. Lets see how this resurrection life, or the new creation is brought about by Christs resurrection. Lets go to Ephesians 2: 4-6. Paul teaches that "God who is rich in mercy, who has loved us so much, that even when we were dead in our sins has raised us "together" with Christ, and having raised us up together, has made us sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

The resurrection life is very much the way the apostle Paul describes the New creation, the risen life, the born again life. Paul relates our conversion experience to being directly related to Jesus' physical resurrection from the dead. In Ephesians 2:5 Paul speaks of us who were dead in our sins and trespasses, have been raised "together" with Christ, and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Paul is directly linking us who have been raised from the dead spiritually to the physical resurrection of Christ Jesus. He explains that by us being joined together with Christ in vs6 we sit in heavenly places. This language describes us as already partaking of the powers of the age to come, Now!!!, Because we are in Christ Jesus. So us partaking of the resurrection life is in a sense a 1st fruit and shows that to be raised from death is for the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead, to be at work in the lives of those who have been joined to Jesus, by grace through faith.