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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:40 I'm Chris Shelton. 00:41 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:43 Our message for today is entitled, 00:45 "What Sank the Titanic." 00:47 Had you heard the shout, 00:49 "An iceberg in the open seas during a heavy fog." 00:53 You would no doubt have been tempted to shudder 00:55 in absolute fear for your life. 00:58 However, those upon the Titanic had, 01:00 well, perhaps more confidence in this ship 01:03 than they should have. 01:05 In fact, it is recorded that someone claims 01:07 to have heard ship captain Edward John Smith say, 01:11 "Even God Himself couldn't sink this ship." 01:14 The crew were perhaps too at ease 01:16 when it came to the protocol 01:18 that possibly could have saved their lives 01:21 and the many, many lives of their passengers 01:25 had they been more vigilant before meeting this iceberg 01:29 that dreadful foggy night. 01:31 Some experts now agree that had they met the iceberg head on, 01:37 perhaps the ship would not have sank, 01:39 and some have hypothesized 01:41 that had they not tried to reverse and slow the ship 01:45 putting the engines all in reverse at one time, 01:49 she might have made the turn away 01:51 from the dangerous iceberg. 01:53 There are many spiritual lessons 01:56 that we can glean from studying 01:58 why the Titanic sank. 02:00 And I believe that we will do just that as we take time 02:04 to study along with Pastor Kenny Shelton today 02:07 as he shared, shares with us what sank the Titanic. 02:12 But first, let's visit 3ABN to listen to a song 02:16 that is entitled, "I bowed My Knees," 02:20 as sung by Ashley Sabol. 02:37 I dreamed 02:41 Of a city 02:44 Called Glory 02:50 So bright and 02:55 So fair 03:00 When I entered 03:03 the gates I cried, 03:06 "Holy" 03:11 The angels all met me there 03:20 They carried me 03:23 From mansion 03:26 To mansion 03:30 And oh the sights 03:35 I saw 03:40 But I said, 03:42 "I want to see Jesus 03:49 The One who died 03:55 For all" 03:59 Then I bowed on my knees and cried 04:05 "Holy, Holy, 04:11 oh holiest" 04:16 My God is holy 04:18 I clapped my hands 04:23 And sang, "Glory" 04:28 I sang Glory 04:31 To the Son of God 04:38 And I sang Glory 04:41 To the Son 04:43 Of God 04:48 Then as I entered 04:51 The gates of that city 04:58 My loved ones 05:01 All knew me well 05:07 They took me down the streets 05:12 Of Heaven 05:17 Oh, the scenes 05:19 Too many to tell 05:25 I saw 05:30 Abraham, 05:33 Jacob 05:36 And Isaac 05:43 Spoke with Mark, 05:46 And Timothy 05:54 But I said, 05:58 Timothy, 06:00 "I want to see 06:04 Jesus 06:07 'Cause He's the One 06:11 Who died 06:13 For me" 06:18 Then I bowed on 06:21 My knees and cried, 06:24 "Holy of holiest, oh holiest" 06:35 My God is holy 06:38 I clapped my hands 06:42 And sang, "Glory" 06:48 I sang Glory 06:53 Oh, Glory, Glory 06:58 I clapped my hands and sang, 07:03 "Glory" 07:07 I clapped my hands 07:12 And sang, "Glory" 07:17 I clapped my hands 07:22 And sang, "Glory" 07:27 I sang, "Glory 07:30 To the Son 07:32 Of God" 07:37 I sang, "Glory 07:40 To the Son 07:43 Of God" 07:53 Welcome to Behold the Lamb Ministry. 07:55 We appreciate you joining us here today. 07:57 We have it, we call it fantastically, 07:59 it's a message today by the grace of God, 08:01 the title is, you know, gets your mind to thinking 08:04 and wondering about it, 08:06 you know, what really sank the Titanic? 08:08 What sank the Titanic? 08:10 Well, again, we're going to be looking 08:11 at the spiritual aspects of it. 08:13 So I pray that your heart and your mind is in tune, 08:16 so that we can grasp these things as we go along. 08:18 We may not point him out just specifically at the time 08:21 as we go through this. 08:22 We want to go over and cover several of the incidents, 08:26 the things that really took place on the boat. 08:28 And I think you'll start 08:30 putting it together right quick, well, what if... 08:33 And it may be in your Christian life, 08:34 you might ask the question, what if? 08:37 What if I'd done things differently? 08:38 What if I'd really been prepared? 08:41 Or do we really need to be prepared? 08:43 Or if we're not prepared, is there a failure ahead? 08:47 Well, today we're going to find out and answer 08:49 those questions by the grace of God, 08:50 but we want to have prayer. 08:52 And I like to kneel up here 08:54 and just ask for the Spirit of the Living God 08:55 to be with us today. 08:57 Without it, it's useless for us to be up here. 08:58 The Bible says, 09:00 "All the foolishness of preaching." 09:01 Let's pray, shall we? 09:04 Loving Father in heaven, we thank You again 09:05 for the privilege to present Your Word. 09:07 We ask that Your Holy Spirit will be with us 09:09 in a special way. 09:10 When our minds and our hearts needs to be energized 09:14 with a Spirit of the Living God, 09:15 and ears need to be open and minds needed 09:17 that we may hear, we may see that we may benefit 09:21 from things that have taken place 09:23 and certainly from Your Word. 09:24 Bless it we pray today with Your Spirit. 09:26 Thank You that You promised to be with us. 09:28 In Jesus' name, amen. 09:32 What sank the Titanic? 09:34 Been a lot of books that's written about it. 09:36 There's been a lot of conversations about it, 09:39 hours have been spent, 09:40 millions and millions of dollars 09:42 have been spent in search of 09:44 and recouping some of those things 09:46 that happened in that eventful evening. 09:49 Survivor, one of the survivors wrote a book 09:51 and I thought was very, very interesting. 09:53 Got a little bit out of that. 09:55 His name is Lawrence Beesley. 09:57 In his book, he talked about the loss of the... 09:59 He call it SS Titanic. 10:02 And in that he made several observations 10:04 that I thought that would be good for us today 10:07 as we're going to glean what? 10:08 Spiritual lessons out of maybe some failures 10:11 that cost many lives. 10:15 He said this in his book, he concluded, he said, 10:18 the fact is, the sense of fear 10:21 came to the passengers very slowly. 10:25 A result of the absence of any signs of danger. 10:30 Please think spiritually with me today. 10:32 Notice what took place there. 10:34 Fear came to the passengers what? 10:36 Very slowly, they weren't really worried about, 10:39 like some time in the church today, 10:40 we're not worried so much about the coming of Jesus. 10:43 We've got it under control, 10:44 you know, and we can take our time 10:46 and one of these days we'll make a decision, 10:48 and the idea of what was happening 10:51 and taking place they didn't... 10:52 Many of them didn't get it until it was too late. 10:56 There was no signs of danger, 10:58 mainly because many people 11:00 weren't really talking about it. 11:01 And today, we find in the church 11:03 and in the religious movement out there, 11:05 very little people are blowing a trumpet. 11:08 They're not blowing a trumpet, 11:09 they're not given a certain sound 11:11 and so therefore, many people sleep on. 11:13 They think church is a place to come to rest 11:15 and to sleep and it's not. 11:18 It was never meant, 11:20 and none of us would have the audacity 11:21 as it were to sleep or whatever was it might be, 11:23 no one here is doing that, I know. 11:24 But I'm saying here 11:26 we would in the presence of the Holy Spirit, 11:28 in the presence of the Lamb. 11:29 You invited the presence here, 11:31 you invited that power here as well as I did. 11:34 He goes on his book, he says, 11:36 "Why were the people not really warned?" 11:38 He said, "Because of the improbability 11:41 of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity?" 11:46 In other words, if it can't happen, 11:48 why worry about it? 11:50 If it can't happen. 11:51 See, sometime we say that in our Christian experience, 11:53 it can't happen. 11:55 I'll say as nicely, once saved, always saved. 11:58 I was saved long time before, 11:59 so it's going to be good enough. 12:01 Well, it should be I understand, 12:02 but again, many people rest on that 12:04 and they go and live their own life. 12:08 Probability, the boat can't sink. 12:11 It can't sink. 12:12 And so why should I worry about it sinking? 12:14 He goes on to say, the unsinkable boat, 12:19 that became kind of, you know, notorious there 12:22 when people talked about the book. 12:24 And really it came out, they say, 12:26 that it almost unsinkable and sometime 12:30 we think that in our Christian experience, 12:32 I'm almost, you know, unsinkable. 12:35 Mm-hmm. 12:37 When we look in the mirror, 12:39 spiritually, I'm almost unsinkable 12:41 when all the Bible says to take heed, lest you fall. 12:46 Huh. 12:47 But really even it came to the point that, 12:49 you know, someone said they heard the captain say, 12:51 and the wife gave that in the opening, 12:53 which we won't see here 12:55 but, and the opening was very interesting. 12:57 Even this thought came out strong, 12:59 even God Himself cannot sink the ship. 13:03 Hmm. 13:05 We need to be very careful 13:07 about challenging God in any area. 13:10 Even God. Hmm. 13:12 And so, he continued on, he said, 13:13 Well, the sinking of the Titanic, 13:16 he said this, this misbegotten belief 13:20 that something so good, 13:23 something that so fail proof, 13:27 something that's so safe 13:30 would not fail. 13:33 And it couldn't fail. 13:34 Remember, this was broadcast far and wide 13:37 before they ever began taking passengers on. 13:41 The experts said it could not sink. 13:45 The experts, those who designed it. 13:47 Today, a lot of scientists and a lot of those 13:51 who are very smart in book learning 13:53 tell us certain things that can't take place 13:55 and yet the Bible says it will take place. 13:58 Who are you going to believe? 14:00 What sank the Titanic? 14:03 Little background according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 14:07 there's a lot of information there 14:09 and you go to lot of different places, 14:10 says after striking the iceberg, 14:12 you know that well the British passenger liner, 14:17 Titanic sank on April 14th and 15th, 14:22 1912. 14:24 That would be over 100 years, 106, 107, something like. 14:28 Way over 100 years ago, 14:30 this gigantic magnificent unsinkable 14:34 boat sank. 14:36 And it only taken, I might mention going on, 14:39 it only took about over about two and a half, 14:42 two hours and 40 minutes and three hours some people. 14:45 One man put on one time, five minutes he's saying. 14:48 Well, let's be reasonable. 14:51 But according to historical records 14:53 are two hours 40 minutes to three hours 14:55 at the max it fell. 14:56 This was a boat so gigantic, 14:59 882 and a half feet long, 15:03 92 and a half feet wide, 15:07 gigantic and when it was fully loaded, 15:12 you know, the weight of it would be 53 or 52,000 tons. 15:17 What a ship. 15:19 Now again, we're talking over 100 years ago, 15:20 today you say it's not so magnificent, 15:22 but please think, 15:24 one of the largest ships in the world 15:26 in that fateful night it carried 2200 passengers 15:31 which 1500 lost their lives 15:37 because of the safety elements. 15:41 Again that we mentioned here 15:42 and we'll mention a little more as we go. 15:44 It was claimed to be unsinkable. 15:46 So people said, 15:47 "We're not worried about anything. 15:48 We don't even worry so much about our life jacket." 15:51 We need a spiritual life jacket on right now. 15:54 We are in sinkable waters right now. 15:59 And I mean they are changing, they're ripping, 16:01 they're roaring right now like they never had before. 16:04 And if you don't have that life jacket on right now, 16:06 I'm telling you right, you're going to the bottom, 16:09 be like the Titanic, 16:10 they won't be able to get to you. 16:12 It's going to be too late. 16:14 And we know we need that life jacket. 16:16 We know the life, but we know this Jesus Christ, 16:18 we need Him in our heart and in our life. 16:21 Here was a beautiful boat, 16:23 a boat that was so decorated ahead 16:25 it seemed of its time. 16:27 Dining rooms, even had four elevators in it, 16:29 had a swimming pool in it. 16:32 Wow. 16:33 It was known for its comfort 16:36 and not luxury and not its speed. 16:39 Interesting today, 16:41 we like churches with this comfy. 16:44 We like messages 16:45 that are preached that are comfy. 16:47 Get the temperature just right. 16:51 Oh, the air condition is not on today. 16:52 Well, we can't go, it's raining outside, 16:55 even though you have a car, you have wipers 16:57 and, you know, umbrellas, you're not going to get wet. 17:00 We can't go, it's bad weather. 17:02 Oh, this is good weather to sleep in. 17:04 Really? 17:05 We maybe and have all made those comments 17:07 at one time or the other. 17:09 But we know that's not appropriate 17:10 not to meet with a King of the universe. 17:16 Why did the Titanic sink? 17:18 Well, obviously, you say obviously, 17:19 obviously it sank because it collided with an iceberg. 17:24 Well, that's probably the obvious answer, 17:25 we could just leave it there say that's what happened. 17:28 But there's much more to it. 17:31 See, when they built this boat, 17:32 they built it with 16 different compartments. 17:37 And any four of those compartments could, 17:40 you know, could be where something could happen 17:42 a hole be ripped into, they call it breached 17:45 and fill up so called with water, 17:47 and the boat would not sink. 17:50 But it went into at least five 17:52 that they know of and for some reason 17:55 they didn't put the tops 17:57 on those four different compartments solidify. 18:00 So when they filled up, 18:01 where do you think the water went? 18:04 Things had to be finished up, isn't that right? 18:06 They have to be done right, but somehow somebody shorted, 18:09 and sometime in our Christian experience, 18:11 we short Jesus. 18:13 We short Jesus. 18:15 And we need to be very careful about that, 18:17 we'll talk a little bit more about as we go. 18:20 This collision that we talked about here 18:22 produced a series of really thin scratches 18:26 as it were, we'll call it here 18:27 that it actually cuts all the way through the metal. 18:31 It fractured. 18:33 The steel made holes in a separation, 18:36 separated into the seams, 18:39 and in the adjacent hole plates set, 18:43 maybe shouldn't have taken place, but it did. 18:46 It allowed water to flood in. 18:49 It just didn't drip in. 18:50 It just didn't come in, 18:52 it flooded in like a gate was open. 18:55 So that's why it didn't take long to sink it. 18:59 Later, listen carefully, later as they retreated 19:04 or retrieved and they examined some of the parts of this boat. 19:10 They wanted to know why. 19:12 And certainly obvious an iceberg, 19:14 we understand that it hit and ripped the side. 19:18 But they also went to the ones who built it 19:20 and they went to the archives. 19:22 And they went to the paperwork, and they went to the engineers, 19:25 and they began to turn those pages and read 19:28 what kind of material was used 19:30 in the construction of this boat. 19:33 Or what kind of material should have been used 19:36 maybe, let's just think. 19:37 I'm not trying to accuse 19:38 or point a finger at anybody but think about it. 19:41 They found this out and they certainly, 19:44 they recorded it that some say they speculated 19:48 that the quality of steel was below 19:51 what it should have been, 19:53 and the rivets which is so important 19:57 to hold things together, 19:58 they were weak and they didn't hold. 20:02 And oh, could that have contributed 20:06 to the sinking of the Titanic? 20:09 Just like inferior material 20:13 that we take into this mind and this body 20:15 and this what we're trying to read here, 20:17 untruths will sink us to the very bottom. 20:21 And I believe by the grace of God, 20:23 we need to be more vocal about the truth 20:25 that God has given this last day church 20:27 to give to the world. 20:29 I believe it with all my heart. 20:30 I believe with my heart. 20:32 It can be proven from the Word of God. 20:34 You don't have to back down 20:35 and that's not an argument, anything. 20:37 That's not an ugly thing. 20:38 From anybody who wants to study the Word of God, 20:41 these truths are here. 20:43 They are clear, they're crystal clear. 20:46 Our foundation must be strong. 20:50 Matthew Chapter 7, 20:51 you have your Bibles, you may want to turn. 20:53 I'm going to turn it 20:54 because I'm going to read a couple of verses. 20:55 You know this, you heard this when you were, 20:57 maybe a child that were growing up. 20:59 We heard about this building on a firm foundation. 21:03 Remember how many times you heard that, 21:05 one built on some solid, one built on something weak? 21:07 Matthew Chapter 7 relates that, 21:09 reading, starting with verse 24. 21:11 I'm going to read and write on down, 21:12 then hopefully we'll have time to discuss them. 21:14 It says here. 21:16 Notice this, in verse 24, Matthew Chapter 7, it says, 21:19 "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, 21:21 and doeth them, 21:23 I will liken unto him a wise man, 21:25 which built his house upon," what? 21:26 "A rock." Very good. 21:28 Notice this, verse 25, 21:29 "And the rain descended and the floods came, 21:31 and the winds," did what? 21:33 Bible said, "The winds blew here 21:34 and beat upon that house, and it fell not good, 21:38 for it was," what? 21:39 "Founded upon a rock." 21:40 You know, think about your relationship today. 21:42 Is it really founded on the rock of Jesus Christ 21:45 or is it flimsy foundation? 21:47 And soon as a little bit of tests and trials 21:49 and problems come, we fall off, we're washed away. 21:51 We no longer want to serve God. 21:53 We no longer want to go to church. 21:54 We don't want to read, we blame God. 21:56 Is that the kind of foundation we have? 21:58 Oh, no, we don't want that. 22:00 Verse 26, 22:01 "Everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, 22:03 and doeth them not, 22:05 shall be likened to a foolish man, 22:06 which built his house upon sand. 22:09 The rains descended, the floods came, 22:11 the winds blew, beat upon the house, 22:13 and it fell and great." 22:14 The Bible said, great was what? 22:16 "Great was the fall of us." 22:19 See, Jesus finishes, 22:22 really comes He finishes His sermon on the mount. 22:25 And with that, He goes on to make an appeal. 22:28 And when the Word of God is brought in, 22:30 there needs to be an appeal. 22:32 Whether we're going to accept what God has said to us, 22:34 or that we're not going to accept it. 22:36 We can be the one who built on the rock, 22:38 or we can build on the sand. 22:40 We can build on our own human, we call it strength, 22:43 we'll see that will fail, it will fall short. 22:46 But Jesus tells us, notice three things quick. 22:48 He said, if you will hear and understand My words, 22:52 and notice the part. 22:53 What's the other one? 22:55 Somebody say do them, I'll get happy. 22:57 Now notice what he says. 22:58 Listen, if you do what? 23:00 You have to, good, 23:02 you have to do it if you hear it. 23:04 So today we're saying what? 23:05 God open our ears that we might what? 23:07 That we might hear, 23:09 and then that we might understand 23:11 and then that we might do them. 23:14 He said, if you do that, I liken my house, 23:16 notice this, we talk about the house of character. 23:20 He said, I'm going to liken that, 23:21 notice, to the rock which is 1 Corinthians 10:4. 23:25 He said, I'm liken it to a what? 23:27 A rock. The rock is Jesus Christ. 23:31 So what have you built on? 23:32 It's very plain. 23:33 We're built on the rock of Jesus Christ 23:35 or we're built on, I'm gonna say right here, 23:37 of the sinking sand of the enemy. 23:39 You're building on one of them, you cannot build on both. 23:43 You cannot build on both and people think they can. 23:46 We can have it both ways. 23:48 We can go here, we can go there, 23:50 we can do this, we can believe this, right? 23:52 That's not what God says. 23:53 If you hear these things and you understand them 23:56 and then He wants you to do them. 23:58 The rains came, test and trials come. 24:02 Notice the difference. 24:03 The only difference I could find in Scripture 24:05 you might find more is the big, 24:08 you know, the discussion was about the foundation. 24:13 That's the only thing is really brought into view here, 24:15 the foundation of the rock and the foundation of the sand. 24:20 If we build upon sand, we built upon self, 24:24 we build upon self and self efforts 24:28 which is going to crumble away. 24:30 We build the easy way. 24:34 We build the sand, the rain comes and it falls. 24:37 Hey it's difficult. 24:38 Any of you go to Southern Illinois. 24:40 Anybody live in Southern Illinois? 24:42 Wade, oh, some of you don't know right now 24:44 this is my problem. 24:47 When you go right in the summertime a little bit 24:49 and you started digging in the clay. 24:51 It's just about, Herb, it's just about like concrete. 24:54 When you get down to... I mean talk about the clay. 24:56 You have to take a pic. 24:58 I mean you've got to, it is really brutal. 25:01 And so, it's little easier 25:03 sometime not to get the footings quite so deep, 25:07 but something eventually will happen, 25:09 maybe not immediately, 25:10 but it will happen and same in your life. 25:13 Are we digging deep in the Word of God? 25:14 Are we really digging in there and really getting it? 25:16 Are we settling on that real firm foundation? 25:19 If not, it will somehow show up in our Christian experience, 25:23 and someday it's going to crumble. 25:25 Jesus said, "Don't do it the easy way." 25:28 Because what you put a foundation, 25:30 I always love to get the foundation in that 25:32 because that means I could start to build. 25:34 I'd have foundation first, gotta build, 25:36 and it's got to be good, it's got to be square, 25:38 it's got to be level, it's got to be right, 25:40 that's the truth of God's Word. 25:41 You remember, you might... I've got a foundation, 25:44 oh, but look how crooked it is, my lands of love. 25:47 I've got it finally, I've got a good foundation right here. 25:49 Oh, yeah, you're about this deep. 25:51 Oh it's not going to make the winters around here 25:52 frost line. 25:54 Oh it's going to be a mess, it's not level, 25:57 it's not put together right 25:58 and that's sometime we do that in we study the Word of God, 26:02 because on that foundation we're going to build walls. 26:07 A warning was given. 26:09 I like this warning. 26:10 I thank God for Ezekiel 13:14. 26:13 Ezekiel 13:14, 26:14 got it down those of you at home 26:16 and that you want to hear 26:17 so you can make sure you get it. 26:19 Here's a warning, I like this, there's a warning. 26:21 You actually glad God gives warnings? 26:23 Boy, I am, but you know what? 26:25 People don't want to hear warnings. 26:28 They want things to be smooth and wonderful 26:30 and it should be built up. 26:31 God gives warnings before events happen. 26:33 Here we had, notice this, the false prophets, 26:37 and let me tell you we have them in the church. 26:39 Is that too bold? 26:41 No, it's true. 26:44 You either true prophet or a false prophet they are. 26:46 You're either telling the truth or you're not telling truth, 26:48 same with me. 26:50 But the prophet, 26:51 supposedly the true prophets of God 26:53 were telling how wonderful that, you know, Jerusalem 26:55 and don't worry about Jerusalem, 26:56 it's going to be okay, wouldn't it? 26:58 Gonna be okay. 26:59 Huh? 27:01 They're prophesying peace and what? 27:02 And safety, and it's interesting here 27:06 that God said, it's not going to be peace and safety. 27:10 It's going to be destruction, 27:11 but here supposedly His prophets were saying what? 27:14 Just like today we see, we hear, we understand, 27:17 we've got eyes to see, we've got ears to hear, 27:19 we've got the Spirit of the Living God. 27:21 I pray in your heart and your mind, 27:23 you should be able to discern 27:25 what's taking place in this world. 27:27 We should too, just common sense 27:30 will tell you what a mess 27:31 and what's taking place right now. 27:34 But yet somehow we cannot see that. 27:37 One say, one group is saying, it's going to be all right. 27:39 Don't worry about it. 27:41 Another group saying, we better beware. 27:42 This is only the beginning of sorrows. 27:45 We're having trouble with the beginning of sorrows, 27:47 let alone what the end result is going to be. 27:50 Will we hold fast? 27:52 That may be the big question. 27:56 And so we look at what really sunk the Titanic. 27:59 Could it have been false information 28:01 that went out there? 28:03 And false information that you take into your heart 28:05 and your mind will sink your ship. 28:06 They will sink it. 28:08 Ezekiel 13:14, remember God's prophets saying, 28:12 there's going to be peace, all is well. 28:13 God said no. 28:15 Give a message back to them, 28:16 it is not well, and I'll tell you why. 28:17 Notice verse 14, so God's talking. 28:20 "So will I break down the wall 28:23 that ye have daubed with," what? 28:25 "Untempered mortar." 28:26 You know what untempered mortar is? 28:29 Whitewash. 28:31 Anybody got me? 28:33 Get it white. 28:35 You know, you have a wall 28:36 that have problems in and big cracks 28:37 and, you know, you have blocks that are cracking. 28:39 You think, man, I can cover this here 28:41 by just putting a little bit of whitewash over 28:42 and it's gonna be good, it's not gonna work. 28:44 It might be covered for just a few days 28:45 or a few weeks and eventually it's going to crumble. 28:48 And many of our experiences like that, sad to say, 28:52 we whitewashed ourselves, we have a flimsy coating on, 28:56 and it doesn't take much for us to show 28:57 who we really are when you cross me. 29:00 Hello. 29:02 I guess it's just me, just me, not anybody. 29:04 Oh, I got. No, I thought you're all good. 29:06 It's okay. It's just me, I know. 29:08 No, I tell you, this is where I'm tested. 29:10 This is where you're tested. 29:12 Notice, "Untempered mortar and bring, and he said, 29:15 "I'm gonna bring it down to the ground." 29:17 What happened to Jerusalem many times? 29:18 Of course, it was AD 70 brought to the ground, 29:20 no walls, everything, right? 29:22 "So the foundation thereof shall be," what? 29:24 "God said, "I'm not condemning people, 29:26 I'm going to discover your inward parts as it were." 29:29 We might profess one thing, 29:30 God says, I know another. 29:32 "It shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: 29:35 and ye shall know that I am the Lord God." 29:37 Think about how this ship was destroyed. 29:41 There's a lot of stories about the Titanic 29:45 and a lot about the... 29:46 Other things have taken place in the world 29:48 that have really served 29:50 the purpose of waking people up. 29:53 Maybe not the ones that went through it, 29:55 maybe some fair but whatever God knows. 29:59 But interesting, in the Titanic 30:02 that may be caused the ship to sink 30:05 is something even more simple and we bypass it 30:08 than maybe we've ever thought about, 30:11 because in this big ship, 30:13 as many of the ships they have the place 30:15 in there and some of you may be sailors or whatever, 30:17 they have it, they call a crow's nest. 30:19 What's in the crow's nest? 30:21 Don't say a couple of crows, I don't want... 30:24 There could be a couple of old crows in there. 30:26 Come on, somebody with me. 30:28 Yeah, couple lookouts. 30:29 Thank you. Yeah. 30:30 But in the crow's nest, and the old crows 30:33 that are in there they are to be, listen, 30:35 watchmen on the walls of Zion. 30:38 They're to be watchman on the walls of Zion. 30:40 And in this they found out later, 30:42 they found out that these two men 30:44 that were in the crow's nest that were watching 30:47 because they had been warned there was an iceberg. 30:49 They were in the waters where a lot of ice was there. 30:53 The water was at temperature of 28 degrees. 30:56 It didn't quite freeze over, 30:58 you know, that time because of the salt and so on. 31:01 But still yet here, notice what? 31:03 They looked because it's foggy, and they couldn't see. 31:06 They forgot their binoculars. 31:09 There was no binoculars in the crow's nest, 31:13 which would help them see in this brutal, 31:17 farther down before they hit it, 31:20 before they had to make the big move, 31:22 but it was found there was no binoculars. 31:26 Wow. 31:28 The two lookouts were stationed there. 31:30 They're looking out for the danger 31:31 and the warning of the icebergs 31:32 and they were warned that they were there 31:34 but the crow's nest, they were missing. 31:38 Again the watchman on the walls of Zion. 31:42 We need to be watching and looking in the Word of God. 31:45 And we have to have spiritual binoculars 31:47 on to get down to the truth that's there. 31:49 Some people are trying to read between the line. 31:51 Some people can't hardly read at all. 31:53 When it comes to the Word of God, 31:54 they try to put in what they think ought to be there, 31:57 that satisfies their longings and their heart. 31:59 But no, 32:01 God has sufficient there in His Word. 32:04 11:40 pm the iceberg was sighted. 32:07 The Titanic tried to make a turn, 32:09 sighted after it was already there. 32:13 They didn't have their spiritual eyes on, 32:15 they didn't know. 32:16 I'm telling you, if we don't have our spiritual, 32:18 I'm telling you, I'm gonna go back to it, 32:19 binoculars spiritual eyesight. 32:21 Right now we're going to miss 32:22 what's taking place right now in this world. 32:24 We're going to miss out on heaven. 32:26 We're gonna sink to the very bottom. 32:27 There's no doubt about it. 32:30 If there ever was an urgency, 32:31 somebody needs to sound the alarm right now. 32:34 They tried to make the turn, 32:35 but it was too late, and the side scraped. 32:38 They put it in reverse and try to back it up at it. 32:40 You know, but they didn't do it. 32:42 They scraped it. Oh, no. 32:44 Another problem that occurred 32:46 that many geniuses along this line. 32:50 Experts said they believe that after they hit the iceberg 32:55 if they hit it right, they would all survived. 33:00 If they hit, listen, 33:01 if they hit the iceberg head on. 33:05 Somebody listen. 33:06 If they hit the iceberg, in other words, 33:08 pull back the engine slowing down 33:10 as fast as you can with it, but hit it head on. 33:13 That had been a whole lot less dent, 33:14 that's what they say, 33:16 the experts, that didn't happen. 33:18 But it's interesting. 33:20 The iceberg is right now, 33:22 we're finding icebergs in the church, 33:23 which is false doctrines 33:25 and teachings are in the church. 33:28 And we realized in there God has given that scene 33:31 there that what was happening. 33:32 Listen, when the testimonies were about to come out 33:34 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 33:36 coming out before the church, right into the church. 33:39 There was a much apostasy and going on, 33:42 false doctrine in the church. 33:44 And God gave, right, insight through His prophet, 33:48 a dream, something they should read about 33:50 before something similar to this right here. 33:52 But it's simply said right there. 33:54 When we meeting these people 33:56 who are coming in with false doctrines 33:57 and theories, don't sidestep them, 33:59 hit them head on. 34:01 Somebody's not with me. 34:02 You hit, if you hit the iceberg or the falseness or the, 34:06 right, err or whatever there, hit it head on. 34:08 Don't try to put in reverse and back up 34:11 and say well, I don't know... 34:12 Hit it head on. 34:13 Why? Because you have the Word. 34:15 You have the Word of God here. 34:16 It's not trying to brag about it. 34:18 It simply says, you know, when you're telling the truth 34:20 and you can back it up, you're nearly not bragging. 34:25 Exactly. 34:26 And so you hit it 34:27 because the devil many times 34:29 in your Christian experience and mine, 34:30 he's put up something that's not real. 34:33 It's like we're worried, we're sick about, 34:35 oh, this happened, blah, blah. 34:37 In reality, you hit it head on. 34:39 Well, that wasn't an issue at all. 34:41 We worried about it, we stood about it, we, 34:43 you know, lost the sanity almost. 34:45 God says, hit it head on. 34:47 In this church by the grace of God, 34:49 when we're challenged with fallacies and err, 34:53 and false doctrine and teachings, 34:55 and heresies and paganism creeping through the door, 34:58 by the grace of God 35:00 kick it back out of the door with a word. 35:02 I hope it's okay to say that. 35:03 I don't know how to say it, Jim. 35:05 I like to be gentle, 35:06 but some people don't like about it. 35:07 What do we do? It's got to go. 35:10 God told His prophet, He said when it comes in 35:12 the iceberg comes in, meet it. 35:16 Meet it. 35:18 Don't hesitate. 35:20 Don't back up. 35:21 We're not talking about unchristian lives. 35:23 We're not talking about a bowl weight, 35:24 all we, blah, blah. 35:26 Thus saith the Lord. 35:28 Oh, it's very simple. 35:33 Interesting. 35:34 Another problem there is when the boat began to sink, 35:38 they said get out the life boats. 35:42 Yeah, get them out. 35:45 As they begin to count them, begin to look, 35:46 you know, they had, like you say. 35:48 They just had been about half enough, 35:51 1100, maybe 1200 maximum 35:53 that could be fit into these boats. 35:55 You have 2200 people on there. 35:57 It's not, it wasn't enough. 35:59 Why? 36:02 That was enough for 1178 people there. 36:07 But listen, the lifeboats that they had on there exceeded 36:10 the manufacturer's recommendation. 36:15 You have people read the word sometimes. 36:17 Hey, we need to get into the manufacturer 36:19 rather than made up with the Word of God. 36:22 And it'll tell you exactly what it will cover. 36:25 Here the manufacturer said all you need is 20. 36:29 Knowing that would only hold 36:31 about half and maybe what would be on there. 36:33 Something happened. 36:34 What happened? 36:36 You know what? 36:37 All of a sudden when they begin to fill the boats, 36:40 some of the crewmen, 36:44 some of those who didn't know diddly. 36:46 Can I say diddly? Is that okay? 36:48 I'm not sure what that means, 36:50 it means to be nothing, I don't know. 36:52 That happens in the church if you're not careful. 36:55 The loudest one you start to bow 36:56 to because they're making a lot of noise. 36:59 No, these crewmen made a lot of noise 37:02 and said you know what? 37:03 As they were hanging, you know, on these boats, everybody get, 37:05 well, they're made to hold like 60-65 people each. 37:09 The first boat that went down during this crisis time, 37:12 they put 27 in it, because man looked at and said 37:16 it's too weak, it won't hold. 37:18 Sometime we look and we say that God's Word is weak, 37:20 it won't hold up. 37:22 God's Word is going to hold up, I can tell you that, 37:23 it's gonna hold up under scrutiny, 37:25 under the weight. 37:26 If God says it's going to hold 1000 pounds, 37:28 it will maybe hold a lot more than that, 37:30 it'll hold 1000. 37:32 You know what I'm talking about? 37:33 And so the crewmen shout, no, we can't do that, 37:35 listen, let's get many people as we can. 37:38 As in results little over 700 people 37:40 that was all it was able to be saved 37:41 from these lifeboats. 37:43 That should have been enough for everybody. 37:45 Yeah, 1500 little over perished. 37:48 Again, some people said what? 37:51 The boats won't hold. 37:54 See, sometime we say that. 37:55 Well, that's not what the Word says. 37:57 You folks have been teaching this and that all along. 37:59 That's not gonna hold up. 38:00 I believe the truth of God's Word 38:01 will hold up under scrutiny. 38:03 You give it the acid test and I guarantee you, 38:05 it will stand up every time. 38:07 Don't let somebody come and say, 38:09 oh, that's not what it means. 38:12 Unless you're willing to sit down 38:13 and really ready to study it out right here 38:15 but remember, this cost a lot of lives 38:17 because people who didn't know what they were talking about 38:20 scared the other people to death, they said, 38:22 we might as well what few we can on here. 38:26 Oh, heavy duty. 38:29 And you know what? 38:30 Many people on that boat 38:32 didn't realize until it was too late 38:36 that there was an issue, a real issue. 38:39 Listen carefully. 38:40 Sometimes in our churches, 38:42 the people don't realize the real issues 38:43 because they're not hearing the real issues. 38:47 I'm not saying we're the only ones, 38:48 I'm simply saying we need to realize 38:50 this is a crisis hour. 38:53 This is a time of the coming of Jesus. 38:56 The world is going to be in a mess. 38:57 But why? 38:59 The Bible says gonna wax worse and worse. 39:00 I wish I could say 39:01 if my appearance gonna get better and better. 39:03 Man, I'd like to tell you old brother Terry, 39:04 don't worry about thing, man. 39:06 All your needs are going to be met. 39:07 You don't have to worry about anything. 39:09 You just write, just continue to do what you're doing. 39:11 No. 39:12 You keep your eyes on Jesus. 39:14 I'm telling you right now, get in that boat right now 39:15 while you can get in that boat. 39:19 Because there should be a time coming, 39:20 you ain't go, 39:21 the boats not going to be there. 39:23 It's going to leave. 39:24 We need to be ready. 39:26 But notice that 39:27 it was the alarm never really sounded 39:31 that there was an emergency until it was too late. 39:36 Listen what the Library of Congress said, 39:38 Washington DC said about set upon investigation 39:41 after it was all over, they said this. 39:42 A general warning, listen, 39:44 a general warning was never sounded 39:48 and many were unaware that the danger 39:51 that danger for some time. 39:54 They didn't want to scare people. 39:56 They didn't want 39:58 to drive people out of the church. 40:00 You follow me? 40:01 So you can't really say to me things open and bold 40:04 because people say, well, I ain't coming back anymore. 40:08 Yeah. 40:09 Look what they did to Jesus, right? 40:11 He presented what is truth at the right time, 40:12 He rebuked the sin when it need to be rebuked. 40:14 He's done fasten what is truth, lest there be price to pay. 40:18 Thank God, He was willing to pay 40:20 that price for me and pay for you. 40:22 Praise God for Calvary. 40:25 But the warning has to be sounded, 40:27 you have to hear that. 40:29 People, remember, they were unaware... 40:32 I might as well sit down. 40:34 Well, I mean, yeah, we need to stand up for Jesus, 40:38 somebody said, I'm thinking, right? 40:40 Is it we... 40:42 Many times I say nothing's going in the church, 40:45 nobody's sounding alarm, 40:46 nobody's excited about anything, 40:48 nobody really cares. 40:50 Is if I come to church every week 40:51 and everything is fine and dandy, we're gonna... 40:53 Oh, I almost said serve coffee and donuts 40:55 and give donkey rides, but I'm not gonna say that. 40:58 Can I just let that one go? 41:00 Isn't that what kind of what they do 41:02 when they allow your program. 41:04 They make their point 41:05 and in return I say strike that. 41:09 Many people do that, 41:11 it lures people in false safety, 41:13 never a warning that Jesus is coming, 41:15 continue to do what you're doing. 41:17 I'm not trying to make fun of, 41:18 I just want you to understand and I want to understand. 41:22 British made an investigation of the ship 41:24 that went down. 41:25 You know what the British they claim? 41:28 They said that the ship the liner California 41:32 was as close as 5 to 10 miles 41:35 from the ship, 41:39 but you know what? 41:40 They didn't respond to the alarm sounded. 41:43 They never... 41:45 Let's not put ourselves spiritual on. 41:46 They never respond. 41:47 Other says might have been 20 nautical miles 41:49 but many said, especially said it was, 41:51 it's 5 to 10 which they could have been an hour 41:54 or so and many other experts says here 41:58 the whole group or at least almost all 42:03 could have been saved 42:04 if that one ship would have come, 42:06 would taken about an hour, 42:07 so they had time you see to get in, 42:09 but they never responded to the call 42:10 like many of you may be not here, 42:12 but many of you will never respond to the call 42:15 that God is put on your life. 42:17 You will not respond to it. 42:19 You let it go, and you'll do like some of the ships, 42:22 don't know we'll have time or not, 42:23 but some of the other ships in the surrounding area, 42:26 they got sleepy. 42:29 They got sleepy and they turned off their... 42:32 Oh, they call it their wireless. 42:35 They turned off their wireless, 42:37 so when they were contacted they didn't hear a thing, 42:41 they didn't want to be disturbed 42:42 because they were sleepy. 42:44 You met a lot of people like that is even in the church, 42:47 don't talk like that because it upsets me. 42:50 I never have you upset, 42:51 I'd rather have you downright mad, right? 42:54 And be in the kingdom at me, 42:56 or do worse, I'll do my best to get out of the way, 42:59 but come to your senses 43:01 I need to come to my senses right now. 43:03 Alarm has to be sounded. 43:06 We have to be willing to have that turn up, 43:08 so what sank the Titanic? 43:12 What really happened to the unsinkable ship, 43:15 the largest, the most luxurious ship 43:17 at the time in 1912? 43:22 Well we're talking about familiar things 43:23 is taking place here. 43:25 The winds are blowing right now. 43:28 The winds of strife are blowing in the world, 43:31 and somehow if we don't see and we don't understand, 43:34 I'm afraid we're going to miss the boat, 43:37 the boat that will take you in to harbor. 43:39 But how many of us are willing as the one other story 43:42 I do very quickly as I can here. 43:44 A storm came up in another ship, 43:46 not this one we're talking about here. 43:48 Storm came up and is blowing the boat from side to side 43:51 and the chandeliers came off the ceiling 43:53 and baggage was thrown every which way, 43:55 and people were screaming and hollering, 43:56 saying this will be it. 43:58 I know I'm going to die, this is gonna be my last, 44:00 last few moments on this earth. 44:02 And again I ask you, 44:03 if you knew this was going to be the last few moments 44:05 of earth, how would you react? 44:07 How would I react? 44:09 What would I do differently? 44:10 If I'm saying, listen, 44:12 if I say I would do a lot of things differently, 44:13 that means I know I'm not doing what I should do. 44:16 Does that make sense? 44:17 If you say that, it might, 44:20 you know, maybe a good answer might be Lord, 44:21 I don't know what else to do. 44:23 Then He's going to show you what you need to do 44:25 because we need to be doing as it were something 44:28 and so we had the... 44:30 You know, the pilot, the pilot guy held the wheel, 44:34 it's true story, 44:35 and he started to pilot that ship, 44:36 he had a whole of it, but you know what? 44:38 The people on board didn't like the way he was handling it. 44:42 And the captain even came up to the pilot and said, he said, 44:45 "You handle this a little bit differently 44:48 and shouldn't you try to go at it a little different angle 44:50 through the waters and so on and so forth." 44:53 And the pilot looked over to the captain, 44:56 notice interesting, looked to the captain and he said, 45:01 "Will you take the wheel?" 45:03 Captain said, "Well, no, no, I don't want to take the wheel. 45:06 I'm inexperienced with this, you're an experienced man." 45:09 "Then let me handle it." 45:10 Since some passengers broke in to the door 45:13 there of the captain and the room of that wheel, 45:16 and they said, "We're gonna die, 45:17 look how you're handling this. 45:18 Man, do something different, we don't want to die. 45:21 We never come on this ship to die." 45:24 Hmm. 45:26 Captain that's the pilot looked over to them said, 45:29 "Would one of you want to take the wheel?" 45:32 Real calm. 45:33 "Well, we can't take the wheel, we've not been trained in this. 45:36 We don't know anything about this. 45:39 Well, the ship's gonna go down, no doubt. 45:43 Pilot said again, 45:44 "Anyone who wants to take the wheel may." 45:46 No one dared 45:47 because they did not have the experience. 45:50 Maybe that was pretty smart. 45:52 Rather than somebody hothead right, 45:54 jump up and say, I'll try. 45:57 But the pilot stayed the course. 46:00 And as he stayed the course, 46:02 within a matter of a couple of hours, 46:04 they came out of the storm. 46:06 And they got no damage to the boat 46:08 and no one lost their life, 46:11 because the pilot stayed the course. 46:15 I ask you today by the grace of God 46:16 stay the course. 46:18 If there was a time we need to stay the course, 46:20 man, is stay the course right now. 46:21 It's not your own course. 46:23 It's not the course that maybe you were raised 46:25 with and you were taught. 46:26 But the course that God has given in His Word, 46:28 it's a straight clear course. 46:30 There's no excuse for us today. 46:33 The word is there, it's clear, it's clean. 46:36 And all that the pilot did was put into practice 46:39 what he had learned and his experience. 46:42 How about you? How about me today? 46:45 Read article, Review and Herald, 46:47 five, five, this is written in 1903. 46:49 So about the time of the sinking a little before, 46:52 but notice what it says. 46:53 And if it's not so true today, it's more true today, 46:56 I believe than even was then. 46:57 "Fearful perils are before those 47:00 who bear responsibilities in the Lord's work." 47:03 Huh? 47:05 What is it? 47:06 You better believe it. 47:07 Fearful perils are before those who bear responsibility 47:10 in the Lord's work? 47:11 Perils, the thought of which makes me tremble. 47:15 But the Word came, listen, 47:16 but the Word came when you said, 47:18 Oh, Lord, I don't know what to do in your life today. 47:19 I don't know what to do. 47:21 I don't know where to go, or what to do. 47:22 My world is falling apart. 47:25 God sends back the message to you. 47:26 He said, "My hand is on the wheel. 47:29 My hand is on the wheel, and in My providence, 47:33 I will carry out My divine plan." 47:36 Isn't that wonderful? 47:37 My hands on the wheel, no one can take it off. 47:41 God says, I have a plan. 47:42 Nobody can change that plan. 47:44 God has that plan. 47:45 We have to stick with it. 47:46 But the question might come through whom might He used 47:50 to carry out that plan? 47:51 Well, God can do it Himself. 47:53 Angels can do it. 47:54 But will He use you, will He use me? 47:56 We need to trust, my brothers and sisters, 47:58 in God's guardianship. 48:01 There ever was there was a time, 48:03 His church is to be taught. 48:05 Now listen, I've heard these messages many times 48:07 as I've been growing up, 48:08 that the church is going through, 48:10 the church is going through. 48:11 I say the true and faithful church 48:12 is going through and I back down 48:14 from no one on that, if that's okay with you. 48:16 It's time to be bold. 48:18 If we're not going to be bold, why we need to get out. 48:21 We're not going to put up a little fight, right? 48:23 We need to go, go on because it's time. 48:27 Jesus thought as it were, 48:29 we're talking about in the right way. 48:30 When there was falsehood out there, 48:32 Jesus stood for what was truth, 48:34 and it costs Him and it will cost you 48:36 and it'll cost me. 48:38 The church, and probably every church, 48:40 not just this church. 48:42 I think that they're enfeebled and they're defective 48:47 but it's still right the object of God's desire, 48:50 right, His blessings. 48:52 He keeps a special eye on it. 48:54 The church is not a building, it's not certain address. 48:57 The church is God's people. 48:59 Where two or three are gathered together in My name, 49:01 there I am in the midst. 49:03 I like that, that's pretty simple. 49:06 We need to quit the foolishness up, 49:07 well, this denomination, that denomination, 49:09 you will not go to heaven by certain denomination, 49:12 but by what? 49:13 A thus saith the Lord. 49:16 The enemy is out to sink your boat, 49:19 and he's gonna do everything he can to do that. 49:24 How big does the hole have to be in the boat to sink it? 49:28 Well, I've heard people say, well, I'm a pretty good guy. 49:33 I'm a good provider. I'm a good help. 49:35 I don't accept Christ as my Lord and Savior. 49:36 I'm not trying to make but I want you to listen. 49:38 People say that with an honest true heart, 49:40 they don't know what they're saying. 49:42 And God how can we reach them when they say that? 49:47 I'm doing all right, I know he is, I'm gonna make it. 49:50 Oh, how big does that hole have to be to sink this ship? 49:55 I found these words, I thought was very interesting. 49:58 Because these words were written to a man 50:00 who was making we call shipwreck of his faith. 50:03 He is getting ready to throw the towel in. 50:05 He had had enough, he couldn't take the pressure 50:08 that people were putting on. 50:10 I'm just going to give it up. 50:12 The little letter was written to him, 50:13 two lines said this, a very small leak 50:16 will cause a large ship to sink. 50:19 One, listen, one defective link makes a chain worthless. 50:25 You ever tried to have a chain 50:26 and you're trying to pull something 50:28 and there's one little, well, I almost said rotten, 50:30 one rotten weak link. 50:32 Is that okay to say it? 50:35 And that's the one that you look at. 50:37 That's the one, yeah, oh man, the chain is all good, 50:40 but that one link now it's no good. 50:43 So we at poses a lot of questions. 50:46 And we have to ask God for help. 50:49 What do we do when we're challenged here 50:51 in these last days of earth's history? 50:53 What are we to do with our faith 50:55 and with our message that God has given us, 50:58 says no line of our faith that has made us 51:00 what we are is to be weakened? 51:03 Remember the weak link in the chain right now, 51:04 if there's a weak link in the chain, 51:06 Herb, take that weak link out, 51:09 then refashion things together. 51:11 That's what... Weak, why? 51:13 Because we have the old landmarks. 51:15 We have the landmarks based on the word of truth. 51:18 We have experience, we have duty, 51:20 we have a lot of years to back it up 51:22 in the Word of God, the principles, and what? 51:25 Put out what you believe in full view of the world. 51:28 Don't mickey mouse around with it. 51:31 Put it out there in full view of the world. 51:33 It's time that the world would hear it. 51:36 There has to be no general change 51:38 in anything that God has given us. 51:41 The general features of His work 51:42 He's given His last day people. 51:44 It's to standout as clear as day and distinct. 51:48 And as prophecy has indicated that it is. 51:51 We need to make sure we do that. 51:53 We are to enter into no confederacy. 51:56 Come on, somebody. 51:57 We are not to enter into any kind of confederacy 51:59 with the world. 52:01 Why? 52:02 But supposing that if we enter it 52:03 with confederacy with the world 52:05 that we're going to get an edge, 52:06 we're going to make more money, 52:08 we're going to get things our way. 52:09 Somebody will publish our music, 52:11 somebody will publish our sermons. 52:13 Well, you know what I mean? 52:15 Nothing, nothing. 52:17 Supposing that so in denying we could accomplish more. 52:21 You can't accomplish more by denying 52:23 what is truth right now you accomplish more. 52:27 I say this in the last couple of minutes, 52:28 the condition of salvation. 52:31 The conditions of salvation is still the same, 52:35 as it's always been life, eternal life 52:40 for all those who will obey God's word, 52:43 God's law. 52:44 Is it? 52:46 That's eternal life for all those who will obey 52:48 because there will be no disobedient in heaven. 52:51 Does that make sense? 52:53 I like all this over here, but I don't like this. 52:55 If God said this is the way it is. 52:57 Then you say, God help me to love this. 52:59 I don't love it. 53:00 I don't want to change it. 53:02 I like doing what I'm doing. 53:03 But oh, God, You said it's not good, help me. 53:06 I can't do it on my own. He says, I'll help you. 53:09 Keep this in mind, we talk about the new covenant 53:11 that people talk about the new covenant, 53:13 I'm glad they do. 53:14 I'm a new covenant Christian by the way. 53:16 And the new covenant conditions for eternal life 53:19 are the same as it under the old, 53:22 did you get it? 53:24 As under the old we talk about there, 53:26 the old required perfect obedience. 53:29 And the Bible says, as many as received Him, 53:32 to him He gave power 53:33 to become the sons of God, John 1:12. 53:37 Blood covenant, I love that. 53:39 We justify, listen to the difference there. 53:41 We're justified by what? 53:42 In the New Testament, 53:44 we're justified by the blood of the Lamb. 53:46 Isn't that right? 53:47 In the Old Testament, you're justified 53:49 by faith in what? 53:50 Sacrifices, it was again the blood 53:52 representing Jesus coming and dying for us, 53:54 but it was still obedience. 53:57 It doesn't change. 53:58 Read Hebrews 8, 9 the whole chapter. 54:01 We think we have it bad now, man, we better hang on, 54:03 and I mean better hang on to our, 54:05 I call our socks. 54:07 Let me just go over quickly in last few seconds 54:09 that we have here, 54:10 and not near what we wanted to get to. 54:12 But I want you to think with me just a moment, 54:14 just think about these and do spiritual quickly. 54:17 When apostasy comes in, hit it head on. 54:22 Hmm. 54:24 There needs to be enough lifeboats 54:25 for everybody and there is in the cause of Christ. 54:30 Don't make your religion out of cheap material. 54:33 Make it out based on the Word of God. 54:36 Make sure you have your spiritual binoculars on. 54:41 Don't ever turn off your communication 54:43 with one another and with heaven, 54:46 and always respond when someone cries out. 54:50 These are lessons we can learn of what sank the Titanic. 54:54 Shall we pray? 54:57 Loving Father in heaven, 54:58 thank You for Your precious Word. 55:00 Thank You that You love us today. 55:01 Thank You that You're warning us. 55:02 Lord, there's just something that just is inspiring. 55:06 Something that's encouraging us today as we get up here 55:10 and fiddle around and mess around 55:12 and make a mess of things. 55:13 You've promised, I'd never do if there wasn't a promise 55:16 that you would take the mess on making you, 55:17 make it right in the ears of your hearers. 55:21 Your Holy Spirit would impress people to make right choices 55:23 and decisions. 55:25 This could be our last voyage. 55:30 Ever want to go on that boat? 55:31 No one I'm sure thought that was it. 55:34 But it was the last for many. 55:37 And maybe for most of the others 55:39 who didn't ever want to get on the boat again. 55:40 But, Lord, I pray right now 55:43 that this is not the last voyage 55:45 that Your people are to take here, 55:47 that You will continue to be with each one. 55:50 But help us to approach life's problems 55:52 and situations as though it may be 55:54 and it may be our last day we have here 55:57 on earth and our planet 55:58 that we want to be pleasing in thy sight. 56:01 Oh, Lord, we just pray that You will just mount us up 56:04 with healing in Your wings, which mounts up with wisdom 56:07 and strength and courage that only You can give. 56:10 The time is... I mean, it's here on us right now. 56:13 Any day, just like that the Titanic 56:16 at any given moment, 56:18 the side could be ripped out of everything, 56:20 in our economy, in our world, in our government. 56:25 Because there's alarm of war in the land. 56:28 There's talk about economic collapse. 56:32 All these things are just out there 56:33 and just named just a couple. 56:36 So I pray that You would help us 56:38 to handle the Word of God rightly, 56:41 rightly dividing the Word of God, You said. 56:43 It makes a difference what we believe. 56:47 Truth is what transforms. 56:49 Error does not transform. 56:51 Oh, my mama believed it, my daddy believed it in this, 56:53 but it doesn't matter what they believe. 56:55 God loves them. 56:56 He's gonna make sure everybody's gonna be in heaven. 56:58 I've heard that said, everybody's going to make it, 57:01 everybody that wants to serve Jesus Christ. 57:03 Everybody that's willing to follow Jesus Christ. 57:07 If it's possible to be there, we're going to be there. 57:11 But, Lord, I pray that You blesses us 57:13 a very special way. 57:14 Again, decisions made right now. 57:16 And I'm going to give You praise, 57:17 give You honor, and give You glory 57:18 as we carry these lessons with us. 57:21 We must be prepared, 57:24 we need you as our captain, as our pilot. 57:27 In Jesus' name, amen. 57:30 Hello, and welcome back, friends. 57:32 What sank the Titanic was our message for today. 57:35 And I believe that you realize that we, 57:37 as we are navigating 57:39 our journey to the kingdom of God, 57:41 it is very much like being on board a large ship. 57:45 And every decision that we make may affect 57:48 whether or not that ship goes through 57:50 these rough waters of life 57:53 well enough to get its passengers 57:55 safely to those heavenly shores. 57:58 Again, what sank the Titanic was our study for today. 58:02 And this study can be yours to keep. 58:05 Simply contact us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries 58:08 and request your copy of What Sink the Titanic. 58:13 We will be happy. 58:14 In fact, we would just love to mail you this message 58:17 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 58:20 All you have to do is simply call us here 58:22 at (618) 942-5044, 58:26 that's Central Time or you may mail in your request 58:30 to PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 58:35 You may also email us 58:37 at BeholdTheLambM- inistries@yahoo.com 58:40 or you can visit us on our website 58:43 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 58:45 Friends, until next time, 58:47 may our precious Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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