Scripture says that we are baptized into Christ’s death so that as Christ was raised from the dead, even so, we also should walk in newness of life. Baptism is not only a sign of what is past. It is also a sign of what is to come. The old man is gone. The new here. The old life gone. The new life before us. That new life is certain. God has promised it, saying, “If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”