[Romans 6:3NKJV: Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?]

To baptize means to immerse like the way you immerse a clothe under water. The best analogy is the way you immerse a white piece of clothe in a bucket containing red dye. The white clothe is immersed completely until the white color is absorbed by the red dye so the clothe becomes red.

The Bible talks of different types of Baptism. Jesus talked of water baptism and Holy Spirit baptism in Acts 1:5. In Romans 6:3 above, Paul talks of “Baptism into Christ.” He says “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?” (Romans 6:3).

This is not talking about water baptism because Water Baptism happens after salvation whereas Baptism into Christ happens at salvation and is done by the Holy Spirit. The moment you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit baptized you into Christ. So 1 Corinthians 12:13 says “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body…” So verse 27 says “Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.” So the “body” in verse 13 refers to the body of Christ is Christ and therefore by one Spirit, we were all baptized into the body of Christ. So baptism into Christ happened at salvation, water baptism happens after salvation. Water baptism is a symbol of this baptism into Christ.

So through the Holy Spirit, we were all baptized into Christ which means we were immersed into Christ. So 2 Corinthians 5:17 says “If anyone is “IN CHRIST..” So you were baptized into Christ and therefore your IN Christ.

Why is this important? This is important because when we were baptized into Christ, we received His life. In the same way the white piece of clothe is immersed in the red dye until it loses its color and adopts the red color of the dye, we too have been immersed into Christ and lost our lives and received the life of Christ. Now Christ died on the cross and was buried but on the third day, the Holy Spirit gave Him another life and He rose from the dead. So the life of Christ is the resurrection life. The life that came from death. So when we were baptized into Christ we received the same resurrection life of Christ that came out of death. The resurrection life is not subject to death again because it came out of death. So you too you are not subject to death.

This is why Jesus said in John 11:25-26KJV “… I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die…”. Understanding this revelation elevates the believer above death. No matter what you are facing, death has no power over you. As long as you are in Christ, you have the resurrection life of Christ and this life is beyond death. John 5:24 says you have passed from death to life and therefore you cannot die. If you hold on to this truth, and refuse to be swayed by anything or any one, you will live.

Always affirm this truth. Like Paul in Galatians 2:20NIV, always affirm “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’