Initiating New Covenant with the Father; Obedience in the New Covenant of Grace…

If one seeks obedience that actually pleases the Father, they will first obey the Father’s will and “believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for sin as per the mandates of Leviticus 17:11 (John 6:29); second, they will receive the imputed – gifted righteousness of Jesus over their life, a righteousness earned for them by Messiah’s perfect obedience to the Law (2 Corinthians 5:21) and having received this imputed righteousness, the redeemed in Messiah will be declared “not guilty” by New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 8:12); then, the redeemed in Jesus will begin the daily process of sanctification where the indwelling Holy Spirit, gifted the faithful in Jesus as Guarantor of Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14), employs the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) in combination with the spiritual law that is written upon the heart of humanity at conception (Romans 2:14-15) and the Spirit will methodically produce fruits of obedience against which there is no Law (Galatians 5:22-23).

Obedience in the New Covenant that honors the Father is obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during sanctification that “follows” salvation. All works of “righteousness” prior to establishing covenant with the Father by faith in Messiah Jesus, these works are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag”…in the actual Hebrew “a bloody menstrual cloth” (Isaiah 64:6). Concerning works of obedience in the New Covenant, only those works done by the power, influence, inspiration, of the Holy Spirit will endure the BEMA Judgment (1 Corinthians 3:10-15).

In closing,

Christians don’t pursue letters or laws or days or diets to please the Father in the New Covenant, but the Christian walks by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) in forgiveness and a Christian honors the Father through obedience to the Spirit who prepares them, daily, for service in the New Jerusalem; this is accomplished through the redeemed conscience, not enslavement to letters or laws etched in stone or scratched upon parchment (Galatians 2:16); in this, there is peace with the Father, forever (Romans 5:1).