First of all, I’m not sure why you felt the need to be rebaptized as an adult. I hope you know that baptism, though important, is not necessary for salvation (see 1 Corinthians 1:17-18). Baptism is a rite which officially makes you a “disciple” (follower) of Christ (see Matthew 28:19-20). Salvation is yours the moment you “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” as your Savior (see Acts 16:31 with John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47; 20:30-31). After one is saved through faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross, you cannot “lose your salvation” (John 10:9, 27-30 and Romans 8:31-39).

If you have truly trusted in Christ for salvation, you need not worry or be anxious of going to Hell if you die while being in bondage to something, whether it be drugs or anything else that people become addicted to. Having said that, it is a very serious thing for a believer in Christ to be addicted to drugs. Sometimes it happens because of using strong prescription medications (like opioids) for the treatment of pain. I know believers who have experienced this and it is very hard to be delivered from them. But it is NOT IMPOSSIBLE, for “with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37 with Jeremiah 32:17, 27). If this is why you are addicted to drugs, I suggest you are not really coming to God in FAITH (believing in your heart that He will deliver you). Consider these words from Romans 4:19-21 which speak of Abraham who was told he and his wife would bear a son long after their bodies were able to have children: “And being NOT WEAK IN FAITH, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF, BUT WAS STRONG IN FAITH, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able to perform.”

Perhaps your addiction to drugs happened because of a choice to do illegal drugs with others. Whether this addiction occurred before you were saved or after, it makes no difference. If you truly want God to deliver you, you MUST believe He is able to deliver you. We read in Ephesians 3:20, “Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generation, forever and ever. Amen.” I hope you are learning that the SOLUTION to your drug addiction is FAITH, faith in the One that is “able to do whatever we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Abraham had this faith in God when his and Sarah’s circumstances looked IMPOSSIBLE. Yet he looked to God, “for with God nothing shall be impossible.”

In closing, I want to add a personal testimony. I was addicted to drugs for years before I was saved. After I was saved, I still had the desire at times to do drugs, but I had a stronger desire to bring glory to my Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. So, I cried out from the bottom of my heart to be delivered from the very desire to do drugs. God not only heard my prayer of faith; He answered it by delivering me from that desire. I give Him all the glory for doing this! And I can say with absolute honesty; I have NEVER had that desire to do drugs from that moment on and that was 49 years ago! Praise be to Him who not only has the desire to deliver us, but who also has the power to deliver us (see John 8:31-36). NOTHING is too hard for the Lord (see again Jeremiah 32:17, 27).  (DO)  (703.5)