Salvation is a general term that includes justification, sanctification, and glorificationkw. It is the opposite of “perishing” or “being lost” (see Luke 19:10; John 3:16). The word is used in both a positive and negative sense. Negatively, it means to save from God’s wrath (Romans 5:9). Positively, it means that we are raised up with Christ and God has “seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace” (Ephesians