07/08/2025
Rom. 6:3 Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into
Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
1 Cor. 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to
us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
The believers have been baptized into Christ, even into His death. Baptism
is not a form or a ritual; it signifies our identification with Christ. Through
baptism we are immersed into Christ, taking Him as our realm, that we may
be united with Him as one in His death and resurrection.
Romans 6:3, which speaks of our having been baptized into Christ, is
the strongest support for the thought of the organic union in Christ, the
organic union we have with Christ. We can never enjoy and experience
Christ without being baptized into Christ. We were born in one person,
Adam, but when we believed and were baptized, we entered into another
person, Christ…By being baptized into Christ, we entered into Christ and
became a part of Him…Baptism, therefore, is an extremely significant
experience, for in it a transfer takes place…We have been baptized out of
one realm, one sphere, into another realm, another sphere, that is, out of
Adam, the first man (1 Cor. 15:45a, 47a), into Christ (1:30; Gal. 3:27), the
second man (1 Cor. 15:47)…Christ is a realm, a sphere, into which we have
been baptized. Now we are in Him, He is our enjoyment, and He is the very
One whom we can experience. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp.
3049-3050)
