You can try, and invariably fail, to follow Him per Israel's Gospels.
You can and should follow Him according to the revelation of the mystery.
Paul says no one today can do the first, and all should do the second.
These are two totally different paths that do not cross each other and cannot be mixed.
You, like GT, try to do both by calling it all "one" when it isn't and never was.
Jesus is not divided.
You are badly mistaken.
There are people who obeyed the old law.
So your case is rebuked.
There were righteous people who pleased God.
1 Peter 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the
holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Ezekiel 14:14 Though these three men,
Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls
by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.
Luke 1:30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid,Mary;
you have found favor with God.
Acts 22:12 "A man named Ananias came to see me.
He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: "He could not be found, because God had taken him away." For before he was taken,
he was commended as one who pleased God.
Acts 10:22 The men replied, "We have come from Cornelius the centurion.
He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people.
Luke 7:4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him,
"This man deserves to have you do this,
Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon,
who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
John 1:47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,
"Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit."
Psalm 69:28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with
the righteous.
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 7:1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you
righteous in this generation.
Abraham. Genesis 22:18
and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."
1 Kings 15:5 For
David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD's commands all the days of his life--except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
Job 1:1, 8 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was
perfect and upright, and one that feared God...
Genesis 26:4-5 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."
Luke 1:6 Both of them were
righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord's commands and decrees blamelessly
Paul didn't say no one could do the first.
No one can do it since the temple is destroyed, but it wasn't yet destroyed when Paul wrote.
