Overview:

• We cannot be risen with Christ unless we first die with Him.
• When we live in sin- we were the servants of sin, but when we died with Christ—we are also raised unto a newness of life.
• We are baptized into the death of Christ—we not only put off all these old man—but we put on Christ.
• When your "...life is hid with Christ in God," it is hidden from the pollution of sin through sanctification of the Spirit.
• The things of this world are below those who's "...life is hid with Christ in God.
• When your "...life is hid with Christ in God," we admonished to have better things in mind.
• We are admonished, COL 3:2-3 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

References: (KJV)

JAM 4:4 ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
ROM 6:10-12, GAL 3:26-27- For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

ROM 5:8-9 -But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
EPH 2:10 -For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

1TI 5:6 -But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth (i.e., dead to the things of the Spirit). ROM 8:1-2, PSA 31:20.