Being identified with Christ reveals the profound spiritual reality that water baptism symbolizes for believers. When Christians are identified with Christ, they participate in His death, burial, and resurrection through God's sovereign choice and the Spirit's transformative work. Those identified with Christ receive eternal blessings secured through Christ's substitutionary work on their behalf. Believers identified with Christ cannot continue living in sin because they have died to sin through their union with Christ. Being identified with Christ means God treats believers as if they personally accomplished Christ's righteous work, granting them His perfect righteousness and eternal life.