Friday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 21, 2023 by under
Scripture: Romans 6:3-11 (NKJV)
6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 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.
Devotion
There is only one way to be freed from the guilt of sin: death. Death is the wages of sin. Death is the only thing that can pay for the violation of sin. That death was accomplished for us by the Lord’s death on the cross. In His flesh—our flesh that He took upon Himself when He was conceived by the Holy Ghost—He crucified the “old man” within us. On account of our sins we were slaves to death. In order to free us from the slavery of death, our Lord and Savior died on the cross.
With His death on the cross, He did away with the old body of sin; He did away with the “old man.” We are united to His death through the waters of Holy Baptism. The “old man” in us is drowned and killed; it is done away with. We are now a new creation. Having been united to Him in His death, we are also united to Him in His resurrection. Just as He died and rose again, in the waters of Holy Baptism we also die and rise again. Every time we remember our Holy Baptism—every time we make the sign of the cross and confess in faith the name placed upon us in Holy Baptism—we drown the “old man” within us anew. Through daily contrition and faith we daily drown the “old man” so that a new man may arise and live each day freed from the bondage of sin and death.
Prayer: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who have celebrated the solemnities of the Lord’s Resurrection, may, by the help of Thy grace, bring forth the fruits thereof in our life and conversation; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
