How does Jesus' promise that no one can pluck them out of His hand compare to being hid in God?
Christ’s promise that no one can pluck believers from His hand is a simple, almost understated picture of security. Being hid with Christ in God gives the fuller ramification: the believer is wrapped up in the Godhead, and nothing can touch him.
Les explains that Colossians 3:3 describes the believer as dead to the old Adamic state, with his life now hid with Christ in God. Because God and Christ are one, being in Christ means being hid in God and wrapped up in the Godhead, so nothing can touch us. Jesus put the security in a simple form: no one can pluck them out of My hand. Les says that was almost a simplistic understatement compared to the full ramifications of being in Christ. If a person has truly entered salvation by faith without personal merit, he can stand on this promise. The glorious prospect is that when Christ appears, believers will also appear with Him in glory.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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What does it mean that a believer's life is hidden with Christ in God?
The believer's life, which is now eternal life as well as this present life, is hidden with Christ in God.