Terry,

     Appreciate your encouraging words and your point is well taken. That new man will pursue his God and he will do it willingingly. It's in his (new) nature. His desire is to please our Father and His Risen Son. As John plainly teaches in his 1st epistle if one continues to walk in darkness he is not of God.

1 John 6
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

Would you or anyone else for that matter agree with the following? 

I'm of the opinion that the man who claims in this age to be under the authority (rule of life) of both the external code inscribed upon tablets of stone and Christ could be guilty of spiritual adultery. (Such a state is of course for all practical purposes impossible. It's an imaginary life.) GNC (gulp) leads me to suggest that the man who claims his rule of life is the external written code gives evidence by his own admission that he remains outside of the New Covenant. At the very very least he is the true doctrinal anti-nomian. 

What say ye?

Again, Thank you for being so agreeable. 
(at least with my previous post ;-)

  Moe