Salvation is God’s all-inclusive rescue—justification, regeneration, sanctification, and future glorification. Water baptism stands within this saving work as the believer’s public, obedient identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. It is neither an empty symbol nor a self-generated work; rather, it is a God-ordained point of contact where faith meets grace, conscience is cleansed, and the believer enters the ongoing life of the Spirit.