Ephesians 2:6 Commentary and Bible Study

The apostle goes quickly to our eternal purpose. Oh Paul, you are racing ahead of us. You are speaking of something which will happen in the future when we die – ‘And hath raised us up together’ – and even of what will happen after we die when Christ returns, and when all believers who have already died are taken from the paradise of Christ and receive their resurrection bodies. We are not yet there, but Paul puts it as though we are there already. It is as certain as that. It is as good as if it is done. We are as good as in heaven now, even though it is yet to come.Look at his grand language. We have been quickened and raised up together, together with Christ that is, ‘and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.’ Well we have a taste, we have the earnest of the inheritance and in a sense we have been raised up already, because we have been raised up from the life of sin and death. We are no longer under condemnation; we are no longer under the dominion of sin. We have a new relationship with all that. ‘And hath raised up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places.’ We are not there yet physically, but sometimes we are there in our personal devotions, in our quiet times.