The Friday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 17, 2026 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 done 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
“Are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”
Paul refuses abstraction. Baptism is not just a symbol. It is participation. You were buried with Him in it. That burial was not merely poetic. It was decisive. The old man was crucified. The tyranny of sin was broken. Death no longer reigns.
Yet the struggle remains. The flesh protests its execution. It gasps. It resists. But its dominion is ended. Christ died once. He liveth unto God. So reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. “Reckon” does not mean pretend. It means trust what God has declared. When accusation rises, point to the font. When temptation whispers, remember the grave that stands empty.
The Resurrection is not a seasonal ornament. It is your identity: Baptized into His death, raised into His life. Sin no longer owns you; Christ does. And His lordship is mercy.
Collect: 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.
