The question that needs to be asked, I think, is, what has the Lord set us free from, in Galatians 5:1?
Has He set us free from sin, or from righteousness?
We’ve been set free from sins dominion over us by the new word given
you are equating righteousness with Moses law that’s not what it contains it gives the understanding of sin and death being the result of sin . The righteousness in the law is not the righteousness of God
“But now
the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:21-23 KJV
Gods righteousness is not found in Moses law. It is revealed clearly in Christ and the gospel apart from the law of Moses without Moses law completely
“Knowing that
a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and
not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin?
God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God:
for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
Galatians 2:16-
The law can’t justify anyone
“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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.”
Romans 3:19-20 KJV
“For as many as are
of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
But that
no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.”
Galatians 3:10-12 KJV
it has no power to justify or make anyone righteous. Contrary to popular belief many people in scripture kept the law of Moses but of those people it saved or redeemed no one paul
Actually compares keeping the law and being righteous by its works to “ dung “ and rubble
the thing is God was hidden behind the law and wasn’t actually revealed to mankind until Christ came forth. That’s our God and his word the things Christ said and did .
Moses and his law was just what set everything in motion it’s the first part of Gods plan to redeem
Mankind from sin . Before you can save sinners and teach them to repent you have to make sin known to them or they could never repent of sin and you have to show them why they need to repent that’s what the law is for to show mankind what sin is and what sin results in for us
sin and death . To have all the knowledge in the world of sin and death will not save any Christian it will always curse the free man who takes a yoke of slavery upon his own self
we’ve been set free from the law , because by the law sin has overcome
Mankind and we can be renewed and redeemed through the gospel and be given freedom from sins dominion and rule over us but as long as one is beholden to Moses law they can never be free of sin it will always be giving them knowledge of sin and death
the gospel always gives knowledge of righteousness and life
we’re set free for sins dominion over us so we don’t have to serve it anymore and die according to Moses law