The "Much More" of your salvation

One of my father's (Lewis) favorite verses was Romans 5:10, "For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled shall we be saved through His life." I remember Dad getting real excited about the words 'much more' and the life we receive from the Father through the Son by the Spirit. I thought of him as I read this quote from Ian Thomas in the book I have been reading, The Indwelling Life of Christ.
     "Are you being saved by Christ's life? . . . this is the 'much more' of your salvation.
     Reconciled to God by Christ's death . . . and saved by His life - the one is a crisis of the moment; and the other is the process of a lifetime and on into eternity.
     . . . the crisis involves an initial act of faith that accepts Christ for what He did; the process involves an attitude of faith that continues to enjoy all that Christ is! For He not only died for what you have done; He rose again from the dead to take the place of what you are, which He does by His Holy Spirit indwelling you.
     This is the gospel, the whole of it. Anything less than this falls short of the gospel as revealed in the Word of God."
Amen and Amen.