9. Into what experience are those baptized who are baptized into Christ? “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were _baptized into His death_?” Rom. 6:3. NOTE.—Baptism is a gospel ordinance commemorating the _death_, _burial_, and _resurrection_ of Christ. In baptism public testimony is given to the effect that the one baptized has been crucified with Christ, buried with Him, and is raised with Him to walk in newness of life. Only one mode of baptism can rightly represent these facts of experience, and that is immersion,—the mode followed by Christ and the primitive church. 10. How is such a baptism described? “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.” Verse 4. 11. How fully are we thus united with Christ in His experience of death and resurrection? “For if we have been _planted together_ in the likeness of His _death_, we shall be also in the likeness of His _resurrection_.” Verse 5. 12. What will follow this union with Christ in His death and resurrection? “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also _live with Him_.” Verse 8. 13. In what working of God is faith to be exercised in connection with baptism? “Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him _through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead_.” Col. 2:12. 14. At the beginning of His ministry, what example did Jesus set for the benefit of His followers? “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be _baptized_ of him.” Matt. 3:13. 15. What remarkable experience attended the baptism of Jesus? “And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw _the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him_: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, _This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased_.” Verses 16, 17. 16. What promise is made to those who repent and are baptized? “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and _ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost_.” Acts 2:38. 17. What question did the eunuch ask after Philip had preached Jesus unto him? “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; _what doth hinder me to be baptized_?” Acts 8:36. 18. In order to baptize the eunuch, where did Philip take him? “And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and _they went down both into the water_, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.” Verse 38. 19. How did the people of Samaria publicly testify to their faith in the preaching of Philip?