Yes — faith is the invisible means by which a believer knows, receives, and rests in the reality that God has hidden his or her life safely with Christ in Himself.
Being hidden with Christ is a divine, invisible work. Faith is not a feeling or a human effort; it is taking God at His Word and believing what He has declared. Through that kind of faith, the believer can rest in the secure position of being wrapped up in Christ and hidden in God, knowing that nothing can touch that life.
Colossians 3:3 — This is the foundational verse behind the question — it states directly that the believer's life is hid with Christ in God.
Romans 8:1 — It connects being in Christ to having no condemnation, which is the security that faith rests upon.
Hebrews 11:1 — It defines faith as the evidence of things not seen, explaining how believers relate to an invisible hiddenness.
The Bible declares in Colossians 3:3, "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." The verse describes the believer as dead to the old life and possessing a new life that God has placed with Christ and in Himself. Romans 8:1 adds, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Being in Christ is therefore a position of complete security. Faith is the God-given way a person comprehends these unseen realities. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Romans 1:17 declares, "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." Romans 4:3 shows the pattern: "For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Faith is not a work of the flesh; it is simply believing what God has said.
Les Feldick teaches that at the very moment a person believes, the Holy Spirit places him or her into the body of Christ, and that body is hidden in God. Because the believer is in Christ, he or she is "wrapped up in the Godhead" — a place where nothing can touch the believer. This is the believer's position even while still on earth. The new life is eternal life, and the old Adamic nature is dead. Les emphasizes that all of this happens invisibly. The believer did not feel it, could not see it, and no neighbor saw it either. The only way anyone knows these things are true is because God's Word says so. That taking of God at His Word is faith. Faith is not something you work at; it is trusting what God has already done through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Because faith rests on God's completed work rather than on human effort, it produces assurance and peace. Les points to Abraham in Romans 4 as the example of a man who believed God and was accounted righteous. He also uses the old black walnut as a simple illustration of the believer hidden in Christ and in God, deeply protected and secure.
Les Feldick teaches that when someone believes, they are placed into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit's baptism, and that body is hid in God. He says the believer is "wrapped up in the Godhead" so that nothing can touch that life. Because there is no condemnation for those in Christ, the believer's position is eternally secure. This hiddenness is not a matter of feeling or outward appearance; it is a spiritual reality accomplished entirely by God. The Bible states this truth plainly in Colossians 3:3 and Romans 8:1.
Les explains that every spiritual blessing God gives at the moment of belief is invisible. Sanctification, justification, glorification, and baptism into the body cannot be seen or felt. The only way a person knows these things happened is because "the book says so." That confidence in God's Word is faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It is through this invisibly grounded faith that the believer has access into the grace in which they stand.
Faith produces assurance and peace because it rests on what God did, not on what a person does. Les points out that Christ died, was buried, and rose from the dead as an act of God in which the believer had nothing to add. Justification is by faith, and faith is invisible and not worked at. Romans 4 shows that Abraham was accounted righteous simply by believing God. Since the believer is in Christ, there is no condemnation, and nothing can pluck that believer out of God's hand. Faith is what allows the believer to rest in that security.
Dead to the Old Adam
Les teaches that the believer is dead to the old Adamic nature and has received a new eternal life in Christ — the very life that is later said to be hid with Christ in God.
Hidden in God, No Condemnation
Les explains that the believer's life is hid with Christ in God, and because the believer is in Christ there is no condemnation and nothing can touch that hidden life.
Faith Is Invisible, Not a Work
Les shows that being justified by faith means trusting something invisible — something we do not work at or feel — because the whole work of salvation was accomplished by God.
Baptized Into the Body Hidden in God
At the moment of belief the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ, and that body is hidden in God — a secure place where no one can get at the believer.
Faith Like Abraham's
Les points to Romans 4 to show that Abraham was saved by faith, not works, when he believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness.
Affections Above and the Black Walnut
Les connects the command to set affection on things above with being dead and hidden in Christ in God, and uses the old black walnut as a simple picture of that hiddenness.
Faith as the Door of Access
Every spiritual blessing God gave at the moment of belief is invisible; faith is how we know these things happened — the Word says so — and by that faith we have access into grace.
Faith Comprehends the Invisible
Les describes faith as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen; the invisible realities of the Christian life can only be comprehended by faith.
Colossians 3:3: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
This is the central verse that directly answers the question — the believer's life is hidden with Christ in God.
Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
This verse shows the security of being in Christ, which is the result of being hidden with Him.
Romans 1:17: For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
This verse establishes that the righteous live by faith, tying faith to the believer's daily life and security.
Romans 4:3: For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
This verse demonstrates that justification comes by faith, not by works, as Les teaches.
Romans 5:2: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
This verse shows that faith is the door of access into the grace in which believers stand.
Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
This verse defines faith as the way believers comprehend invisible spiritual realities like being hidden with Christ.
No. Les teaches that all the things God did at the moment of belief — sanctifying, justifying, glorifying, and baptizing into the body — were invisible. You did not feel them, and your neighbors could not see them. The only way you know they happened is because the Book says so, and taking God at His Word is faith.
Les says that once a believer is in Christ and hidden in God, nothing can touch that life. He describes the believer as wrapped up in the Godhead and notes that no one can pluck them out of God's hand. It is a position of complete security.
No. Les emphasizes that justification is by faith, which is something invisible and not worked at. It is not a religious ritual, rule, or human effort. Faith simply believes what God has already accomplished through Christ.
Les teaches that at the moment of belief the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ, and that body is hidden in God. This is how the believer is positioned in the very core of God's being even while still living on earth.
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