Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so
that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we
might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:4-6
In the preceding verses, Paul gave us bad news; we are bound to the law until we die. Now, he gives good news; we have died to the law through the Person and work of Christ. Not only have we been released from our obligations to the law through that death, but we have also been spiritually resurrected with Christ in His resurrection to do good works for Him. In the last verses, Paul emphasizes that we still serve, but not the letter of the Law; we serve the Spirit. In reading scripture, we always want to look at the whole counsel of God and not build a theology around one or two verses. Always remember, the Holy Spirit is fully God, whose
purpose is to convict us of our sins (using the Law, by the way), give us discernment with
scripture, and remind us of the Person and work of Christ. One of the functions of Christ was not to remove the law but to fulfill it. This is the enormity of God’s grace, He sent Jesus to do what we never could. There is never any DO for believers in the Gospel, only what has already been DONE.
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