We have seen the great need of a redemption that would deliver us from our union by nature with the enemy, and his dominion over us.
That redemption was planned by God, wrought by Christ, and brought to us by His Spirit through His own Word.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. (Ephesians 2:4–5)
In the mind of the Father then, when Christ was made alive, we were made alive.
That became operative within us when we accepted Christ as Savior.
You notice that we were not only made alive with Christ, but we were justified with Christ.
Jesus our Lord…was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification. (Romans 4:24–25)
We were declared righteous when Christ was declared righteous.
When the heart sees this clearly, it is emancipation and deliverance. It is “together with Christ.” It is utter identification with Him.
Then He says, “By grace you have been saved” (Ephesians 2:5).
And raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:6 ASV)
The expression, “Raised us up with him,” spells out in letters of light our deliverance from Satan’s dominion.
If He raised us up with Him, then we are taken out of satanic bondage.
“And made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.”
Jesus, a Man, is seated at the right hand of the Father.
His chair represents absolute dominion over the universe.
He is our representative. We are seated in Him.
We are so utterly identified with Him that, in the mind of the Father, He and we are one.
Oh, that our minds might grasp this. “By grace you have been saved.”
The Greek word that is translated “saved” here is sozo, which can be translated “healed.
The new birth is the healing of our spirit.