We say "carry your own weight" to those who do not accept responsibility for their own obligations in life. The picture of a lazy man wishing to be carted around like a Japanese prince on a koshi throne (with poles affixed to the chair and men at their stations acting as human wheels) comes to mind. Since life is too short for free loaders to demand you carry them around on a cushion, life should also be too short for you to demand that others man their stations on your own koshi throne.

Carry your own weight!

Do your own duty!

Man your own station!

Now, put all these ideas right into the middle of church life, and you'll be a better man or woman for it! You must never treat the local church as though it is your koshi throne. Adam and Even should not have treated Eden like one either. Since Eden, the world has been filled with two kinds of people: takers and givers. Most people are just takers. Greed takes and takes and takes.

In order to ensure that the world is filled with twice-born righteous children (as opposed to once-born children of the Devil), Christ instituted His holy church. The twice-born experience is God's solution for the dilemma of sin Adam and Eve bequeathed to their own children after they fell from grace. Modern Christians err when they fail to see that original sin was about more than just biting into some delicious-looking fruit. Original sin was about failing to recognize when property did not belong to them. Specifically, original sin was about failing to recognize when something belonged exclusively to God and had been rightfully reserved for Him alone, with no connected moral obligation to share it until and unless He determined so.

Eve was a taker. She should have seen the tree as an opportunity to GIVE respect to her Master, Maker and Father. Said another way, when she should have "paid respect" she "took a bite."

God was a giver, but He had already given more than enough. The modern church still struggles with this problem when it comes to - you guessed it - the subjects of property and finance. Are you living in dysfunctional dominion like your failed father Adam? Are you just another taker? Or are you obediently walking in divine dominion as your Heavenly Father still instructs?

Carry your own weight! Give tithes and offerings to the Lord's work in the local church where you are taught the high truths of God's holy Word. Pay your respects! Crucify your flesh and resist that "taker-spirit" you inherited from your Edenic parents.