And Deuteronomy 30 which prophesied that the people would forsake the Lord- which they did. God's commandments are not difficult to keep (Deut 30:11-14). It's simply that we, by nature, don't want to be obedient. God has to put a new heart in us to walk in His statues. The only reason we are moderately obedient is because of Him.
If as you say, “God has to put a new heart in us to walk in His statues” then which statues exactly are you speaking of? The ones as they are written that Jesus taught by the example He left that we should follow or the ones that Judaism & Christendom have changed to suit their man made doctrines & traditions? I know as for me & my house, we practice to the best of our ability that which is written regardless that the ‘church’ teaches that the majority of was done away with & that which remains is only for the ‘Jews’. As the apostles proclaimed, we ought to obey God rather than men.
And so our house is not what I think you would call ‘moderate’ as while it is not in the nature of the flesh to be obedient, we are not to live/serve the flesh, we are to live/serve His Spirit which takes a great deal of humility, so much so that a Christian who does not take His Word literally as Jesus & the apostles did, have no idea what persecution is because they have never walked the same path as Jesus and the apostles who were shunned by their own brethren and many times, shut out of the congregations because they would not cow tow to the religious dictates of men of the flesh.
The gate is narrow, VERY narrow and few there be that find it. Few,, not he majority and simply confessing that Jesus is the Christ is not enough and Sunday worship, well, there is no commandment for that as there is also no commandment for Easter or Christmas or any of the Christian holy days as it practiced today. It is all simply going to perish upon Christ return and those who are not willing to give up the man made religious doctrines so to walk the Psalm 119 path that Christ walks, these are not going to be serving I Christ’s kingdom. [Col 2:20-23] I truly pray more Christians will wake up and come out of the greasy grace delusion wherein there is no profit or hope of an eternal life with Christ. Shalom