In this week’s lesson, John Mulligan continued teaching on the meaning of baptism in “Baptism and New Birth – Part 3.” John explained that baptism is not about what we accomplish, but what God accomplishes in us. It is the place where He performs His transforming work—washing away sin, granting forgiveness, and raising us to new life. Just as in earlier lessons, John emphasized that baptism is where God acts in power and mercy, and where we submit in faith to His will. In baptism, we go to die—to bury the old self that once ruled our hearts through sin. As Paul wrote in Romans 6, we are “baptized into Christ’s death” so that our former ways no longer have mastery over us. That old self, shaped by pride, anger, or addiction, must stay buried as we rise to walk in newness of life. Yet this death makes room for something beautiful: a life no longer enslaved to the impulses that destroy, but renewed by God’s Spirit to do what is right and good. Baptism is also where we go to live—to embrace the person God always intended us to be. Every act of kindness, honesty, and service becomes part of that resurrection life, one that outshines every old desire. And when temptation whispers, we can remember: we died to that; we were raised for this. In Christ, we live our truest, freest life—one that reflects the grace that first met us in the water.