“Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink on the ground that you belong to Christ, I truly tell you, he will by no means lose his reward.” (Mark 9:41) So now the righteous sheeplike relief-givers are rewarded with the privilege of joining the remnant of Christ’s “brothers” in preaching “this good news of the kingdom” world wide and sharing with the remnant in their sufferings for this cause. Actually they become “disciples” of Christ the King, making a dedication of themselves to the King’s heavenly Father, Jehovah God, and getting baptized in water in symbol of such a dedication.​—Matthew 28:19, 20.

16. How will the “sheep” inherit the Kingdom prepared long ago?

¹⁶ For their faithfulness to the universal sovereignty of the King’s Father they will be rewarded​—not with an inheritance in the heavenly kingdom with Jesus Christ and his spiritual “brothers”—​but with an inheritance in the earthly realm of the Messianic kingdom.