Limiting obedience to NT commands

This is a note on FB from a good friend of mine:

Did your parents restate every rule of the house when you left it each day? Do you reread the drivers education book each time you drive?  Of course not!  On a spiritual level does God/YHVH change?  Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 

Since He is the same forever how could He be discarding the standards that He said were forever in favor of “new” standards, “repeated” in the NT?  If Yeshua/Jesus is one with YHVH/God then the entire Torah is His, not just repeated sections. 

Some people think Shabbat and the food rules as being bondage.  That was a terrible disconnect because Yeshua said that His burden is light and easy.  

He said that the Pharisees’ burden was heavy and they wouldn't lift even one finger to lighten the load.  Matt 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."  

Matt 23:1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.  3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.  4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 

The disconnect is that if Yeshua is one with YHVH/God from the OT then the Torah is His burden which He calls light.  The Scribes and Pharisees’ also have a burden that He calls heavy, it can’t be Torah.  It is the Oral Torah called the, “Tradition of the Elders” in the NT.  (Matt 15:2, Mark 7:3, Mark 7:5)  

Unfortunately most of our Christian brethren don’t realize that there is a difference between the two and therefore see the Torah as a bad thing regardless of how the Torah is referenced in the NT.  

In the book of Romans Paul says this about the Torah: Rom 7:6 What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the Torah. For I would not have known covetousness unless the Torah had said, "You shall not covet."   8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the Torah sin was dead.  I was alive once without the Torah, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.  12 Therefore the Torah is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 

adapted from http://www.beittefillah.org/files/Ori-3.pdf