Christ Died and Was Raised Again; One Result, We Are Saved Now By His Life. To All Those Who Called On His Name By Faith and Repentance, They Are Born Again!
A Devotional for Monday October 12, 2026
(Today's devotional is dedicated to my mother,
Lura Oline Scott Duke
Who Died This Day in 1995,
Rest in Peace Until Christ Comes for us all!)
Saved by His Life
“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to by the death of his son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life”
Romans 5: 10.
Now, saving . . . comes to us by what Christ did for us in this world, by what Christ did for us as suffering for us. I say, it comes to us thus: That is, it comes to us by grace through the redemption that is in Christ. And thus, to be saved is called justification, justification to life. Because one thus saved [is] acquitted from guilt and that everlasting damnation to which for sin he had made himself obnoxious by the law. (1 Corinthians 15: 1-4, Romans5: 8-10).
Hence, we are said to be saved by his death, justified by his blood, and reconciled to God by the death of his Son. All which must respect his offering of himself on the day he died and not his improving of his so dying in a way of intercession. Because in the same place the apostle reserves a second or an additional salvation and applies that to his intercession: “Much more then, being now,” or already, “justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” That is, through what he will further do for us. “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, being reconciled.” That is, by his death, “we shall be saved by his life,” his intercession which he ever lives so to complete. (verse 9, 10)
See here, we are said to be justified, reconciled already, and therefore we shall be saved, justified by his blood and death. And [we are] saved through him by his life. Now the saving intended in the text is saving in this second sense. That is, saving us by preserving us, by delivering of us from all those hazards that we run between our state of justification and our state of glorification.
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