No longer slaves

The book of Galatians tells us that Christians were once slaves to the law but have been set free through the redeeming work of Jesus. We have been taken from slavery and brought into sonship. As Paul says in Romans 8, it is a glorious sonship. No matter how hard we try, we cannot break away from this old life by our own efforts. The work of Jesus on the cross sets us free from the empty, going-nowhere life of a slave and gives us full life in him.