Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), Eph 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Before believing in Christ, the Ephesians were living in a wicked and a miserable state. Their transgressions and sins had separated them from God. But when they received Christ, because of his great mercies, there was a total paradigm shift in their lives.
There is a special bond of connection between the spiritual life of a believer and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. By the virtue of the union between Christ and his people, his death was their death, his life their life and his exaltation their exaltation. We who were dead in our trespasses have been raised together with Christ and has made us sit in heavenly places with him.
By virtue of our new birth and spiritual resurrection, we have been placed at an eternal spiritual union with Christ. The strength of sin in our lives has been broken and we have been raised – up in the newness of life. Spiritually, we are already sitted together with Jesus Christ in the heavenly realms.
Further readings:
Rom 6:4
2Co 5:17
Eph 1:3
🙏 Blessed Easter 🙏