When you get your driver's license, you have to keep all the laws. You don't get to pick and choose which ones you like and which you'll discard. (Although it'd be funny if you got pulled over for something and you had your state-approved list of which laws you'd chosen to follow!)
In the same way, when you take your CPA exam, you have to follow all the accounting rules -- you don't get to decide which are your favorites and just follow those.
Scripture tells us that if we want to follow the Old Testament Law, then we have to follow all of it. We can't pick and choose. And if we're going to follow all of it, then that's the way we'd be saved... except we can't follow all of it. We'll mess up part of it, which means the Law cannot save us.
So we need a Savior. Fortunately, we have one in Jesus Christ. Which means we don't follow the Law, because we don't just pick and choose pieces of it. It's all or nothing when it comes to its ability to save us.
(We still follow the moral parts of the Law, because Jesus makes it clear that there are still high expectations for how we treat one another. But that's another topic for another day.)
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