Nobody is full of the Holy Spirit all the time. Only someone living in a desert like John the Baptist could be like that. Most of us have very secular lives, doing secular things much of the day, dreaming ordinary dreams at night. Occasionally, now and then, in a typical day the Holy Spirit might come on us to say give some sublime thoughts, a song in the heart, a holy dream, or words to say in a gospel context. That is not enough to free us from legal requirements. The freedom comes from having new revived heavenly principles to live by such as in Christ Jesus’ teachings, his apostles’ teachings, inspired teachings. We are not ever free from laws, but we can be bound by Christ’s laws instead of other old religious laws. For example, when you drive your car, you have a law of Christ to do no harm and cause no sin or distress and not destroy the planet, but it does not free you from also having to comply with a speed limit and parking restrictions. The Law of Moses is there for instruction, for didactic reasons, and these days nobody can comply with it in full. The Law of Christ encompasses the need for such law and fulfils it completely. Yet in most lives there are laws to be kept which are parallels of what Israelites had to do each day, such as how to drive legally, what to do in your job if it is the kind of work with regulation, who to obey in society, what tax to pay, how to behave if you are taken to court, and so on. Usually our governments determine such things. But these things alone are not enough to make us into righteous people. For that we have Jesus Christ and the teachings given by the Holy Spirit and Christ’s apostles in his name.
