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Principles Taught in God’s Word

James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will

flee from you." 

The Principle of Responsibility

 

The last lesson was on the Principle of Authority; today’s lesson is the

principle of responsibility. Resisting the Devil is each individual’s

responsibility.

Since the beginning of time, we have avoided responsibility as Adam did.

When God asked him if he had eaten of the forbidden fruit, Adam’s first

response was, “the woman,” then he said, “that you gave me.” So, Adam first

blamed the woman, then blamed God for giving her to him; refusal to take

responsibility for his own sin. When the woman was asked what she had

done, she blamed the serpent, again a refusal to take responsibility.

Today we see that mindset everywhere, it’s not my fault, it is someone else’s

fault.

We also see how Aaron tries to shift the responsibility in Exodus 32:22, “And

Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people,

that they are set on mischief.”

Exodus 32:23, “For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us:

for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we

wot not what is become of him.” 

Some claim innocence as we read about Pilate in Matthew 27:24, “When Pilate

saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took

water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of

the blood of this just person: see ye to it.” 

We all need to learn and practice the principle of responsibility. As the old

song goes, “It’s me, It’s me O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.”