Already, Not Yet

...the unity of the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers is such that the latter consists of two episodes in the experience of the individual believer-one which is past, already realized, and one which is future, yet to be realized. In the period between the resurrection and parousia of Christ, any believer is one who has already been raised from the dead, and is yet to be raised. The correspondence to the formal structure of Paul's eschatology at this point is not difficult to see. The distinctive notion that the eschaton, the "age-to-come," is both present and future, is reflected in his teaching concerning the fundamental eschatological occurrence for the individual believer: his resurrection is both already and not yet.

 

Richard Gaffin, Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul's Soteriology, pg. 60