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Paul addressed this question in Romans 6. The apostle's answer was that anybody who thought it was okay to continue in sin must not know what happened to him in baptism:

"How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Those in the Middletown Bible Church don't know what happens in baptism either, because that part of the Bible isn't taught there. Instead, when confronted with these words from an inspired apostle, they argue against him thus: "The baptism Paul is talking about in Romans 6 is REAL BAPTISM not RITUAL BAPTISM."

What nonsense! Can you just imagine those on Pentecost asking Peter, "Now are you telling us we should be REALLY baptized in the name of Jesus Christ? Or just RITUALLY baptized?"

What utter nonsense from these false teachers. Do the sheep in that flock not have Bibles? If they don't read them, they may as well be Catholics. They're being shepherded by wolves. Care to guess their fate?