Are You Doing Your Duty?

ARE YOU DOING YOUR DUTY?

Text: Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14

Introduction:

· Duties of a teacher

Body:

A. What is your duty?

1. Fear God

· Recognize that there are consequences for disobeying Him

o Matthew 10:28

o Ecclesiastes 8:11

· Make Him first in your life

o Matthew 6:24

2. Keep His commandments

· The 10 commandments

o No other God (Entertainment)

o Graven images (TV)

o Take name in vain

o Sabbath day

o Honor parents

o Kill

o Adultery (Matthew 5:28)

o Steal

o False witness (Haphazard life and call yourself Christian)

o Covet

· The great commandment (Mark 12:30)

o Bible study (2 Timothy 2:15)

o Prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

o Church attendance (Hebrews 10:24, 25)

o Evangelism (Matthew 12:34)

o Surgeon – Never opened a medical book, never went to medical school, didn’t know the difference between a scalpel and a retractor, didn’t know the parts of the body

B. Why should you do your duty?

1. The Judgment Seat of Christ

· 2 Corinthians 5:10, 11

· James 3:1

· Colossians 3:23 – 25

Conclusion:

· Luke 17:7 – 10

· Romans 12:1

· Are you doing your duty?