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Kenshiro
Yes you can through Christ we can do all things. We cannot keep it by ourselves but by our complete submission to Christ we can ultimately through his power and righteousness be able to keep the commandments.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
This is where you have misunderstood the Gospel.
We are not earning our salvation by keeping the commandments but we keep the commandments because we are saved.
"If you love me keep my commandments"
Does being saved by grace give us the license to profane God's commandments? Does God desire obedience or disobedience to his commandments?
Romans 6:15-16
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
To sin by biblical definition is the transgression of the law which leads to death while obedience leads to righteousness.
We need the grace of Jesus otherwise we would be keeping the law in our own effort. Only through the grace of Jesus we can keep the law.
Grace and Law are harmonized and compliment each other in the Gospel.
John Wesley wrote:
"There is, therefore, the closest
connection that can be conceived, between the law and the gospel. On the one hand, the law
continually makes way for, and points us to, the gospel; on the other, the gospel continually leads us
to a more exact fulfilling of the law. The law, for instance, requires us to love God, to love our
neighbor, to be meek, humble, or holy. We feel that we are not sufficient for these things; yea, that
'with man this is impossible;' but we see a promise of God to give us that love, and to make us
humble, meek, and holy: we lay hold of this gospel, of these glad tidings; it is done unto us
according to our faith; and 'the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us,' through faith which is in
Christ Jesus. . . .
The law leads us to grace and grace leads us to keep the law.
And that law my friend is the ten commandments of God the eternal law of God. Written by the very hand of God on stone to symbolized its permanence. Take note brother that the ten commandments was not written by any apostles or prophets but by God himself.