I do agree with you.
Here's the problem with the New Covenant....
Nothing was changed...God still requires us to obey Him...
Before (the Mosaic) the law was on stone...
Now it's in our heart (Jeremiah)
However, The law is good,,,or God would not have created a law.
Amen.
Yes, it truly is an amazing covenant:
The power of sin is the law/the legally enforceable law written on stone with the power to condemn 1Cor15:56
So God did an amazing thing, he abolished a law written on stone, but transferred what was written on it onto tablets of human hearts and minds, simply meaning, in your heart you do not want to steal, covet, murder, take the Lords name in vain etc. The fact that law is now in your heart cannot bring condemnation to you, for you have a saviour from your sin/your sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more.
It really is such an awesome covenant, though your sin has been paid for, this can never be viewed as a licence to sin, for if you wilfully go against how you in your heart know you should live and want to live, you will be struck by a conscience, you must, for that is always the result of us going against how in our hearts we know we should live. The believer is not perfect in their flesh and will commit sin, but no born again believer can sin without conscience, for the law is in their heart. Anyone who can wilfiully sin without conscience was never born again in the first place. So as God removed a licence to sin by placing the law in your heart, he was free to give you a saviour from your sin simalteaneously
The born again Christians heartfelt desire to obey can now come to fruition, for what opposes obedience/sin was dealt a crushing blow by Christ dying to remove its true power from your life(righteousness of obeying the law). So Paul states:
For sin shall no longer be your master for you are not under law but under grace Rom6:14
And:
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law Rom3:31
That is how it is supposed to work.
However, Woe betide the person who gets into wilfull deliberate sin, plays with fire as it were and is entangled back up in it, following after the flesh rather than how they in their born again heart know they should live and want to live. It is a tortuous life, that can end in ruination:
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those
who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal5:18-21
Paul of course is not speaking of one particular sin, but ending up generally living a lifestyle of sin. It can start with just one thing, and if not checked quickly spread so fast.
This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.’[
b]
17 Then he adds:
‘
Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.’
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