Through Baptism we’re Baptised into Christ and into His Death to be Identified to Him

Praise the Lord, all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into His death, and His death has separated us from the world and the satanic power of darkness and has terminated our natural life, and we today can live a life of baptism, a life in the reality of our baptism!

This week in our morning revival we come to Romans chapter 5 and we focus mainly on, The Likeness of the Death and Resurrection of Christ.

The kernel of the Bible can be seen in Romans chapters five through eight; in these chapters we see two lines – the line of life and the line of death.

These two contrasting lines can be seen from the beginning of the Bible to the end of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.

The line of life begins with the tree of life and concludes with the city of life with the tree of life, the water of life, and the light of life.

On the other hand, the line of death begins with the tree of knowledge of good and evil and ends with the lake of fire.

Before we believed into the Lord Jesus, we were in Adam; we were on the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the line of death.

But thank the Lord, one day we heard the gospel, we believed into the Lord Jesus, we were baptised into Him, and we were transferred out of the line of death and into the line of life!

Praise the Lord, today we rejoice in the Lord and we praise Him for we are those on the line of life!

This week, we want to see the matter of being in the likeness of the death and resurrection of Christ, based on Romans 6:3-5.

In this portion of the word, we see that, if we have grown together with Christ in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

We need to remain on the line of life and live on the line of life; the way to do this is to eat Christ as the tree of life throughout the day.

Eating Christ as the tree of life should be the primary matter in the church life. We need to be full of the enjoyment of Christ in every meeting, and not only in the meeting, but even outside the meetings, we need to enjoy the Lord and seek to be filled with Him. Amen!

May the Lord gain such a situation where we all are enjoying Christ. Sadly to say, however, so many times we still live in the principle of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, even though we have been transferred out of the line of death onto the line of life.

Actually, we ourselves are a tree of knowledge of good and evil. So we need to constantly turn to the Lord and remain in the likeness of His death so that we may also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

Through Baptism we are Identified with Christ and we are Immersed in Him to be United with Him in His Death and Resurrection

Baptism is not a form a ritual that Christians do; rather, baptism signifies our identification with Christ. All of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into His death (Rom. 6:3).

His death is precious and sweet. Death in Adam is ugly and even horrible, and we don’t want to look at it or talk about it. But death in Christ is sweet and precious, for our baptism signifies that we’re identified with Christ and we are immersed into Him to be united with Him in His death and resurrection.

When we are joined to Christ through baptism, we are joined to Him in His death; this terminates everything in the old creation, all the negative things, and our old nature with its sinful deeds.

Through baptism, Satan is terminated, and so is the world, the old man, and all religious rituals and ordinances.

The death of Christ is an all-terminating death. When we are baptised into the death of Christ, this death will be applied to us.

We need to be transferred out of Adam into Christ by being identified with Christ in His death and by being immersed in Him to be united with Him in His death and resurrection.

When we baptise a person into the death of Christ, this death is applied to him; the old Adam is terminated, this person is transferred out of Adam, and in resurrection he is organically joined to Christ.

Being baptised into Christ, as seen in Rom. 6:3, indicates that we have been organically joined to Christ; we have been brought into an organic union with Christ.

It is in this way that we can enjoy and experience Christ, by being organically joined to Him.

We were born in Adam, in the old man, but through faith and baptism in Christ, we entered into Christ and became part of Him. Amen!

This means that, through baptism, we are transferred from one realm into another realm.

We used to be in Adam, in the old man, and in the flesh, but now we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ, out of the old man into the new man, and out of the flesh into the Spirit. We have been baptised out of one realm into another realm, out of one sphere into another sphere.

We were baptised out of Adam, the first man (1 Cor. 15:45, 47) into Christ (1:30; Gal. 3:27), the second man (1 Cor. 15:47). Hallelujah!

Now we are in Christ, the second man, and He is our enjoyment and experience day by day! We need to see this and we need to pray over this, realising what happened to us at the time of our baptism.

In Adam we inherit sin and death, but in Christ we have life, light, grace, and all the eternal blessings, for everything positive can be found only in Christ! Praise the Lord!

We need to have this realisation when we preach the gospel to people and we baptise them.

When we baptise a new believer in the water, we baptise him into Christ and into His death for him to be brought into an organic union with Christ and enjoy all that Christ is.

On the one hand, we need to believe in the Lord in our heart and confess Him with our mouth. On the other hand, we need to be baptised into Christ to be put into His death and be joined to Him organically!

Through baptism, the old Adam is terminated, and when we rise up from the water, we become a new man in the new creation! Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord for our baptism! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have been baptised into Christ, even into His death, to be identified with Him! Amen, Lord, may we see that, through baptism, we are identified with You and we are immersed into Christ to take Him as our realm! Praise the Lord, we are united with the Lord as one in His death and resurrection. Oh, what a wonderful organic union we have been brought into by means of our baptism. Amen, Lord, we want to live in the reality of our baptism today. May we live in the reality of being transferred out of Adam into Christ! Praise the Lord, we are now in Christ, and in Him we can enjoy God and all that God is! Amen, Lord, we want to remain in the organic union with You today. We no longer want to live in Adam, where we inherit sin and death, but in Christ, where Christ is everything to us and in us! Hallelujah, we are in Christ, He is our enjoyment, and we can experience Christ! Praise the Lord!

We who have been Baptised into Christ have been Baptised into His Death: it’s So Sweet to Die with Christ!

If we see what happened in the spiritual realm at the time of our baptism, we will praise the Lord that we have been baptised into Christ!

First, by being born of our human parents, we were born in Adam, and in this one we inherit many negative things including sin and death. But through faith in Christ we are joined to Him and in our baptism, we are identified with Christ in His death and resurrection.

Praise the Lord, we are no longer in Adam but in Christ, and we are no longer joined to Adam but we are joined to Christ!

When we were baptised into Christ, we were transferred from being part of Adam, and we are now part of Christ; we are no longer in Adam – we’re absolutely in Christ. Hallelujah!

We who have been baptised into Christ have been baptised into His death (Rom. 6:3).

His death has separated us from the world and the satanic power of darkness and has terminated our natural life, our old nature, our self, our flesh, and even our entire history.

Baptism is not just something we do as an outward sign for someone who believes in Jesus and wants to declare to the whole world that they belong to Jesus.

Baptism brings us into an organic union in spirit with Christ, and through being baptised into Christ we are baptised into His death.

On the one hand, we have been baptised into the person of Christ; on the other hand, we have been baptised into His death.

The death of Christ into which we have been baptised separates us from anything negative.

It is significant that Paul didn’t say that we have been baptised into Christ’s resurrection but into His death; this means that Christ and His death are one, and actually, both the death and resurrection of Christ are found and enjoyed by us in the Spirit, whom Christ became in His resurrection!

The resurrection of Christ carries the element of His effective death; when a believer is baptised into Christ, he is spontaneously baptised into the death of Christ.

Among us people, in the human realm, death is something terrible and ugly; we loathe death in Adam. But the death of Christ is dear and lovable, and we can abide restfully in this death.

A believer baptised into the all-inclusive Christ is also baptised in the death of Christ.

Like A. B. Simpson wrote in his hymn, “It is so sweet to die with Christ” (Humns 482). It is sweet to die with Christ because in this death with Him, everything negative was terminated.

We see this in type in the story of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea after leaving Egypt. When they crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptian soldiers remained there, in the Red Sea; Satan and his armies are buried in the waters of baptism.

By ourselves and in ourselves we cannot defeat Satan, for he and his armies are much stronger than us.

But when we go through baptism, when we’re baptised in Christ and therefore baptised in His death, Satan and his armies with everything negative are terminated there, in the waters of baptism. Praise the Lord!

Once we pass through baptism, we’re separated from the world, from the authority of darkness, from our oldness, our self, our flesh, and even our entire past history; all these were terminated!

When we come out of the waters of baptism, we are a new creation! Praise the Lord, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation!

On the negative side, we are buried together with Christ, for through baptism we enter into the actual experience of death with Christ. On the positive side, we come out of the death waters of baptism to be a new creation in resurrection, and now we walk in newness of life! Praise the Lord!

Hallelujah, all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into His death! Amen, Lord, may we see this and may we live in the reality of our baptism today in our Christian life. May we realise that we have been baptised into Christ’s person and also into His death. Praise the Lord, Christ’s death has separated us from the world and the satanic power of darkness! Hallelujah, by being baptised into the death of Christ, our natural life, old nature, self, flesh, and entire old history has been terminated! Hallelujah, we come out of the waters of baptism as a new creation in resurrection, being organically joined to the Lord as one spirit to live one with Him for the building up of the church! Oh, it is so sweet to die with Christ to the world and self and sin! Oh, it is so sweet to live with Christ, for He lives and dwells within!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 299, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans – the Kernel of the Bible (2025 ICSC), week 3, The Likeness of the Death and Resurrection of Christ.
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