"Incorporating us into the fellowship of his death and resurrection"

From The Reformed Baptism Form: A Commentary, by Bastiaan Wielenga, pages 97-99. _________ In the same way that resurrection followed Christ’s death, incorporating us into the fellowship of Christ’s resurrection follows also. “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection” (Rom. 6:5; emphasis added). They relate to each other as cause and effect. Indeed, resurrection arouses a shout of jubilation in the bosom of the...