Let me explain:
God's law says to; “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and to, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’”
Your post above is what Jesus said.
To me this sums up the 10 commandments as I understand it.
1-4 & 5-10.
What I see is a lot of talk of obeying the command (s) of God (and on a side note to me when people say we must obey the commands of God the Sabbath always comes up and test seems the biggest one to break and fall foul of that even if you keep 5-10 tough luck your out, not wishing to start a discussion on that here as there's already one going)
You mention the 613 laws and that was what Jesus abolished. The Mitzvot
My understanding is that they are the Levitical law which can be divided into 3 categories.
Ceremonial, judicial/civic and moral.
To me the the ceremonial was specific to Israel.
The judicial was specific to Israel culturally (and we have such laws today)
The moral?
To me it's universal and has not been done away with.
To me it's the 10 commandments given to Moses.
Romans 2:15-16
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Hebrews 10:16-18
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
A New Covenant
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
I think for me the issue is should we keep the commandment's and that's the focus.
We get busy doing rather than being.
What are we?
Children of the Father, the one who we call Abba Father.
If the focus is just sent do this and don't do that then we miss the bigger picture.
That being relationship.
God wants kids who want a relationship.
Not only does he want us to be like him he wants to deal and heal and get rid off stuff that hinders that.
He wants us to know we are truly loved where we are at yet his love for us is so great he wants to move us beyond where we are at.
If we could truly trust that then obeying is not the focus and his not the issue.
Obedience will be in our hearts.
Because we love him and know he loves us and we want to be like him.
What's your thoughts?