Fear and Obey God’s commandments: Meaning

Key points

• Every person has two God-given duties.

• First duty: fear God wholeheartedly.

• Second duty: obey all God’s commandments.

• All work—school, office, home—must align with these duties.

• Your actions must reflect God’s fear and obedience.

• Evaluate every decision by God’s commandments, not human demands.

• God’s duties outweigh instructions from bosses or leaders.

• Anything you do must align with God’s expectations.

Fear and Obey God: The spiritual duty of every man and woman

Ecclesiastes 12 verse 13

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

1. The Bible says every man and woman has two duties.
2. The first duty of every man and woman is to fear God.
3. The second duty of every man and woman is to obey the commandment of God.
4. What this verse is saying is that every work you do in school, office, home, street, or church, must not conflict with these duties.
5. Every work you do in the school, office, church, or house, must be influenced by the fear of God and obeying the commandments of God.
6. You must check everything you do; it must be in line with the commandments of God not in line with the commandments of your boss, supervisor, lecturer, pastor, or parent.
7. These are the two duties that God that created you gave. And anything you do must be in line with the duties.