“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,” Ephesians 2:6 (NIV)
This promise in today's verse is about our position in Christ after we have believed and received the gift of salvation which He provided for all people. Before we believe in Jesus, we are spiritually dead in our sins, When we choose to believe God gives us a new life. We become one with Christ and He comes to live in us. Our verse then reminds us what this new life really means. After Jesus died for our sins He rose from the grave and then soon after that He ascended back to heaven. He is with His Father as part of the heavenly realms. We are part of that because we are in Christ. So where Christ is, so are we spiritually. We are physically here on this earth as long as we are alive in our earthly bodies but our spiritual position is with Christ even in heaven. We have front row seats reserved as part of our inheritance and in Christ we are there now by promise because of Him.
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