What does the word 'baptized' actually mean?
Baptized means to be completely inundated—filled in every part, as a ship sunk at sea is engulfed by water. In salvation, the Holy Spirit inundates every believer in Christ the moment they believe the Gospel; it is not a water baptism, and it is not felt.
Les explains that the word baptized means to be inundated—completely inundated. To illustrate, he says one of the Greek classical writers, Homer or Plato (he does not recall which), described a ship being baptized at sea. Since this was before submarines, the ship sank; ocean water filled every crook and cranny. That is what baptism does: it simply inundates the person. In this passage, however, the element is not water but the invisible person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit. The Spirit has inundated us in Christ, placing every believer into the body of Christ. Les notes this happens the moment we believe the Gospel, and you do not feel a thing.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.