NOTES for Col 3:11
The apostle Paul speaks in the epistle to Colossians of a "new man", whose any member of the body of Christ is called to put on. It is fundamental for the New Testament, and it is especially the apostle Paul who speaks more often than the others of it. When this call comes true, all human divisions lose their meaning: there are no nationalities and social classes in Church, there are no ethnocultural and ritual divisions - says the apostle.
Such universalism from a human point of view is very difficult, because we consider very often the membership in various terrestrial categories of persons as our merit (or the guilt for the other people). There is no need to explain the position of the apostle; however it is important for each of us to listen and try to accept the real meaning of his words. No human category has value in the Kingdom of God.
We enter or don’t enter the Kingdom of God independently of the nationality. We enter or don’t enter the Kingdom of God independently of the standard of culture. There are not our social subdivisions in the Kingdom of God. And we are called to realize this universal Kingdom in our life. The apostle Paul speaks particularly about this, by witnessing Christ's life taken place in him.