Now baptism, it's a biblical concept.
It comes from the idea in Jewish culture
of this idea of ritual cleansing,
that before you went to worship,
you would go into the water, you'd come out,
and it would be a cleansing ritual.
It was like a shower, in a sense,
before everybody had showers in their house.
So Romans chapter six, look at verse number four, it says,
Therefore we are buried with him in baptism, into death.
Into death.
And that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life.
So this is the picture of baptism,
and why it's a picture,
because we are buried under water, okay,
with him in baptism, okay?
So when we're baptized, we're buried with him.
It's a picture of the death, burial,
and resurrection of Christ.
That's why we do it, okay?
Even so, we should walk in newness of life.
And look at verse five, it says,
For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of his death,
we shall also be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
So when we're buried in his death,
we come up out of the water,
and that's a picture of the resurrection of Christ.
So we die, we're buried, we rise from the dead.
And that's a picture identifying us with Christ.
So baptism is a likeness or a symbol
of what Christ did for us.
It's a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection.
It doesn't wash away our sins.
It doesn't save us.
It's just a picture of what Christ did for us.
And when we do that, we are identifying with Christ
as in the death, burial, and resurrection
that he did for us.