Second, the ceremonial laws, which prefigured and foreshadowed the coming of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. When He came, those ceremonial laws were done away with
only done away with according to the doctrine of man, not YHVH who was very direct when he said they are permanent Holy Convocations. I can not figure why religious leaders, to this day, have no concept of what the word forever means. Either they are ignorant or they are calling YHVH a liar & Covenant breaker.
the law remains as the way we can please God and show our gratitude to Him
No, the law remains as our way to please our FATHER. It is what is used to measure of our Faith & Trust in YHVH through HIS Son Yah’shua Messiah. It is what we will be judged by on the final Day of Atonement that ushers in the new age.
CHRIST/LAW
SHOULD WE SAY CHRIST vs. the LAW or CHRIST and the LAW?
1. “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17)
2. “Therfore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:20)
“Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” (Romans 3:28)
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law?”
3. “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin
because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” (Romans 6:14-15)
4. “Wherefore, my brethern, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring fruit unto God.” (Romans 7:4)
5. “But now we are delivered from the law, being dead wherin we are held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” (Romans 7:6)
6. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, comdemned sin the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:2-4)
7. “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 14:4)
8. “Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans 13:10)
9. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” (Galatians 3:24)
Actually, the way to Please God is by Faith. "And without faith it is impossible to please God". Simple obedience to the law without faith does not please God. For "whatever is not from faith is sin" Romans 14:23