What was meant to keep you can enslave you

Jews were given the law so that they might know of their need for a savior; the Jewish people were chosen by God so that He might display His power before the kings of this world. Jesus came not to abolish the law but to complete its purpose. Under the new covenant He brought with Him not only the Jew could be saved but the Gentile as well, God’s gift of salvation was no longer for a single race but for all mankind but change was as difficult for some Jews of that day as it is for the addict today. Yes their customs and rituals were as needles and drugs and they would do anything to keep feeding their addictions, including binding the minds of the newly freed so they might live under the bondage of the law as well.

(Galatians 4:22-26 NLT) The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons, one from his slave wife and one from his freeborn wife. The son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God's promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God's own fulfillment of His promise. These two women serve as an illustration of God's two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai where people received the law that enslaved them. And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia, because she and her children live in slavery to the law. But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother.

(Galatians 4:29 NLT) But you are now being persecuted by those who want you to keep the law, just as Ishmael, the child born by human effort, persecuted Isaac, the child born by the power of the Spirit.

I believe it is good to learn how God led His people in the Old Testament because He does not change and the respect and obedience He demanded then He still demands today, for God does not nor can He change. I also believe in the work Jesus came to do, being born of man He was the Godman who lived among us to show us how we are to live, He then died for us so that we might be free to love Him without restraint. We are not to lose the awe and reverence He commanded through the display of His might in the Old Testament neither are we to try to live under the old covenant, for to do so would be to disregard what Jesus came to do!

(Psalms 19:1-2 GNB) How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done! Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.