The Holy Spirit molds you into the image of Christ. This transformation is a natural result of the work the Spirit of God is doing in your life as you cultivate a personal relationship with Him. In doing so, you don’t live, operate, or stand in your own strength, you stand in the glory and power of the Lord.
Keeping the law that you might be good enough to earn salvation was never an option. Several thousand years of recorded history with His people proved the point time and time again. The Israelites couldn’t do it back in the day and we can’t do it now.
Any attempt of men and institutions seeking to establish their own interpretations of what God wants from us is just as worthless. If the very law of God could never justify and only convict us of sin (See Romans 3:20), there is no representation of men that could ever hope to save someone either.
God knew this from before the beginning and that is why everything in the Old Covenant pointed to the Savior that He provided. Christ came and paid the price of redemption and restoration that no other human or created being could ever pay.
This is why it is foolishness to think that what God is primarily focused on are the things you do or do not do. Christ has already paid the price for sin. God’s not worried about your performance because when you accept Jesus and His death on your behalf, the “old man” becomes dead to sin. We aren’t called to do things to curry favor with God, we do them naturally because His existing favor is already at work in our lives and we are being transformed by the Holy Spirit. Which brings us to Paul’s questions for the churches of Galatia:
>>>> This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?… —Galatians 3:2 <<<<
This wrong-headed attitude of “being perfected by the flesh” has led to all kinds of problems in our lives, our churches, and in our culture. It frequently cloaks itself as the “moral superiority” smugness that many possess, but that is a deceit and a conceit that masks the lack an intimate relationship with God.
Never forget that your redemption, salvation and destiny lie in Jesus because of what He did, not because of what you did, do or do not do. It is a matter of faith, not of flesh.

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