The Responsibility We All Have Towards God And Our Fellow Believers

 When Paul was converted to the Christian faith, he suddenly discovered the shocking consequences of his own unbelief because he recognized that his religious legalism had kept him estranged from God and excluded him from fellowship with the One he claimed to follow.
 Once he discovered that Jesus of Nazareth was his God and Savior, Paul's desire was to tell others of our great salvation. He wanted them to share in the hope we have in Christ and experience the great freedoms we enjoy by faith in Him.
 Paul's bold declaration on preaching the gospel follows a long passage that speaks of the great privileges that are ours in Christ, and details The Responsibility We All Have Towards God And Our Fellow Believers. As Paul reminds us, there are many responsibilities that accompany our great salvation. 
 Like the apostle Paul, we have received our salvation by faith in Christ, and like him we have nothing to boast about. Our salvation does not depend on what we do but on what Christ has already done on our account. Like Paul, with the privileges that accompany salvation, there are certain responsibilities we have towards both God and fellow believers.
 May we, like Paul, rejoice in the privileges that are ours by faith and consider the accompanying responsibilities as blessings to share rather than a burden to carry.
1 Corinthians 9:16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for sending the Lord Jesus to be the sacrifice for sin, and for the many privileges that accompany our great salvation. Thank You that salvation is free to all and comes without cost. We pray that we would feel constrained to carry out the good work that You have prepared for us to do and tell others the good news that Christ died for their sins and rose again so that by faith in Him, they too might have forgiveness of sin and life everlasting This we ask and Pray in Jesus' name, AMEN.