Baptized into His Death

“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” Rom. 6:3. Unfortunately, not many people know that! Most people only know that they were baptized so that they could say they had been baptized. It was just something they did because it was supposed to be done.

However, baptism is the covenant of a good conscience toward God, as Peter writes in 1 Peter 3:21. Therefore, whoever is baptized makes a covenant, a contract with God. What is the covenant? To die to everything of our self-life, to keep the flesh with its passions and desires crucified every day for the rest of this life, to condemn all our self-will to death, and faithfully crucify it every time it asserts itself. It is a contract to put off the old man and keep him put off forever in order to be able to walk in newness of life. Otherwise walking in newness of life will be impossible.

“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.” Rom. 6:4.

We are baptized into Him who died for us. And we are baptized to die personally: to die to our self and sin, on the cross of Calvary.