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Does Self-Confidence Cripple You? · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Bible Track Tech.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Mike McCree, your host.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for taking your time and joining me right here today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We are talking this week on a program about hindrances to using Bible tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To using these little gospel tools, these little preachers I heard someone say, they can slip into places that are far too tight for me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They can reach hardened souls that would never give me the time of day in public or to my face,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But in the quiet of the night, they may open one of these little pieces of paper and read about how God has saved their soul.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd encourage you to visit bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: finish our discussion of the first hindrance and we're going to get into the second hindrance of using gospel tracks today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But let me encourage you to go to bibletracksink.org
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  [SPEAKER_01]: INC dot org.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Order this gospel track.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's titled, you can know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then the sub-title is this real answers to eternal issues.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can know real answers to eternal issues, and this gospel tract answers questions like, where are the dead?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are their spirits, their souls?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are they alive?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What about heaven?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What on hell?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What will become of me when I die?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thankfully the Bible has all the answers,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this gospel tract explains that very clearly using the Bible, not a opinion, not a methodology of man, not traditional man, but the Bible answers that question through this gospel tract.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you can order them for free.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, if you're listening right now and say, I'm not sure of my turn, destiny, I'd love you to reach out to me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to wait till you can get a gospel tract in your hand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can reach out to me right now, I'll give you my text number, you can text me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But if you are a Christian and you'd like to receive some of these to hand out because we're talking about hindrances Maybe we're gonna talk about a hindrance of yours here shortly, but if you have questions regardless text me at three zero nine
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 3, 1, 6, 7, 2, 4, 0, that's 3, 0, 9, 3, 1, 6, 7, 2, 4, 0.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yesterday on the program, we talked about the first hindrance of using tracks, self-confidence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We try to muster up the motivation, don't we?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But motivation, even if you ordered tracks today, you were motivated, you listened to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm an order, I'm going to go online, I'm going to steal my courage, I'm going to hold my breath and I'm going to push place order.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's a problem, motivation fades, confidence, self-confidence fades, but our confidence is not in our self.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's in the one who sent us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's in Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Where the is the lamb revelation says, and I'm so thankful for that, but he sent us and in the book of John chapter twenty verse twenty one We read this verse yesterday Peace be unto you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is Jesus speaking
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As my father had sent me, even so, sent I.U.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we shared a little bit about a great old song written by a Margaret Clarkson.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She was a teacher just about 20-something years old in a gold mining town, who way up in northern Canada, harsh, unrelenting place.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And she penned words like this after reading that verse in John 2021.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you to loneliness and longing, with heart a hungering for the loved and known, for saking home and kindred friend and dear one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you to know my love alone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See friend, I'm not calling you to be comfortable passing out a gospel track.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'd encourage you to start using start with leaving a gospel track at the pump after you pump your fuel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: At the gas station do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe if you walk inside you get a snack, it's a beef jerky, get a drink or something like that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Slide one across to the cash here and say, hey, would you mind reading this when you have a moment?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's maybe level two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If level one is not talking to anyone, maybe level two is confronting someone Nicely in saying, hey, would you mind reading this when you have a moment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe level three would be even asking a further question about
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What, what's your religious background?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, all of those things wonderful, but understand if we aren't willing to serve the King of Kings, we don't realize who is sending us, we won't be willing to do the bare minimum.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not asking you today to do the bare minimum.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not calling out to you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not encouraging you to do the bare minimum.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not looking for a thousand people to order tracks to do the bare minimum today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm praying for one that will realize they are sent by God as a witness to the world, to the people that you confront.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't mean you get in their face, I'm not saying you'd be a jerk, I'm saying God is going to bring people across your path.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Margaret Clarkson's in verse 4, so send I you to leave your life's ambition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To die, to dear desire, self will resign, to labor long and love where men revile you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you to lose your life in mine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, send I you to hearts made hard by hatred vs. 5 says, to eyes made blind because they will not see, to spend, though it be blood, to spend and spare not.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you to taste of Calvary.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Michael, you are laying it on thick today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought this is just talking about gospel checks, no friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't realize, he who sent us, paid it all to him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I owe sin had left a crimson stain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He washed it, wiped his snow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If we don't realize what we have been forgiven much, love is much.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God forgave us everything, the worst of our worst.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you look yourself in the mirror and you know in your deepest darkest recesses of your heart, what you harbour there and who you really are,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: yourself confidence will never never be able to be enough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It will never be the power store, it will never be the battery that causes you to succeed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It will always be because you dip into the limitless well of his love, of what he did for you, and that will cause you to go further, do more,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it might start with using gospel tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't say peace beyond you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I send you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He said so as my father has sent me what happened to Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Riddle me this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How did Jesus end his earthly ministry?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about when he ascended heaven.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about when he drew his last breath for three days.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What happened?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was murdered because that's what his father required of him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And though he sweat as it were great drops of blood, he did so, and he says, so send I you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Friend, if you're looking for the easy life, may I bother you with this statement, if you're looking for the easy life, you're not looking for the Christian life.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God calls us to more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There is always another level of commitment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You may enjoy games, maybe video games, maybe different types of games will.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In video games often there'll be levels, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You defeat one enemy, one combatant, and you move on to the next.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's another mission.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There is an eternal truth in that, but this video game caught life, this reality, not virtual, not augmented, but real reality, until we take our last breath and go on the greatest venture of getting to meet our Savior, the quests, the adventures, the tasks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll never be over.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You say, good, and it's gracious.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm on his well-ended all now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, don't do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: because you while getting to work for him, while you get to serve for him, you get to do so with him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't get so busy working for God that you don't go with God.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So send I you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I was planning to get into our second hindrance to using tracks today, but I have put myself up against the clock once again, so let me do this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to tell you about another gospel tract.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I neglected to do so yesterday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just mentioned you can know which I mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you about one more gospel tract.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Where are the dead?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This gospel tract kind of grabs your attention.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a motif of a skull on the front, kind of makes you wonder, is this, you know, is this, what is this, but the goal of a gospel track is to get the lost person's attention.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In that question, maybe you've been pondering it, where are the dead?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe things I've talked about, you are intrigued by the Christian life's not the easy life.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a bit of roses, but what is it about?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's about serving God.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and it is though not easy, the best life, and yes, you can settle your eternal destiny where you will be forever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But settling your eternal destiny and getting peace with God for the rest of eternity, it starts with peace with God now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it helps to answer a question like where are the dead?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you are a Christian and you would like some of these gospel tracks, you can get them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On our website BibleTracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that question, where are the dead is answered right inside the front cover of this tract?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Says this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That depends.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Where are the dead?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that depends on how they died.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You realize there are people slipping off into eternity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Every moment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: every moment without pause.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We are well past 8 billion people in the world right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As a user of tracks, as the director of a track ministry, of course, yes, I have a vested interest in you using tracks.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, but it's kind of absurd.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We, I, our ministry, we give them a way for free.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, yes, I want you to use gospel tracks, but I'm not doing it because it's gonna make us rich.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not asking for three easy payments of 1995.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing so because that is the mission of our ministry, the Word of God, to all the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I want you to use gas contracts, though it quite literally costs us time and effort energy and, yes, money to produce them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We provide them for free, on Bible Tracks 8.0.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So at this moment, you are without excuse.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It will take you all of less than five minutes to go on the website and order that track title you can know or where are the dead or both.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can get them in quantity of 25 and we'll send them to you today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Tomorrow on the broadcast, we're going to talk about the second hindrance to using trance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Have a great day for God's glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for tuning in to Bible Tract Echoes, the radio ministry of Bible Tracts Incorporated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Want to see our gospel tracks and other resources?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Visit us online at BibleTracksInk.org that's BibleTracksInk.org or follow us on social media to learn how you can partner with this ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May the Lord richly bless you as you live for Him.