[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by good samaritan

The law was only supplemental. The ten commandments where moral laws that dealt with relationships we have with God and the rest of humanity. Without the indwelling Spirit of God people depended on that written law for their instructions on how to love one another.

Galations 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:against such there is no law.

By walking in the Spirit we follow the core of the law. That is the missing element in the OT. The law could never change the hearts of the adherents, but it only became a legal practice. Just like today, they found loopholes. That is why Jesus always found the pharisee's to be so opposing. They became good at following legal practices while inwardly being wicked. Our focus isn't to be law keepers but Holy Ghost followers. In some areas they may coincide, but being led of the Spirit is the objective. I don't treat my wife the way I do because I fear going to jail, but because I love her. We place ourselves in obedience to God because we love and reverence Him. This is a complicated answer that many people either go extreme right or left on, instead of understanding that it is about a relationship with God.

Very well said!!