Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. – Romans 4:23-25

“Thanks be unto God which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We know that our Redeemer lives and that because He lives, we shall, also live and be with Him where He is! At the end of the chapter, we are told that this saving faith rests in the power of God as manifested in Jesus— “If we believe in Him who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.” Beloved, we believe that Jesus died, as certainly died as ever any man died—and yet on the morning of the third day He rose again from the dead by Divine power.

It is not, to us, an incredible thing that God should raise the dead! We, therefore, believe that because God has raised the dead, He has raised us, also, from our death in sin and that He will raise our bodies from the tomb after they shall have slept, awhile, in the earth. We believe, also, that our Lord Jesus died for our offenses and put them away. Our faith builds upon the substitution of the Lord Jesus on our behalf, and it rests there with firm confidence. We believe, also, that He rose again because His substitution was accepted and because our offenses were forever put away—rose again to prove that we are justified in Him! This is where we stand! I expect to be saved, not at all because of what I am, nor of what I can do, nor because of anything I ever shall be able to be or to do—but only because God has promised to save those who believe in Jesus Christ through what the Lord Jesus has suffered in their place.

Because Jesus has risen to prove that His suffering was accepted on the behalf of Believers, there do we rest and trust, and that is the way in which every Believer is saved—that way and no way else. Even as Abraham believed, so do we! Here is the fact—it is of faith.

How Is Salvation Received? by C. H. Spurgeon