Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection. (Romans 6:3-5)1
When Paul said we were baptized into His death, the meaning of the word baptized is to immerse or submerge,2 and this verb tense is the Greek aorist tense which tells us that this baptism into His death was a one time event that will never happen again. In Christ’s death, we died also.
At the cross, Jesus Christ identified with us. He became our identity so that we could be in His. He stepped into our very lowest state so that we can receive His very highest. The highest realms of glory are ours. There is nothing that we are deprived of because there is nothing that He isn’t worthy of. Why? Because there is no depth of darkness and depravity that He refused to absorb on our behalf. Can you fathom a love that deep?
(from page 129 of Unveiling Jesus)
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1All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New King James Version. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission.
2G907 (baptizō), Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, website: http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G907&t=KJV, accessed 5-22-14″
