Excellent, Bro. Blume!
Did you expound some on
I Peter 3:21;
Col 2:12; and
Romans 6:4?
I would have liked to have read that as well. Very powerful!!!
I'm thinking that the penalty doesn't apply to our lives until we identify with Him in Baptism. "Buried" in
Romans 6:4 is very powerful, meaning: "to inter in company with".