{"id":1447,"date":"2021-10-17T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2021-10-17T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:08:58","slug":"a-christians-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/a-christians-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian\u2019s Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is<\/em> the whole duty<\/em> of man.<\/strong>\u201d
Ecclesiastes 12:13 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Can you name any of God\u2019s commandments? Without knowing what God\u2019s\ncommandments are, people would never understand they have sinned. \u201cTherefore\nby the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by\nthe law is<\/em> the knowledge of sin<\/strong>\u201d (Romans 3:20). One must first recognize that they are sinners.\nThat comes by knowing what God\u2019s Law says, for God\u2019s Law reveals sin. \u201cFor the wages of sin is<\/em> death; but\nthe gift of God is<\/em> eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord<\/strong>\u201d\n(Romans 6:23). The penalty for\nbreaking God\u2019s Law is death. What do you do with that information? One should\nunderstand that Jesus came to die on the cross to take away that sin. He then\noffered eternal life for anyone who would receive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it takes faith to accept that gift of God\u2019s grace. \u201cFor by grace are ye saved through faith;\nand that not of yourselves: it is<\/em> the gift of God<\/strong>\u201d (Ephesians\n2:8). That guarantees that anyone<\/em><\/strong>\nwho asks in faith<\/em><\/strong> can receive. \u201cFor whosoever shall call upon\nthe name of the Lord shall be saved<\/strong>\u201d (Romans 10:13).\nThat person is then called a Christian. What happens for those who trust in\nJesus? \u201cFor sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the\nlaw, but under grace<\/strong>\u201d (Romans 6:14).\nUnderstand that when Jesus died on the cross, we were set free from sin;\nChristians no longer live under<\/em><\/strong>\nthe Law. \u201cWhat shall we say then? Is<\/em>\nthe law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had\nnot known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet<\/strong>\u201d\n(Romans 7:7). God\u2019s Law is still important. That Law was given to keep man in\nconstant awareness of how far he had fallen short of God\u2019s glory and the\nterrible price that had to be paid to bring man back into right standing with\nhis Creator (Jesus\u2019 death on the cross). God\u2019s Commandments also remind us that\nGod is perfect and righteous, and we are a people with the propensity to sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christians are to live as if they belong to God. We should \u201chold fast\nthe profession of our faith without wavering<\/strong>\u201d (Hebrews 10:23). Christians can now claim new lives, so we must\nthen live<\/em><\/strong> new lives. \u201cTherefore if any man be<\/em> in\nChrist, he is<\/em> a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all\nthings are become new<\/strong>\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:17).\nChristians are now able to live new lives of obedience to God and His commands.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God then does something special for those who belong to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has now written His Law on the Christian\u2019s heart and mind. \u201cThis is<\/em>\nthe covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I\nwill put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them<\/strong>\u201d (Hebrews\n10:16). His Spirit lives inside each\nChristian, constantly reminding him or her of God\u2019s will. \u201cFor they that are\nafter the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the\nSpirit the things of the Spirit<\/strong>\u201d (Romans 8:5). We are then able to please\nGod in the following of His Law that is written in our hearts. This is because\nwe have been encouraged to do the following: \u201cThy word have I hid in mine\nheart, that I might not sin against thee<\/strong>\u201d (Psalm 119:11). We must hide\nGod\u2019s Word in our hearts so we will not sin against God but live for Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is<\/em> the whole duty<\/em> of man<\/strong>\u201d (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Understand that fearing God does not mean being afraid of Him. Fear<\/strong> means \u201cmorally to revere; a dread of His wrath; and a reverence of His majesty<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 It is knowing<\/em><\/strong> what God expects of Christians and then doing<\/em><\/strong> it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you read God\u2019s Word daily, hiding it in your heart so you can live a life pleasing to Him?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you name any of God\u2019s commandments? Without knowing what God\u2019s commandments are, people would never understand they have sinned. \u201cTherefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin\u201d (Romans 3:20). One must first recognize that they are sinners. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[131,258,265,816,353,149,147,186,80,330],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-commandments","tag-conclusion","tag-death","tag-duty","tag-faith","tag-fear","tag-gift","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-new-creature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}