WHOLE DUTY OF A MAN

Since when did Career become more important than the Duty that has bestowed on mankind.

Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

To fear God does not mean to dread the name or appearance of God in our relationship with Him, No…This simply means to reverence God, respect and obey Him no matter what. We should but fear his wrath but understand that His love towards us is made manifest through the death and resurrection of Jesus, whom he gave for us, remission of our sins and reconciliation to God.

Therefore, the whole Duty of a man is to love God and love his neighbor.

“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40

This is the basis for the whole Duty of a man, Love. There are several other duties that God has assigned to man when Jesus was on Earth, either in his life or resurrection.

In Acts:1:8, in the resurrection of Jesus before he eventually left Earth, he gave mankind a responsibility, a duty, which goes thus;

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

From this scripture, we can draw atleast, five duties of a man;

-Duty to receive power from the HolyGhost

-Duty to have a relationship with the HolyGhost

-Duty to receive power from the HolyGhost

-Duty to be witnesses of the gospel of Christ Jesus

-Duty to reach out to people, nations and the world.

This duty is known to be the ultimate duty, but there are other duties reasons we can see in Genesis 1:26-30, let’s see it…

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  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.  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”

From this scripture, we can draw out many duties, but let us note, the duty of life has it source from God. The scripture above shows us a list of duties that man must fulfill…

-Duty to marry an opposite sex, not same sex.

-Duty to use everything on the surface of the Earth for the good of mankind, that’s where we see technology, buildings, road networks and the rest alike…

-Duty to be fruitful

-Duty to multiply

-Duty to dominate

-Duty to rule

Ecclesiastes 12:13, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

AmenRadio…Keep on Believing

By; Adedeji Oshigbesan