Dead to Law’s Dominion

Romans 7:1-4   
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

The Law binds people to it, as in the example of marriage here.  In marriage, you are bound to each other until death when you part.  But if one remarries while still married and the other still lives, it is adultery by the law’s definition and consequences. So we who attempt to earn God’s favor by the Law are bound to that until we die.  In Christ we do die to the Law of works that can’t make us right with God, and we then are remarried to Christ by grace in His righteousness that kept the works of the law perfectly for us.  So set free, we should be fruitful in His righteousness, not in our attempts that fall ever short as before.