Colossians 2:11

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts). Colossians 2:11

Ask yourself this, is Jesus good at what He does? Is He mediocre? Is He slack? He isn’t, Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Creator of all things and if He is in charge of stripping off our corrupt flesh, you can rest assured that it is stripped off! Again, just as with our previous studies, notice that the Bible tells us that we were circumcised, not that we will be, but that we were. The Truth is that Jesus has already done all that is needed for us so that we may have the fulness of our Father dwelling permanently within us. 

But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life. For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:22-23

We are holy right now. We are completely free from sin right now. We have been set free from any and all laws that could ever convict us of any wrongdoing. Jesus came and completely changed things.

DO YOU not know, brethren--for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law--that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive? For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband. Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. Romans 7:1-4

[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men’s account where there is no law [to transgress].

Because we have been circumcised and stripped of our sinful flesh by Christ, we have been set free from the Laws that could convict us of sin. We now live by Grace. We are not Holy by our works, we are holy only because of Grace. You see as long as we think that we have to work to be holy, we never will live in the fulness of what Jesus accomplished for us. As long as we think that we need to work to be righteous, we will actually keep on doing the things that we do not want to do. But when we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to realize that our holiness is just freely given to us and there is nothing that we can do to keep it, that is when we will actually stop doing the things of the world. 

For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God’s favor and mercy]. Romans 6:14