Raised Up Together
As Christ was dead on account of believers' trespasses reckoned as his own (Eph. 1:20), so the believer, prior to union with Christ, was "dead in trespasses" (Eph. 2:5). As Christ is "raised from the dead" (Eph. 1:20), so also the believer is "raised up together in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6). As the resurrected Christ is "seated at God's right hand in the heavenlies" (Eph. 1:20), so also the believer is "seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6).
Lane Tipton, "Union with Christ and Justification", in Scott Oliphint, ed., Justified in Christ (Great Britain: Mentor Imprint, 2007), 27