Yet the ten commands
1. Never helped anyone become righteous so they could earn salvation
2. Never help a person become righteous because so they could be “like christ”
3. Never justified anyone
4. Never helped one person become sanctified
OK, let's examine these assertions one by one, and that should also cover the rest of this post.
The Ten Commandments never helped anyone become righteous so they could earn salvation...
True. As the Bible says (Rom 3:20)
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
So we all know that sinners are justified by grace through faith, but many Christians are unaware that the saints are sanctified by obeying the Ten Commandments by the power of the Spirit through agape love.
Never help a person become righteous because so they could be “like christ”...
Never helped one person become sanctified
False. To be sanctified is indeed to become more like Christ, who is Love, since God is love.
The Ten Commandments were summed up by Christ as the two greatest commandments, and both those commandments are summed up in one word -- AGAPE (Charity or Love). Paul says that Love is the fulfilling of the Law, and he refers to some of the Ten Commandments in that context (Rom 13:8-10). And Jesus said "If you love me you will keep my commandments". Therefore in the New Covenant, the Holy Spirit writes those commandments in the hearts and minds of believers, and when they walk in love and walk in the Spirit, they are in fact fulfilling the Law.
So if we are to understand the Law properly, it is God's immutable standard of morality, righteousness, and spirituality. On one hand it condemns the guilty sinner and does not allow him to be justified by the deeds of the Law. On the other hand it sanctifies the saint who sees the Law summed up in the two greatest commandments -- total love for God (the first four commandments summed up), and unfeigned or genuine love for your neighbor (the last six commandments summed up). Upon these two hang all the Law and the Prophets, but they also form the foundation of the Law of Christ, which is the Law of Love, the Law of Liberty, and the Royal Law. Study the epistle of James for more insight into this.