Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? He just told them, look, look, look, look. See what you’re saying? That’s all nonsense. You say, well, we should do evil. Well, we ought to God to do evil so that he might be gracious. He said, no, no, you’ve already died to sin.
What does he mean by that? He explains it in what I just read. He said, what am I going to tell you people? Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized? You don’t get what you’ve done. When you were baptized, you know what you did? Well, of course they did.
But they didn’t get it when they’re talking this way. Yeah, but we should continue in sin and grace may abound He said, nonsense, you’re dead to sin. You can’t continue in it. You’re dead to it. And what does he mean dead to it? He means they don’t want to sin anymore? Or that they’re not capable, more to the point, that they’re not capable of sinning anymore? Well, of course they’re capable of sinning.
What does he mean they’re dead to it? He means you made a decision. You made a faith response. You committed yourself.
to the Messiah. You committed yourself to Jesus Christ.
And who is that man? Well, you know who he is. Well, of course we do. But you were baptized into…
his death. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean that when you’re baptized into Christ that you kind of morph and come into some kind of ghostly something and go somewhere and enter into the person of Jesus Christ who is currently with his father.
No, it means that Christ, you see that sound, that name, and it becomes a name. It means Messiah. It’s more of a ⁓ title. there are passages in New Testament where it becomes, it’s His name, Jesus Christ, you see. But He said, when you were baptized into Christ, the sound of the name
means, Who he is? What he stood and stands for?
what he did to make that clear. All of that.