How are the Sinai Commandments honored in the New Covenant?

Jesus commanded that we love Elohim above all else and love our neighbor as our self…these are the fulfillment of all the codified commandments from Sinai forward, including Moses’ civil-ceremonial edicts (Matthew 22:36-40). Concerning “commandment keeping,” Jesus was speaking to an audience who was under the law covenant given Israel’s children (Galatians 4:4) but a radically New Covenant was being ushered in through the Gospel.

Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the New Covenant,

Jesus ushered in the New Covenant that was established in His own blood (Matthew 26:26-29; 1 Peter 1:18-19). The New Covenant is focused upon intimate relationship with Elohim through faith in the Son, Jesus our Messiah (John 3), and the “Law” that is relevant, applicable, in the New Covenant is NOT those which have been codified in stone and scratched upon parchment as given Israel’s children for sanctification-eschatological purposes but the relevant “Law” in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart on Day-6 of creation (Romans 6:14; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 7:6). In the New Covenant, the redeemed in Jesus by faith receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Ezekiel 36:27; John 14:16-17).

Honoring the Father in the New Covenant?

If one desires to honor the Father through obedience in the New Covenant, it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual catalyst of a renewed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17 – a new creation) mated with the Spiritual Law (written upon the human heart) and the Spirit forms a “new creation” within the redeemed as the Holy Spirit arbitrates moral decisions and moral discernment by making the human conscience divinely sensitive to the Father’s will in EVERY moral decision encountered during daily Christian sanctification and consequently the Spirit fulfills all Law through the redeemed via the production of divine “fruit” against which “there is no Law” (Galatians 5:16-23).

Spiritual Fruit v. Sinai and Moses,

It is the divine fruit produced by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus that fulfills the “Commandments” and actually honors the Father and this divine “fruit” substantiates and validates the redeemed as “disciples” of Jesus (John 15:8). Christians don’t seek obedience to Sinai or Moses in order to attain righteousness with the Father (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:21) as that right standing with the Father has already manifest via the imputed-gifted righteousness of Jesus over the life of the one who believes Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, Christians don’t seek codified Laws or the obedience to same for righteousness but Christians walk in imputed-gifted righteousness through faith and their behavior – obedience is the product of the divine work of the indwelling Holy Spirit, not self-righteousness in striving after letters that only condemn and curse (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Galatians 3:10).

Purpose of Law?

Christians are to understand that the “Law” was given for the lawless, those who live in the desires of the flesh having no intention or desire to honor the Father or His divine will (1 Timothy 1:9); therefore, the Christian is not under Law but under grace (Romans 6:14); this, through the indwelling Holy Spirit given the redeemed in Jesus by faith (Romans 7:6; Ephesians 1:13-14).

Impotency of Codified Law?

The codified laws exemplified by Sinai and Moses’ civil/ceremonial edicts were but a mere fragment of the comprehensive Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart; therefore, these codified laws could never adequately address every moral decision encountered on a daily basis nor could they engender intimate covenant with the Elohim as the codified laws are weakened and nullified as an instrument of righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12), a sin-nature that could never comply perfectly with codification; therefore, Sinai and Moses’ edicts are properly labeled “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-4; James 2:10) as they only define sin, they only condemned and cursed (Galatians 3:10) but provided no form of atonement or hope (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16); this, as the “letter kills but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6); therefore, if you desire to honor the Father through obedience, this divine obedience that actually pleases the Father is ONLY possible through faith in Jesus as Messiah and a daily walk in Christian sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16). Codified Law is subject to obfuscation, justification, rationalization, by the sin-nature; not so with the Spiritual Law that is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

In closing,

Honoring the “Commandments” is ONLY possible through obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) and a daily walk in Christian sanctification meticulously guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Arbiter of the Spiritual Law and the redeemed human conscience (Galatians 5:16).