“Dead to Law”: The Hymn That Crucifies the Old You and Crowns the New Creation

Some songs are written; others are born from the ashes of a dying world. John Olumayowa’s latest hymn, “Dead to Law,” belongs to the latter—a sacred artifact chiseled not from ambition but from an encounter. Following a profound spiritual evacuation at the cross, under the tutelage of Brother Gbile Akanni of Peace House, Olumayowa experienced something far beyond theological agreement: he felt the old man die. Not metaphorically, but as a lived, breathing reality. And from that grave of the former self, this hymn erupted—not as a performance, but as a testimony. Every lyric is a deliberate footstep back to Calvary, where the law’s relentless jurisdiction over the sinful nature was not repaired but abolished. Drawing from Romans 7:1–4, the song paints the believer as a widow freed from a dead husband: the law’s dominion ends where death begins. And since the old Adamic man perished with Christ, the believer now stands in a resurrection union that no legal claim can touch.

This is not a hymn for passive listening; it is a compass for active warfar e—a weapon and an anchor for every generation still contending for the truth of finished work. Olumayowa prays that long after this age fades, “Dead to Law” will pull wandering souls back to the only place where freedom lives: the cross. It sits at the sacred intersection where revelation becomes worship, where what the mind knows becomes what the spirit cannot help but sing. So sing it as one who has truly died. Sing it as one who is finally, irrevocably free. For in Christ, the law has lost its voice, and your resurrection has already won.

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