We are dead in Christ so that we are no longer in bondage to the law

"Christ was not always kept in a state of humiliation, did not always suffer, and did not frequently die. Rather, all of that state of humiliation and suffering obedience fell on Him for a short time and for the days of His flesh. Psalm 8:6, 'And you made Him a little lower, for a short time,' because He also is called God (Heb. 2:7-8; 5:7; 7:27). And He could not be held by death (Acts 2:24), first because the covenant of works required that everyone subject to it for obedience, especially with labor, toil, and the sufferings of death, bring back the happy reward and glory. . . . Second, because the law does not require obedience for satisfaction and merit beyond death (which would be worthy of His excellence, that He could be received as the price, and ransom, and sacrifice of a good aroma, and means of expiation). For such death justifies from sin. Romans 6:7, . . . . And so in the death of Christ we died to the law and the law to us. Romans 7:1, 4, 6, 'The law rules over man as long as he lives. You have died to the law through the body of Christ. We have been set free from the law,' having died (or dead for a different reading) in Him for whom we are kept. Third, He could not be held by death, because neither the glory of the Son nor the righteousness acquired for us could be blotted out." - Johannes Cocceius, The Doctrine of the Covenant and Testament of God, Pg. 98 - 99