R. W. Dale, Fellowship with Christ, 7—“When we were created in Christ, the fortunes of the human race for good or evil became his. The Incarnation revealed and fulfilled the relations which already existed between the Son of God and mankind. From the beginning Christ had entered into fellowship with us. When we sinned, he remained in fellowship with us still. Our miseries” [we would add: our guilt] “were his, by his own choice.... His fellowship with us is the foundation of our fellowship with him.... When I have discovered that by the very constitution of my nature I am to achieve perfection in the power of the life of Another—who is yet not Another, but the very ground of my being—it ceases to be incredible to me that Another—who is yet not Another—should be the Atonement for my sin, and that his relation to God should determine mine.” A tract entitled “The Seven Togethers” sums up the Scripture testimony with regard to the Consequences of the believer’s Union with Christ: 1. Crucified together with Christ—_Gal. 2:20_—συνεσταύρωμαι. 2. Died together with Christ—_Col. 2:20_—ἀπεθάνετε. 3. Buried together with Christ—_Rom. 6:4_—συνετάφημεν. 4. Quickened together with Christ—_Eph. 2:5_—συνεζωοποίησεν. 5. Raised together with Christ—_Col. 3:1_—συνηγέρθητε. 6. Sufferers together with Christ—_Rom. 8:17_—συμπάσχομεν. 7. Glorified together with Christ—_Rom. 8:17_—συνδοξασθῶμεν. Union with Christ results in common sonship, relation to God, character, influence, and destiny. Imperfect apprehension of the believer’s union with Christ works to the great injury of Christian doctrine. An experience of union with Christ first enables us to understand the death of sin and separation from God which has befallen the race sprung from the first Adam. The life and liberty of the children of God in Christ Jesus shows us by contrast how far astray we had gone. The vital and organic unity of the new race sprung from the second Adam reveals the depravity and disintegration which we had inherited from our first father. We see that as there is one source of spiritual life in Christ, so there was one source of corrupt life in Adam; and that as we are justified by reason of our oneness with the justified Christ, so we are condemned by reason of our oneness with the condemned Adam.