Following the law will lead to death.
Following Christ leads to Eternal Life.
Righteous living by the law cannot please God because no one but Christ was able to keep it.
Righteous living by FAITH in Christ and the Holy Spirit is what pleases God = PERIOD.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with
Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
23But he
who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
24which things are symbolic. For these are
[g]the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—
25for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—
26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac
was, are children of promise.
29But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him
who was born according to the Spirit, even so
it is now.
30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman/law, but of the free.
Christ indeed = Free Indeed = Peace Indeed