I heard the true story the other day of a grandmother who was going to be baptized and her whole family was there to watch. They had tried to tell the 6 year old grandson what was happening, how Grandma was dying to sin and being baptized into Christ and so as they waited for Grandma to come out the 6 year old looked around and then leaned over and whispered to his dad, “Daddy, how are they ever going to get Mee-Ma up on that cross?” The great news is we don’t have to go to the cross. Thanks be to God! Jesus did that for us. But there is a sense in which, when we were baptized, we did go to the cross with Him. Paul says in Rom. 6- “We were therefore buried with Him through baptism.. For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that.. We would no longer be slaves to sin.”