The Disciple of Jesus Christ and the Law

 "Knowing this, that the law wasn't laid down for the person who is set right..."
     "And if you are led by the Spirit [of Christ], you aren't subject to the law."
     "Yet the fruit of the Spirit [of Christ] is love, joy, peace, tolerance, kindness, goodness, trust, courtesy, self-control; there isn't a law laid down against such things as these."
     Why?
     "And they who are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh together with the passions we suffer from and its desires."
     Therefore,
     "If we are living by the Spirit [of Christ], we should also be marching in line with the Spirit [of Christ]."
     This is the relationship of the disciple of Jesus Christ to the law, any law, in a nutshell. Put simply, written laws don't really matter to the one who is submitting to and cooperating with the Spirit of Christ, because it is Jesus Christ acting and speaking through that person. Laws aren't made to restrain someone who loves others and does no harm. They're made to restrain someone who commits harmful acts against themselves and others. If Jesus Christ is acting and speaking through you, then you aren't going to harm others. And if you aren't going to harm others, then the laws, any laws, don't really apply to you, do they? If it is the Spirit of Christ acting and speaking through you, then you are going to demonstrate courtesy, because Jesus Christ demonstrates it through you. You are going to be compassionate, kind, and honest, because it is Jesus Christ doing it through you. If you are in submission to and cooperation with the Spirit of Christ, you're not going to be sexually promiscuous. You're not going to act according to your survival responses and animal nature, because it is Jesus Christ acting through you, and the Father acting through Him through you.
     This is why it has always been a mistake for Christians to teach and emphasize obedience to the Mosaic Law, and relegate submission to the Spirit of Christ to lip service at best. By doing so, they have done exactly what Paul wrote against in Galatians, and almost every other letter in the New Testament. By teaching and emphasizing obedience to the Mosaic Law they have literally disobeyed the Gospel and set everyone who listens to them up for failure as Paul described in Romans 7.
     Being a disciple of Jesus Christ means marching in lockstep with the Spirit of Christ. It means submitting to and cooperating with the Spirit of Christ, and crucifying, disengaging from, and rendering inert our own neurologically and biologically based survival responses of fear, aggression, feeding, and sexual desire.
     We need to get away from what is not working, as the New Testament already said it wouldn't work, and change our ways of thinking on these things. Every person who is living as Jesus taught and walking as He walked does no harm because it is Jesus Christ doing it through that person. And if it isn't Jesus Christ acting and speaking through us, then we are not being His disciples, much less anything resembling Christians, but become a poor imitation following rules, laws, and traditions without any understanding of why. And when we subject ourselves to those rules, laws, and traditions blindly, then errors, mistakes, and harm abound.