What is a watchman?

John 5:19, Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he SEES his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."

There's been A LOT of quibble here lately over exactly what a watchman is in the church and what there function should be. Now in line with my other thread about controversial church titles and ministries, I post this here for everyone's viewing and reading pleasure (or displeasure).

Jesus taught in several places in John about how He did only what He saw the Father doing (John 5:19, 30, 6:38) and spoke what the Father told Him (John 5:30, 8:28, 12:49-50, 14:10)

Now Jesus in John 14:10 says to His disciples in the Upper Room:

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

This goes DIRECTLY in line with 1 John 3:24, "The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us."

Those who keep God's commands, He lives in them as they live in Him. And what are God's commands? Well John answers that in verse 23, the previous verse:

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

Now I've answered the love portion in other threads here much to the dismay of others. Pretty much in a nutshell, to keep this OP as short as possible, as you continue in your belief in Christ, you walk with Him, as you walk with Him you begin to mature in the fruit of the Spirit (John 15:4-6; 1 John 3:23-24; Colossians 2:6-7; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 5:16-25) So believe, walk, love.... Thus fulfilling the 2 commands of God in 1 John 3:23-24.

Back to John 14:10, Jesus said that His works verified His status in the Father and that the Father was in Him. Works that Jesus attested were only done as He saw them or words that were only spoken as He heard them.

Is this not what a watchman is? Someone who stands guard over others and looks out for events and listens for any noise. Perhaps this is the definition of a NT watchman, someone who watches for the Father to move and then moves along with Him and listens for the Father to speak and speaks what they hear.

Now perhaps some will take this and run with the sin message, I'm not going to whitewash all Christians as if we are all perfect, none of us are completely YET. But proclaiming sin sin sin is not what I'm speaking of.

How can the Father constantly bicker us about our sin when we are the very righteousness of Himself in Christ? That makes no sense at all!

He forgave all our sin in Christ (Colossians 2:13-14; Acts 13:38-39) and He told those in the OLD COVENANT, a covenant secured by the blood of goats, bulls, and lambs (Hebrews 10:1-11) that He would separate them from their sins as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12) and that He would cast their sin into the deepest sea (Micah 7:19) and would NEVER remember them (Isaiah 43:25), surely He would do more so for us, in the NEW COVENANT, a covenant secured and purchased FOREVER by the very blood of God Himself! Hallelujah!

Rather, I think a watchman can very well be a vague label for an evangelist, or an apostle, or even a prophet. Perhaps more so a prophet than the others going by Ezekiel's ministry in the OT, but the possibilities are there. But his duties I think are clear. To wait upon the Lord (Ps 62:1, 5; Ps 27:7-8, 14; Ps 37:7; Ps 25:3-5) and when He acts or speaks, we do as He does. That I believe is the calling and duties of a NT watchman.