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Sermon on Responsibility | Personal Responsibility to God

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PROPOSITION: Sermon on Responsibility | To set forth personal responsibility to God.

OBJECTIVE: That we accept our personal responsibility to God.

INTRODUCTION:

1. Read: Ezekiel 18:1-4 and 19-24, especially verse 20.

2. Regarding these verses:

1) There are problems in the human family.

2) There are personal problems.

3) It is the normal human reaction, to any problem, to blame some one else.

4) Eve blamed the serpent, Genesis 3:13.

5) Adam blamed God, through Eve, Genesis 3:12.

6) Israel was taken into captivity, because Israel had sinned, but Israel tried to blame “the fathers.”

7) God makes this point, which is eternal, unchanging truth, that each individual is personally responsible for his/her situation before God.

8) No one ever bears the responsibility, guilt or righteousness of another, “the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”

3. Reference to Subject, Title, Proposition and Objective.

DISCUSSION: This sermon on responsibility sets forth that each person has a personal responsibility to God because —

I.   HE/SHE IS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.

1. Genesis 1:26-27.

2. Hebrews 12:9.

3. Hebrews 2:17.

II.  SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S LAW.

1. 1 John 3:4.

2. Ezekiel 18:20.

3. Isaiah 59:1-2.

III. GOD HAS COMMANDED INDIVIDUAL OBEDIENCE.

1. Hebrews 5:8-9.

2. Romans 6:16-18.

3. 1 Peter 1:22.

IV.  SALVATION IS ALWAYS PRODUCED BY SEED.

1. Psalm 22:30.

2. 1 Peter 1:23-25.

3. Luke 8:11-15.

4. John 3:3-5.

5. Acts 20:32.

6. Finally this sermon on responsibility recognizes that…

V.   THE FUTURE IS AT STAKE

1. 2 Corinthians 5:10.

2. John 12:48.

3. James 4:13-15.

4. Proverbs 24:3

5. 1 Timothy 3:14-15.

6. Proverbs 12:22a.

7. Proverbs 11:30.

8. Proverbs 6:6-11.

9. Psalm 1:1-6.

10.Psalm 92:12-15.

11.The congregation that is satisfied to “keep house” will not keep house at all.

12.The congregation that makes and executes plans to grow for Christ keep their house.

CONCLUSION: [conclusion to the sermon on responsibility]

1. Each of us has a personal responsibility to God because:

1) HE/SHE IS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD;

2) SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S LAW;

3) GOD HAS COMMANDED INDIVIDUAL OBEDIENCE; and

4) SALVATION IS ALWAYS PRODUCED BY SEED.

2. Be responsible!

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