It's not just the wicked who need it. As Kefa quoted in the end of Romans 7, we're still fleshy. Our flesh still wants to crawl right back into our previously-beloved darkness. We are not perfected in the Law. We can't do it. Even with God in us, we don't do it perfectly, but without it we cannot see what goodness looks like. To me, the law is Jesus' shadow. It's not Jesus, but it's a good outline of what he looks like. And, when we're off doing our own thing, even still, and then realize we slipped off on our own, it is there to tell me which way Jesus is in front of me, when I am so far away I can't actually see him.
We need him all -- his deeds, his spirit, his law to keep us pointed in the right direction -- to God himself.
I think the number one problem on this site is people are looking for the easy way out. "Accept Jesus and I no longer have to worry about anything, including the law. Especially the law." Then they pridefully point at themselves as the example of life in Christ.
This is surface crap, and they think they're doing something wonderful because they're wearing the proper outfit.
But Jesus isn't merely an outfit. To follow him is to follow him down to our core. The reality is we don't! Damn us for daring to say that out loud on this site!
I do not have Jesus down to my core, although he has penetrated to my core. I NEED more of him, because I too can be a hypocrite. The law points me to him. His spirit enables me. He showed me the way. He is the way. Until we can admit that freely without the yabber-jabbers constantly trying to convince us the surface is good enough, there will be division. THE FREAKING SURFACE AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH!
And because it's not, and they know it, it has become much easier to prove-a-point then deal with that. So the prove-a-pointers gang up and ascend every time some are actually talking seriously about God. But we're supposed to be respecting them for doing that.
Sorry. I never will.