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Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (NASB: Lockman)
Greek: kai sunegeiren (3SAAI) kai sunekathisen (3SAAI) en tois epouraniois en Christo Iesou,
Amplified: And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One) (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
NLT: For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms--all because we are one with Christ Jesus. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: and has lifted us right out of the old life to take our place with him in Christ in the Heavens (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: and raised us with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission)
Young's Literal: and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
AND RAISED US UP WITH HIM: kai sunegeiren (3SAAI):
Paul speaks here of our spiritual resurrection with Christ (our blessed hope is of a bodily bodily is yet future) (See related topic Order of Resurrection). In Colossians Paul repeats this truth at the beginning of his charge to walk in the light of the truth in the first two chapters…
If (since = fulfilled condition) then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. (Col 3:1, 2-See notes Colossians 3:1; 3:2)
Raised up with Him - Believers are in a solemn, binding, indissoluble covenant with Christ and so are eternally in union with Him and identified with Him. When He died, we died. When He was buried, we were buried. When he was raised up, we were raised up. When He was seated at the right hand of His Father, we were seated at the right hand of our Father in heaven. These great truths of the believer's identification with Christ are more thoroughly expounded by Paul in Romans 6, using the figure of baptism (not speaking of water but of identification)…
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin, onc0e for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (See notes Romans 6:3; 6:4; 6:5; 6:6; 6:7; 6:8; 6:9; 6:10; 6:11) (See parallel discussion in Colossians 2:11-13)
Raised up with (4891) (sungeiro from sun/syn = with, speaking of an intimate relationship or intimate union + egeiro = raise) is more literally "raised up together", the pronoun "Him" being added to indicate it was with Jesus we were raised up. Obviously this is a spiritual resurrection that follows our crucifixion with Christ and our entombment with Christ. Christ's resurrection was physical while ours was a spiritual resurrection. On the basis of the believer's past spiritual resurrection, there is the guarantee of a future physical resurrection and transformation (glorification = future redemption = "the day of redemption" in Eph 4:30-note) when
we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable (earthly body) must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor 15:51, 52, 53)
Sunegeiro means to be roused (from sleep but here used figuratively as a reference to death) in company with and figuratively as used by Paul means to revivify spiritually. Plutarch has a writing which uses sunegeiro in a secular sense meaning "waking up together".
Believers don't just receive life (Ep 2:5-note), but experience resurrection life in Christ (and it is something we should pray for to be fully realized - see verse 20 of Paul's great prayer in Eph 1:18-20-note! Practically this truth means that we now can walk in His resurrection power as discussed more below. The aorist tense indicates that this co-resurrection is a past completed event.
John Brown - Christ rose again, but our sins did not; they are buried forever in his grave.
It bears re-emphasizing that each of the verbs made alive with, raised with, seated with has the identical prepositional prefix "sun/syn" which means with in Greek but is significantly different than the other Greek word for with (meta) which conveys the of beside, whereas sun speaks of an intimate, indissoluble union. Let's illustrate using a well known event, the crucifixion. Two criminals were punished with Jesus and both were crucified with (metá) Him, i.e., in His company, but only one was spiritually crucified with (sún/syn) Christ, i.e., bound up or in union with Him while the other thief was not. The first thief entered paradise, while the second entered hell. And so we get a glimpse of the significance of Paul's three combination verbs used to explain our salvation. Clearly, he is driving home not only these basic truths of our salvation but also emphasizing with the use of sun- that this salvation is irrevocable. You cannot lose your salvation.
The believer who has been made alive with Christ, raised with Christ and seated with Christ is eternally secure in Christ (see Eternal security)! Christ is our covenant partner and the "covenant Head" of the redeemed family. What Christ does, He does for us. What we do is done because we are in union with Him. We are eternally identified with Him. While unconfessed sin can disrupt our communion with Him, it cannot break the infinitely omnipotent bonds of our union with Him. We are one with Christ in time and eternity and nothing, absolutely nothing can negate or reverse that glorious truth beloved!
On the basis of our past resurrection with Christ, we have the sure "hope of our calling", of a future physical resurrection and transformation of our bodies into conformity with His glorious body. (See related topics The Two Resurrections - "First" and "Second" - on a timeline and Order of Resurrection)
J Vernon McGee - "Lord Lyndhurst was the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and possessed a sharp legal mind. He made this statement: “I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you, such evidence as that for the Resurrection has never broken down yet.” The death and resurrection of Christ is an historical fact. When Christ died you and I died with Him; He took our place. And when He was raised, we were raised in Him, and we are now joined to a living Christ. It is so important for us to see that we are joined to a living Savior. (Ed note: italics mine) It is so important to keep in mind that no outward ceremony brings us to Christ. The issue is whether or not we are born again, whether we really know Christ as Savior.
If we do know Him, we are identified with Him. Identification with Christ is “putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,” which is a spiritual circumcision. When you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit baptizes you into the body of Christ. It is by this baptism that we are identified with Christ, and we are also “risen with him”—joined to the living Christ." (McGee, J V: Thru the Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson)
In the epistle to the Colossians Paul explained to the saints the grand truth that they had
been buried with Him (Christ) in baptism (a spiritual baptism, an identification and union with His death), in which you were also raised up with (sunegeiro) Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. (Col 2:12- note)
Paul emphasizes this truth of our co-resurrection as he begins his exhortation to live a new style of life, a supernatural life enabled by resurrection power…
If then (since) you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. (Col 3:1, 2-see note Col 3:1; 3:2)
MacDonald has some interesting thoughts:
"Baptism is burial, the burial of all that we were as children of Adam. In baptism we acknowledge that nothing in ourselves could ever please God, and so we are putting the flesh out of God’s sight forever. But it does not end with burial. Not only have we been crucified with Christ and buried with Him, but we have also risen with Him to walk in newness of life. All of this takes place at the time of conversion." (MacDonald, W & Farstad, A. Believer's Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson)
Earlier Paul had explained to the saints that he was praying for them to experience the "surpassing greatness of His power" (Eph 1:19-note) and that this power was…
in accordance with the working of the strength of His might (i.e., that power was the same mighty power) which He (God the Father) brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
It follows that we too were raised with "resurrection power" and in Romans 6 we now have the privilege to life our daily life enabled by that same inestimable resource, Paul asking…
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized (he is not speaking of water baptism but of a spiritual baptism, an identification with) into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death (this cannot refer to water baptism, but has to be a figurative usage, reflecting our spiritual emersion so to speak with Christ when He experienced the "baptism of death" on the Cross), in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (Ro 6:3, 4-see notes Romans 6:3; 6:4)
Let me ask you, beloved of the Father, would you say that your life is a living testimony to His supernatural resurrection power? Repeatedly in the New Testament, the writes emphasize that this is every believer's potential in Christ because of the fact that the Father has raised us up with Him.
Wuest explains that "we were not only placed in Christ by God the Holy Spirit in order that we might share His death and thus be separated from the evil nature, but we were placed in Him in order that we might share His resurrection and thus have divine life imparted to us. (2Pe 1:4-note)… The newness of life does not refer to a new quality of experience or conduct but to a new quality of life imparted to the individual. Romans 6 does not deal with the Christian’s experience or behavior. Paul treats that in Romans 12-16. In this chapter the key word is machinery, the "mechanics" of the Spirit-filled life being Paul’s subject.
The newness of life therefore refers, not to a new kind of life the believer is to live, but to a new Source of ethical and spiritual energy imparted to him by God by which he is enabled to live the life to which Paul exhorts in Romans 12-16… we shared Christ’s resurrection in order that we may order our behavior in the power of a new life imparted. Here we have then the two-fold result of the major surgical operation God performs in the inner being of the sinner when he places his trust in the Saviour. He is disengaged from the evil nature, separated from it, no longer compelled to obey it. He has imparted to him the divine nature (2Pe 1:4-note) which becomes in him the new Source of ethical, moral, and spiritual life, which causes him to hate sin and love righteousness, and which gives him both the desire and the power to do God’s will. Paul, speaking of the same thing in (Php 2:12, 13-see notes Php 2:12; 2:13). The Christian’s will has been made absolutely free. Before salvation it was not free so far as choosing between good and evil is concerned. It was enslaved to the evil nature. But now, it stands poised between the evil nature and the divine nature, with the responsibility to reject the behests of the former and obey the exhortations of the latter. To constantly say no to the former and yes to the latter becomes a habit, and then the victorious life has been reached. (Ro 6:12, 13-notes) (Wuest Word Studies - Eerdman Publishing Company Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 - used by permission)
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Greek: kai sunegeiren (3SAAI) kai sunekathisen (3SAAI) en tois epouraniois en Christo Iesou,
Amplified: And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One) (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
NLT: For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms--all because we are one with Christ Jesus. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: and has lifted us right out of the old life to take our place with him in Christ in the Heavens (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: and raised us with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission)
Young's Literal: and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
AND RAISED US UP WITH HIM: kai sunegeiren (3SAAI):
Paul speaks here of our spiritual resurrection with Christ (our blessed hope is of a bodily bodily is yet future) (See related topic Order of Resurrection). In Colossians Paul repeats this truth at the beginning of his charge to walk in the light of the truth in the first two chapters…
If (since = fulfilled condition) then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. (Col 3:1, 2-See notes Colossians 3:1; 3:2)
Raised up with Him - Believers are in a solemn, binding, indissoluble covenant with Christ and so are eternally in union with Him and identified with Him. When He died, we died. When He was buried, we were buried. When he was raised up, we were raised up. When He was seated at the right hand of His Father, we were seated at the right hand of our Father in heaven. These great truths of the believer's identification with Christ are more thoroughly expounded by Paul in Romans 6, using the figure of baptism (not speaking of water but of identification)…
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin, onc0e for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (See notes Romans 6:3; 6:4; 6:5; 6:6; 6:7; 6:8; 6:9; 6:10; 6:11) (See parallel discussion in Colossians 2:11-13)
Raised up with (4891) (sungeiro from sun/syn = with, speaking of an intimate relationship or intimate union + egeiro = raise) is more literally "raised up together", the pronoun "Him" being added to indicate it was with Jesus we were raised up. Obviously this is a spiritual resurrection that follows our crucifixion with Christ and our entombment with Christ. Christ's resurrection was physical while ours was a spiritual resurrection. On the basis of the believer's past spiritual resurrection, there is the guarantee of a future physical resurrection and transformation (glorification = future redemption = "the day of redemption" in Eph 4:30-note) when
we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable (earthly body) must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor 15:51, 52, 53)
Sunegeiro means to be roused (from sleep but here used figuratively as a reference to death) in company with and figuratively as used by Paul means to revivify spiritually. Plutarch has a writing which uses sunegeiro in a secular sense meaning "waking up together".
Believers don't just receive life (Ep 2:5-note), but experience resurrection life in Christ (and it is something we should pray for to be fully realized - see verse 20 of Paul's great prayer in Eph 1:18-20-note! Practically this truth means that we now can walk in His resurrection power as discussed more below. The aorist tense indicates that this co-resurrection is a past completed event.
John Brown - Christ rose again, but our sins did not; they are buried forever in his grave.
It bears re-emphasizing that each of the verbs made alive with, raised with, seated with has the identical prepositional prefix "sun/syn" which means with in Greek but is significantly different than the other Greek word for with (meta) which conveys the of beside, whereas sun speaks of an intimate, indissoluble union. Let's illustrate using a well known event, the crucifixion. Two criminals were punished with Jesus and both were crucified with (metá) Him, i.e., in His company, but only one was spiritually crucified with (sún/syn) Christ, i.e., bound up or in union with Him while the other thief was not. The first thief entered paradise, while the second entered hell. And so we get a glimpse of the significance of Paul's three combination verbs used to explain our salvation. Clearly, he is driving home not only these basic truths of our salvation but also emphasizing with the use of sun- that this salvation is irrevocable. You cannot lose your salvation.
The believer who has been made alive with Christ, raised with Christ and seated with Christ is eternally secure in Christ (see Eternal security)! Christ is our covenant partner and the "covenant Head" of the redeemed family. What Christ does, He does for us. What we do is done because we are in union with Him. We are eternally identified with Him. While unconfessed sin can disrupt our communion with Him, it cannot break the infinitely omnipotent bonds of our union with Him. We are one with Christ in time and eternity and nothing, absolutely nothing can negate or reverse that glorious truth beloved!
On the basis of our past resurrection with Christ, we have the sure "hope of our calling", of a future physical resurrection and transformation of our bodies into conformity with His glorious body. (See related topics The Two Resurrections - "First" and "Second" - on a timeline and Order of Resurrection)
J Vernon McGee - "Lord Lyndhurst was the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and possessed a sharp legal mind. He made this statement: “I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you, such evidence as that for the Resurrection has never broken down yet.” The death and resurrection of Christ is an historical fact. When Christ died you and I died with Him; He took our place. And when He was raised, we were raised in Him, and we are now joined to a living Christ. It is so important for us to see that we are joined to a living Savior. (Ed note: italics mine) It is so important to keep in mind that no outward ceremony brings us to Christ. The issue is whether or not we are born again, whether we really know Christ as Savior.
If we do know Him, we are identified with Him. Identification with Christ is “putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,” which is a spiritual circumcision. When you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit baptizes you into the body of Christ. It is by this baptism that we are identified with Christ, and we are also “risen with him”—joined to the living Christ." (McGee, J V: Thru the Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson)
In the epistle to the Colossians Paul explained to the saints the grand truth that they had
been buried with Him (Christ) in baptism (a spiritual baptism, an identification and union with His death), in which you were also raised up with (sunegeiro) Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. (Col 2:12- note)
Paul emphasizes this truth of our co-resurrection as he begins his exhortation to live a new style of life, a supernatural life enabled by resurrection power…
If then (since) you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. (Col 3:1, 2-see note Col 3:1; 3:2)
MacDonald has some interesting thoughts:
"Baptism is burial, the burial of all that we were as children of Adam. In baptism we acknowledge that nothing in ourselves could ever please God, and so we are putting the flesh out of God’s sight forever. But it does not end with burial. Not only have we been crucified with Christ and buried with Him, but we have also risen with Him to walk in newness of life. All of this takes place at the time of conversion." (MacDonald, W & Farstad, A. Believer's Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson)
Earlier Paul had explained to the saints that he was praying for them to experience the "surpassing greatness of His power" (Eph 1:19-note) and that this power was…
in accordance with the working of the strength of His might (i.e., that power was the same mighty power) which He (God the Father) brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
It follows that we too were raised with "resurrection power" and in Romans 6 we now have the privilege to life our daily life enabled by that same inestimable resource, Paul asking…
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized (he is not speaking of water baptism but of a spiritual baptism, an identification with) into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death (this cannot refer to water baptism, but has to be a figurative usage, reflecting our spiritual emersion so to speak with Christ when He experienced the "baptism of death" on the Cross), in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (Ro 6:3, 4-see notes Romans 6:3; 6:4)
Let me ask you, beloved of the Father, would you say that your life is a living testimony to His supernatural resurrection power? Repeatedly in the New Testament, the writes emphasize that this is every believer's potential in Christ because of the fact that the Father has raised us up with Him.
Wuest explains that "we were not only placed in Christ by God the Holy Spirit in order that we might share His death and thus be separated from the evil nature, but we were placed in Him in order that we might share His resurrection and thus have divine life imparted to us. (2Pe 1:4-note)… The newness of life does not refer to a new quality of experience or conduct but to a new quality of life imparted to the individual. Romans 6 does not deal with the Christian’s experience or behavior. Paul treats that in Romans 12-16. In this chapter the key word is machinery, the "mechanics" of the Spirit-filled life being Paul’s subject.
The newness of life therefore refers, not to a new kind of life the believer is to live, but to a new Source of ethical and spiritual energy imparted to him by God by which he is enabled to live the life to which Paul exhorts in Romans 12-16… we shared Christ’s resurrection in order that we may order our behavior in the power of a new life imparted. Here we have then the two-fold result of the major surgical operation God performs in the inner being of the sinner when he places his trust in the Saviour. He is disengaged from the evil nature, separated from it, no longer compelled to obey it. He has imparted to him the divine nature (2Pe 1:4-note) which becomes in him the new Source of ethical, moral, and spiritual life, which causes him to hate sin and love righteousness, and which gives him both the desire and the power to do God’s will. Paul, speaking of the same thing in (Php 2:12, 13-see notes Php 2:12; 2:13). The Christian’s will has been made absolutely free. Before salvation it was not free so far as choosing between good and evil is concerned. It was enslaved to the evil nature. But now, it stands poised between the evil nature and the divine nature, with the responsibility to reject the behests of the former and obey the exhortations of the latter. To constantly say no to the former and yes to the latter becomes a habit, and then the victorious life has been reached. (Ro 6:12, 13-notes) (Wuest Word Studies - Eerdman Publishing Company Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 - used by permission)
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