A 3- Fold Meaning

Rom. 6:4 “We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”

Baptism has a three-fold significance. First: It is the death and burial of the past.
Second: It is a resurrection into a new relationship. Third: It is a union with the one in whose Name we have been baptized. We are baptized into the Name of the Father.
This means sonship with all the privileges that come with a relationship of such a person as the Father-God.

It means that we have died to all our previous relationships – that from now on our life is dependent upon Him. To be baptized into the Holy Spirit means that I have died to my past – my old relationships are severed – I am raised in Him, to live and walk in fellowship with Him.

His wisdom is to take the place of my ignorance; His strength is to take the place of my weakness; His goodness is to take the place of my failures. In other words, I am so fully identified and so completely at one with Him that it can no longer be I that live but He that liveth His life in me.

Baptizing into the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ is even richer and fuller than either of these – it comprehends all that is in them with additions. When I am baptized into Christ, I put on Christ. I am now legally before the world and before heaven a Christian.

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 her husband’s home.

When the believer is baptized into the Name of Christ, he puts on all that is in Christ.
He not only puts on the Name but takes his legal Rights and privileges in Christ.
When a wife is married into the name of the husband, she is married into his wealth, honour, and glory and becomes identified with him in all that he was or ever will be.
So when we are baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus, we are baptized into all that Name stands for – all its wealth, all its honour – all its power – all its past, present and future glory. All that that Name stands for in heaven is ours: all the mighty victories He won in His death, suffering, and conquest in hell and His resurrection are ours.