Romans 7:1-6

Romans 7:1-6 NIV
¹ Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

 A few days ago I used the analogy of a police officer.  Here Paul used that analogy of marriage and the law.  Once there is a death one is no longer bound to the vows under that law.  Death is all that frees one from their vow under that law.

 ⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. 

Now we who believe are bound with Christ and through his death we are freed from the law.  Today we live through conviction of the Holy Spirit and not through adherence to the written law.

God Bess.