7. Into whose name are believers to be baptized?
“Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” Matt. 28:19, R. V.
8. When believers are baptized into Christ, whom do they put on?
“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Gal. 3:27.
9. Into what experience are those baptized who are baptized into Christ?
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?” Rom. 6:3.
Note.—Baptism is a gospel ordinance commemorating the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. In baptism public testimony is given to the effect that the one baptized has been crucified with Christ, buried with Him, and is raised with Him to walk in newness of life. Only one mode of baptism can rightly represent these facts of experience, and that is immersion,—the mode followed by Christ and the primitive church.
10. How is such a baptism described?
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: 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.” Verse 4.
11. How fully are we thus united with Christ in His experience of death and resurrection?