Am I still trying to be perfect?

I was watching a program where the speaker said some Christians are still under the law. Hmm.... ok take a step back. We've heard that we are not under the law anymore because Jesus died for us. But the truth is until be accept Jesus Christ as the propitiation of our sins we are still under the law.
Here are some questions people may ask:
"Whats so bad about the law, laws meant to be broken?"
"Can you have eternal life without accepting Jesus Christ as your savior"?

OK, there are six hundred and thirteen (Jewish) laws to watch out for. The bible says that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life. [Rom 6:23] And Paul Quotes in [Rom 3:10] Scripture from Psalms 14:1-3 that No one is righteous, not not one.

It is impossible to live a perfect life! If you have already messed up there is no way for you to make up for it, because that small sin already costs your life. You are in debt. Thankfully, the one person who has lived the perfect life paid that cost. Jesus Christ fufilled the laws.

Instead of trying to answer the questions further: Galatians 2:15-21 gives a pretty good answer. Below I copied the excerpt from the Message bible because the idea here is written pretty clearly.

15-16We Jews know that we have no advantage of birth over "non-Jewish sinners." We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it—and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.

17-18Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren't perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous. If I was "trying to be good," I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a charlatan.

19-21What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.

Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily"

I think some us Christians are so freaked out about every little thing we and especially other people do that we forget that we were saved by grace.

Lets accept Jesus's Death and move forward giving the grace we were given ourselves. We should stop trying to work so hard because we can cast our burdens on Jesus!

"Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee" [Psalms 55:22]