BAPTISM, WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD?

In Paul's Letter to the Romans, he wrote to explain to the believers there, his understanding of the Christian faith, and its practical implications for their lives as Christians.  

All mankind needs to be put right with God, for all alike are under the power of sin. The only way is through faith in Jesus Christ. Then the believer is able to obtain peace with God and is set free by God's Spirit in the believer's life.

In illustration of this, Paul writes in chapter 6: "Surely you know, that so many of us, as we were baptized into Jesus Christ were also baptized into his death. By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life. ... Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies that you used to obey it in the lust thereof. Neither yield any part of yourselves as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace. ... Don't you know, that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, but now you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered in you. Being then made free from sin, you became servants to righteousness unto holiness. ... For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit do you had then in those things whereof now you are ashamed?  For the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

This is a perfect and proper explanation that Paul gives us for the word "Baptize," meaning "to deep," "to be immerse," "to plunge." When one is immerse in something, it is temporarily "buried" out of sight and then lifted out.

Paul identified the true seed of Abraham as Christ, along with those who belong to Christ as "heirs with reference to a promise."(Gal. 3:16, 29). Paul also speaks of Abraham's kindness and hospitality to strangers, and in his long list of God's witnesses in Hebrews 11, he does not overlook Abraham. 

Paul points out that Abraham's two women, Sarah and Hagar, were actually a symbolic expression of God's two covenants.

As a patriarchal head, Abraham allowed no idolatry or ungodliness in his household, but constantly taught to all his sons and servants to "keep God's way to do righteousness and judgment." Gen. 18:19.