Home DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 9th April 2021 – Instruments of Righteousness

Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 9th April 2021 – Instruments of Righteousness

by Chibuzor Nwaobasi

Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 9th April 2021Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 9th April 2021, Friday Message

TOPIC: Instruments of Righteousness

TEXT: Romans 6:7-14(NKJV)
7. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

10. For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God.
11. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13. And do not present your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.
14. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

STUDY: Our passage today brings out further implications of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yesterday, we highlighted them aspect of being dead to sin (v.6). Today, we look at practical steps to take in this direction and the end result. Verses 11 to 13 of our text
and Romans 12:1-2 show that this involves a renewing of our minds so that we consider ourselves dead to sin but alive to God.

Whenever any temptation comes, as must happen, we must deliberately refuse to yield any part of our being to that temptation, but rather offer it as a living sacrifice to God. We must refuse to conform to any sinful pattern of the world, even if it is accepted or legal in our community (Exodus 23:2).
Being an instrument of righteousness is a moment-by moment affair. Every victory must be won by grace which God readily supplies as we depend on Him (v.14; John 15:5). Be an instrument of righteousness.

PRAYER: Lord, make me an instrument of righteousness each day in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Daily Fountain Quote of the Day

“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”– John Piper

Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 9th April 2021 Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England

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