What new relationship replaces being under the Mosaic law after the old Adam is dead?
After the old Adam is crucified and reckoned dead, the believer is no longer under the Mosaic law. God reckons the believer as married to Christ, entering a new spiritual relationship under Christ's love, grace, and mercy rather than the Ten Commandments' authority. This mirrors a widow who is free to marry another.
Les explains that old Adam has to be crucified, and once Adam is crucified and dead in God's eyes, the Ten Commandments no longer hang over him. Yet the teaching does not leave it there; the believer picks up another relationship. Using the illustration of a widow who lost her husband and is free to marry another, Les says that as soon as old Adam is crucified and reckoned dead, God immediately reckons that we are married. This is a new relationship, not under the Mosaic law, but under the love, grace, and mercy of Christ Himself. The believer is married to Christ, which is a spiritual relationship rather than a matter of female gender.