"Know ye not, that so many of us as
were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into His death" (Romans
6:3)?
It is a sad commentary indeed that after
2000 years the vast majority in fundamentalism still labors under the so-called
"great commission" and, consequently, is manifestly confused and
divided over the subject of water baptism. However this "baptism" of
which Paul speaks here in Romans 6:3 is so absolutely absent of water that most
of those who water baptize fail to see that believers in the dispensation of
grace are actually "baptized into His death". This is why Paul can write
in Galatians 2:20:
"I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I
now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave Himself for me."
And not only that,
but the Apostle further states that it is the old Adamic nature in all of us
that was crucified with Christ:
"Knowing this, that our old man is
crucified with Him, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, THAT HENCEFORTH WE
SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN" (Romans 6:6).
And what's more, in this baptism,
"...the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world" (Galatians
6:14).
Furthermore, the Apostle Paul writes by
divine inspiration in I Corinthians 12:13 that upon believing in the Lord Jesus
Christ we are baptized into the Body of Christ:
"For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." And this was
revealed to Paul "by the revelation of Jesus Christ" (Galatians
1:11,12).
We have been so completely identified with
the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial and resurrection that Paul goes on
in Romans 6 to declare:
"Therefore we are buried with Him by
baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life"
(Romans 6:4). aNo wonder the Apostle exhorts:
"God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Galatians 6:14).
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How God Saves
Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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