And in Jesus Christ he stands before it with a sinless life. Therefore the law no longer binds the believer in Jesus to the prison house of sin. The jailer, seeing that the debt is paid, opens the jail, and the child of faith is free to pass out. He is no longer bound by the law to that miserable first husband. No longer can sin take occasion from the commandment to work in him all manner of evil desires.
Justification makes the believer legally free from the old service of sin.
Faith that Works Bondage is the result of a wrong relationship to the law. A rebel who hates the law has a wrong relationship to the law. Naturally the law will bind him as a slave to serve sin. The legalist also has a wrong relationship to the law. The doctrine of salvation by means of sincere obedience to the law is the worst kind of antinomianism.