The awesome significance of water
baptism is that it symbolizes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus
Christ and our identification with Him in them. The Scriptures refer to Jesus
as being the last Adam (I Corinthians 15:21-22, 45). Jesus, in His
sacrifice for us, represented us. When a person receives Jesus as Lord, he
identifies fully with what happened to Jesus (Romans
6:4-6). Water baptism is a physical act that should indelibly
mark the mind of the person being baptised with the reality of his union with
Jesus Christ.
Water baptism also gives the
believer the opportunity to openly testify to others of his born-again
experience. It serves as an outward sign and testimony of an inward grace. The
believer has been crucified with Christ, buried with Him and raised together
with Him to walk in newness of life (Galatians
2:20; Romans 6:4).
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