Interesting you are asking about baptism, yes I did wonder. You know that we are vessels of God, but we were in the world before we were drawn to Jesus of the Father. We were vessels taken out of that world. Let's look at a scripture, this concerns the spoil that was taken out of the land of Midian, as it is written, Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. Numbers 31:23. We are baptized in the fire of the Holy Ghost, we are baptized in the water of separation in the name of Lord Jesus. In going through such, we are vessels for God's use.

Some may say, do we have to be baptized in water? Yes, cause that is what we were told to do of Jesus.

Remember Naaman, the leper was told to dip seven times in Jordan and he would be clean. And he didn't want to do what he was told, but his servants persuaded him to do so, to wash and be clean. So after the seventh time did Naaman notice his skin like that of a baby's skin. Naaman didn't want to follow the instruction, but later on he did and when he did, he was blessed.