Through him and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. (Romans.1.5 NIV)
In the old testament, the mandate of men was to show their obedience to God by obeying the law of Moses. With circumcision as a seal for the covenant with God, they accepted to abide by the Law. Many didn't obey because they had the same understanding as father Abraham, but to fulfill the law.
The New covenant in which we do not have physical tablets of stone with the law inscribed, no periodic reciting and reading of the law, nor circumcision of the flesh, there is only Christ Jesus for us to believe in.
So, on what does your obedience to God stand on? Paul says, "Through Christ and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith."
In the dispensation of Grace, the obedience that God requires of us is one produced by faith–the substance of things hope for. That someone obeys God not because they will be led out of the city to be stoned if they don't, or that they will have to offer a sin offering if they don't.
Abraham was counted obedient to God when He left the land of His fore fathers and set out by faith, having no law holding him but only the promise of salvation from God.
Let your obedience to God never rely on regulations, but rather on faith in God.
Hallelujah!
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