What is the purpose of water baptism?
Baptism is a public declaration of your allegiance to Jesus Christ. As you pass through the waters, baptism symbolizes the drowning of the Old Man, born of the flesh, and the emerging of the New Creation, born of the Spirit. The waters of baptism represent the escape from the world system, which is under divine judgment. When we are baptized, we are baptized into Christ’s death. Death puts an end to our relationship with the world system, but baptism also represents a new birth into Christ Jesus as Sovereign Lord.
