Comedian Jeff Allen’s testimony finds him having an epiphany when he hears a preacher preaching on Ecclesiastes 1: 1-3. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity sayeth the preacher.
Living a Christian life without the law also begins with that epiphany. When one realizes that all earthly and fleshly things are at their best state vanity. one can begin to look at what is not vanity. The only things that are not vain are eternal things.
Job understood that. David understood that. Paul also explains that to us in many ways throughout his epistles. It is only by setting our affections on things that are above that we can defeat sin without the law.