We are dead to the law by the body of Christ.

God has made us free from sin, giving us glorious liberty to serve Him!

Paul asks, "Know ye not?" beginning with "That so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?"

To deny our standing as sons is to not properly understand who you are in Christ. This improper understanding will inevitably rob you of the riches that you have in Christ. Remember, you either are in Adam or in Christ. Are you Christ’s?

It is abundantly clear that the believer is now counted dead with Christ and subsequently risen with Him. If these things are true, then we ought not to live after the rudiments of the world, but rather after Christ who is our Head.

In the concluding lesson of chapter two, we remind ourselves of the purpose of the book: to gain knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so that we may walk worthy and bear fruit.

Do not think yourself to be under the law (that is only a shadow of things to come), but rather as a member of Christ's body (which is the current operation of God).

Up until this point in the book of Colossians, Paul has taken (and will continue to take) every opportunity to exalt Christ. Christ is the fulness of the Godhead bodily... we are complete in Him.