Tell me you know that family matters.  In fact family seems to matter above all. The great love God has, the great salvation people devalue, and the expectations of covenants seem to resolve at the highest definition when the way we treat others comes to centre stage.  Avoiding sin has occupied people for a very long time and many people wear the questionable badge of commandment-keeper.  Even when people are the recipients of Holy Spirit help, the only command that is within reach of compliance is the one that simply asks for people to honour their parents. Tell me you need the Holy Spirit living in you to empower you to honour your parents and I will show you where ducking and dodging sin ends up.

The summary of righteousness in the Pentateuch is decisive

The walking dead

People say they are many things and forget how they become so.  No one is ever vindicated before God on the basis of their compliance.  It never happened and never will.  You have to have a very low estimate of God to conclude that his pleasure comes from seeing people who have been asked to do.

Passing up the deal of the ages

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write:  He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. (Revelation of John 3:1, NASB)

Maybe there are people who never missed God’s mark in any way.

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? (Romans 2:23, NASB)