Believers in Christ have died and risen spiritually with Him (cf. Rom. 6:1–10). Since their initial salvation they can live in the realm of “things above,” where Christ is seated at God’s right hand, in the position of authority (cf. Matt. 28:18). That authority has been a big point in one of Paul’s prayers for the Ephesians (1:20–22). As citizens of the new realm, the saints’ lives are “hidden with Christ in God,” in that unseen nevertheless very real union as joint-heirs with Him (cf. Rom. 8:17)