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Salvation is resurrection from the dead.
This statement is not to be understood as having reference only to the final, bodily resurrection in glory to which believers look forward as the ultimate realization of their hope, but to the whole of salvation. Also the salvation that is the inheritance of believers by faith in Christ here in the world is very really resurrection from the dead. He that is saved by faith is raised from the dead, and this resurrection will be perfected in the day of Christ, when this mortal shall put on immortality, and the last enemy shall be destroyed. That this is true may easily be demonstrated from Scripture. Christ Jesus is the revelation of the God of our salvation that quickens the dead.