And He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
We have been identified with Christ not only in His death, but also in His resurrection and in His ascension to the right hand of the Father. The word SIT is a great word because it indicates the position we have in Christ as partakers of a finished redemption and sharers in victory. Because of our position in Christ, we are already potentially in heaven where He is- actually.
The difference is that before we became christians we were dead in sin and were slaves to our sinful nature, but now we are alive in Christ and seated with Him. We have been given the power to live as victorious Chrisitans now! He gave us life and raised us from the grave of sin and took us out of the graveyard! So we have been quickened together, raised together and seated together in the heavenlies. God did this because He is rich in mercy and great in love. Mercy means that God does not give us what we do deserve, grace means that He gives us what we don't deserve.
By being made alive in Christ, a spiritual resurrection from our dead state, we have ascended in our spiritual position in the heavenlies with Christ. Our physical position may be our faith, but our spiritual position is in the heavenlies.
In our spiritual union in being raised from the dead with Christ means we have been given new life. (A new disposition) Being taken up to the heavenlies with Christ (our ascension) means we have been given a new environment. We are not longer creatures of this world bound by what we can see and touch, smell, hear and taste.
But, we are now people of a greater heavenly realm, who now because of our union with Christ, think, work and speak in new spiritual arenas. We are actually lifted up into a new thought realm. We now have a new standard of values and assess things in a new way.
More than anything, we start to recognize and realize that we belong to heaven than to the earth. We have in Christ a title to the privileges and blessings of God. Apart from this position and this union, we would not even be aware of God's Kingdom, let alone be part of it.
To put it another way, we now have an upward focus, a new disposition, and a different heavenly orientation so we set our affections on things above. In being seated with him we are now in a position of power and authority and thisis the security we have.
We are exalted with Him, we reign with Him, we can obtain victory through Him, so we are intimately secure in Him. It states, "He has seated us" - meaning the promise has already taken place, so we are already there in Christ spiritually and one day we will be there physically. It is for the greater purpose of His Glory to manifest His jewels!
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