — God chooses the weak
- John 3:12–13 — born from heaven
- Job 42:15 — daughters given an inheritance
- Genesis 2:15–18 — a helper comparable to him
How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.
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