Ephesians 2:7-8

7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.

Why did our Father raise us up now, instead of waiting to do it in the future? He did it to prove our relationship with Him is not based in our works. If our salvation was based on our own works, then our spirits could not be raised up to be with Jesus until our lives were finished here on the earth. Being raised up now proves that we did nothing to earn our salvation and it proves that we do nothing to keep it. It is all by our Father’s free grace and the gift of our Father’s grace is never taken back once it is given, Romans 11:29. 

8 For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

This verse ties right in with all that we have studied so far and it is straight forward. This verse does say that it is by our faith though? So does this mean that we have a faith that is separate from Jesus’ faith? Is there a work that we have to do to get all of this? Do we on our own have to believe for it? Nope! We do not author and finish our own faith, Jesus does.

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

To think that we on our own would have to believe for something, would be like thinking that the branch has to believe on its own that the vine will give it what it needs so that it can produce fruit. It’s like thinking that the hand must first believe for the head to act. The clay to first believe that the potter would form it. We are now new creatures in Christ, it is now Christ Who lives within us, the two of us have become one flesh, we never do anything apart from Jesus, Who is our Head. Faith is not a human ability to accept and believe the things of God. Faith is Jesus’ ability working through man, to believe the things of God. So it all remains, free grace.

This verse does not mislead at all, because our faith is Jesus’ faith. The Bible is written in a way that it takes the Holy Spirit to rightly divide the Truth. So when an unsaved person reads this they will look to themselves and not to Jesus, yet when a child of God reads it, we look to the Truth, we look to Jesus, and He keeps us. All, every last bit of it, is free grace. No one earns or accepts it on their own.  

No one is able to come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me attracts and draws him and gives him the desire to come to Me, and [then] I will raise him up [from the dead] at the last day. John 6:44