burial, and resurrection. In both cases, the believer is freed from sin and has been given a glorious picture of that freedom. But this Freedom has a name, and His name is the Lord Jesus. It is important to reiterate that water baptism is not a picture of the believer’s own personal death, burial and resurrection. It is a sign of the believer’s union with and in the death, burial, and resurrection of Another. An essential part of the argument in Romans 6 deals with the union of the believer with
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