Romans 7:4-6 NLT
(4) So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the One who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
(5) When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.
(6) But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
I have been guilty of looking at the law the wrong way. When I fail to live according to God's Word the thing that is on my mind the most was the fact that I broke God's law and I am condemned by it but if I truly died to the law and was raised from the dead with Christ Jesus then the law no longer condemns me.
Jesus said that He did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets but instead came to accomplish their purpose (Matthew 5:7). If that is the case what used to condemn because of the sin within me now once again points me back to Christ Jesus, as it was originally intended and that was what Jesus meant when He said that He came to accomplish the purpose of the law.
For too long the devil has used the law for his own means, trying to pull me out of the hands of my Savior but inside I knew this was wrong but felt I had no ground to stand on and because I judged others the same way therefore I too was condemned but no longer. Now this doesn't mean I have a free pass to live however I want but instead because of this great love inside of me for Jesus my one desire is to please Him in all things, again the law is fulfilled because of the work Jesus has done and at the same time He has canceled out the snare of the enemy. I am truly a new creature in Christ Jesus, old things have passed away and new things have come!
2 Corinthians 5:17-19 NLT
(17) This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
(18) And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.
(19) For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
