The point is not to obey the law as much as to find the purpose of the law. What is it for? In the West people don’t understand spiritual discernment. We get moralistic about the law as an end in itself. But the law does not give life; only the Spirit gives life, as Paul details in Romans and Galatians. When Jesus teaches the law, it’s for the sake of its purpose being achieved. It is never an end in itself, as he makes very clear when he defends his disciples who were picking grain on the Sabbath (Luke 6:1–5).
