We're in Galatians chapter 5. So I'll begin with this question. Have you made the jump from the

pseudo-Christian life of Thou shalt nots and the thou shouts to the real Christian life, which is liberty, joy, and peace.

Really, Brett? Are you going to put it that strongly? Oh, no, I'm not putting it that strongly. Paul.

Paul is going to put it that strongly. The real Christian life is liberty.

Or are you still wrestling with the thou shouts? Should you do this or go there or do the other?

It's funny because the thou shouts or the thou shalt nots, people get kind of obsessive with those things.

But that's not why we do what we do. We actually do what we do because we love Jesus. It's the love of Christ

that compels us to do what we need to do. I'm reminded of a story, the perfectionist husband

who is married to this sweet wife and he would come home and hand her a list of things to do every day.

He expected them to be done before he got home from work the next day.

She faithfully did all those things, and, you know, he was kind of brutal about it.

And fortunately, the husband died. I shouldn't say that. The husband died. And a couple

years later, she married another man. But this man, he was nice, and he loved her deeply,

and he was kind-hearted to her and not brutal, like her previous husband, with his list of things

to do and all the work she had to do.

But they fell deeply in love and each day together was better than the day before.

That was the way it was.

But after many years of marital bliss with her second husband,

she was going through the attic and cleaning some old stuff out of boxes

and she found one of the old lists of her first husband of the things that

he expected her to do. But tears started flowing down her cheeks because she realized something

that she hadn't really thought about. And that was everything that was on her ex-husband's list

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