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Originally Posted by Esaias

Paul is not in any way saying those who become believers cease to obey the commandments of God

Strawman. I never said he did.

Hebrews 8:10 brings this out quite clearly:

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

The New Covenant is characterized by God writing His laws in the hearts and minds of His people. He does not say, "I will take away the old laws, and give them new laws". He says He will write His laws in their hearts.

The Old Covenant had God's laws written on tables of stone, and in a book. The New Covenant has God's laws written in the mind and heart. This is further brought out in chapter 9:13-14:

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

The New Covenant results in a purging of the heart and mind. What is purged out? "Dead works." The result? The ability to serve God (obey God). In other words, the New Covenant purges out sin (transgressions, breaking of God's commandments) and replaces it with genuine obedience to the commandments of God. As Paul says in chapter 10 of the same epistle:

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

The old covenant with its sacrifices could never actually take away sins (transgressions). But the New Covenant does, because the offering of Christ sanctifies and perfects the believer, who now has God's laws written in his heart and mind.

So, it is completely contrary to the teaching of the apostle that the New Covenant authorized us to transgress the commandments of God, including the Fourth Commandment, which specifically says to remember the Sabbath DAY to keep IT holy.

I never said we should transgress the commandments. And once AGAIN you IGNORE all my reasoning by virtue of not actually showing how my thoughts of Sabbath being directly stated to us to be dropped because it is a shadow that is more perfectly fulfilled by resting in Christ are in error by directly responding to that logic and reasoning. This entire post is a strawman argument, because I never told anyone nor stated that I should break any commandments. I actually said Sabbath is KEPT more perfectly by resting in Christ’s finished work, instead of the finished work of God in old creation.