They are temporal?
Where does the NT state that?
So when Jesus said to DO something,
He didn't really mean it literally??
Well, yes, they do them, but the doing is not what saves. Those who do, do, only because of having been saved,
not to be saved. Do you think the satisfying those verses brings salvation? If that were true, then
we are all still under law and in a lot of trouble indeed. Those who truly do them have been saved and as such do from
the heart, joy, and desire and fidelity to follow God's directives, but as the saved, and as having already
inherited the greatest blessing possible through eternity future, their motives are selfless. Doing something with the intent of leveraging it into something better, is accounted as works and spiritual debt.
They are also warnings to the unsaved.
Do you believe in works for salvation?
Christ is the object of that verse, we are not. Christ was the only person to have works as the center of His faith. We do not and cannot.