Colossians 3:3

Hmmm. This could get interesting

 

Colossians 3:3 NASB
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

First, the Greek grammar has "died" as a done deal, that has occurred. But "hidden" is in the "perfect" tense, indicating both that it occurred in the past but also that the result is still in effect. Thus you were hid and still remain hid.

The people hearing this message were physically alive, so whatever death they had experienced was spiritual. The context indicates we should not put our minds on worldly things, but on spiritual godly things. So the idea seems to be we were spiritually separated from the domain of darkness, in Adam, and were transferred into Christ's spiritual body. That means we "died" to the realm of darkness when we were made spiritually alive within the kingdom of light. Now, we are spiritually ensconced in Christ. And we are being kept there, safe and sound, by the power of God. We should make the most of it!!

 

Very much in line with Rom 6:2-7

 

They are alive and saved, but their flesh is dead to the world.

Then we see what Gill says real quick:

This is said to be "hid", which denotes the secrecy of it, and is true both of spiritual and eternal life.

The spiritual life of the saints is hid from the men of the world, who are alienated from the life of God, are ignorant of the Lord of life, and know nothing of the spirit of life;

they are strangers to the nature of this life, and to the food on which believers live, the hidden manna;

and to the doctrines of the Gospel, (note: and the Doctrines of Grace) by which they are nourished, these are hid to them that are lost; and to all the joys and pleasures of it:...

Eternal life is also an hidden one from natural men; the things that are eternal, are things unseen by the carnal eye, and not to be conceived of by a carnal heart;

and can only be beheld, and that in a very glimmering and imperfect manner, by an eye of faith, which is the evidence of things not seen, the clearest one saints have in this life;

for eternal glory and happiness is in part hid from the saints themselves; they see it but through a glass darkly;

nor does it appear to themselves, as yet, what that felicity is in its fullness and perfection they shall enjoy...

eternal life is deposited in his hands by the Father; it is bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and is in him for ever safe: nay, it is not only with Christ, where it is secure enough, but it is with Christ "in God";

Christ is in God, the Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father;

they are one in nature, and so in power and glory;

and this union between them, which is natural and perfect, is the foundation of the security both of the persons, and of the life, spiritual and eternal, of God's elect;

see ( John 10:28-30 28 "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

30 "I and my Father are one."

. Colossians 3:3 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary