Welcome to Season 7 of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your faith and help you

strengthen your relationships.

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started. Good morning and welcome to the Excel Stomore podcast.

I'm really glad you've joined in today.

We will be continuing some things we started last week about how to ascertain when something

is a liberty, when you can go with your conscience on the yes or the no, but then also using

two very important universal laws to really govern and

control how you exercise those liberties. And of course, that will involve getting outside of just

self-focus and looking at what is pleasing to God and also what is good for other people.

I've got a couple of things I want to fold back in from

last week and then we'll look at that second law and maybe wrap it up a little bit early today.

Let's start with this. There are some processes that you as an individual must go through to decide

what you are going to do and not do. When we talk about liberties,

we can move forward and look at curbing those based on different elements around us, and I think

it's wise to do so. But what about how you determine it to be a liberty in the first place?

How do you get to a place of deciding this thing

that I want to do is pleasing to God? Or this thing that others are doing, I cannot do and be pleasing to

God. As you know, the New Testament is not written like the 600 plus laws of the Old Testament,

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