Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? were: or, are - Romans 6:3
First, we were baptized into Christ. This is not an ordinance or a figure but an actual experience. In regeneration and redemption, we are baptized into the body of Christ by the Spirit of God. He is the head of the body which is his church.
Secondly, we are baptized in water. What is the meaning of this ordinance? We are publicly confessing that we are identified with Christ Jesus in his obedience, death, burial, and resurrection, by which he redeemed and reconciled us to God. We are dead to this world, this life; it is buried, and we rise to walk as new creatures with new hearts and a new life! The nature of baptism is a burial of the old; and the end of baptism is a resurrection of the new!
Henry Mahan
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