Yes, we're free from the law. (Romans and Galatians). Paul explains these things in there.
Rom 6
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
We are delivered from the Law. It's right there. And Paul was quoting from the 10 commandments, so even if we call the 10 commands the Law of God, Paul was still saying we're delivered from it.
Being free from the law does not mean we indulge in anything. No sir!. BUT We are now led by the Spirit. So a Christian cannot live anyhow just because we're delivered from the Letter of the law. We are led by the Spirit and so we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Gal 5
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
If a Christian obeys the leading of the Spirit, they will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. So it's not the 10 commands per se that we're under, but to be led of the Spirit. The things listed in the 10 commandments are listed as lusts of the flesh. So, if one obeys the leading of the Spirit, one does not need the literal 10 commandments.
In fact, Paul says to serve in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. You can hold on to the 10 commands from Exodus and on to the Spirit of grace. It's either one or the other brethren!
Furthermore, DRUNKENNESS is not a violation of the 10 commandments. So if you hold on to the 10 commands, it would be okay to get drunk.
But by being led of the Spirit, we know that drunkenness is a lust of the flesh.
In actuality, the demands of grace SURPASSES that of the Law.
Walk in the Spirit, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in you. (
Rom 8:4)
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