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Good luck standing with those boasting about what they did

What do I have to boast about?..."See, Your Honor, just look at my record." Record? Mine is a rap sheet!

No, Christ will boast to His Father on my behalf, because I have been baptized into Christ:

"Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also 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, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; for he that hath died is justified from sin." - Romans 6:3-7

Paul is here describing the one who goes before God not with his record (cuz it's a rap sheet!) but having given up that method of justification (cuz it exposes our guilt!) Instead he joins Christ in the likeness of His death in baptism, that he may be raised free from guilt and join Christ in the likeness of His resurrection. Now that's faith!