Keep The Commandments
Jesus Is The Lord
Matthew 5:19KJV
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven
And no one can obey them by walking in his own spirit.
The ten commandments are to do with love for God and for neighbor (all of them). This is fulfilled only by, and in Christ Jesus.
Through faith in Jesus Christ you must (yes must, because He said so) abide in Him so that He can produce His FRUIT in you,which fulfills the law - but not merely the shadow of the law contained in the commandments and ordinances - the real meaning and Spirit of the Law, which is Christ, and through Christ in you. This is what it means to walk in the Spirit. The only way this can be done is through you walking in the Spirit, through faith in Christ alone:
Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
2 But the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has 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 so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 5
16 I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
22 The
fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
23 meekness, self-control;
against such things there is no law.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 3
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now perfect yourself in the flesh?
12 But the Law is not of faith; but, "The man who does these things shall live in them."
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");
14 so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
You can't point others to Christ if you yourself are walking by your own spirit in obedience to the shadow of the real law of God, which only Christ can fulfill in you, if you abide in Him though faith in Him, His works, His righteousness, for He told you that without Him, YOU can do NOTHING:
John 15
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
It is the fruit of the Spirit being produced by Christ in you. Your obedience to the letter of the law means nothing. It is as dung in the eyes of God. It is
your works.