" 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him."
Colossians 2:9-15
There is one final, but important, point to make. Paul has been affirming the objective facts of a multidimensional redemption, the fundamental of the faith, the grand indicatives of salvation. The wonder and glory of the love and mercy of God is that while mankind was helplessly lost in sin, ignorant of God and wilfully rebellious, while we were wretched and culpable, Christ died for us, crucifying the body of flesh, for us. While we were dead in sin, lifeless, without hope, without God, uncircumcised in heart, while the devil and the flesh, with its desires and lusts, held us in its thrall, even then, especially then, in Christ's resurrection, God raised us to newness of life and set us gloriously free. Objectively, in Christ's death and resurrection, mankind was made alive by God. The old man was stripped off and the new man was raised in the power, the glory and the liberty of the new creation.
The implication of all of this, however, is that what Christ has won for us in the Cross is to be a personal reality in our lives. We are to experience Christ's redemption, subjectively, in our lives. We are called to live in Christ: The very facts of redemption, the crucifixion of our old man, the risen life of the new creation, the cancellation of our debt, forgiveness and spiritual victory, these facts of redemption are to be appropriated by faith. They are to be entered into and reckoned as ours so that, by the Spirit, they become operative in our lives. Christ calls us to venture all that we are upon what He has accomplished for us. He calls us to rest in the marvellous truths of his redemption, to know the power of his death and He calls us to make it ours in the reality of everyday living.