Grace is the key. Does anyone suppose that any human can obey God's commandments without grace? Am I who I am without Christ?
KJV Romans 8:3-4
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Our Savior 'condemned sin in the flesh' conquering the problem for the human race. God, for all eternity, made sin a universal powerless concept by defeating it in its own home, the fallen sinful human flesh. Because of what Christ accomplished at Calvary, there is now no reason for any human being to continue living under the dreadful dominion and slavery of sin. Sinful addictions lose their power if one has the faith of Jesus. I am the person I am today because Jesus died for me on Calvary, revealing such unbelievable agape love it is astonishing. To think the Son of Almighty God has for all eternity taken upon Himself human nature, will never be fully appreciated until we stand before the throne of the Father and witness for ourselves what sacrifice He made in giving His Son to a lost world.
I am thankful for all that God has done for me. And I am convinced that He will finish this 'work in progress' before Jesus comes to take His bride home. God has promised to prepare His Son's bride, and through His power and grace, this He will accomplish.
KJV 2 Peter 1:2-4
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Here is the promise of the new covenant made to those who have the faith of Abraham...
KJV Ezekiel 36:22-27
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
KJV Galatians 2:20-21
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
KJV 2 Corinthians 1:19-22
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
KJV John 15:5
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
KJV Galatians 5:22-25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
KJV Ephesians 5:9
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; )
KJV Philippians 1:11; 4:23
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God....I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.
KJV James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
KJV 1 John 2:5
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
KJV Luke 11:28
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
KJV John 14:23
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
KJV John 6:63
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
KJV 1 Thessalonians 2:13
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
God's precepts/commandments are promises: they must necessarily be such as God knows we have no power. All that God requires of us, He gives to us. When God says, "thou shalt not", this is not a negative command, but a promise to those who believe.
It is not you or me that is to do what the Lord pleases, but "it (His word) shall accomplish that which I please". We are not to read God's word, and say to ourselves, "I must do that, and I must not do that". We are to open our hearts to that word, and allow the will of God to be accomplished in us. The word of God itself is to do it. It was the word of God that created all things, it is the word of God that recreates us in the image of Christ. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom". "It is not I that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me".
See Isaiah 55:11. Luke 8:15.
KJV Romans 3:24
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
KJV Romans 8:2-4
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.