Colossians 3:3 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
“For ye are dead” “with Christ from the rudiments of the world” (Colossians 2:20) and “to sin” (Romans 6:2). In a natural death, a person’s life is separated from their body; in this context, to be “dead” is to have been separated from the power and penalty of “the rudiments of the world” and “sin”. Not that we do not “sin”; for, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (I John 1:8). But, with respect to our Eternal Home in Heaven, our Lord Jesus Christ has saved us from our sins (Matthew 1:21). Paul also put it this way, “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:” (Romans 6:8). Our “life is hid with Christ in God”; that is, by His death, our Lord forever paid our sin-debt, now our “life” is eternally secure with Him by His Sovereign will and power. Our Lord explained it this way, “this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day” (John 6:39). However, in this present life, we cannot expect to live in “sin” with impunity, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” (Hebrews 12:6). And He warns us this way, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” (Revelation 3:19). We are exhorted and Commanded to “sin not”; but, “if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (I John 2:1).