This lesson overviews the meaning and purpose of water baptism by showing how it was foreshadowed in Old Testament types, especially Israel’s passage through the Red Sea, which pictured identification with deliverance and life in God. Baptism serves as a memorial of Christ’s death, a confession of sin and forgiveness, a determination to leave sin behind, a separation from the world, and the acceptance of a new identity set apart to God. Through water baptism believers are joined to Christ and His people, becoming Abraham’s seed, putting on Christ, and entering the Body of Christ. The lesson also explains baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as submission to His authority and relationship with Him, and teaches that baptism should follow genuine repentance and faith, administered to those who understand and respond to the gospel.