Man, it's good being in the house of the Lord, isn't it? We rejoice tonight. I tell you what, those young ladies, I would take them and they could travel with me, you know. They would prepare the people for when I get up to preach. And if I let them sing afterwards, they'd clean up all my mess. Amen? That's great. Well, would you take your Bibles tonight and turn with me to Mark chapter 1. Mark chapter 1. I'm going to look at verse number 38 tonight. And what a joy. I've got the ushers coming, and they're going to pass out something for you as you're turning in your Bibles to Mark 1, verse 38. This is what we call a mini-journal, a mini-journal. We produce in our ministry what's called the Unpublished Word Journal. It's a 24-page magazine that has to do with missions and Bible publishing and national training. We have missionaries and different writers that write for us and put articles in this journal. This is what we call a mini journal. The outside looks like maybe a smaller one of our journals, and inside is one article. So you can read that article later. You can read that later, okay? And if you like the article, that's some of the things. Some of our articles are informational. They give you some information. Some of them are inspirational. But I hope all of them are enlightening, engaging, and relevant. That's what I pray all of them are. And so this one is more inspirational, give you an idea of what happened in the project that we were at. And so, and also that we were in, in Armenia, gives a little story there. And then what we'd like you to do is if you're interested in receiving a copy of our journal at your home, you can do that. You'll see a little tear out here. We've, our normal cost of the journal is $19.95, and we're offering it right now for $12. So you can get a printed copy. It's four copies. We'll mail it to your house every quarter. Or if you'd like a digital copy, we are offering those at $5 a piece. So if you're interested in the journal, you can do that, and it'll help you to stay informed about our ministry. It'll help you. to stay informed about the 1040 window, and some areas that I'll talk about tonight. So if you'll tuck that in your Bible, look at that later, you can go online and register for that, or you can bring that back to me this week, maybe at the project, or on Sunday I'll be here as well. We can do that, amen? Amen. Let's read our text tonight, Mark 1, verse 38. We'll go into our text tonight, Mark 1, 38, the Bible says, Well, let me back up. Let's start in verse 35. And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and therefore prayed. And Simon and they that were with him followed after him. And when they had found him, they said unto him, all men seek for thee. And here's what the Lord responded in verse 38. And he said unto them, let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also. For therefore, came I forth. For therefore. came I forth. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the good night you've given us. I pray tonight that you would work in our hearts. I pray that God you'd speak to us. Lord, we need to hear from you tonight. Lord, there's a lost and dying world. We have the answer. Not only to the people in our town, there's folks right here that have issues and problems just like we do, but they don't have what we have. And so we need to encourage them, we need to help them, we need to go where they're at. And then we need to not only help the people in our town, but we need to go to the next town also. Go to their towns. And we have a responsibility, not only for Jerusalem, but Judea and Samaria, and the uttermost part of the world. Lord, help us to see that tonight. Lord, I pray that you'd give me strength. Again, be with Pastor Broyhill tonight. Bless him. Different ministries that are going on. Thank you for the good work that we've had in the scripture project. Lord, above all else we do, we'd love to magnify you tonight in song, in our attitude, in our heart, and in this message. Lord, we love you. We give you glory in Jesus' name. Amen. We come into this passage and This year, this is our theme for First Bible International. I'll just throw that out at you. Every year, the Lord gives me a theme that we can operate on. And for the last several years, He's given me some thought out of His Word, and we develop a theme and give to our men and be able to share with our churches. So tonight, I get to share with you our theme, just like you'll have a theme. Coming up in vision night, we have a theme, and so this verse helps us and gives us this theme. And the Lord, as I was studying this verse, I ran across this phrase, for therefore came I forth. You know, I found out that in this passage, Jesus states His purpose. In that statement, He states a purpose of why He came, why He left heaven. Now, He came for several purposes. One, for my redemption. Amen? for your redemption. He came to pay the price on Calvary. He came to die for your sin. He came to die for my sin. He came to die for the sins of the world. We know that that's a purpose, but here we find another purpose why He came. There were some specific reasons and so we find in this passage tonight, he makes this statement for therefore came I forth and it tells us that he came for a purpose. So we find in this passage he states his purpose. He had a focused purpose. He had been in other places in that city preaching and healing and doing some great things, but his purpose was not just to stay in his city, in his birthplace, in his region, but to go into the next towns because they needed something, they needed what he had, so he had a purpose and a plan to go there and to preach also. That was his purpose, that was a reason for coming. He says in this passage, and he said unto them, let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also. So his purpose, his stated purpose, was to go and preach. He says over here in In Mark 1, verse 14, now after that John was put into prison, Jesus came to Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. He had a desire to preach the word, repent and be baptized. And folks, that's what the world needs. The first thing the world needs is for us to take the gospel and say, repent, repent, repent! Jesus paid for your sin. You know, his purpose was to carry the message beyond his location, beyond his locale. It had to go beyond the four walls. It had to go outside the synagogue. It had to go outside his home. It had to go into the next town because there's people in the next towns, and we'll talk about that in a moment. But his purpose was to preach. So I asked myself, what is the purpose of First Bible International? What is the purpose of what I do? What ministry that we're in? In the ministry of First Bible International, I started writing some things down. And let me make these statements to you and hopefully it'll give you clarity of what we're doing now. You know, 17 years ago I surrendered into the ministry and went into bearing precious seed and started in the seed line and started. Traveling with my father-in-law and then took over the work of seed line and directed that for about six years And trained another man and handed that over to him now the Lord has us in a different Section of the same ministry bearing precious seed as the whole seed lines one section National Bible Publishing Month is another section There's some other little sections involved, but first Bible. What is that? What is our purpose? What are we trying to do? in this ministry called First Bible. You know, Jesus had a purpose, and it'd be good if I know my purpose, right? So let me share that with you real quickly tonight. First Bible International is a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Milford and is an extension of Bearing Precious Seed that works aggressively within the 1040 window for the purpose of giving a people group who does not have a Bible their first Bible. That make sense? We are a ministry of First Baptist Church of Milford. What you need to know in that statement is we're a local church. We are a local church. If First Baptist existed and First Bible did not exist, it'd be all right. It'd be okay. But First Bible cannot exist without First Baptist. Because we are a ministry of a local church, and I want you to understand that. We're an extension of the Bible publishing ministry of Bearing Precious Seed. And our purpose is to get a people group a people group, not just a person, okay, but a people group that does not have a good, reliable copy of the Word of God, we want to give them their first Bible. We want to give that people group a Bible, and then to give in that people group They're people, a Bible, so there's printing involved. So it has to do with Bible translation, and we'll get more into that in just a moment. Our purpose is to provide the local church with a biblical approach to the 1040 window. Now, whose job is it to reach the world? Who was commissioned with the Great Commission? Was it a ministry, or was it the church? It was the church. So as a ministry, what we need to do is to provide local churches a biblical approach to reaching the uttermost, the 1040 window. So our job and our expertise is to help you and to help the other church down the road and to help the other church down the road to reach in this area of the 1040 window. We're going to have to do it together. It is the church's commission. And as a ministry of of a church, we've got a lot of work to do and we want to help and we want to give a biblical approach. And we're going to talk about what that biblical approach is in just a moment. And I'm going to try to hurry through this real quickly. The approach is threefold. You say, Brother Money, what is that biblical approach? You know, we can go at this different ways, but I'd like to do it the biblical way. I'd like to do it the biblical way. And you know what the biblical way is? This is it in a nutshell. Number one, we want to produce sowers. We wanna produce sowers. You know what your church is doing? You're producing sowers. You're producing believers that'll go out and give the word of God out. So we want to produce sowers within the 1040 window. Number two, we want to provide the scripture, right? So our goal is to help churches produce sowers, provide the word of God, so that churches can be planted. You know what's going to reach that people group tonight that there's nobody or very little people within their people group? You know what's going to help them is when they have churches and when they have sowers. You know, the Bible says in Mark chapter 4, a sower went out to sow. They need sowers in the field. They need people. With the Word of God, they need the sower, but they need the seed in their language. Our goal is to provide the churches a biblical approach to the 1040 window by helping with producing sowers, providing the seed so that we can plant churches. It's as simple as that. You say, Brother Money, how are you producing sowers? Well, we're helping by training nationals. That's one way. We want to provide a biblical approach to train nationals on the field in the 1040 window so they can reach their people. Dr. Keene once said, and I don't know if it was original by him or not, but he said one time, he said, one nation has never evangelized another nation. They've been in helping that nation to evangelize them, but they know them, and they will evangelize them. Good example, Jesus went to the maniac of Gadara, won him to the Lord, got his life straightened out, and then he left him there. You know why? So that he can go back and reach his people. The best person to use to reach their people was him. And we need to be involved. Ron tonight, Ron Cole is in India tonight training and helping nationals, and that's vital. It's a ministry of this church, and that's vital. We've got a group in northern India tonight, two families that are training nationals. People are coming out of Bhutan. They're coming out of different places, and we've got training, and so our goal is to produce a sower, and then to provide the seed. Folks, we need Bible translators. We need people that have the gift to translate, to translate the Bible in different languages. So we want to work on that so we can give our expertise to help your people and help you as a church produce sowers, provide the seed, plant the church. Amen? If we'll produce a sower and provide the seed, the natural process is church planting. It really is. It really, really is. Now let me move on. Let's look at Luke chapter 4 real quick. This is another passage that states the same thing, but there's a word in there I want you to see. Luke chapter 4, verse 43. And I'm just building something tonight, so just bear with me. Luke chapter 4, verse 43. What I want to do is help you understand maybe our ministry a little better. The Bible says in Luke 4, 43, and he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore am I sent. We find in this passage the word, I must. I must. The word must is imperative. The word must gives no option. The word must means this is something that has to be accomplished. I must go. You know, he said to his disciples, I must needs go to Samaria. He was concerned about the lost, and there was nothing going to stop him from reaching the lost. He said the scripture must be fulfilled. He said in the Nicodemus, you must be born again. And so, there are things that we must do to accomplish the task that God's given us. There are things that we cannot sweep under the rug, or go around. If we're going to complete the task we've been given, which is the Great Commission, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost, we must invest in others. We must, in our churches, to reach our Jerusalem, we must disciple. We must train. We must soul in. But we must do it out there as well. So there are some things that are imperative. And I won't go all through that tonight. Let me give you the second point real quickly. Not only does he state his purpose, but in Mark chapter 1, verse 38, he sees the potential. Now this is exciting to me. He states his purpose and he sees the potential. He says, I want to go into the next towns because I see value in investing in those towns. You say, Brother Money, what did he see? Let me give you four things real quickly that he saw. In the next towns, this is what he saw. He saw unfinished business. There was work to be done. There was work to be done in those towns. There were disciples that needed to be trained. There was preaching to do. There was miracles. There was some disruption of Satan's plan to happen in those next towns. There was unfinished business to take care of in those next towns. Number two, there was unfulfilled scripture. Unfulfilled scripture. He went to places and he was fulfilling scripture as he went. There were unfinished business, there was unfulfilled scripture. He had to go on the next towns because there was unforgiving people. He couldn't stay where he was at because unfinished business. He couldn't stay where he was at because of unfulfilled scripture. But the lost. was on his heart. He had to go into the next towns also. I must, he says, go to the next towns because of these unforgiven people, people that he would die for, people that he shed his blood for, people that soon he would be beaten and mocked And God, the father would look away. And he had to go. So we see unforgiven people. Then we see the fourth thing. Unfinished business, unfulfilled scripture, unforgiven people, and unfeigned faith. He had to go to the next towns because there were people that had unwavering, unfeigned faith that He was going to meet and His lives were going to cross because those people were going to put faith in Him that were unwavering. That's exciting to me. That's encouraging to me. You know what? If we'll go, if we'll do, if we'll step out, if we'll get out of our comfort zone, there will be people that we will reach for Christ and they will be great Christians for the Lord. Amen? Great Christians. They will grow up. There's children that you'll pick up on the buses. There's kids that you'll be in your master club. There's teenagers that you'll minister. There's people in the hospitals. There's people in the jail ministries. There's people all over this town that you have potential to go out to reach, to minister to, and they'll become people of great faith, and they'll give in the offering, and they'll send missionaries, and they'll go. It's amazing what God could do. It will go to the next town also because of the potential that it holds. Isn't that awesome? I looked at that and I said, how does that relate to First Bible? Well, number one, there's some unfinished business that we need to do. They say that there's 2.7 billion people that are unreached. What does that mean, Brother Money, unreached? That means that there's not enough people in their people group to evangelize their people group. 2.7 billion people that would say tonight, who's Jesus? I don't know who he is. Who's he? We got some unfinished business to do. Let's not stop now. Let's keep moving. Let's keep giving. Let's keep serving. Let's keep investing. Let's keep sending missionaries out. In our ministry, we've got a lot of work to do. We put together 150,000 scriptures. We will this week when it's all done. It's exciting. And praise the Lord. That's a great job and that means a lot. But let's not stop there. Let's not say, okay, we've done our job. Man, there's unfinished business. Number two, there's unfulfilled scripture. There's people without the word of God. Number three, unforgiven people. So many lost. Somebody that's never heard. And there's going to be some people with unfeigned faith. Let me give you a couple examples tonight, and I'll start working my way down here. There's a pastor in Armenia that we've met. He's been pastoring for 25 years. We've come alongside of him and we're helping him. We're investing in training. We've printed the Bible for the Armenian people. We've done some distribution there. We're going to go back. But this pastor, as a young teenage boy, there was one man that came to Armenia. He was on vacation. Now, I'll condense this story. He was on vacation, and he went to Armenia, and when he got to Armenia, he got convicted. He said, man, I could be on vacation, or I can do something for the Lord. So he had some gospel tracts in Armenian, and so he just went out on the street and started handing out tracts. Well, guess who got one of them? This young man, who one day became pastor, okay, he got a track and God started dealing with his heart. Anyway, the only person that he knows of, that this man knows of, that ever got saved was this boy, this teenage boy who got a track that day. This boy got so stirred up, he got involved with this church, and it may not have been everything we would have called church, but he got involved in this church and he wanted to go tell others about the Lord. Well, the pastor said, no, you can't do that, so him, this young guy, and the pastor's son stole the pastor's car, put loudspeakers on it, they went to the next town, they started preaching. And they started preaching and there was some people that gathered up and they listened. And the next day the people came and said, give us some more. Well, he's a teenager, he really, you know, he didn't know what to do. Long story short, they've got a great church in Armenia. You know why? Somebody decided to go in the next town. head out of track, and it produced unfeigned faith. Boy put speakers on the car, preached the gospel, and he's reaching his people, and now we come alongside and help and invest in him. Time and time again. Let me give you one more really quick illustration. Last year when our group went to India, We teach right outside the Bhutan border. The first year we taught, 11 pastors came out. Now it's illegal, we can't get into Bhutan. It's not legal for those guys to be pastors. They came out, was in the training. The next year, we went back, 43 people came out. One of those people was a lady. This lady was up in the mountains, the Himalayan mountains, she heard about this training. She came out of the mountains, four day journey, walking and some type of, two types of public transportation, came out of the mountains, Himalayan mountains, four days journey, showed up at that meeting and said, I'm searching for truth, can you tell me? Our missionary lady, that was there with her husband, took the Bible, started sharing the gospel, and that lady bowed her head and accepted Christ. That's why we go in the next towns. That's why we go beyond. Hey, there's potential out there. So, he states his purpose, he sees the potential. Now I can go on and on and on about that, but I won't. Thirdly, he offers his plan. Let me give you this real quickly. He offers his plan. Let's look at verse 38 again. And he said unto them, now this is his plan, let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also. That's the plan. He said, let us go, and I'm going to preach. That's a pretty good plan. He said, we're going to get together, we're going to go as a group, we're going to go over here and we're going to preach in the next towns also. You know why? Not only for the people that were in those towns. That was the plan. The plan was to go in the towns, but there was another plan. Because at that point, He said, let us go that I may preach, so that one day He may say to them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. He was training them to do what He was going to leave for them. When you go into the next town, take somebody with you. Show them. Help them. Guide them. If we're not investing in someone else, that when we die, it's going to die with us. It's going to die with us. He says, I must go in the next towns. He says, I see potential there. And by the way, here's my plan. We're going to go, I'm going to preach. because one day you're going to go and you're going to preach. Isn't that a blessing? We have to invest in others because if it's not larger than us, it may not be worth doing. We've got to pass it on to the next generation. He was preparing them. He was going to the next town. You know, folks, part of our plan is we need translators. We've got to start training people to put the Bible in languages. And I know that there's potential out in the churches to do that. I know that there's people gifted. There might be people gifted here. Aaron Judson was not only a missionary, he was a Bible translator. And you know what? His ministry, when he died, his life was over, but his life's work went on. We're still printing the Burmese translation of the Bible, getting it into Burma. And what greater thing could we invest in? Now, I won't go through all the rest, What is our purpose? What is your purpose? What are you trying to accomplish in your lifespan? What is our goal? What are we behind? Are we behind the plan or we just long for the ride? Can I tell you tonight, we can't afford to be long for the ride. This church has a vision. You're going to see that this week. The vision is given by God to your pastor so that you can follow. And I'm one of your missionaries. And you give faithfully. And I want you to understand that the ministry and the man and the family that you're investing in is passionate about what they do. But passion doesn't get it all the way. I want you to know We're making it happen. We're sending a container in the morning to India full of scriptures. Another one will follow in a couple of months. Soon we'll have the Thaddeus Bible done. We'll print that. We just sent Bibles to India for Nepalese people, and you've had a part of that. How much further could we go? Because there's a lot of towns out there that don't have a gospel witness. And people sitting right here could meet the need. Would you be involved? Let's have a word of prayer.