Verse 21— Who by him do believe in God, who raised him up from the dead. Who by him— that is, by Christ— do believe in God. Now, this can not be said of the Jew. He believed in God before Christ came. Of the Gentile, however, it can be truly said. It was through the gospel preached, and through this channel only, that the Gentiles were made believers in the. God that raised up Christ from the dead; and that he not only raised him from the dead, but gave him glory by seating him at his own right hand, and constituted him both Lord and Christ; and, in addition to this, he gave him all author­ity, so that he now rules as King in and over the entire universe of God. Your faith and your hope might be in God. The result to the believer in this glorification of Christ is the assured foundation upon which rest both his faith and his hope— faith in Christ, hope of eternal life. Faith is essential to salvation. Ultimate salvation is God's gift, God's promise. These, we are here assured, are founded in the power and word of God. This power, and the veracity of this promise, we have demonstrated to us in the resur­rection of Christ from the dead.