Christ writes God's law in the new heart: "I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." Heb. 8:10. It is the rule of His own righteousness. For before He came into the world to work out perfect righteousness for us in human flesh, He said, through the psalmist, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8. It is a perfect righteousness and a full salvation that Christ brings into every believer's heart. In Him all fulness dwells, "and ye are complete in Him." The wondrous plan of salvation is so deep that only "in the ages to come" will God be able to "show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." Eph. 2:7. But thank God, even here below sinners saved by grace may "know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge." "The wonders of redeeming love Our highest thoughts exceed; The Son of God comes from above, For sinful man to bleed. "He knows the frailties of our frame, For He has borne our grief; Our great High Priest once felt the same, And He can send relief. "His love will not be satisfied Till He in glory see The faithful ones for whom He died From sin forever free." --_R.F. Cottrell._ [Illustration: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST "Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." Matt. 3:15.] [Illustration: THE FORD OF JORDAN "John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there." John 3:23.] BAPTISM THE MEMORIAL OF THE RESURRECTION Baptism is the divinely appointed memorial of the resurrection of Christ. The great fact of the gospel is that "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3, 4), to be our great High Priest and Saviour. Baptism is a profession of faith in the Saviour, who went into the grave for us, and rose again to life. It is the great object-lesson to teach the truth that the sinner must die to sin and the world, and have a resurrection by the power of divine grace to a new life of obedience. The ordinance is the sign of an actual experience, the means by which the believer confesses the work of grace in the soul. The Scriptures teach the essential conditions necessary to baptism: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Mark 16:15, 16. "What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest." Acts 8:36, 37. "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins." Acts 2:38. Thus it is seen that instruction in the gospel, belief in Christ, and repentance are conditions to precede baptism. Baptism for Believers The experience of which baptism is the sign is thus stated: