In the Old Testament, when a man want to be identified at the house of God, he took the most innocent thing he could find, a lamb. And he knowed the lamb was free from sin, ’cause it knowed no sin. And he went, and took the lamb, and put his hand upon its head, and confessed his sins. And by faith, he transferred his sins on the lamb, and the innocence of the lamb back on him. And then the lamb died, because it was a sinner. And the man lived, by an act of faith, of obeying what God said. But what did he do? He went right back out of the temple, with the same desire he had when he come in. Because, when that blood cell is broken…Which, the life starts in one blood cell. And when that blood cell was broken, the life of the lamb would not coincide, or come back into the human life, because it was an animal life. The man went out with the same desire he had, so therefore he committed sins continually, all the time, again.
But there come a time when God made us an example, and He gave us the Lord Jesus. And when a sinner puts his hands upon His precious head, and confesses his sins, and his sins are transferred from the sinner to Jesus; and the innocence of Jesus is transferred, by the Holy Ghost, back into that person. “He’s a new creature in Christ Jesus.” That’s where I want to be identified. The Bible said, “He, knowing no sin, was made sin for us.” The reason He suffered was for our sins. And it’s no more than what is right, no more than our duty is to look at these things and see that these desires that we have, that God put in us, to create in us, to make us to want to be like Him.
And now, if you can see it, by faith, before the real desire ever strikes you, come forward, be identified with Him in baptism. And then as you are planted in the likeness of His death, you shall also share in His likeness, in the resurrection. For when He come from the grave, He was the same Jesus that went into the grave. “And if we be in Christ…” How do we get in? By Holy Spirit baptism. “At that day we’ll come forth and share in His resurrection.”
Share in His meekness, you’ll share also in His power. Share in His obedience, and you’ll share in His resurrection. Do as God said do. In my heart, the greatest thing that I can think of, is to be like Jesus Christ, to be identified with Him. There is why I baptize the people in the Name of Jesus Christ, because He is our identification. We pack the identification. “Whatsoever you do in word or deed, do it in the Name of Jesus Christ, giving praise to God for it.” And we are identified with Him in baptism.

William Branham, sermon «Identified With Christ»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/59-1220E