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(called “the uttermost” as in Acts 1:8). This geographical area is located

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from the Philippines in the east to the western coast of northern Africa.

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peoples of our world. Three major belief systems, Christians, Jews and the

Islamics, all have their origin in this same area of our world.

The 10/40 Window is the most gospel-neglected place on earth. Only 900

of the 186,000 total missionaries from all denominations in the Western

Hemisphere are trying to reach the 1.4 billion unreached Muslims who live

within the 10/40 Window. They are without a Bible, a church or the gospel.

FirstBible International believes children can be a mighty force toward

changing this crisis into a triumph. Young David slaying Goliath and the young

lad with the loaves are just two Biblical examples. We believe it so strongly

that we have an entire department of ministry devoted to the youth of our

churches.

We believe the change starts with awareness. Therefore, we have prepared

a series of four Bible lessons complete with teaching aids, a wall chart and

stickers, and a musical CD as well as coin folders for offerings. These can be

used in Sunday Schools, Christian Schools, Home Schools or Vacation Bible

Schools. They are designed to draw parents and children into awareness

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Ancient Versions: For example, the Septuagint, Peshitta,Coptic (Sahidic or Thebaic, and Bohairic), Ethiopic, OldLatin (Vetus Itala), and Vulgate, produced in the first fewcenturies of the Christian era.

Apographs: Copies of the original and inspired manu-scripts. FirstBible International (following the TraditionalText of the Protestant Church) regards the MasoreticHebrew and Greek Received texts as the best representativesof the Autographs.

Autographs: The original Hebrew and Greek manuscriptswritten by the inspired writers, which are now unavailable.

Byzantine: The Byzantine era is 312-1453 A.D. The textsproduced by Erasmus, Beza, etc., which in time became knownas forms of the Received Text, were to a very great extentderived from the Byzantine family.

Complutensian Polyglot: The Polyglot Bible, conceivedin 1502, by Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1437-1517) andproduced at Alcala (Latin: Complutum) in Spain, was anedition in which the Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and LatinVulgate texts appeared side by side. The fifth of the sixvolumes contained the text of the New Testament in Greek,and a Greek glossary with Latin equivalents. This wasprinted in 1514 (as the first printed Greek New Testament),but the Polyglot was not actually published until 1520, andthen not generally circulated until 1522.

Critical texts: Texts constructed without adequate regardto the historical place given to manuscripts and particularreadings within the church and relying on a few old, butnevertheless unrepresentative, manuscripts and readingswhich have lain in obscurity for many centuries. Criticaltexts are such as the Westcott/Hort or Nestle/Aland texts,both of which rely heavily upon Codex Sinaiticus, Aleph -01(4th cent.) and Codex Vaticanus, B-03 (4th cent.).

Dynamic equivalence: The principle of translation thatattempts to recreate on the reader of the receptor languagethe impact the original text had on the original recipients,without being bound literally to reproduce the words asnearly as possible. The translator then assumes the role ofinterpreter, to determine the thought intended in the original.(This often results in an interpretative paraphrase that haslittle or no relationship to the original language text.) Whileall translations may need to employ dynamic equivalenceto a limited extent, FirstBible International rejects theextensive and unnecessary use of this method of translation.

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Some of the authors and their material featured in UW Journal are not necessarily in agreement with the theological position of the UW Journal. Their writings are included because of their insight into the particular subject matter published in the UW Journal.

The Unpublished WORD Journal is a quarterly publication of FirstBible INTErNaTIoNal. All correspondence should be sent to the editorial officers at:FirstBible INTErNaTIoNal, 3148 franklin road, murfreesboro, TN 37128(615) 796-0043 ∙ [email protected]

5ican makea difference byRhondaBrown

13missingpieceofthemissionspuzzlebyGaryWimberly

4editorial byKenFielder

FirstBible INTErNaTIoNal is a ministry of Franklin Road Baptist Churchin Murfreesboro, TennesseeDr. Mike Norris, Pastor

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We are pleased to make available to you this special Children’s

Edition issue of the Unpublished WORD Journal from the ministry

of FirstBible INTErNaTIoNal. This issue has several goals: To introduce

you to the ministry tools available as teaching aids for children

and to make you and your students aware of the need for the gospel

in the 10/40 Window (called “the uttermost” as in Acts 1:8). This

geographical area is located from 10 degrees north to 40 degrees north

of the equator and stretches from the Philippines in the east to the

western coast of northern Africa. This “Window” is home to 66 nations

and 97% of all the unreached peoples of our world. Three major belief

systems, Christians, Jews and the Islamics, all have their origin in this

same area of our world.

The 10/40 Window is the most gospel-neglected place on earth. Only 900

of the 186,000 total missionaries from all denominations in the Western

Hemisphere are trying to reach the 1.4 billion unreached Muslims who

live within the 10/40 Window. They are without a Bible, a church or

the gospel.

FirstBible INTErNaTIoNal believes children can be a mighty force toward

changing this crisis into a triumph. Young David slaying Goliath and the

young lad with the loaves are just two Biblical examples. We believe it so

strongly that we have an entire department of ministry devoted to the

youth of our churches.

We believe the change starts with awareness. Therefore, we have prepared

a series of four Bible lessons complete with teaching aids, a wall chart and

stickers, and a musical CD as well as coin folders for offerings. These can be

used in Sunday Schools, Christian Schools, Home Schools or Vacation Bible

Schools. They are designed to draw parents and children into awareness and

involvement in reaching the 6,000 unreached peoples groups of our world.

In many cases we can send a representative to train the teachers and inspire

the students. All the materials are free and the instructor can come on a love

offering/expense basis.

Please keep this magazine for future reference and if we can be of service to

your Sunday School, Christian School, Home School or Vacation Bible School,

please contact us at www.firstbible.net.

Ken Fielder

Assistant Director

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Hey kids! I have a question for you. Have you ever thought

what your life would be like if you never had a Bible? Think for just a moment of all the things you would not know. You would not know how you got here on planet Earth, why God made you, what sin is, that there is a Heaven and a Hell, and how to be saved from Hell and have a home in Heaven someday. Think about how your whole life would be different. There would be no churches, no Christian Schools, no Bible Clubs, or summer Vacation Bible Schools. Imagine how that just having no churches would change the world in which we live. Let’s ask another question. Do you think that everyone in the world should have a Bible to read? I hope that your answer was “yes” because the Bible is the most important book in all the world. It tells us everything that God wants us to know. We could say that it

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 love-letter because it is written in

a language they can’t understand? There isno 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!

I Can Make A Difference!by Rhonda Brown

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i geT To sPReAd god’s WoRd Scripture: JOHN 6:9-13 “There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?…And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When they were filled…they gathered…and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.”

i. i AM ResPonsiBle To geT god’s MessAge To All Men Boys and girls, did you know that you are a part of God’s plan to reach all the world for Him? You might say, “But I’m just a child. How could I make a difference?” When we read the story that God wrote down for us in John 6, we see that God used the offering of a little boy to feed all those thousands of hungry people. Do you think that when this little lad took his little lunch of 5 loaves and 2 fishes that morning that he ever thought that God would do so much with it? Would you have been willing to give up your lunch that day if Jesus needed it? He was just a little kid with a small lunch who was willing to give all that he had - and look what the Lord did with it! The Bible tells us of other young people that God used: A little maid in 2 Kings 5:1-15 who helped a captain come to know about the true and living God. What about a young shepherd boy named David who killed the great giant, Goliath, because he made fun of the true God of Israel. He became a mighty king to lead God’s people and wrote many of the Psalms in the Bible. Daniel, a young man who was a captive in a strange land, was able to convince a mighty king that his God was the

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?

ii. THe FoRgoTTen PeoPle gRoUPs MUsT Also HeAR god’s MessAge Boys and girls, did you know that more than half of all the people in the world live in an imaginary rectangle on the map that has been named the 10/40 Window? For those of you who may be familiar with a globe, it is located between the 10th and the 40th parallel and from the northwestern coast of Africa to the eastern coast of Japan. In these countries where many people groups live, there is not enough food to feed them all. In case you’re asking, “What is a people group?” It is a group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and have the same lifestyle, history, customs, and religion. Most people inside this Window are very poor. This is why there is much sickness and disease, and many die very young. They worship whatever their grandparents worshipped. It might be a tree, a cow, a stone, or evil spirits. Some, called Hindus, worship millions of false gods, some they say are good and some are evil. Others who are Buddhist believe that by meditating, or sitting very quietly and thinking, they can find god within themselves. We know by reading the Bible that that isn’t possible because

“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 we read God’s Word, we learn that “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Then there are those un-religious people who deny that there is a God at all, like those who live in Communist countries. Most of these people have never heard about Jesus or a God who loves them and wants to save them. They have never seen a missionary or a Bible. And this is why so many are dying and going to Hell, never having heard that Jesus wants to forgive their sin and take them to Heaven. Is it fair that we should hear God’s message of salvation many times and that they should not hear even once? Is there something that you and I can do to change that?

iii. god AlloWs Me To HAVe A PART in His PlAn Have you ever wanted to help your parents do somethingonly to hear them

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say, “I’m sorry, I know that you want to help, but this is just for grown-ups”? 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.

1. yoU CAn PRAy “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Matthew 21:22. When we pray we are showing God that we need Him. Prayer is depending on God to do the impossible. We can ask Him to send missionaries to the un-reached peoples. Then we must pray for those missionaries that God will keep them well, help them learn the new language, and be used by God’s Holy Spirit in reaching the darkened hearts of people who have never before heard of a Savior who loves them. We must pray for every boy and girl to receive Jesus when they hear the good news of God’s Word. Also, we can pray for FirstBible INTERNATIONAL as they work to get those people groups a Bible in their own language. Pray for those who must have the understanding to translate, for those who work the printing press, and for God to supply the money to pay for it all. Most importantly, we must pray that God

will show us our part in His plan to get the job

done.

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 week so that someone might have a Bible. If these coin folders hold $5.00 of quarters, how many cokes would that be? There is nothing wrong with eating a candy bar or a bag of chips, but don’t you think that God would be pleased if we said, “Jesus, today I’m going to do without a coke so that some boy or girl can have a Bible and have the chance to accept you as his Savior”? It may be that the Bible you send will become the one that will reach an entire village with the love-letter for which they have been waiting. God wants to multiply your quarters just as He did the five loaves and two fishes of the little lad.

3. yoU CAn go Acts 1:8 and Matthew 28:19, 20 tell us that ALL of us are to be witnesses. Acts 22:15 says, “For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.” A witness is someone who is asked to tell what he knows about something he saw or heard because he was 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

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 utter-most? 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!

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In 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.

Often as we labor in our churches to assemble the pieces of the puzzle that we call “Missions,” we have

the tendency to overlook the one piece that would complete the picture of our missions puzzle- the children! Too often we

focus on which missionaries to invite, the banquets, the commit-

ment cards, the decorations and the attendance of

the missions meeting. Yet we overlook the corner piece of the puzzle, the children of our ministries that can make all the difference.

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)

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.” How shall they hear when half the world still lacks the Scriptures in their heart language? The need of the multitudes today cannot be satisfied by anything the world can offer. Our Lord Jesus did address this problem on five different occasions, commonly referred to as the Great Commission.

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by Gary Wimberly

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2. The leadership Which lacked a strategy to Meet the need (verses 6-7)Our Lord posed a question to Philip in order toprovide a strategy to address the need. Philip and Andrew’s response reveals a lack of strategy. They didnot consider the God factor. John 1:3, 14 “All thingswere made by him; and without him was not anything 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

local churches, Christian Schools, Vacation Bible Schools and Home Schools to expose our children to God’s eternal plan to reach the “uttermost parts of the earth.” We provide all materials which include: a reproducible notebook containing four illustrated lessons on missions, a new game, coin folders, a map showing the countries of the 10/40 Window, plus some added bonus materials. It is possible for children to be instructed, inspired and involved in the Great Commission NOW!

There is a new Window of opportunity. This is known as the 4/14 Window. I read recently a study showing that approximately 85% of those who give their lives to be a missionary answer God’s call between the ages of 4 and 14! Are we doing our part to make this a possibility in our churches?

Just a few weeks ago I was attending a Missions Revival in which the Christian School incorporated our children’s

program four weeks before the meeting. A first grade teacher related the following to me concerning the program. A little first grade girl was excited about providing Bibles for those who have never had a copy of God’s Word. With a strong desire to fill as many quarter folders as possible, she was taking her grandmother’s quarters without the grandmother’s knowledge. When the grandmother asked why all her quarters were disappearing, the little first grader responded, “Grandma, I need these quarters for Bibles. If we don’t evangelize them, then who will?”

We can stop looking for that missing piece of our missions puzzle. Can we take our children and their gifts seriously as a part of completing the Great Commission in our life time?For a preview packet of “You Can Do It, Let’s Spread the Word” or if you have any questions, please contact Gary Wimberly at 419-529-9029 or [email protected].

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Byzantine: The Byzantine era is 312-1453 A.D. The textsproduced by Erasmus, Beza, etc., which in time became knownas forms of the Received Text, were to a very great extentderived from the Byzantine family.

Complutensian Polyglot: The Polyglot Bible, conceivedin 1502, by Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1437-1517) andproduced at Alcala (Latin: Complutum) in Spain, was anedition in which the Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and LatinVulgate texts appeared side by side. The fifth of the sixvolumes contained the text of the New Testament in Greek,and a Greek glossary with Latin equivalents. This wasprinted in 1514 (as the first printed Greek New Testament),but the Polyglot was not actually published until 1520, andthen not generally circulated until 1522.

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by the Captain of our Salvation. We must pray, pay and train personnel to extend ourselves to the regions that are still beyond us. We need to let God create a vision in us for the unreached people in the 10/40 Window that, in turn, will cause a burden to evangelize them for His glory. This requires a commitment resulting in a strategy at which time we will see the realization of our vision. Allow me to remind you of two things:

1) If we are not careful, because of the War onTerror, we will forget God loves the Islamic peoples of this world. He wants some from every one of their nation’s kindred, tribe and tongue glorifying Him throughout eternity.

2) In this war of all wars…we win. I have read the back of the Book. I don’t see any false religion surviving, but I do see the Church mentioned on the last page and in the last chapter. Don’t lose heart nor faith…Jesus said the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church. We see the Church in eternity at the marriage of the Lamb, at the marriage supper and ruling and reigning with Christ a thousand years. As the song which Curtis Hutson made famous says, “WE’RE ON THE WINNING SIDE!”

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