John 5:19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

When I was a child my father taught me to hunt and fish, he was my coach in baseball and we built his first home together. We did every significant thing together.

My father never said he took pleasure doing things together. It was just understood. I loved doing it with him and that was enough for me.

Then I went off to the Army and Vietnam. We were separated but he was a WWll veteran, and he and I were the only ones in my family that shared that experience. When I got back home I turned to him and said, “Now we both have something not to talk about.” He nodded, he understood.

The years that followed filled with self-medicating my PTSD. I did not come home because I did not want to disappoint my father.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we love the Father we should want to please Him. My lesson in all this is that if you want to please the Father, do things together, whatever He wants to do.

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Galatians 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Romans 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

The work of the law was to show us we are sinful. Given that we were to gather by work the mana from heaven until the Sabbath, then the mana collected on the sixth day would last until we obtained our Sabbath rest.

Since Jesus fulfilled the demands of the law, perfect obedience in order to have a personal relationship with God the Father, then as the Bread of Life, we have life with Him by faith.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

Matthew 26:26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

The order has changed.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,