 The third thing is the whole relationship with Holy Spirit makes rule necessary now I want you to listen very carefully One of the portion of the verses we've read tonight in Galatians chapter 5 is when Paul says if we are led by Holy Spirit We are not under the law So if Holy Spirit leads us we are no longer under the law Now I want you to notice what Apostle Paul is not saying He is not saying if you are led by the Holy Spirit you don't need the law You don't have the law and the law is completely out of your life. He just says When Holy Spirit wasn't your leader the law was When Holy Spirit is your leader the law is not your babysitter You're no longer under the law now for those of us who are Christians. We understand That the law which is all testament precepts. There was actually three different laws The ceremonial law which was fulfilled in Jesus. The ceremonial law is when they brought a lamb on a Passover Like we you know have Easter so what they did during that time in church is they brought a sheep and they killed a sheep in the church and That was a ceremonial law. We don't do that no more if you come on our Easter service We can guarantee you no kill sheep killing. We don't do that because that was fulfilled in Jesus But then there was a second law second types of laws It was a civil law for example a civil law men you have to watch your borders You have to watch how you grow things you have to watch what kind of seeds So it had to be civil law which mainly applies to the nation of Israel. We don't live in Israel We have a different civil law today in our country and we try to live by it But there was a third kind of law which we still have as Christians all the way from all testament It was called moral law. It's the part where the Bible says thou shall not kill With the part of the Bible says thou shall not steal It's the part of the Bible says thou shall have no other gods in front of you that law Though was fulfilled in Jesus. It's still in our life today Because many Christians say things like well, we are no longer under the law The law is done with and today the only thing is we are under grace true Ceremonial and civil but no moral the moral law is still in the life of a Christian now The difference is in the Old Testament the saints were under it The law the Bible says was a tutor. It was a babysitter all of these laws people were under it But the Bible says here when we are led by Holy Spirit the law is not our Babysitter no more because we have a leader. So where does the law come into our life? the law the rules are There to confirm not to condition our relationship with Holy Spirit write this down the rules are to confirm Not to condition our relationship with Holy Spirit and I will explain that in a minute the rules are not to condition But to confirm our relationship with Holy Spirit So they are not to condition, but they are to confirm our relationship with Holy Spirit How many of you have a gym membership if you go to a gym to sign up for a gym membership they give you laws They call them rules There's no 10 commandments, but they have certain rules at the end you say agree and Because you agree upon these rules You join the gym so the rules are The way you enter into your relationship with your gym if you break any of the rules What do they give you they kick you out they take your membership, and you're completely out That is Old Testament now. Let me give you a new Testament Those of you who have a home When you were born in your family Every single one of you you did not have to agree to any rules before you were born in your family, right? I don't think your mama sends you a file in your womb says do you agree? Take off your shoes clean the dishes and don't walk in the carpet and feed the dog and cut the grass on Saturday And don't curse and don't swear don't the drugs if you don't don't come out of there find you another mommy None of us had that we are born and we never had any laws to be part of the family. Am I right? But once we are in the family we have rules in the family why? Not to stay in the family But because so that we can grow in that family and when you break the rule do you stop being a son? No, you can get a timeout you can get spanking you may lose your Wi-Fi password Which will be the end of the world? You may have to do certain things But you know one thing is the one the rules are broken in the family It's not the same thing as rules are broken in the gym because in the family the rules never caused you to enter the family And therefore they cannot cause you to get out of the family everything is based on relationship in the gym Things are based on rules So what Paul is saying when I have a relationship with Holy Spirit It's like a family the rules are there to confirm and to protect a relationship not to determine the relationship But the rules are still there