Day 8: Saving Faith

Paul explains in Romans 10:9–10 that if you want to be saved, you have to believe in the resurrection:

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Here salvation is stated to be dependent upon two things: first, openly confessing Jesus as Lord; second, believing in the heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. Thus, saving faith includes faith in the resurrection. There can be no salvation for those who do not believe in the resurrection of Christ.

If you do not believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, you are a lost soul. You are not saved, and you cannot be saved. No matter how religious you may be, no matter how often you may go to church, if you do not believe personally in the resurrection, you are a lost soul headed for a lost eternity.

Those theologians who reject the personal, physical resurrection of Christ may moralise and theorise as much as they please, but one thing they never come to know in personal experience is the peace and the joy of having their sins forgiven. As I have said previously, Christ’s resurrection is the sure seal upon God’s offer of forgiveness and salvation to each one of us.