Confusion concerning obedience: Old Law Covenant v. New Covenant of Grace…

The Old Covenant Law is not “done away with” – abolished but was fulfilled by Messiah with perfection in obedience (Matthew 5:17). In the New Covenant, Sinai-Moses is addressed by the eternal “spiritual law” written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) and arbitrated in the life of the faithful in Jesus via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17); therefore, the redeemed in Jesus don’t chase after letters or covenants or days or diets or traditions or Sinai or Moses, those things given Israel’s children by covenant, but a Christian’s relationship with Elohim is based on grace through faith and their daily walk in sanctification is guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit who produces fruits of righteousness through the redeemed, fruit against which there is no law; in this, the Father is glorified as the Spirit prepares the faithful in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem. This intimate, personal, obedient, Christian lifestyle was not possible through the failed Law Covenant (Hebrews 8:7).

The Christian does not live their daily life thinking about Torah or Israel’s covenants or Moses but the Christian walks in peace with the Father through faith in the Son and enjoys intimacy via the indwelling Holy Spirit who methodically guides the Christian, daily, in the Father’s will and the Spirit addresses every moral, ethical, decision encountered by the Christian and urges said Christian toward righteousness…this is something the Law Covenant and Torah could never accomplish as the written code provided at Sinai and the 603-civil laws scratched upon parchment provided by Moses demanded absolute perfection (James 2:10) from the old-nature (Romans 5:12), a sin-nature that could never comply; therefore, Sinai – Moses’ civil laws “cursed” anyone seeking righteousness with the Father through vain attempts to keep them as mandated (Galatians 3:10); therefore, the New Covenant is radically different…the spiritual law written upon the heart is enlivened by the indwelling Spirit and made applicable to daily life through the Spirit’s anointing; therefore, the New Covenant Christian does not chase letters, rules, regulations, days, diets, but the faithful Christian walks by the Spirit’s leadership (Galatians 5:16) and the fruit produced by the Spirit through the redeemed fulfills all mandates concerning obedience; Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20); in this, there is peace with the Father (Romans 5:1).