Rom 8 :13 Living After The Flesh

1Pe 3:21 ASV - which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Baptism
 It is used in the NT in Luk 11:38 of washing oneself (as in 2Ki 5:14, "dipped himself," Sept.); see also Isa 21:4, lit., "lawlessness overwhelms me." In the early chapters of the four Gospels and in Act 1:5; 11:16; 19:4, it is used of the rite performed by John the Baptist who called upon the people to repent that they might receive remission of sins. Those who obeyed came "confessing their sins," thus acknowledging their unfitness to be in the Messiah's coming Kingdom. Distinct from this is the "baptism" enjoined by Christ, Mat 28:19, a "baptism" to be undergone by believers, thus witnessing to their identification with Him in death, burial and resurrection, e.g., Act 19:5; Rom 6:3, 4; 1Cr 1:13-17; 12:13; Gal 3:27; Col 2:12. The phrase in Mat 28:19, "baptizing them into the Name" Act 8:16, RV), would indicate that the "baptized" person was closely bound to, or became the property of, the one into whose name he was "baptized."

In Act 22:16 it is used in the Middle Voice, in the command given to Saul of Tarsus, "arise and be baptized," the significance of the Middle Voice form being "get thyself baptized." The experience of those who were in the ark at the time of the Flood was a figure or type of the facts of spiritual death, burial, and resurrection, Christian "baptism" being an antitupon, "a corresponding type," a "like figure," 1Pe 3:21. Likewise the nation of Israel was figuratively baptized when made to pass through the Red Sea under the cloud, 1Cr 10:2. The verb is used metaphorically also in two distinct senses: firstly, of "baptism" by the Holy Spirit, which took place on the Day of Pentecost; 
And baptism of water unto the remission of sins , how is our sins remitted by water baptism .

Rom 6:3 ASV - Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 ASV - We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 ASV - For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
Rom 6:6 ASV - knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
Rom 6:10 ASV - For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

The word "Baptism" is a transliteration of the Greek word BAPTIZO which means to immerse.
To be totally immersed in water , why water and why this way .   That aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:   which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
 Jesus the Son of God came on His mission by, or through, "water" and blood, namely, at His baptism, when He publicly entered upon His mission and was declared to be the Son of God by the witness of the Father, and at the Cross, when He publicly closed His witness

 Tit 3:5 ASV - not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Regeneration:    Greek: palingenesia
"new birth" (palin, "again," genesis, "birth"), is used of "spiritual regeneration," Tts 3:5, involving the communication of a new life, the two operating powers to produce which are "the word of truth," Jam 1:18; 1Pe 1:23, and the Holy Spirit, Jhn 3:5, 6; the loutron, "the laver, the washing," is explained in Eph 5:26, "having cleansed it by the washing (loutron) of water with the word."


 Buy being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit .  Jesus himself was baptized by John as an example unto all that believe .  Mat 3:13 KJV - Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.   
Mat 3:14 KJV - But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Mat 3:15 KJV - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.   Jesus was the sinnless Lamb of God he had nothing to repent of their was no darkness in him no shadow in his turning . Just as a Chrystal 
vase he was transparent and pure the light shown through him . Jesus came to show us the way unto the father

 Jesus could not come into his ministry until John came first ,  With out repentance no man shall see the Lord . And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him Jesus said I am the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE ,  Jhn 14:6 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.   Eze 43:10 ASV - Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
  Hebrew  bah'·yith     house, dwelling habitation, human bodies , those belonging to the same household . No ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit we all shall be judged for the things we have done in our bodie's whether it be good or bad.
Jhn 1:11 ASV - He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not.   This prophecy in Eze 43:10 was not only for the israelite but the gentile also ,Rom 11:25 ASV - For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
Rom 11:26 ASV - and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Rom 2:9 ASV - tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
Rom 2:10 ASV - but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
Jesus was the pattern for us to follow its hard to believe that people that say they are christian do not follow the word given to us . This calling is for all man kind to walk in completely   Col 2:6 ASV - As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,   Luk 6:46 ASV - And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Col 2:6 ASV - As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
1Jo 1:6 ASV - If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jo 2:6 ASV - he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
Jesus is not a social religion as some have preached , it is a matter of life and death its your soul God is interested in.  There is no degrees of holiness no levels to attain to, its a matter of sanctification.  Heb 12:14 ASV - Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
Greek: hagiasmos Holiness, Holy, Holily:
translated "holiness" in the AV of Rom 6:19, 22; 1Th 4:7; 1Ti 2:15; Hbr 12:14, is always rendered "sanctification" in the RV. It signifies  (a) separation to God, 1Cr 1:30; 2Th 2:13; 1Pe 1:2;
(b) the resultant state, the conduct befitting those so separated, 1Th 4:3, 4, 7, and the four other places mentioned above. "Sanctification" is thus the state predetermined by God for believers, into which in grace He calls them, and in which they begin their Christian course and so pursue it. Hence they are called "saints" (hagioi).   The resultant state, the conduct befitting those so separated  we must choose to be Holy Jesus said be ye Holy as your father in heaven is Holy
1Jo 1:5 ASV - And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jo 1:6 ASV - If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jo 1:7 ASV - but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Jhn 1:12 ASV - But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:  Become in  Greek: ginomai
Arise, Arose, Arouse, Raise, Rise, Rouse:
"to become, to take place," is sometimes suitably translated "arise;""to become," signifies a change of condition, state or place .   This word I write is not to condemn you , but to encourage you to read and pray and search to see if it is true . There is another gospel being preached today that is not the gospel the true gospel of God given to Christ the pattern son of salvation ,  Jesus has shown us the pattern of his father .  His way his truth and his life to walk as Jesus walked.
Heb 13:10 ASV - We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.
Heb 13:11 ASV - For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 ASV - Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 ASV - Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Heb 13:14 ASV - For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.
It has nothing to do with how long you have known the Lord , it is how you have walk in that time
what is your testimony of the truth the fruit of righteous living .  but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Are we being honest with God is our hearts ,  not condemned by our life's choices .  I will tell you  this I was filled with the holy spirit in 1972 and I walked as a young christian several years and than came the parable of the sower of the seed.    Luk 8:13 ASV - And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.    Now the question is was I truly saved at that time of my disobedience , going back to the worldly ways a sinful life . I must say this and I believe it is absolutely true
once saved always saved !  is that the apostate gospel I spoke of  that voids the scripture in.
Phl 3:10 ASV - that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Phl 3:11 ASV - if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

Once saved always saved has no cross to bear , but Jesus said if we do not die to our carnal life we are not worthy of him his salvation !

Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
As for myself in that time of disobedience I was in rebellion to God and his word . Iam reminded of a word erase or blot .   Rev 3:5 ASV - He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.   Remember the man at the wedding feast of the masters son.
Mat 22:11 ASV - But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:
Mat 22:12 ASV - and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. He assumed he was saved by his social worldly religion another gospel other than the gospel of Jesus and Pauls .

Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Children of God go from Adams DNA his carnal fleshly desires to being born of God , and becoming children of their father .
Rev 19:7 ASV - Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 ASV - And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Isa 61:10 ASV - I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.