If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. (2) Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.  (3) For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  (4) When Christ, who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (9) Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, (10) and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created Him, (11) where there is neither Greek or Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian , slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. 

The letter to the Colossians was written by the apostle Paul. Paul has just completed his doctrinal writing and now is advising the Colossians on life style application of the gospel. He is writing to the faithful in Colossae – and down through the years all those whose lives have already been transformed in faith; the men and women who have gone from spiritually dead to spiritually alive in Christ. In faith in Christ salvation has already happened.

Paul urges his readers to seek the things that are above; the faithful have transcended the system and Paul argues for a preoccupation of the mind with the divine.  The faithful have already died to their former lives and former natures  and now we are becoming what positionally we already are  – our preoccupation with heaven will guide our earthly responses.  The lives of the faithful are entirely new – new consciousness, new desires – and the world doesn’t know it; natural man does not know the things of God.

We live in a society which is “uniformed” – our dress is a cue to our roles in this life. In the same way we need to “dress” as a spiritually new person.  Paul urges the faithful to embrace a new life style and behavior –  if we are new people in Christ we must act like it.  The old nature is not renewed, it is replaced.  And because Jesus Christ is all in all, we are all equal in the eyes of God