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Aug 28, 2021 · 5. Colossians 3:3 "For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God". ESV. The truth that the Christian's life is hidden with Christ appears matched with the other side of the coin, that the Christian's life is also revealed as they let their light shine before men.
May 6, 2024 · Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us” (Colossians 3:5–11, NLT). The idea of being “hidden” with Christ in God also relates to the believer’s eternal security. Scripture often portrays God’s people as securely hidden in the “shelter of His presence,” concealed under “the cover of His tent” or “in His quiver ...
Colossians 3:3. Assigning a reason for the requirement of Colossians 3:2. For ye are dead; how then could your mind be directed towards earthly things! and your life does not belong to the realm of the visible world, but it is hidden with Christ in God: how should you not then τὰ ἄνω φρονεῖν!
This beautiful verse is in a section of Scripture where Paul deals with one of the basic aspects of the Christian life; believers are in union with Christ, we are one with Him. Christ died on the Cross and because we are His children (His seed), we also died with Him. We were with Christ and we were in Him when He was nailed to the Cross, for ...
Mar 22, 2019 · March 22, 2019. Colossians 3:1-4 tells us that as believers, in a sense, we’re already in Heaven with Christ: “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with ...
What does Colossians 3:3 mean? Paul has already noted that believers "died to the elemental spirits of the world" (Colossians 2:20). Here, he repeats the same metaphor. Since believers have "died" to sin, in the sense of being separated from it, the believer's life is "hidden," or "contained" within Christ.
In this hidden life of the Christian lies the ground and the spring of the more outward life of thought and endeavour of vers. 1, 2. And this life comes through death, from that "dying with Christ" out of which we "rose with him" (ver. 1; Colossians 2:11-13, 20; Romans 6:3, 4, 8).
