RESPONSIBILITIES of man

 

Genesis 2:7

King James Version

7 And the Lord God formed man 

of the dust of the ground, 

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 

and man became a living soul.

Why did GOD create man?

What is man's role on earth?

How is man to conduct himself?

In a fallen world, how can one be godly?

How can he be acceptable to GOD?

As always, Scripture tells us how:

Genesis 1:27-28

King James Version

27 So God created man in his own image, 

in the image of God created he him; 

male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, 

and God said unto them, 

Be fruitful, and multiply, 

and replenish the earth, 

and subdue it: 

and have dominion over the fish of the sea, 

and over the fowl of the air, 

and over every living thing 

that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 2:15

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15 And the Lord God took the man, 

and put him into the garden of Eden 

to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2:21-24

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21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep 

to fall upon Adam, and he slept: 

and he took one of his ribs, 

and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, 

which the Lord God had taken from man, 

made he a woman, 

and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, 

This is now bone of my bones, 

and flesh of my flesh: 

she shall be called Woman, 

because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man 

leave his father and his mother, 

and shall cleave unto his wife: 

and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 18:19

King James Version

19 For I know him, that he will command 

his children and his household after him, 

and they shall keep the way of the Lord, 

to do justice and judgment; 

that the Lord may bring upon Abraham 

that which he hath spoken of him.

Exodus 20:12

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12 Honour thy father and thy mother: 

that thy days may be long upon the land 

which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 11:18-21

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18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words

 in your heart and in your soul, 

and bind them for a sign upon your hand, 

that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

19 And ye shall teach them your children, 

speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, 

and when thou walkest by the way, 

when thou liest down, 

and when thou risest up.

20 And thou shalt write them 

upon the door posts of thine house, 

and upon thy gates:

21 That your days may be multiplied, 

and the days of your children, 

in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers 

to give them, 

as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Joshua 24:14-15

King James Version

14 Now therefore fear the Lord, 

and serve him in sincerity and in truth: 

and put away the gods which your fathers served 

on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; 

and serve ye the Lord.

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, 

choose you this day whom ye will serve; 

whether the gods which your fathers served 

that were on the other side of the flood, 

or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: 

but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Psalm 1:1-2

King James Version

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not 

in the counsel of the ungodly, 

nor standeth in the way of sinners, 

nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; 

and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Proverbs 1:7

King James Version

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: 

but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:8-9

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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, 

and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace 

unto thy head, 

and chains about thy neck.

Proverbs 23:13-14

King James Version

13 Withhold not correction from the child: 

for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, 

and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Proverbs 31:3

King James Version

3 Give not thy strength unto women, 

nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Jeremiah 5:1

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5 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, 

and see now, and know, 

and seek in the broad places thereof, 

if ye can find a man, if there be any 

that executeth judgment, 

that seeketh the truth; 

and I will pardon it.

Ezekiel 22:29-30

King James Version

29 The people of the land have used oppression, 

and exercised robbery, 

and have vexed the poor and needy: 

yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

30 And I sought for a man among them, 

that should make up the hedge,

 and stand in the gap before me for the land, 

that I should not destroy it: 

but I found none.

Ezekiel 33:7-9

King James Version

7 So thou, O son of man, 

I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; 

therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, 

and warn them from me.

8 When I say unto the wicked, 

O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; 

if thou dost not speak 

to warn the wicked from his way, 

that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; 

but his blood will I require at thine hand.

9 Nevertheless, 

if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; 

if he do not turn from his way, 

he shall die in his iniquity; 

but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Mark 1:15

King James Version

15 And saying, 

The time is fulfilled, 

and the kingdom of God is at hand: 

repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Mark 12:29-31

King James Version

29 And Jesus answered him, 

The first of all the commandments is, 

Hear, O Israel; 

The Lord our God is one Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God 

with all thy heart, 

and with all thy soul, 

and with all thy mind, 

and with all thy strength: 

this is the first commandment.

31 And the second is like, namely this, 

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

There is none other commandment 

greater than these.

Luke 22:24-27

King James Version

24 And there was also a strife among them, 

which of them should be accounted the greatest.

25 And he said unto them, 

The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; 

and they that exercise authority upon them

 are called benefactors.

26 But ye shall not be so: 

but he that is greatest among you, 

let him be as the younger; 

and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

27 For whether is greater, 

he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? 

is not he that sitteth at meat? 

but I am among you as he that serveth.

1 Corinthians 6:18

King James Version

18 Flee fornication. 

Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; 

but he that committeth fornication 

sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

King James Version

19 What? 

know ye not that your body 

is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 

which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: 

therefore glorify God in your body, 

and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 7:1-2

King James Version

7 Now concerning the things 

whereof ye wrote unto me: 

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, 

let every man have his own wife, 

and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3

King James Version

3 Let the husband render unto the wife 

due benevolence: 

and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

1 Corinthians 7:7

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7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. 

But every man hath his proper gift of God, 

one after this manner, and another after that.

1 Corinthians 7:17

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17 But as God hath distributed to every man, 

as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. 

And so ordain I in all churches.

1 Corinthians 7:18-19

King James Version

18 Is any man called being circumcised? 

let him not become uncircumcised. 

Is any called in uncircumcision? 

let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, 

and uncircumcision is nothing, 

but the keeping of the commandments of God.

1 Corinthians 7:20-24

King James Version

20 Let every man abide in the same calling 

wherein he was called.

21 Art thou called being a servant?

care not for it: 

but if thou mayest be made free, 

use it rather.

22 For he that is called in the Lord, 

being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: 

likewise also he that is called, 

being free, is Christ's servant.

23 Ye are bought with a price; 

be not ye the servants of men.

24 Brethren, let every man, 

wherein he is called, 

therein abide with God.

1 Corinthians 7:25-26

King James Version

25 Now concerning virgins 

I have no commandment of the Lord: 

yet I give my judgment, 

as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord 

to be faithful.

26 I suppose therefore that this is good 

for the present distress, 

I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

1 Corinthians 7:27

King James Version

27 Art thou bound unto a wife? 

seek not to be loosed. 

Art thou loosed from a wife? 

seek not a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:28

King James Version

28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; 

and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. 

Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: 

but I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

King James Version

29 But this I say, brethren, 

the time is short: it remaineth, 

that both they that have wives be 

as though they had none;

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; 

and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; 

and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: 

for the fashion of this world passeth away.

1 Corinthians 7:32-33

King James Version

32 But I would have you without carefulness. 

He that is unmarried 

careth for the things that belong to the Lord, 

how he may please the Lord:

33 But he that is married 

careth for the things that are of the world, 

how he may please his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:36

King James Version

36 But if any man think 

that he behaveth himself uncomely 

toward his virgin, 

if she pass the flower of her age, 

and need so require, 

let him do what he will, he sinneth not: 

let them marry.

1 Corinthians 7:37-38

King James Version

37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, 

having no necessity, 

but hath power over his own will, 

and hath so decreed in his heart 

that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; 

but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

1 Corinthians 15:57-58

King James Version

57 But thanks be to God, 

which giveth us the victory 

through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, 

be ye stedfast, 

unmoveable, 

always abounding in the work of the Lord, 

forasmuch as ye know 

that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

King James Version

13 Watch ye, 

stand fast in the faith, 

quit you like men, 

be strong.

14 Let all your things 

be done with charity.

Ephesians 5:25-30

King James Version

25 Husbands, love your wives, 

even as Christ also loved the church, 

and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it 

with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself 

a glorious church, 

not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; 

but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives 

as their own bodies. 

He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; 

but nourisheth and cherisheth it, 

even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, 

of his flesh, and of his bones.

Ephesians 5:31-33

King James Version

31 For this cause shall a man 

leave his father and mother, 

and shall be joined unto his wife, 

and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: 

but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular 

so love his wife even as himself; 

and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Ephesians 6:4

King James Version

4 And, ye fathers, 

provoke not your children to wrath: 

but bring them up in the nurture 

and admonition of the Lord.

Colossians 3:19

King James Version

19 Husbands, 

love your wives, 

and be not bitter against them.

Colossians 3:21

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21 Fathers, 

provoke not your children to anger, 

lest they be discouraged.

Colossians 3:23

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23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, 

as to the Lord, and not unto men;

1 Timothy 2:1-6

King James Version

2 I exhort therefore, that, 

first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, 

and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; 

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life 

in all godliness and honesty.

3 For this is good and acceptable 

in the sight of God our Saviour;

4 Who will have all men to be saved, 

and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

5 For there is one God, 

and one mediator between God and men, 

the man Christ Jesus;

6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, 

to be testified in due time.

1 Timothy 2:8

King James Version

8 I will therefore that men pray every where, 

lifting up holy hands, 

without wrath and doubting.

1 Timothy 3:1-5

King James Version

3 This is a true saying, 

if a man desire the office of a bishop, 

he desireth a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, 

the husband of one wife, 

vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, 

given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3 Not given to wine, 

no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; 

but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

4 One that ruleth well his own house, 

having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, 

how shall he take care of the church of God?)

1 Timothy 5:8

King James Version

8 But if any provide not for his own, 

and specially for those of his own house, 

he hath denied the faith, 

and is worse than an infidel.

2 Timothy 2:1-2

King James Version

2 Thou therefore, my son, 

be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2 And the things that thou hast heard of me 

among many witnesses, 

the same commit thou to faithful men, 

who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:3-4

King James Version

3 Thou therefore endure hardness, 

as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

4 No man that warreth 

entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; 

that he may please him who 

hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2 Timothy 2:5-7

King James Version

5 And if a man also strive for masteries, 

yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

6 The husbandman that laboureth 

must be first partaker of the fruits.

7 Consider what I say; 

and the Lord give thee understanding 

in all things.

1 Peter 3:7

King James Version

7 Likewise, ye husbands, 

dwell with them according to knowledge, 

giving honour unto the wife, 

as unto the weaker vessel, 

and as being heirs together of the grace of life; 

that your prayers be not hindered.

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Proverbs 10:9

King James Version

9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: 

but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Satan knows how to corrupt us.

We live in the flesh, we sin in the flesh, we die in the flesh.

Our flesh makes us desire the forbidden.

Our human weakness makes us sin continually.

Our lame excuses make us sin carelessly.

Our unbelieving hearts cause us to err greatly.

GOD grieved over man's wickedness.

Genesis 6:5-7

King James Version

5 And God saw 

that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, 

and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart 

was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord 

that he had made man on the earth, 

and it grieved him at his heart.

That's why He sent the flood.

Genesis 6:7

King James Version

7 And the Lord said, 

I will destroy man whom I have created 

from the face of the earth; 

both man, and beast, 

and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; 

for it repenteth me that I have made them.

But man continues to sin.

The god of this world continues to seduce us.

With things of the world, things of the flesh.

With delectable dishes, to entice, and destroy us.

Knowing man is but flesh.

He will succumb.

Especially if he is not of GOD.

One of Satan's greatest tools is women.

If you know your Bible, you'll notice something.

Satan didn't directly tempt Adam.

(For Adam is a direct creation of GOD.)

He got him, THROUGH Eve.

Such is the deceiver's way.

Careful not to directly "cross" the LORD.

And yet getting the wrong done.

Perversely, and pervertedly, as always.

Only thing is, he was defeated at the CROSS.

And he is mighty "cross", and vengeful.

Today, man's downfall will be the same way.

THROUGH woman.

For woman is man's weakness.

But the reverse is also true.

Woman's downfall can be men.

For man is also woman's weakness.

You only need to look at all the glitter, and glamour, women need to attract men.

It's created huge industries that feed on vanity, and seduction.

And now, it gets even more perverse.

What with all the new gender combinations created.

We are really all in danger of GOD's judgment.

People whose heart is not right with GOD, will be used by Satan.

Making sure man* is destroyed.

Especially if you're a praying man.

A family man.

A man who wants to do right by the LORD.

A man who gave your heart to JESUS.

Or a man who is just getting to know the WORD of GOD.

Or a man just newly coming into wealth, power, or fame.

You will be Satan's favorite targets.

He will seduce you with his choicest morsels.

He knows EXACTLY what "dish" to serve you.

You need only look to art, business, culture, entertainment, industries, and government to know how CHRIST's enemy operates.

Every sin is covered.

Every seduction is offered.

Every resistance is clobbered.

That's why JESUS said:

Mark 7:20-21

King James Version

20 And he said, 

That which cometh out of the man, 

that defileth the man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, 

proceed evil thoughts, 

adulteries, fornications, murders,

That's why the Bible cautions:

Proverbs 6:20-22

King James Version

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, 

and forsake not the law of thy mother:

21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, 

and tie them about thy neck.

22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; 

when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; 

and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Proverbs 6:23-24

King James Version

23 For the commandment is a lamp; 

and the law is light; 

and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24 To keep thee from the evil woman, 

from the flattery of the tongue 

of a strange woman.

Proverbs 6:25-26

King James Version

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; 

neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a whorish woman 

a man is brought to a piece of bread: 

and the adultress will hunt 

for the precious life.

Proverbs 6:27-31

King James Version

27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, 

and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can one go upon hot coals, 

and his feet not be burned?

29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; 

whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

30 Men do not despise a thief, 

if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; 

he shall give all the substance of his house.

Proverbs 6:32-35

King James Version

32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman 

lacketh understanding: 

he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; 

and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: 

therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

35 He will not regard any ransom; 

neither will he rest content, 

though thou givest many gifts.

Ephesians 5:11-12

King James Version

11 And have no fellowship 

with the unfruitful works of darkness, 

but rather reprove them.

12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things 

which are done of them in secret.

Ephesians 5:14-16

King James Version

14 Wherefore he saith, 

Awake thou that sleepest, 

and arise from the dead, 

and Christ shall give thee light.

15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, 

not as fools, but as wise,

16 Redeeming the time, 

because the days are evil.

Let our prayer to GOD be:

Psalm 119:133

King James Version

133 Order my steps in thy word: 

and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Let our actions be:

John 3:5-8

King James Version

5 Jesus answered, 

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; 

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, 

Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, 

and thou hearest the sound thereof, 

but canst not tell whence it cometh, 

and whither it goeth: 

so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:18

King James Version

18 Flee fornication. 

Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; 

but he that committeth fornication 

sinneth against his own body.

James 4:7

King James Version

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. 

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

To be born again means we aim to lead sinless lives.

Sure, our hearts, minds, and bodies are sin in nature.

But we have GOD to obey.

We have JESUS to follow.

We have SPIRIT to teach us.

We have Scripture to live by.

There is no more excuse to sin.

Unless we don't care about GOD, self, and others.

Being born again means you care not to offend the LORD, in any way.

Neither will you think of causing harm upon others.

No one really lives in isolation.

We don't live apart from others.

All our lives are interconnected.

When we sin, we also bring others down with us.

We can also cause the downfall of others.

We break up homes, families, communities.

Including governments, societies, and nations.

Sin's "influence" can be far reaching.

Won't causing others to sin be a greater sin?

Romans 14:13

King James Version

13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: 

but judge this rather, 

that no man put a stumblingblock 

or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

That's the whole idea of sin.

Satan wants EVERYTHING destroyed.

Especially that which is dear to GOD's heart.

Expect a web of deceit, distraction, and destruction from the enemy.

Being born again means you're aware of sin.

You are aware of the LORD's commands.

SPIRIT wakes you up, causing you to walk in His ways.

That must be our objective now.

Especially in these last days.

Stay right with GOD now.

*NOTE:

For those wondering, or even taking offense at the fact we use the word "man", let GOD's WORD tell us why we ought to:

Genesis 5:1-2

King James Version

5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. 

In the day that God created man, 

in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; 

and blessed them, 

and called their name Adam, 

in the day when they were created.

GOD called male and female, "Adam".

I accept ALL of GOD's statutes, and so should you.

As born again workman, I am here to present you GOD's WORD.

The soonest we accept GOD's TRUTH, the better for our souls.

GOD's will be done.

Isaiah 46:9-10

King James Version

9 Remember the former things of old: 

for I am God, and there is none else; 

I am God, and there is none like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, 

and from ancient times 

the things that are not yet done, 

saying, 

My counsel shall stand, 

and I will do all my pleasure:

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