There are two things about Christian baptism that are very important today. The first thing is this: the Gospel is that Christ died for sinners and that upon savingly believing in Him, they become identified with Him in all that He is, and all that He did, and all that He ever shall do. The act of baptism is simply a picture of the baptism of the Spirit by which we are made a part of His very flesh, His bone and His body, and where we absolutely become one in the sight of God with the Lord Jesus Christ. So far as I am able to find out by study, the New Testament recognizes only one way for a person to publicly profess that he has been joined to and identified with the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is by baptism. Men cannot see your faith but men can see your baptism.