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is God’s love-letter to each one of us. Let’s suppose you had a secret admirer (that’s someone who likes you a lot, but has never told anyone), and one day he or she sends you a love-letter. Excitedly, you open it only to find that it is written in a language that you don’t understand. How would you feel? Wouldn’t you wonder why they didn’t write it so you could understand it? Their letter may have said some very important things – things that would have made you happy and smile. It may have told you of a beautiful gift they had bought for you, and that it could be yours if you would only go to a certain destination and ask for it. But sadly, you will never know any of those things because you cannot read this love-letter addressed to you. Boys and girls, did you know that there are billions of people in our world that cannot read God’s loveletter because it is written in
a language they can’t understand? There is no Bible in their language. They will never know all the good things God has written to them in His letter nor of the gift of eternal life in Jesus that He offers to them if only they will receive Him. In their hearts perhaps they wonder, “If there is a God who loves me, why doesn’t He speak my language, too?” You and I must give them the answer: “Yes, God does love you, and He does speak your language.” Then we must do OUR part to help them. Wouldn’t you like to know that God used YOU to get someone his or her very first Bible? Doesn’t that sound exciting? Let’s look together into this wonderful Book, the Bible, which can tell us exactly how we can do just that!
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“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” In ourselves we cannot become like God. The Tribal people worship spirits who they believe live in the water, rocks, sun, sky, to name just a few, and are very fearful of those spirits. Another group are the Muslims who try to earn their way into heaven by doing good deeds. They are sincere enough about what they believe to even die for their god or kill others who do not believe as they do. As II. THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE we read God’s Word, we learn that GROUPS MUST ALSO HEAR GOD’S “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are MESSAGE Boys and girls, did you know the ways of death.” Then there are I. I AM RESPONSIBLE TO GET that more than half of all the people those un-religious people who deny in the world live in an imaginary that there is a God at all, like those GOD’S MESSAGE TO ALL MEN Boys and girls, did you know that rectangle on the map that has been who live in Communist countries. you are a part of God’s plan to reach named the 10/40 Window? For Most of these people have never all the world for Him? You might those of you who may be familiar heard about Jesus or a God who say, “But I’m just a child. How could with a globe, it is located between loves them and wants to save them. I make a difference?” When we read the 10th and the 40th parallel and They have never seen a missionary the story that God wrote down for from the northwestern coast of or a Bible. And this is why so many us in John 6, we see that God used Africa to the eastern coast of Japan. are dying and going to Hell, never the offering of a little boy to feed all In these countries where many having heard that Jesus wants to those thousands of hungry people. people groups live, there is not forgive their sin and take them to Do you think that when this little enough food to feed them all. In Heaven. Is it fair that we should hear lad took his little lunch of 5 loaves case you’re asking, “What is a people God’s message of salvation many and 2 fishes that morning that he group?” It is a group of people who times and that they should not hear ever thought that God would do so look alike, speak the same language, even once? Is there something that much with it? Would you have been and have the same lifestyle, history, you and I can do to change that? willing to give up your lunch that customs, and religion. Most people day if Jesus needed it? He was just a inside this Window are very poor. III. GOD ALLOWS ME TO HAVE A little kid with a small lunch who was This is why there is much sickness PART IN HIS PLAN willing to give all that he had - and and disease, and many die very Have you ever wanted to help look what the Lord did with it! young. They worship whatever their your parents do something The Bible tells us of other young grandparents worshipped. It might only to hear people that God used: A little maid be a tree, a cow, a stone, or evil spirits. them in 2 Kings 5:1-15 who helped a Some,called Hindus,worship millions captain come to know about the of false gods, some they say are good true and living God. What about a and some are evil. Others who young shepherd boy named David are Buddhist believe that by who killed the great giant, Goliath, meditating, or sitting very because he made fun of the true God quietly and thinking, of Israel. He became a mighty king to they can find god lead God’s people and wrote many within themselves. of the Psalms in the Bible. Daniel, a We know by young man who was a captive in a reading the Bible strange land, was able to convince that that isn’t a mighty king that his God was the possible because
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only true and living God. Were these young people extra-special in some way that God allowed them to do such great things? Only in one way – they loved the Lord and were willing for God to use them – that’s all. They said, Lord, use my life to make a difference. Are you willing to obey the Lord today and let Him use you to make a difference, to do something that would really matter for all eternity?
2. YOU CAN GIVE Many of you are already familiar with the “You Can Do It” coin folders. Just think! Each one of these coin folders will buy a Bible or a New Testament for someone who for the very first time will learn of Jesus’ love for them. You can have a part in that person going to Heaven. Maybe you would like to save your snack money at school just one day each 1. YOU CAN PRAY “And all things, whatsoever ye week so that someone might have a shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall Bible. If these coin folders hold $5.00 receive.” Matthew 21:22. When we of quarters, how many cokes would pray we are showing God that we that be? There is nothing wrong need Him. Prayer is depending on with eating a candy bar or a bag of God to do the impossible. We can ask chips, but don’t you think that God Him to send missionaries to the un- would be pleased if we said, “Jesus, reached peoples. Then we must pray today I’m going to do without a coke for those missionaries that God will so that some boy or girl can have a keep them well, help them learn the Bible and have the chance to accept new language, and be used by God’s you as his Savior”? It may be that Holy Spirit in reaching the darkened the Bible you send will become the hearts of people who have never one that will reach an entire village before heard of a Savior who loves with the love-letter for which they them. We must pray for every boy have been waiting. God wants to and girl to receive Jesus when they multiply your quarters just as He did hear the good news of God’s Word. the five loaves and two fishes of the Also, we can pray for FirstBible little lad. INTERNATIONAL as they work to get those people groups a Bible in 3. YOU CAN GO their own language. Pray for those Acts 1:8 and Matthew 28:19, who must have the understanding 20 tell us that ALL of us are to be to translate, for those who work the witnesses. Acts 22:15 says, “For thou printing press, and for God to supply shalt be his witness unto all men of the money to pay for it all. Most what thou hast seen and heard.” A importantly, we must pray that God witness is someone who is asked to will show us our part in His plan tell what he knows about something to get the job he saw or heard because he was done. actually there when it happened. God asks us to tell what Jesus has done in our hearts when He saved us. God did not say that we may be a witness if we would like to be, but He gave us a command, “Go ye…” He is depending on us to tell others what Jesus can do for them, too. Where are we to go? We are to go into ALL the world and preach the say, “I’m sorry, I know that you want to help, but this is just for grownups”? Well, God says that this is not just for grown-ups, but this is for you, too. He wants you to have a part. He wants you to say,“Here I am, Lord, use me to make a difference.” What does God want you to do? There are three things that God’s Word teaches us.
gospel (or the Good News) to EVERY creature, from our neighborhood where we live to the uttermost part of the earth. So where exactly is the uttermost? I believe that God is speaking about all the forgotten people that we may never see or hear about, but whom God sees and loves very much. He loved them so much that He died for them. God may want you to be a missionary to some of them one day. If He did, would you be willing to say, “Yes, Lord, I’ll go”? Of course we know that God has not called everyone to go to a foreign land, but He has called many. God desires a willing heart to do His will. Would you just be willing to pray, “Lord Jesus, is it your will for me to go? Please show me what you would have me to do.” All of us cannot go to the 10/40 Window or to Mexico or some foreign land, but we can pray for those that do go. We can tell our friends here how that they can go to Heaven, can’t we? Are you thinking of someone right now that you need to tell about Jesus? Perhaps God is speaking to your heart about being a missionary. One day in Heaven when boys and girls from every tribe and nation are bowed together before God’s throne, wouldn’t you want to hear one or more of them say to you, “Thank you for helping me to know the Lord so that I could be here with you in Heaven”? Just think about the exciting task that God has asked you to be part of – that of reaching forgotten boys and girls for Him. Will you offer what you have to Him? Will you say, “Yes, Jesus, I will pray and I will give as you show me how, and I am willing to go wherever you ask me to go. I give myself to You. Help me to make a difference.” I know YOU CAN DO IT! This is a sample lesson from a four-chapter children’s series. See page 8 to order.
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In John chapter 6 we read what is commonly called the feeding of the 5,000. However, I see the Lord Jesus giving us an example of how the active involvement of children can be used to touch countless lives. Notice three outstanding observations in these Bible stories that will encourage us to include the missing piece (the children of our ministries) in our mission’s strategy. 1. The Large Group of People in Need (verse 5)
December 2006, our family, Melodie, Luke, Ethan and I, had the opportunity to spend Christmas with all of my family for the first time in years. During our stay, a family picture was scheduled to include my grandmother, parents, siblings, and all the nieces and nephews. The photographer began to put each of us in a specific place as if putting the pieces of a puzzle together to make the picture complete. Everyone present had a defined role, a specified place to participate, and the absence of anyone from the youngest to the oldest would leave the picture incomplete.
We know there were at least five thousand men in attendance, all of which had the same need. They lacked the necessary nourishment that would meet the basic physical necessity in their life. The need could not be satisfied by anyone in the multitude. The Lord Jesus thought that the need was important enough to address it personally. Today we have a world filled with large groups of people, nearly 6,000 of them consisting of men, women and children all with the same need. It is a need not of bread and water but of hearing the Word of God. Romans 10:16-17 “But they have not all obeyed the gospel…So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Often as we labor in our churches to assemble the How shall they hear when half the world still lacks pieces of the puzzle that we call “Missions,” we have the Scriptures in their heart language? The need of the tendency to overlook the one the multitudes today cannot be satisfied by anything piece that would complete the the world can offer. Our Lord Jesus did address this picture of our missions puzzle- problem on five different occasions, commonly the children! Too often we referred to as the Great Commission. focus on which missionaries to invite, the banquets, the commitcontinued on page 15 ment cards, the decorations and the attendance of Unpublished WORD [13
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continued from page 13 2. The Leadership Which Lacked a Strategy to Meet the Need (verses 6-7) Our Lord posed a question to Philip in order to provide a strategy to address the need. Philip and Andrew’s response reveals a lack of strategy. They did not consider the God factor. John 1:3, 14 “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Both of these men had God incarnate with them and both had seen Him turn the water into wine; heal the lame man of thirty-eight years and more. Yet they did not ask the One who created hunger and created the bread to satisfy the hunger what they should do. So many times in forming our mission strategy we focus on the Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and uttermost parts of the earth and forget the God factor. Acts 1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…” and Matthew 28:20 “Lo, I am with you alway…” We have His indwelling Spirit. Do we look to the Spirit as Jesus commanded us in John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” Philip’s response reveals that he thought that a lack of finances would relieve him of his responsibility. In our American government it seems that if there is a problem the solution is to just throw more money at it. The opposite is true in our churches. It seems that if we lack the finances, then obviously God cannot expect us to do anything about it. Money is an obvious necessity in missions but is not the answer to complete the Great Commission. In John 6 we can see what the Lord Jesus used in meeting the need. The Lord used personnel. He used the lad, and he used the disciples for organization and distribution. II Corinthians 8:5 “And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.” Luke 10:2 “Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.” He also used the gifts of the personnel. Jesus took the bread and fish as the means to accomplish the mission of feeding the multitude. I Peter 4:10 “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” The Lord also administered prayer into the process. He took the gifts of the personnel and offered them up in prayer unto the
Father. It may be that we lack strategy, personnel, gifts and finances because we lack time in prayer for them. At least on seven different occasions we find the Lord Jesus Christ in personal prayer time with the Father. When we read more specifically the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer in John 17, the major content of His prayer is personnel in relation to the world. Do you have a God-given strategy for your ministry? Does it seem that your strategy has some missing pieces that would complete the puzzle of fulfilling the Great Commission? If so, would you consider this last observation? 3. The Lad Whose Gifts were not Seriously Considered as Part of the Solution (verse 9) Andrew makes this clear to us in his statement,“but what are they among so many.” Andrew’s attitude is one of, “Well, all we have is this, not that it is going to make any difference.” I am not convinced that this young man was in attendance with the multitude that day. It could be that the reason the lad had loaves and fishes is that possibly his father was a fisherman in the region and he was selling the fish his father caught to help in supplying the needs of the family. Everyone knows that in order to have a good fish sandwich one needs bread to go along with the fish. This lad most likely had a familiar continuing presence in the area and a willingness to get involved when given the opportunity. The Bible gives many examples where children had a presence and when given the opportunity were more than willing to help. We find in II Kings 5:1-4 that a little maid of Israel was captured and made a slave in Syria in the house of Naaman, the captain of the host and a leper. This little maid had a presence in the home of Naaman and was willing to get involved by sharing the news of a prophet in Samaria who could heal Naaman of his leprosy. In I Samuel 17 the youngest of eight brothers was a lad named David. David found himself present in the midst of a battle between the children of Israel and the Philistines. Young David, willing to stand for his God’s glory, made the difference when given the opportunity to face the giant and helped shape the future of Israel. Our church ministries have children of all ages and all backgrounds present weekly that would be willing to get involved in world missions IF given the opportunity. For this lad in John 6, what was he among so many. When we read the rest of the story we can see his willingness is what the Lord Jesus used to make the difference in the lives of at least five thousand souls that day. What are our children among so many people groups that are in need of the Scriptures in their languages and in need of fundamental churches to be started? It is among the children of our ministries that we will find our Bible translators. It is among our children that we will
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find our next generation of missionaries and pioneer church planters and it is among our children that we will find our prayer warriors for those who do go so they might have success. The missing piece to our puzzle of missions is sitting right in front of us each week. Have you considered including them into your strategy to complete the Great Commission? Let me leave with you three necessities that we must incorporate in our children’s ministries if they are going to be a part of our mission strategy: 1. We must instruct our children on the need of the world. For example: Half the world is without the Scriptures in their heart language. Most of them live in a place called the 10/40 Window, and most of these people lack a missionary trying to reach them. 2. We must inspire them to be involved in the Great Commission. This can be done through memorizing the 66 countries of the 10/40 Window and challenging them to pray for these people’s spiritual needs, scriptural needs, and physical needs. Our children should be encouraged often to surrender their lives to the Lord for full-time service if that be His desire for them. 3. We must involve them so they may have an opportunity to be obedient now to the Great Commission. They should be challenged to sacrifice and give. They should be given opportunity to correspond with missionaries through letter writing and possibly be taken to a foreign field or find different people groups in their area to visit and pass out tracts. My desire is to make all three of these possible through our children’s program called, “You Can Do It, Let’s Spread the Word.” We at FirstBible International have been working diligently to develop this program to aid I
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