The Name of Jesus in Baptism

THE NAME IN BAPTISM

WHEN a Believer is baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus, He puts on Christ, as Paul tells us in Galatians 3:27. “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, did put on Christ.”

Baptism in this sense, is equivalent to marriage. When the wife puts on marriage she takes her husband’s name and enters into her husband’s possessions and has legal rights in his home. So when the believer is baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus, he puts on the Name of the Lord Jesus.

He not only puts on the Name, but he takes his legal rights and privileges in Christ.
When we are baptized into the Name of the Father, it gives us the place of a child and all the privileges of a child, all the inheritance and wealth of the child.
We are baptized into the protection and care and fellowship of the God of the universe as our Father-.

We take on all that union means. We have the standing of a Son, the privilege of a Son, and the responsibilities of a Son. We have become by that baptism a joint heir with Jesus and an heir of God. We have entered into the wealth of an inheritance from the God of the universe.

When we are baptized into the Name of the Holy Spirit, we are baptized into the Name, wealth, power, wisdom and glory of God’s representatives on the earth-all the Spirit as we are baptized into. We have become fellowshippers of His grace, His tenderness, His wisdom, His ability, His power, and His life.

So when we are baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus, all that that Name stands for in heaven is ours; all the mighty victories that Jesus won in His death, and resurrection are ours.

What does it mean to be baptized into the Name? Take this scripture: “Baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and into the Name of the Son, and into the Name of the Holy Spirit.” Spiritually it means this if it means anything: That we are baptized into all that Name means in the Plan of Redemption, we are baptized into the Finished work of Christ.