Put on Christ

 by David Long

"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:26-27). This verse tells us how one puts on Christ and how to get into Christ. How important is baptism? It's the only way to put on Christ and to get into Christ. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:3-4). To reject baptism as necessary (which most of the religious world does) is to reject the necessity of putting on Christ and one can't go to heaven without putting on Christ.