"Released"

Romans 7:4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

Yesterday we talked about that false "sigh of relief" when we come to salvation - that we are not to live as if our sin does not matter.  Today we get the real sense of our freedom in Christ.  We are truly dead to our relationship with sin. We (believers, the Bride of Christ) are no longer "married" to sin (see verses 1-3). Instead, we belong to Christ; we are His, and are free in His Spirit to live to please God.  So rather than being "free" to do whatever we want, we are now truly free to obey God not have sin telling us how to live.