The Holy Spirit’s life-giving Word removes the burden of trying to justify ourselves before God. We can’t do that. Yet we don’t have to, because Jesus Christ already has done that for us by his holy life and sacrificial death. Our deeds of love don’t make us right with God. Christ alone does that. In fact, now that a “not guilty” verdict in God’s courtroom is a certainty, we have been blessed with freedom. Freedom to produce the fruits of the Spirit. Freedom to love our neighbor.