Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3)
Our goal as saints is not to die and go to Heaven to do nothing. Rather, our goal is to bring about obedience to Christ and the Father on the part of the whole world.
The Sermon on the Mount does not consist of the mysteries of the Christian faith as does the remaining text of the New Testament, such as the blood atonement; the birth and forming of Christ in us; water baptism; the baptism with the Holy Spirit; and so forth.
Looking at them in this manner, it appears that the Sermon on the Mount is the promised Law from Zion, and the remainder of the New Testament tells us about the Lord Jesus Christ and explains how the commands of the Sermon on the Mount can be obeyed.
It would appear, then, that the current explanation of Paul’s doctrine of “grace” renders the Divine plan useless, in that it places “grace” as an acceptable alternative to the edicts of the Sermon on the Mount.
The objective of the entire New Testament is that people love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and their neighbors as themselves.