The New Covenant is initiated by grace – repentance – faith; does this mean the Christian is not required to submit to Elohim’s Law; that is, Torah?
People DON’T submit to God’s law…if they did, our World would not be fallen and Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place. What I AM SAYING is this; if a man or woman truly desires a relationship with Elohim; they are sorry for the way they’ve lived; they desire forgiveness and intimacy with their Creator, to know Him and love Him and serve Him; the divine truth is that intimacy with the Father is ONLY POSSIBLE through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 14:6).
The KEY to LIFE and PEACE with the Father,
The Father is only approachable through His Son (1 John 2:23)…this is the divine “Standard” that the Father has ordained through the New Covenant’s Gospel, a Gospel of Grace that was ordained-enacted “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) and this Gospel was first pictured/demonstrated in Genesis 3:21.
God’s will, His “spiritual law” that is eternal (Romans 2:14-15), that spiritual law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2) is made alive-applicable-livable-doable-when one enters into life-intimacy-relationship with the Father by faith in the Son…THIS IS THE FATHER’S WILL (John 6:29; John 3:16-17). Once intimacy is established through New Covenant relationship with the Father, the Holy Spirit indwells, literally takes-up residence within the redeemed (Ephesians 1:13-14) and does the work of obedience by employing the spiritual law written upon the heart…NOT LETTERS etched in stone or scratched upon parchment as in Torah but the spiritual law infused within the heart of humanity at conception and infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation.
Christians and Torah?
Christians don’t pursue Torah Law, Sinai, Ordinances, Diets, Days, as these things only foreshadowed our Messiah, but the Christian walks in peace with the Father through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1), and the Christian walks in obedience to the Holy Spirit who methodically guides the redeemed conscience in obedience to the Father’s will (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). This form of divine obedience is eternally superior to the coerced obedience of Torah Law which seeks perfection from the sin-nature, a condemned sin-nature that can never comply sufficiently (Romans 8:1-4; Romans 3:20; James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 2:16).
This is why the Holy Spirit explains in Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome that what the Law (Torah) was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sin-nature, the Father did by sending His Son as a blood sacrifice for our sin and through faith in the Son, we can receive the Son’s perfection, righteousness, “gifted” – imputed over our life and receive complete forgiveness for sin by New Covenant promise (Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). This is why the “law of the Spirit of life” is eternally superior to “the law of sin and death” (Torah Law) (Romans 8:2).
In conclusion,
As the Christian walks in the Father’s forgiveness and peace, the Christian is methodically guided, daily, by the indwelling Spirit and produces fruit (Galatians 5) that Torah could never achieve; this, as the Spirit methodically prepares the redeemed in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem.
