Jesus affirms the ongoing authority and importance of God's moral law. While Christians are not condemned by the law due to Christ's fulfillment of it, they are still called to obey it. Breaking even the least of God's commandments makes one least in the kingdom of heaven. Upholding and teaching God's law, on the other hand, makes one great in the kingdom. The epistles clarify that believers are freed from the ceremonial and civil aspects of the law but still obliged to obey its enduring moral precepts through the Spirit's empowering.