Bible Questions Answered:
“We are baptized into Jesus death, I
do not understand that....”
Malea/ Makati City, Philippines
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
Romans 6:3-5 KJV
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as
were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
4 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.
5 For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the
likeness of His resurrection:
Romans 6:3-5 NLT
3 Or have you forgotten that when we
were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined Him in His
death?
4 For we died and were buried with
Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the
glorious power of The Father, now we also may live new lives.
5 Since we have been united with Him
in His death, we will also be raised to life as He was.
Justification:
Justification is
the act of The Son Of God, giving up, His life freely upon the cross
and taking upon Himself punishment for the sins of the world. And
that those who believe, trust and, live for Him, might be free from
the guilt and bondage of sin, through His sacrifice.
II Corinthians
5:21 KJV
For He hath made Him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him.
Baptism:
Is a spiritual
picture, of what has happened and what is happening in the life of
someone who has turned to The Lord Jesus, as their Savior.
Christ died,
was buried, and rose up from the dead, and lives in
newness of life at the right hand of The Father in heaven.
Baptism, the act
itself, does not save anyone- it is a representative act (An act
of confession.) of what has taken place in the life of someone
coming to baptism.
Romans 10:10 KJV
For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
Baptism signifies
that one is a believer, and has turned to The Lord Jesus Christ,
repenting of sin, and receiving Him as The Savior!
The Spiritual
Picture Of Baptism:
At the cross,
Christ died for our sins, and our bondage to sin, died on that cross,
with Him.
When we receive
Him, we have the liberty of being free from the guilt, and the
bondage to sin.
Now, Christ died
and was buried.
In the waters of
baptism (immersion - baptizo), when we went under those waters, it
spoke of death.
For the Christian,
it represents the death to the old nature of willful sin and its
longings.
In submersion into
the waters of , “ baptism, we joined Him in His death (Romans
6:3 NLT)
Yes, Christ, died,
and was buried, but thank God, He arose from the dead!
In Baptism,
going under the water, means death (we joined Him in His
death Romans 6:3 NLT), but when the
believer comes out of the baptismal waters, he rises (spiritually)
into New Spiritual Life, Christ's victorious, over coming life!
I Corinthians
15:57 KJV
But thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:12
NLT
For you were buried with
Christ when you were baptized. And with Him you were
raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of
God, who raised Christ from the dead.
So, we not only
join The Lord Jesus in His death and, burial, but praise God, in His
resurrection, to newness of life as well!
Romans 6:1-23
KJV
1 What shall we say then? Shall we
continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that
are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 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.
5 For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection:
6 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.
7 For he that is dead is freed
from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being
raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over
Him.
10 For in that He died, He died unto
sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members
as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield
yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have
dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because
we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye
yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were
the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of
doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin,
ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your
members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even
so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of
sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those
things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is
death.
22 But now being made free from
sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness,
and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
But now we have been released from
the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power.
Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the
law, but in the new way of living in The Spirit.
