John Stott:
“Is the law still binding on the Christian? The answer to that is “No!” and ‘Yes!’
‘No’ in the sense that our acceptance before God does not depend on it. Christ in his death fully met the demands of the law, so we are delivered from it [as a means of salvation]. It no longer has any claims on us [to condemn us for sin]. It is no longer our lord.
‘Yes’ in the sense… we still serve… But the motive and means of our service have altered. Why do we serve? Not because the law is our master and we have to, but because Christ is our husband and we want to. Not because obedience to the law leads to salvation, but because salvation leads to obedience to the law. The law says, ‘Do this and you will live’. The gospel says, ‘You live, so do this.’
How do we serve? Not in oldness of letter, but in the newness of spirit. That is, not by obedience to an external code, but bysurrender to an indwelling Spirit.”
– John Stott, ‘Men Made New’
(HT: Jimmy Davies)
Already Not Yet 
Over the Easter period and since, I’ve been reading John Stott’s The Cross of Christ.
“No other treatment of thi supreme subject says so much so truly and so well” J.I.Packer.
“This could well be the most important evangelical book on the cross since…James Denny” Howard Marshall
In his Preface John Stott says:
” I try to show that the cross transforms everything.
It gives
– a new, worshipping relationship to God,
– a new balanced understanding of ourselves,
– a new incentive to give ourselves in mission,
– a new love for our enemnies, and
– a new courage to face suffering”.