Obedience under the New Covenant is not about being pressured by a legalistic, fear based compulsion to obey God through our own ‘good’ works, much like Israel who were blessed if they obeyed the Mosaic Law or cursed if they did not. Rather ‘grace-full’ obedience is an obedience that is compelled by the love of God for us and in us where we obey from the heart, based on faith in the obedience of Christ, through the finished work of the cross.