Romans 7:1-6 Christ Is The Bridegroom Of The Church

Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man. So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Why is Christ the bridegroom of the church?  Because He replaces that which is dead.  The natural man is married to sin and worldliness, but when the person is united with the living Christ, the old ways are dead and the person takes on godliness and a newness of life.  No longer are they slaves to sin, but instead servants to godliness.

Daily Prayer:  Lord, let us live out the new life that is given to us.  No longer shall we hear words of condemnation, but instead shout words of praise to You who loved us and took us for Your own.
Amen.