“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by Grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”  Ephesians 2:4-6 (ESV)

This passage assures us that our salvation is ours by grace. We did nothing to make it ours, we can’t. God’s love has done three things: (a) it has made us alive with Christ, b) has raised us up with Christ, and (c) seated us with Him in the heavenly places.  This is all promised and done because what Jesus did becomes what happened to us in Christ Jesus.  Although still flesh and bone walking on this earth, what Christ did has became a reality so true that God considers it a done Deal for us. When God draws us to Himself and offers to us new life in Christ Jesus, we receive it by grace. Although this is difficult to understand when try with our human reasoning, and various questions arise as we’re trying to grasp how it is; we rest on the faith given to us by grace and accept it as truth. We do not have to fully understand everything we receive for it to be true. It’s true because God has declared it true by His will⸺that is what makes it true for us right here, right now. 

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