Under the Law

I just read this in John Stott's The Cross of Christ. It is a succinct and clear explanations of what it means that we are no longer under the Law if we are in Christ:

"First, through Christ we are no longer under the tyranny of the law. It comes to many people as a surprise that the law, God's good gift to his people, in itself 'holy, righteous and good,' could ever have become a tyrant that enslaves us. But that is exactly Paul's teaching. 'Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.' The reason is that the law condemns our disobedience and so brings us under its 'curse' or judgment. But Christ redeemed us from the law's curse by becoming a curse for us. It is in this sense that 'Christ is the end of the law' and we are no longer 'under' it. It emphatically does not mean that there are now no moral absolutes except love, as the advocates of 'the new morality' taught in the 1960's, or that we now have no obligation to obey God's law, as other antinomians teach. No, since the tyranny of the law is its curse, it is from this that we are liberated by Christ, so that we are not 'under' it any more. The law no longer enslaves us by its condemnation.... The first four verses of Romans 8 bring these strands together. They say that for those who are in Christ there is 'no condemnation' (Rom. 8:1), for God has already condemned our sins in Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:3), and he did it in order that 'the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us' (Rom. 8:4). So the same cross of Christ, which frees us from the law's condemnation, commits us to the law's obedience."