Here's my not so quick answer: The measurement of a man's victory is not measured by the blessings God has given man, For God says Jesus came to serve men, He blesses even the sinner, and in many instances especially the sinner.....Let me ask you a question and follow it up with a statement...First the question: Do all men receive peace when they receive blessings?...now the statement:
I remember the last 13 years of my marriage of the 29 total, I was a sold out Christian found in Christ the first 15, but then I had succumb to the tyranny of the urgent temptations of my life and with the help of my own Jezebel experience I took God off the mantle piece of my life and simply attempted then to hang on to God. I practiced His principles, but I had lost peace I started having issues with my understanding of things in my life as well, my demeanor changed from when I was sold out prior, I became powerless in my prayers for others, I tithed but my heart wasn't joyful in it. I became sullen in my victory because I couldn't get 1John 5:11-12 out of my mind, "This is the testimony: God has given us Eternal life and this life is in His son. He who has the son has life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." So ashamed I sulked, for I knew I could not merit His rewards and blessings and I was in fear of Hell fire. I had taken back the first fruits of my heart and I was too weak to put Him back, Satan had me believe. Yet in all of this God had still blessed me, house job etc..
There is also something called an Axiom , or Axiomatic truth, or self-evident truth. God has placed these truths in our lives. Regardless of whether you are a Christian or non-Christian, Jew or Gentile, man or Woman, black or white, they are truths that will result in the same conclusion in all. Regardless of your belief in them or denial of them they hold themselves to be self evident.
Gravity is one. Try this; wish really hard, and deny the laws of gravity then throw a ball in the air and watch it fall back to your hand anyway. Now I am not saying supernatural powers can't alter some Axioms but they don't alter the truth behind them they stay true to the axiom truth of supernaturalism, which oversees the other.
Here is another Axiomatic truth, "What a man sows so shall he reap." When a man follows the Torah, blessings are sure to happen based on the truths in the purity of the laws themselves, but the man using them is not saved by these blessings being evident, he is saved by a new plan over the plan of the Torahs followings. The plan found on the cross. What is a mark of Victory in our lives is not the blessings but the fruit, the scripture tells us. The change in the nature of the person themselves. The change that can only happen successfully in Christ.
So Jesus doesn't want us to follow the Torah, but again this all hangs on what you mean by follow.
In Matt. 5:17-20...,Jesus makes an astounding claim. He came to not abolish, but fulfill the Law. The Prophets and Torah were but sketches of God's will. And He Himself will now be and teach us it's fullness. We are summoned to follow Jesus, not the Torah. In so doing we do everything the Torah set out to do, but even more. The life lived in victory found in Christ Jesus is the life of the new and improved Torah life. The more than conquering life.
It is the fruits we are to notice of our lives, what are they? There are two different lists...one for one Spirit of light, and one list for the Spirit of death. One cannot serve two masters.