Rom 6:3 (Still)

I was reading some commentaries this morning on this scripture and came across something that really opened something up for me. my husband and i came out of a church that taught on the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and we are believers in that too. but, my ex-pastor used to use this scripture to prove that people were to be baptized in water and in spirit. (which is correct in a sense, but the particular scripture that he makes reference to here, this is not actually what the writer was saying when he mentioned Moses and the Israelites.)

In 1 Cor 10:2, it says: they (the Israelites)"were baptized into the cloud and the sea."

I've heard pastors explain that the mentioning of the baptism in the cloud was "in the Holy Ghost" and "in the sea" was indicative of being baptized into water, and that teaching is incorrect. The Lord showed me that this morning. What the writer is saying here, is that Israel was baptized into their leader, Moses and the law given by Moses.

Before God can free us and save us, we must first Repent. In order to repent, we must first see what we are. What we are, is not Christ. We are not Perfect, Righteous, Worthy of Glory, or Praise, or even Honor. But Jesus Christ is. What WE are before Christ, is a fallen creation. What He is, is our substitute. For my failure, i am replaced with Perfection. For my sin, i am made Righteous by the Only Righteous One's Blood. So...when Judgement Day comes, what will Christ present to the Father? Me? Nope...He will present His blood for my Atonement and Covering, giving me access to God thereby.

When i read Barne's Notes, he stated: that Christ's death was "to expiate sin; to free men from its power; to make them pure."

Matthew Henry says that "baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly & unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in the newness of life."

I'm going to chew on some of this, i may write something more on this later. in the meantime, i am moving onto verse 4.