Justified from Sin. Romans 6:3-7 V.3. Baptism is the testimony we make of a new life in which we are united with Christ in death and in resurrection life. The age to come has been inaugurated but will not be fully here until our Lord Jesus Christ returns.” In Christ” is the way we are identified as having a spiritual union with Christ. This phrase, in one way or another, is indicated over 160 times in the writings of the apostle Paul. Christ is in us and we are in Him. He took our sins and gave us His righteousness. We have been crucified with Him, died with Him, buried with Him, raised with Him, united with Him, and live with Him.
It may be that those whom God has saved sometimes forget what baptism really means. When a believer is baptized, they have confessed they have chosen against sin and their old life. Christ had died unto sin on his or her behalf. He has been buried. Burial is the last link a person has with Earth. All earthly ties have been severed and the whole of the past is ended at burial. What great joy it is to us that Christ has been raised up from among the dead and believers are raised up after a true likeness of His resurrection. Baptism has to do with death, not cleansing from sin; with burial, the ending of a former link to the earth, and that by a true likeness of Christ's resurrection, we enter a new life.
Romans 6:4. “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”