If you want to live under the covenant of the law, you have free will to do so, and you will fail to find salvation therein because you are not a Jew under the covenant of the law and as a human cannot live the sinless life in the character of GOD. BUT Jesus ended that covenant (Read Hebrews) and established a new covenant:
Luke 22:14 Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table, along with his apostles. 15 He told them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer, 16 because I tell all of you, I will never eat it again until it finds its fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” [The Jews to whom Jesus offered the Kingdom rejected it, thus postponing the establishment of it on earth until after the seventieth week of Daniel. The seventieth week is to put an end to sin in Israel, THEN the Kingdom is erected on Earth. How does sin in Israel end during the tribulation? The testing yields a remnant who come to saving faith in Jesus as Their MESSIAH. By faith you are saved, not of works lest anyman boast.)17 Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves, 18 because I tell you, from now on I will never drink the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 Then he took a loaf of bread, gave thanks, broke it in pieces, and handed it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Keep on doing this in memory of me.”
20 He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant sealed by my blood, which is being poured out for you.
The Ten Commandments are a perfect picture of the character of God and will never be nullified because God cannot be eroded.
Passover meal was the remembrance the Jews were commanded to make for what God did in bringing them out of bondage. The cups and breaking of un levened bread were a remembrance. Once out of Egypt they were given the covenant of the law to restrain sin in Israel. THAT COVENANT ended when they rejected Messiah. GOD established the covenant and the Jews nullified it by rejecting the fruit of that covenant.
JESUS established a NEW COVENANT (see verse 20 above) and died as the testator to make it immutably enforce. Since you and I cannot keep the law, JESUS did it for us. In the New Covenant we receive the righteousness of Jesus by turning our will to God's directing and faithing in the Promise that Jesus came in the flesh and established The covenant of God's Grace for us, received by us by faithing in HIS PROMISE FULFILLED.
Whether we agree with each other or not, I appreciate your points of view.
In my mind? I am a sinner. I hope I am forgiven and I hope He will have Mercy on me, the sinner that I am.
Per what I have read? I may be forgiven, however I also know that am a work in progress and that I still sin against Him.
If His take on adultry is true? I am reasonably sure that I violate at least one of His Commandments and one or more of His Father’s virtually every day.
My thoughts, my nature, my soul ... all works in progress. And I believe it is by our works that we reveal our personal truth, about our nature and our beliefs, and about who/what we truly follow, regardless of what we tell ourselves and each other.
It is also by our works that I believe we are purified, by serving Him and by doing His Will.
Me? I’m not nearly small enough yet to enter by any door. I am learning my current place in the Holy Hierarchy, so I say the Jesus Prayer a lot.
I am hopefully forgiven, but in my mind and my heart I know I am not “good” enough to enter His Kingdom without being cleaned up a bit.
So, I can believe that there is a place and process of purification for the saved who died in any state of sin.