So, baptism is God arriving to you in the present proclamation of forgiveness of your sin, to bring the old Adam to death, “you who died to sin,” and to raise you to newness of life in Christ, without the law (Romans 6:2-4). In baptism, Christ gives you, not just your new beginning in faith, but also the assurance of the future and final matter of your eternal destination in the present for, “Baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21). Therefore, baptism can, “not be exiled to the beginning of life,”[2] and nor is it judgment and eternal salvation relegated to some unknown future date.