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The epistle to the Ephesians goes a step further. It does not, as I have said, view Christ as alive in blessed love and godliness, and man in sin; but man dead in sin, and Christ is first seen as dead, which was for and to sin. That is, the apostle sees man down in the ditch and grave of death through sin, and Christ has come down into it in grace where man was by sin. But so He has put away the sin as guilt, and come down to save and redeem out of that condition. God raises up both by the same power. "What is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, … which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places." (Eph. 1:19-20.) Of "His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ." (Eph. 2:4-5.) Thus we are God's "workmanship, created in Christ Jesus." (v. 10.)