Our Responsibility

Call To Prayer

Title: Our Responsibility

By: Daniel Peter

Date: 01.07.2025

 

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Romans 6:19 KJV

 

Though we have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, we are not without responsibility in stewarding our salvation. Until we come to the knowledge of this responsibility and accept it, we are at risk of being rejected at the end.

When God created the first man, Adam, He gave him the ability to choose Him or not, gifting him with a will, or volition. Adam chose to reject God when he exercised his volition to partake of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had warned him about (Genesis 2:16-17, Genesis 3:1-7). That action made Adam dead to God, and he became a slave to sin (John 8:34, Romans 5:12-19).

Due to His love for humanity, despite the heinous nature of our sins, God sent His only begotten Son to die in our place (John 3:16, Romans 5:6-8). The moment we give our lives to God by placing our faith in Jesus, we are set free from sin and imparted with the gift of righteousness (Romans 3:24, 2 Corinthians 5:21). This means we have been restored to where Adam fell from, but even to a higher position, as we now have the very nature of God (His righteousness) as a gift. However, we still have a will like Adam, and we can exercise it at our volition to either choose God or reject Him.

The gift of righteousness we have received gives us the natural desire and ability (power) to do right. This is why Scripture says, “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose” (Philippians 2:13 NIV). However, we still have to yield ourselves to obey the suggestions of the new nature we have received.

Yielding ourselves to God implies a willingness to submit to God’s will (His written and spoken word). This is our responsibility as Christians. Apostle Paul revealed this in Romans 6, after revealing that we have been set free from sin and are now slaves of righteousness. He went on to say, “…for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness” (Romans 6:19 KJV).

The end of those who refuse to yield themselves to God and give in to their flesh is that they will be rejected at the end (1 Corinthians 9:27), and a fearful expectation of judgment becomes their experience (Hebrews 10:27).

Take responsibility today and yield to God.

 

Prayer Points:

Let’s thank God for His Word today. Let’s ask Him to help us yield to Him.

 

 

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