How Does God Get the One New Man in Colossians 3:10?

The Bible tells us that Christ died to produce one new man.  

       For He Himself is our peace, He who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition, the enmity.

      Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace.  Ephesians 2:14-15

     It's obvious from these verses that the peace that Christ made on the cross is very powerful.  It blasted through centuries of Jewish religion and Gentile pagan living.  This peace dissolved all the differences between not only those two cultures but every kind of culture on the face of the earth today.  Now that's amazing peace!   

  It touched me In Chapter 32 of the Life-Study of Colossians that the peace Christ made on the cross produced the oneness between all the Lord's believers. 

      And in Colossians 3:10 we can see how strong Paul is to point out that in this new man that the Lord created on the cross there isn't any cultural distinctions:  And have put on the new man,…where there cannot be Greek (those who favored philosophical wisdom) and Jew (those who favored miraculous signs), circumcision (those who observed Jewish religious rituals) and uncircumcision, barbarian (an uncultured person), Scythian (considered the most barbarous), slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.  All the definitions in parentheses come from excerpts from the footnotes in the Recovery Version of the New Testament.

    For about ten chapters in the Life-Study of Colossians Witness Lee talks about how the people in Colosse were distracted by their cultures.  Paul uses the words deluded in Colossians 2:4 and defrauded in 2:18 to describe what had happened to them.  in Chapter 41 brother Lee gives a bit of a background and says Asia Minor, now present day Turkey, was actually a melting pot of cultures and eventually it pervaded the church life there.  

   The problem he says in chapter 33 is that by default we unconsciously live out the culture we're born in.  After we're saved, we begin to meet with other believers from different cultures.  And it's only a matter of time before our cultural opinions explode, and that is probably one of the reasons there might be so many divisions out there among believers.  But God desires to gain one new man, and I appreciated this clear explanation on why:

"However, God's eternal purpose is to have a corporate people to be the Body of Christ for His expression.  But if mankind remains divided by cultural opinions, how can God's purpose be carried out? It would be impossible. But according to Ephesians 2:15, Christ's death on the cross has abolished all the cultural ordinances and differences terminating them…This very peace, the peace of Christ, is what Paul refers to in Colossians 3:15 (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Colossians. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1979, Print). 

   After reading this I looked up Colossians 3:15 in my Bible, I was like wow this arbitrating peace is really like our brother said for the Body of Christ:  And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body,…" He then points that after this verse Paul talks about letting the word of Christ dwell in us, and later he speaks about persevering in prayer because all of these spiritual practices help swallow up  all of our cultural opinions that cause division in the Lord's Body.  

     As I was thinking about everything I've been reading these past few weeks on culture this sentence in Chapter 38 stood out to me:  "The goal of God's dispensation of Himself into us is the one new man (Page 322).   I think what touches me with these excerpts is that God's eternal purpose centers around His gaining this one new man.  

You can listen to excerpts from the Life-Study of Colossians given in 1979 on The Life-Study of the Bible with Witness Lee. 

Other Posts on the Life-Study of Colossians:

What is God's Will in Colossians 1:9?
What is the Stewardship of God in Colossians 1:25?
What is the Hope of Glory in Colossians 1:27?
What is the Mystery of God in Colossians 2:2? (Part 1)
What is the Mystery of Christ in Ephesians 5:32?   (Part 2)
What is the Greatest Mystery?
What is God's Intention for Your Life?
From the Life-Study of Colossians - What Happens When We Pray?
How Does God Get the One New Man in Colossians 3:10?
What Does Colossians 2:7 Say About Spiritual Growth? (Part 1)
What is the Goal of Spiritual Growth in Colossians 2:19?  (Part 2)
What is Christ Doing at the Right Hand of God in Colossians 3:2?