Responsibility

Definition: a thing that one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation.

Dictionary of Bible Themes 5051 responsibility

An obligation, especially to give account of one’s actions. Scripture stresses that the responsibilities which believers and the church have arise from their special and privileged relationship to God.

we have a plethora of depictions in the bible that talk about responsibility.

Responsibility can be accepted, denied, or delegated.

John 9:4 NKJV

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

John 17:4 NKJV

I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

when Christ came he had a legal obligation to redeem mankind:

ignorance does not remove responsibility

Acts 3:19

Acts 3:17–19 NKJV

“Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Man is responsible for his own sin but thank God for grace

Romans 3:23 NKJV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 NKJV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We have a responsibility to repent and believe:

Luke 24:46–47 NKJV

Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Luke

when We believe he gives us the power to be called the children of God