>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:01.02\00:01:03.53 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.56\00:01:11.83 >>PRIDE OFTEN GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT 00:01:11.87\00:01:15.87 BEFORE A FALL. THIS BOAT SORT OF SYMBOLIZED 00:01:15.90\00:01:18.81 THE ARROGANCE OF THE AGE. THEY HAD PUT SO MUCH TRUST IN 00:01:18.84\00:01:22.88 THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN 00:01:22.91\00:01:25.65 BEYOND THE POINT WHERE EVEN NATURE COULD BRING 00:01:25.68\00:01:29.28 DOWN THE SHIP. >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING 00:01:29.32\00:01:34.32 FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 00:01:34.36\00:01:37.13 THROUGH MEDIA. THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS 00:01:37.16\00:01:40.23 FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:01:40.26\00:01:43.43 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING 00:01:43.47\00:01:46.84 FACTS PRESENTS. >>THIS MORNING'S PRESENTATION 00:01:46.87\00:01:55.01 IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL. 00:01:55.04\00:01:57.38 IT IS BASED ON A BIBLE STORY, BUT I'LL BE TAKING A MAJOR 00:01:57.41\00:01:59.91 DETOUR THROUGH HISTORY. THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION IS 00:01:59.95\00:02:04.85 THE UNSINKABLE SHIP , BUT AS WE ALWAYS DO, THESE ARE 00:02:04.89\00:02:08.72 ROOTED IN BIBLE STORIES. AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING 00:02:08.76\00:02:13.46 TO THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22, AND THIS WILL BE 00:02:13.50\00:02:18.50 THE STORY THAT WILL BE THE SPRINGBOARD FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 00:02:18.53\00:02:22.24 LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22, "NOW IT HAPPENED, ON A CERTAIN DAY," 00:02:22.27\00:02:28.18 - ACTUALLY, AT THE END OF A DAY OF TEACHING. IT WAS TOWARD 00:02:28.21\00:02:30.28 EVENING - "THAT HE GOT INTO A BOAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES. AND HE 00:02:30.31\00:02:34.68 SAID TO THEM, 'LET US CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF 00:02:34.72\00:02:38.29 THE LAKE.' AND THEY LAUNCHED OUT. 00:02:38.32\00:02:42.06 BUT AS THEY SAILED HE FELL ASLEEP. 00:02:42.09\00:02:45.59 AND A WINDSTORM CAME DOWN ON THE LAKE, AND THEY WERE FILLING WITH 00:02:45.63\00:02:49.36 WATER, AND WERE IN JEOPARDY. AND THEY CAME TO HIM AND AWOKE 00:02:49.40\00:02:53.94 HIM, SAYING, 'MASTER, MASTER, WE ARE PERISHING!'" 00:02:53.97\00:02:58.27 THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME STORM BECAUSE THESE WERE WELL-SEASONED 00:02:58.31\00:03:02.04 FISHERMEN THAT HAD SPENT THEIR LIVES ON THAT LAKE. 00:03:02.08\00:03:05.51 AND HE AWOKE, LOOKED AROUND, SURVEYED THE ELEMENTS, RUBBED 00:03:05.55\00:03:09.02 HIS EYES, AND HE UTTERED ONE WORD IN HEBREW - IT SAYS, 'PEACE 00:03:09.05\00:03:12.69 BE STILL' IN GREEK, BUT ALL HE REALLY SAID WAS 'SHALOM'. 00:03:12.72\00:03:16.73 AND AS SOON AS HE SAID THAT, THE WIND CEASED ITS RAGING OF 00:03:16.76\00:03:23.33 THE WATER, AND THERE WAS A CALM. WHO IS THIS THAT EVEN THE 00:03:23.37\00:03:27.54 WIND AND THE WAVES OBEY HIM? YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE IS FILLED 00:03:27.57\00:03:30.01 WITH STORIES ABOUT BOATS AND THE SEA. 00:03:30.04\00:03:32.61 MATTER OF FACT, THE BIBLE BEGINS WITH A STORY ABOUT A STORM AND A 00:03:32.64\00:03:35.88 BIG BOAT. YOU'VE HEARD OF NOAH. AND, AS YOU GO THROUGH THE 00:03:35.91\00:03:39.98 GOSPEL STORIES - SEVERAL STORIES WITH JESUS ON THE SEA. 00:03:40.02\00:03:44.42 THE NEW TESTAMENT ENDS - THE GOSPEL OF - OR THE BOOK OF ACTS 00:03:44.45\00:03:48.12 ENDS WITH A GREAT STORM WHERE PAUL ENDS UP BEING SHIPWRECKED. 00:03:48.16\00:03:53.93 AND, OF COURSE, WE'VE GOT THE STORY OF JONAH. 00:03:53.96\00:03:56.26 THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT STORMS. 00:03:56.30\00:03:58.63 YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ABOUT KING JEHOSHOPHAT? 00:03:58.67\00:04:02.00 HE HAD A WHOLE FLEET OF SHIPS THAT WENT DOWN IN A STORM. 00:04:02.04\00:04:05.34 PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING STORIES OF MARITIME DISASTERS IS 00:04:05.37\00:04:12.25 THE TITANIC , BECAUSE THE TITANIC REPRESENTED, REALLY, A 00:04:12.28\00:04:16.89 CHANGE IN A LOT OF THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON IN THE WORLD. 00:04:16.92\00:04:23.32 IT WAS THE CHANGE OF AN AGE. NOW SOME OF YOU MAY OR MAY NOT 00:04:23.36\00:04:28.90 KNOW THAT THERE WAS A BOOK WRITTEN - THERE'S MANY MOVIES 00:04:28.93\00:04:31.70 AND BOOKS ABOUT THE TITANIC , BUT THERE WAS ONE BOOK WRITTEN 00:04:31.73\00:04:34.50 THAT WAS SIMILAR BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT A DIFFERENT SHIP. 00:04:34.54\00:04:38.41 AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MERCHANT SEAMAN BY THE NAME OF MORGAN 00:04:38.44\00:04:41.31 ROBERTSON. ROBERTSON WROTE A BOOK CALLED 00:04:41.34\00:04:44.65 THE WRECK OF THE TITAN . AND HE WROTE HIS BOOK THE WRECK 00:04:44.68\00:04:48.72 OF THE TITAN 14 YEARS BEFORE THE TITANIC WAS BUILT. 00:04:48.75\00:04:53.72 NOW LISTEN TO SOME OF THE VERY INTERESTING THINGS FROM MORGAN 00:04:53.76\00:04:56.42 ROBERTSON'S BOOK CALLED THE WRECK OF THE TITAN AND YOU TELL 00:04:56.46\00:05:01.80 ME IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS IS UNCANNY. FIRST OF ALL, THE NAME 00:05:01.83\00:05:04.50 - THE BOOK IS CALLED THE 'TITAN' - TITANIC AND TITAN COME 00:05:04.53\00:05:07.80 FROM THESE ANCIENT GIANT GREEK GODS - SAME NAME, REALLY. 00:05:07.84\00:05:13.21 HIS BOOK - HIS FICTIONAL STORY WAS WRITTEN ABOUT THE LARGEST 00:05:13.24\00:05:17.78 ENGLISH OCEAN LINER THAT HAD EVER BEEN BUILT THAT WAS 00:05:17.81\00:05:21.82 CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN APRIL, STRUCK AN ICEBERG, AND SANK - 00:05:21.85\00:05:29.29 HAD THE MOST ELITE PEOPLE OF THE AGE ON THE BOAT. 00:05:29.32\00:05:34.36 THE LENGTH OF THE TITAN - IN ROBERTSON'S BOOK - WAS 800 FEET. 00:05:34.40\00:05:38.60 THE TITANIC - 882 FEET. THE WIDTH OF THE TITAN - 00:05:38.63\00:05:42.97 90 FEET - TITANIC - 92. THE TITAN WAS THE FASTEST SHIP 00:05:43.00\00:05:49.04 THAT HAD EVER BEEN BUILT - LIKE THE TITANIC - IT 00:05:49.08\00:05:51.68 COULD GO 25 KNOTS. IN REALITY, THE TITANIC COULD ONLY GO 23. 00:05:51.71\00:05:57.22 THEY SAID THAT THE TITAN WAS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE IT HAD 19 00:05:57.25\00:06:00.82 WATER-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS SEPARATING THE SECTIONS OF THE 00:06:00.86\00:06:03.63 SHIP. THE TITANIC ACTUALLY HAD 16. 00:06:03.66\00:06:07.20 BOTH THE TITAN AND THE TITANIC HAD THREE PROPELLERS. 00:06:07.23\00:06:11.90 THE CAPACITY OF THE TITAN, IN ROBERTSON'S BOOK, WAS 3,000 00:06:11.93\00:06:15.30 PEOPLE - TITANIC 3,250. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE 00:06:15.34\00:06:20.41 ACTUALLY ON BOARD DURING THE DISASTER: 2,000 ON THE TITAN 00:06:20.44\00:06:25.25 - 2,228 ON THE TITANIC . THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 00:06:25.28\00:06:30.49 LIFEBOATS ON THE TITAN. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 00:06:30.52\00:06:33.76 LIFEBOATS ON THE TITANIC - ONLY 24 ON THE TITAN; 20 ON THE 00:06:33.79\00:06:38.16 TITANIC - ABOUT HALF AS MANY AS THEY NEEDED. 00:06:38.19\00:06:43.26 THEY WERE BOTH SAILING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND SANK, HITTING 00:06:43.30\00:06:46.84 A PYRAMID-SHAPED ICEBERG THAT HAD OVERTURNED 400 MILES FROM 00:06:46.87\00:06:53.48 NEWFOUNDLAND. AND ISN'T IT INCREDIBLE THAT 00:06:53.51\00:06:58.65 THEY WERE BOTH ENCOURAGED TO BREAK SPEED RECORDS. 00:06:58.68\00:07:01.12 BOTH HAPPENED IN APRIL AND THE STORY THE WRECK OF THE TITAN WAS 00:07:01.15\00:07:05.22 WRITTEN 14 YEARS BEFORE THE TITANIC WAS BUILT. 00:07:05.25\00:07:10.86 THE AMAZING THING IS THAT MORGAN ROBERTSON TOOK THE BOOK TO 00:07:10.89\00:07:14.10 SEVERAL PUBLISHERS AND THE EDITORS SAID, 'WE'RE NOT 00:07:14.13\00:07:15.96 INTERESTED.' AND HE KEPT SAYING, 'WHY NOT?' 00:07:16.00\00:07:17.77 THEY SAID, 'WHAT YOU'VE WRITTEN ABOUT IS TOO UNBELIEVABLE. 00:07:17.80\00:07:20.57 IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.' BUT WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 00:07:20.60\00:07:27.18 THE TITANIC REALLY DID HAPPEN. YOU ALMOST WONDER, WAS THIS 00:07:27.21\00:07:30.51 SOME UNWITTING PROPHECY? THE LORD WAS TRYING TO TELL US 00:07:30.55\00:07:35.62 - ABOUT MAN'S - THE FUTILITY OF HIS TRUST IN HIS OWN TECHNOLOGY. 00:07:35.65\00:07:40.29 WELL, WHEN THE TITANIC SANK, IT REMAINED MISSING FOR 75 YEARS. 00:07:40.32\00:07:46.96 THEN, BACK IN 1985, THE SEARCH, I THINK, BEGAN IN 1984. 00:07:47.00\00:07:53.34 DR. ROBERT BALLARD WAS CRISS-CROSSING ACROSS THE 00:07:53.37\00:07:56.50 ATLANTIC IN A GRID, PULLING SOME SONAR EQUIPMENT, TO TRY TO 00:07:56.54\00:08:01.91 LOCATE THE WRECK, AND THEY WERE DRAGGING A CAMERA ACROSS THE 00:08:01.94\00:08:05.48 BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. THEY WANTED TO FIND OUT EXACTLY 00:08:05.51\00:08:09.05 - IF THEY COULD CONFIRM WHAT HAD HAPPENED WITH THE ICEBERG 00:08:09.08\00:08:12.79 BY LOOKING AT THE WRECK. AND THEY FOUND THAT THE BOAT HAD 00:08:12.82\00:08:15.56 BROKEN IN TWO AND THE SECTIONS WERE SEPARATED BY 1900 FEET. 00:08:15.59\00:08:19.66 IT HAD, ACTUALLY, TOTALLY SPLIT IN TWO, WHICH IS INTERESTING 00:08:19.69\00:08:23.13 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE WHEN THE TITANIC WAS BUILT, IN 00:08:23.16\00:08:28.37 BELFAST, IRELAND, IT WAS BUILT IN RECORD TIME AND IT WAS DEEMED 00:08:28.40\00:08:33.64 TO BE UNSINKABLE. 3,000 MEN WERE INVOLVED 00:08:33.68\00:08:36.81 IN BUILDING THE TITANIC . IT WAS ACTUALLY BUILT 00:08:36.85\00:08:39.85 BY WHITE STAR LINES. IT WAS PART OF THREE SHIPS THAT 00:08:39.88\00:08:43.02 WERE BUILT: THE TITANIC , THE BRITANNIC , AND THE OLYMPIC . 00:08:43.05\00:08:47.19 AND WHEN IT FINALLY MADE ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE, THAT APRIL IN 00:08:47.22\00:08:51.43 1912 - A LITTLE MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, NOW - IT WAS 00:08:51.46\00:08:55.06 CALLED THE MILLIONAIRE'S SPECIAL BECAUSE A LOT OF THE LEADING 00:08:55.10\00:08:59.33 MILLIONAIRES AND STOCKBROKERS WERE ON THE SHIP. 00:08:59.37\00:09:03.30 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL BUILT BY 00:09:03.34\00:09:06.74 THE ASTOR FAMILY? JOHN JACOB ASTOR 00:09:06.78\00:09:09.08 WAS ON THE SHIP. YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ABOUT 00:09:09.11\00:09:12.05 THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. THEY MADE A MOVIE ABOUT HER. 00:09:12.08\00:09:15.68 MOLLY BROWN, THE SILVER MINE HEIRESS FROM COLORADO WAS ON THE 00:09:15.72\00:09:19.69 SHIP. ASTOR PERISHED; MOLLY BROWN SURVIVED. 00:09:19.72\00:09:23.83 THEY HAD ALL OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGN AND ELEGANCE 00:09:23.86\00:09:30.23 FOR THE AGE PUT INTO THE TITANIC . 00:09:30.27\00:09:33.13 THIS IS THE GRAND BALLROOM. IT WAS THE CENTRAL PIECE OF THE 00:09:33.17\00:09:36.20 SHIP AND - BEAUTIFUL DINING ROOMS AND THEY HAD SOME OF THE 00:09:36.24\00:09:40.24 BEST WOOD ENGRAVED FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 00:09:40.28\00:09:43.35 IT WAS A PIECE OF ART. IT WAS JUST THE GREATEST 00:09:43.38\00:09:46.88 ARTISANS AND ALL OF THE ELEGANCE OF AN ERA WERE INCORPORATED, YET 00:09:46.92\00:09:51.39 THEY HAD SOME OF THE MOST MODERN TECHNOLOGY. 00:09:51.42\00:09:54.42 THIS BOAT SORT OF SYMBOLIZED THE ARROGANCE OF THE AGE. 00:09:54.46\00:09:58.93 THEY HAD PUT SO MUCH TRUST IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT THEY 00:09:58.96\00:10:02.23 THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN BEYOND THE POINT WHERE EVEN 00:10:02.26\00:10:05.00 NATURE COULD BRING DOWN THE SHIP - AND ESPECIALLY IN SUCH 00:10:05.03\00:10:08.60 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. I'LL SHARE WITH YOU A FEW 00:10:08.64\00:10:10.91 AMAZING FACTS AS WE PROCEED, BUT ONE THAT'S INTERESTING. 00:10:10.94\00:10:15.01 TITANIC WAS THE ONLY SHIP IN RECORDED HISTORY THAT WAS 00:10:15.04\00:10:19.41 ACTUALLY ON FIRE THE ENTIRE TIME IT WAS IN SERVICE. 00:10:19.45\00:10:23.89 JUST BEFORE THEY LAUNCHED A FIRE BROKE OUT IN ONE OF THE ELECTRIC 00:10:23.92\00:10:26.92 ROOMS AND EVERY TIME THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT TO ATTEND TO IT, IT 00:10:26.96\00:10:32.93 FLARED UP AGAIN AND SO THEY JUST CLOSED THE DOOR TO ROB IT OF 00:10:32.96\00:10:35.40 OXYGEN AND THEY NEVER DID GET THE FIRE OUT. 00:10:35.43\00:10:38.20 IT WAS SMALL ENOUGH THEY COULD ISOLATE IT AND STILL OPERATE ALL 00:10:38.23\00:10:40.97 THE ELECTRIC NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE SHIP, BUT IT WAS ON FIRE THE 00:10:41.00\00:10:44.87 WHOLE TIME THAT IT WAS IN SERVICE. 00:10:44.91\00:10:47.08 ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT, AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE PICTURE - I 00:10:47.11\00:10:49.61 THINK IT'S ON THE SCREEN - IS, WHILE IT HAD FOUR SMOKESTACKS, 00:10:49.64\00:10:53.92 THE LAST ONE IN THE REAR WAS A DUMMY. 00:10:53.95\00:10:56.99 THEY WANTED THE SHIP TO LOOK SYMMETRICAL. 00:10:57.02\00:10:59.42 THEY WERE SO CONSUMED WITH MAKING A STATEMENT THAT THEY 00:10:59.45\00:11:03.59 BUILT A - IT DID HAVE A LITTLE AIR VENT IN IT, BUT IT WAS - IT 00:11:03.63\00:11:05.99 HAD NO SMOKE GOING OUT. IT WAS A BIG DUMMY STACK TO 00:11:06.03\00:11:08.86 TRY TO MAKE IT LOOK EVEN. SO IF YOU EVER SEE MOVIES AND 00:11:08.90\00:11:11.97 STORIES WHERE YOU'VE GOT SMOKE COMING OUT OF ALL FOUR STACKS OF 00:11:12.00\00:11:14.27 THE TITANIC , THEY HAVEN'T DONE THEIR RESEARCH. 00:11:14.30\00:11:16.40 (LAUGHTER) THEY ALSO HAD A MODERN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - 00:11:16.44\00:11:21.04 IT WAS A MARCONI WIRELESS AND THAT WAS HOW THE SHIPS WOULD 00:11:21.08\00:11:26.92 TALK BACK THEN. THEY COULDN'T TALK, BUT THEY 00:11:26.95\00:11:28.98 USED A TYPE OF MORSE CODE TO COMMUNICATE. 00:11:29.02\00:11:32.02 WELL, THE MAN WHO WAS AT THE STATION DURING THE FATEFUL HOURS 00:11:32.05\00:11:36.73 ON THE 14TH OF APRIL WAS JACK PHILLIPS AND HE WAS FRANTICALLY 00:11:36.76\00:11:43.97 TAPPING OUT THOSE MESSAGES AND SOME OF THE OPERATORS FROM OTHER 00:11:44.00\00:11:46.50 SHIPS, LIKE A SHIP BY THE NAME OF THE CALIFORNIA SAID, 'WE HAVE 00:11:46.53\00:11:51.64 ENCOUNTERED ICEBERGS. MATTER OF FACT WE HAVE 00:11:51.67\00:11:53.41 STOPPED FOR THE EVENING. THE CAPTAIN TOLD US TO STOP 00:11:53.44\00:11:56.18 BECAUSE WE'VE RUN INTO A FIELD OF ICE. ANOTHER RUSSIAN BOAT 00:11:56.21\00:12:00.22 WIRED THE TITANIC AND THEY WOULD WIRE THEIR LOCATION PERIODICALLY 00:12:00.25\00:12:04.89 AND THEY SAID, 'BASED UPON YOUR LOCATION, YOU ARE MOVING WAY TOO 00:12:04.92\00:12:08.49 FAST FOR THE ICE THAT'S AHEAD OF YOU. 00:12:08.52\00:12:11.09 YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN.' AND SO THEY RECEIVED SEVERAL MESSAGES 00:12:11.13\00:12:15.30 THAT WERE SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, WE KNOW YOU GUYS ARE RIP-SNORTING 00:12:15.33\00:12:18.53 ACROSS THE OCEAN TRYING TO BREAK A RECORD, BUT YOU NEED TO BE 00:12:18.57\00:12:20.90 AWARE THAT THERE'S A FIELD OF ICE.' AND THE RUSSIAN FREIGHTER 00:12:20.94\00:12:24.67 SAID, 'THERE ARE TWO VERY SIGNIFICANT ICEBERGS' - SO IT 00:12:24.71\00:12:29.24 WASN'T JUST THE SMALL BROKEN ICE THAT THEY COULD PLOW THROUGH, 00:12:29.28\00:12:32.08 THERE WERE SOME BIG ICEBERGS THAT COULD SERIOUSLY DAMAGE THE 00:12:32.11\00:12:35.45 SHIP. SO THEY HAD RECEIVED THESE 00:12:35.48\00:12:37.55 WARNINGS. AT ABOUT 11:40 THAT EVENING, THE 00:12:37.59\00:12:43.69 RADIO OPERATOR ON THE CALIFORNIA - THEY COULD SEE A FAINT LIGHT 00:12:43.73\00:12:48.03 OF THE TITANIC OFF IN THE DISTANCE. HE RADIOED AND SAID - 00:12:48.06\00:12:54.04 IT WAS THE SIXTH MESSAGE THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED THAT DAY ABOUT 00:12:54.07\00:12:57.57 ICE AHEAD - HE RADIOED AND SAID, 'YOU GUYS BETTER SLOW DOWN 00:12:57.61\00:13:02.14 BECAUSE THERE'S ICE AHEAD.' AND JACK PHILLIPS RADIOED BACK TO 00:13:02.18\00:13:06.38 CYRIL, WHO WAS THE RADIO OPERATOR - CYRIL EVANS - ON THE 00:13:06.41\00:13:09.72 CALIFORNIA - AND HE SAID, 'PLEASE, SHUT UP! SHUT UP! 00:13:09.75\00:13:13.62 I'M BUSY.' WELL, HE THOUGHT THAT WAS SO RUDE, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 00:13:13.66\00:13:18.19 SUPPOSED TO STAY ON DUTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT, AT 11:40 PM HE TURNED 00:13:18.23\00:13:22.93 OFF HIS WIRELESS AND TOOK OFF HIS HEADPHONES. 00:13:22.96\00:13:27.17 MOMENTS LATER THE TITANIC STRUCK THE ICEBERG AND THEY BEGAN TO 00:13:27.20\00:13:31.11 RADIO FOR HELP AND NOBODY WAS LISTENING. 00:13:31.14\00:13:34.74 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MESSAGE IN THERE. 00:13:34.78\00:13:36.31 GOD OFTEN, THROUGH OUR LIVES, SENDS US WARNINGS, BUT WE'RE 00:13:36.34\00:13:40.65 OFTEN SO PREOCCUPIED WITH DOING OUR OWN THING AND OUR AGENDA, 00:13:40.68\00:13:43.89 WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF GOD AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT 00:13:43.92\00:13:46.99 YOU CAN GRIEVE AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:13:47.02\00:13:49.62 LITTLE BY LITTLE THE VOLUME GOES DOWN. 00:13:49.66\00:13:51.69 GOD IS CALLING US AND WE IGNORE HIM. 00:13:51.73\00:13:54.00 THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE TURN AWAY OUR EAR FROM HEARING THE LAW OF 00:13:54.00\00:13:56.87 GOD, EVEN OUR PRAYER BECOMES AN ABOMINATION. 00:13:56.90\00:14:00.40 AND FINALLY, WHEN THEY WERE RADIOING BACK, THERE WAS NO 00:14:00.44\00:14:03.71 RESPONSE. 00:14:03.74\00:14:06.01 >>THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE WE HEAR REFERENCES TO 'THE COMING OF THE 00:14:06.04\00:14:08.88 LORD' OR 'THE DAY OF THE LORD' OR 'THE LAST DAY'. 00:14:08.91\00:14:12.15 YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW IT'S COMING SOMETIME - IT MAY COME 00:14:12.18\00:14:14.75 FOR US INDIVIDUALLY AND WE NEED TO BE READY. 00:14:14.78\00:14:17.79 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ETERNAL DESTINIES ARE DECIDED IN 00:14:17.82\00:14:20.96 THAT MOMENT WHEN THE END COMES. 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THEY HAD TO PUT IT IN FULL 00:15:05.77\00:15:08.74 REVERSE AND IT STILL TOOK HALF A MILE TO STOP IT. 00:15:08.77\00:15:12.47 AND SO, THAT WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH WARNING. 00:15:12.51\00:15:15.34 AND THE PILOT MADE A COUPLE OF GRAVE ERRORS. 00:15:15.38\00:15:17.45 ONE IS, HE PUT IT IN FULL REVERSE AND THEN HE TURNED IT. 00:15:17.48\00:15:21.52 WHAT, ACTUALLY, THAT DID, IS IT SLOWED THE TURN AND SO, AS YOU 00:15:21.55\00:15:27.32 KNOW, THEY CAME UP ALONGSIDE THE ICEBERG AND THEY SCRAPED THE 00:15:27.36\00:15:30.76 ICEBERG IN A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAY AND IT CUT AN OPENING UNDER 00:15:30.79\00:15:37.20 THE SIDE OF THE SHIP 300 FEET LONG. 00:15:37.23\00:15:40.34 AND, AS THE REPORTS BEGAN TO COME BACK TO THE BRIDGE, THE 00:15:40.37\00:15:42.70 PEOPLE ON THE BOAT, THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALLY KNOW WHAT HAD 00:15:42.74\00:15:44.57 HAPPENED. THEY JUST - THE BOAT KEPT MOVING 00:15:44.61\00:15:46.34 FORWARD, BECAUSE IT KIND OF SIDE-SWIPED IT AND CUT 00:15:46.37\00:15:48.91 IT BELOW THE WATER LINE. PEOPLE FELT THIS LARGE SHAKE AND 00:15:48.94\00:15:54.92 THEY THOUGHT MAYBE ONE OF THE ENGINES WAS OUT OF CENTER. 00:15:54.95\00:15:58.09 AND THEY HEARD THIS GRINDING NOISE - SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE 00:15:58.12\00:16:01.66 ON DECK SAW THE ICEBERG. SOME OF THE ICE ACTUALLY SNAPPED 00:16:01.69\00:16:04.86 AND POPPED UP IN THE AIR AND LANDED ON THE DECK AND A FEW OF 00:16:04.89\00:16:07.30 THE YOUNG PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS IS GREAT FUN - THEY WERE GOING 00:16:07.36\00:16:09.83 TO MAKE A MEMORY - HAVE AN ADVENTURE. 00:16:09.86\00:16:11.73 THEY WERE PLAYING SOCCER WITH A PIECE OF ICE ON THE DECK. 00:16:11.77\00:16:16.67 BUT WORD BEGAN TO REACH THE CAPTAIN. 00:16:16.71\00:16:18.71 HE RAN TO THE BRIDGE AND HE CALLED THE SHIP'S DESIGNER. 00:16:18.74\00:16:21.68 THOMAS ANDREWS ALSO HAPPENED TO BE ON THE SHIP THAT DAY AND HE 00:16:21.71\00:16:27.48 HEARD, 'WATER'S COMING IN - SECTION 1, SECTION 2, SECTION 3, 00:16:27.52\00:16:31.12 SECTION 4 - SECTION 5.' AND, WHEN ANDREWS DID SOME 00:16:31.15\00:16:37.16 CALCULATING, HE SAID TO THE CAPTAIN, 'YOU BETTER MAN THE 00:16:37.19\00:16:42.23 LIFE BOATS' - HE SAID - 'THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN.' AND THE 00:16:42.26\00:16:45.77 CAPTAIN SAID, 'WELL, IT CAN'T BE GOING DOWN' - HE SAID - 'WE'VE 00:16:45.80\00:16:47.64 GOT THE WATER TIGHT COMPARTMENTS.' HE SAID, 'THIS 00:16:47.67\00:16:49.14 SHIP WAS DESIGNED TO STAY AFLOAT IF UP TO FOUR OF THEM WERE 00:16:49.17\00:16:53.74 PUNCTURED, BUT NOT FIVE. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS THE BOW WILL 00:16:53.78\00:16:57.11 GO DOWN FAR ENOUGH WHERE WATER WILL THEN START TO POUR OVER THE 00:16:57.15\00:17:00.55 DIFFERENT SECTIONS, GRADUALLY FILLING THE REMAINING ONES 00:17:00.58\00:17:04.25 AND YOU BETTER CALL FOR HELP. YOU BETTER GET THE LIFEBOATS 00:17:04.29\00:17:08.76 OUT.' AND HE KNEW THEY DID NOT 00:17:08.79\00:17:11.09 HAVE ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. NOW, YOU MIGHT FIND IT STRANGE. 00:17:11.13\00:17:13.40 THEY HAD THE LEGAL AMOUNT OF LIFEBOATS, BUT IT WAS ONLY 00:17:13.43\00:17:17.13 ENOUGH FOR HALF THE PASSENGERS. DON'T ASK ME WHY. 00:17:17.17\00:17:19.70 THEY JUST FIGURED THAT IT WAS SORT OF A PRECAUTION SO THAT IF 00:17:19.73\00:17:24.07 A FEW PEOPLE NEEDED TO GET INTO THE LIFEBOATS, THEY'D HAVE 00:17:24.11\00:17:26.88 ANOTHER SHIP COME ALONG. THESE WERE VERY BUSY SHIPPING LANES. 00:17:26.91\00:17:29.74 SOMEONE WOULD COME AND HELP THEM BEFORE IT WENT DOWN. 00:17:29.78\00:17:32.08 IT'S AMAZING THAT IT WAS AN HOUR AFTER THEY HIT THE ICEBERG 00:17:32.11\00:17:35.92 BEFORE THEY FIRED THE FIRST FLARE. 00:17:35.95\00:17:38.42 AT THAT POINT, IT'S AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THE OTHER SHIPS 00:17:38.45\00:17:41.46 WERE HEARING ABOUT ALL THE PARTIES ON THE TITANIC AND THE 00:17:41.49\00:17:44.19 CELEBRATIONS ON THE TITANIC AND THE FEASTING. 00:17:44.23\00:17:47.20 YOU KNOW, IT COST OVER FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A 00:17:47.23\00:17:48.83 FIRST-CLASS TICKET ON THE TITANIC BACK THEN? 00:17:48.86\00:17:51.97 WELL, THAT WAS FOR THE PENTHOUSE ROOM - OVER FOUR THOUSAND 00:17:52.00\00:17:55.14 DOLLARS. BUT YOU HAD, YOU KNOW, THE 00:17:55.17\00:17:56.71 FOUNDER OF MACY'S WAS ON THE TITANIC . 00:17:56.74\00:17:59.74 AND YOU HAD MINE OWNERS AND YOU HAD JOHN JACOB ASTOR 00:17:59.77\00:18:04.25 MILLIONAIRES AND - BILLIONAIRES BY TODAY'S STANDARDS. 00:18:04.28\00:18:07.48 THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 20 MILLIONAIRES IN THE WORLD BACK 00:18:07.52\00:18:10.12 THEN AND 11 OF THEM WERE ON THE TITANIC . 00:18:10.15\00:18:13.56 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? AND SO WHEN THEY FIRED THE 00:18:13.59\00:18:16.83 FLARE, THEY HADN'T BEEN TRAINED AND THEY FIRED THE WRONG COLORED 00:18:16.86\00:18:19.96 FLARE - THEY FIRED THE FLARE FOR CELEBRATION. 00:18:20.00\00:18:23.70 AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE CALIFORNIA THOUGHT, 'OH, THEY'RE 00:18:23.73\00:18:27.24 HAVING A PARTY.' SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'WHAT WAS THAT, A SHOOTING 00:18:27.27\00:18:29.27 STAR?' THERE WAS A FAINT LIGHT OFF IN 00:18:29.30\00:18:31.87 THE DISTANCE WAS ALL THAT THEY COULD SEE, BUT THEY DIDN'T 00:18:31.91\00:18:33.88 REALIZE WHY THEY HAD STOPPED IN THE WATER. 00:18:33.91\00:18:37.48 THEY WERE RADIOING FOR HELP AND NOBODY WAS LISTENING AT THAT 00:18:37.51\00:18:41.35 POINT BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT LISTENED TO THE PREVIOUS 00:18:41.38\00:18:43.39 MESSAGES. THEN ANOTHER PROBLEM THEY HAD 00:18:43.42\00:18:45.72 IS, BECAUSE THEY WAITED SO LONG, SOME OF THE FIRST LIFEBOATS THAT 00:18:45.75\00:18:48.96 WENT OUT, WENT OUT LESS THAN HALF FULL. 00:18:48.99\00:18:54.23 ONE LIFEBOAT - LIFEBOAT #1 - HAD 20 PEOPLE IN IT. 00:18:54.30\00:18:56.77 AND THAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT IT COULD CARRY OVER 40. 00:18:56.80\00:19:00.44 AND THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. 00:19:00.47\00:19:02.87 MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT JUST A NUMBER OF INTERESTING FACTS THAT 00:19:02.90\00:19:06.11 I COULD SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT THE TITANIC . 00:19:06.14\00:19:12.78 THERE WERE 13 COUPLES ON BOARD CELEBRATING THEIR HONEYMOON. 00:19:12.81\00:19:17.22 THE TITANIC HAD FOUR ELEVATORS - THREE IN FIRST CLASS, ONE IN 00:19:17.25\00:19:20.06 SECOND CLASS, NONE IN THE THIRD CLASS. 00:19:20.09\00:19:23.66 AT THE TIME, THE TITANIC WHISTLES WERE MADE, THEY WERE 00:19:23.69\00:19:25.69 THE LARGEST THAT COULD EVER BE HEARD - FROM 11 MILES AWAY. 00:19:25.73\00:19:29.33 THE CALIFORNIA WAS 14 MILES AWAY. 00:19:29.36\00:19:33.00 THE BOAT SANK SLOWLY WHEN IT SANK. 00:19:33.03\00:19:36.04 THEY FIGURE, AS IT DRIFTED TO THE BOTTOM, IT TOOK 15 MINUTES 00:19:36.07\00:19:38.67 FROM THE TIME IT SANK TO REACH TWO MILES BELOW, BECAUSE IT SANK 00:19:38.71\00:19:41.91 AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SO MOST PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO 00:19:41.94\00:19:45.31 SWIM AWAY FROM THE BOAT OR THEY BOBBED TO THE SURFACE. 00:19:45.35\00:19:48.72 BUT, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT COMMUNICATE THE URGENCY OF THE 00:19:48.75\00:19:53.99 SITUATION, THERE WERE ONLY 700 PEOPLE IN THE LIFEBOATS THAT 00:19:54.02\00:19:59.16 COULD HOLD OVER 1,000 PEOPLE - MEANING OVER 400 EMPTY SEATS IN 00:19:59.19\00:20:04.17 THE LIFEBOATS. PEOPLE JUST DID NOT GET IN THE BOATS. 00:20:04.20\00:20:07.10 NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND SOME OF THEIR HESITANCY. 00:20:07.14\00:20:11.77 HERE, THE MUSIC'S PLAYING, THE LIGHTS ARE ON, IT'S WARM, AND 00:20:11.81\00:20:17.75 THE CREW IS SAYING, 'WILL YOU PLEASE GET OFF THIS BIG, WARM, 00:20:17.78\00:20:21.18 FESTIVE VESSEL AND GET INTO THAT DARK, COLD, SMALL VESSEL AND 00:20:21.22\00:20:26.99 PUSH OFF INTO THE OCEAN?' COULD YOU UNDERSTAND 00:20:27.02\00:20:29.69 THEIR RELUCTANCE? THE CROWD IS HERE ON THE BOAT - 00:20:29.72\00:20:32.96 THE MAJORITY IS GOING TO BE HERE ON THE BOAT. 00:20:32.99\00:20:34.46 WE WANT YOU TO BE THE MINORITY AND PUSH OFF. 00:20:34.46\00:20:37.10 AND PEOPLE ARE GOING, 'I'M NOT DOING THAT.' YOU KNOW, TO BE A 00:20:37.13\00:20:40.87 CHRISTIAN, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO BE DIFFERENT. 00:20:40.90\00:20:44.27 YOU CAN'T LET THE CROWD THINK FOR YOU. 00:20:44.31\00:20:46.74 YOU CAN'T DO THAT WHICH IS COMFORTABLE. 00:20:46.78\00:20:49.44 YOU CAN'T SAY, 'WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSE GOING TO DO?' 00:20:49.48\00:20:51.11 BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S USUALLY THE MULTITUDE THAT MAKES 00:20:51.15\00:20:55.05 THE WRONG DECISION. JESUS SAID, 'STRAIGHT IS THE 00:20:55.08\00:20:57.72 WAY AND NARROW IS THE GATE THAT LEADS TO LIFE AND FEW 00:20:57.75\00:21:00.49 THERE BE THAT FIND IT. BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO 00:21:00.52\00:21:02.82 DESTRUCTION.' EVERYBODY WANTS TO STAY WITH THE FESTIVE CROWD IN 00:21:02.86\00:21:07.03 THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION, AS IT TELLS US IN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 00:21:07.10\00:21:11.63 AND SO THE SHIP TIPPED UP IN THE WATER AND PEOPLE WERE JUMPING 00:21:11.67\00:21:15.44 OFF AND THEY WERE FALLING AND THERE WAS SOME ACCURACY TO THE 00:21:15.47\00:21:18.74 FILM THAT WAS MADE - IT BEGAN TO CRUMPLE AND EXPLODE. 00:21:18.77\00:21:23.35 AND IT JUST SEEMED SO UNBELIEVABLE. 00:21:23.38\00:21:25.15 EVERYBODY SAID, 'BUT IT'S UNSINKABLE!' 00:21:25.18\00:21:27.72 WE WERE TOLD IT'S UNSINKABLE. YOU PROMISED IT WAS SAFE. 00:21:27.75\00:21:30.69 WE PAID SO MUCH FOR OUR FARE. WHAT ARE YOU TELLING US?' 00:21:30.72\00:21:35.12 AND I SHARE THIS STORY WITH YOU BECAUSE IT HELPS US ILLUSTRATE 00:21:35.16\00:21:38.09 THAT NOBODY THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAPPEN. 00:21:38.13\00:21:42.43 YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID OF THE SECOND COMING, 'IN SUCH AN HOUR 00:21:42.46\00:21:44.43 AS YOU THINK NOT' - DO WE ALL THINK GOD'S GOING TO TEXT US IN 00:21:44.47\00:21:47.47 ADVANCE WHEN THE END, FOR US, IS GOING TO COME? 00:21:47.50\00:21:50.47 WE DON'T ALL HAVE THAT WARNING. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS, 00:21:50.51\00:21:53.17 'TODAY, IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE DON'T HARDEN YOUR HEART. 00:21:53.21\00:21:57.18 IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO SLOWLY GRIEVE AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:21:57.21\00:22:01.38 THE BOAT THE CARPATHIA WAS THE FIRST SHIP THAT CAME BY THE NEXT 00:22:01.42\00:22:06.82 MORNING TO PICK UP SOME OF THE PASSENGERS AND THIS IS ACTUALLY 00:22:06.86\00:22:11.69 A PHOTOGRAPH OF TWO OF THE LIFEBOATS THAT CAME IN. 00:22:11.73\00:22:14.46 NOTICE HOW FEW PEOPLE ARE IN THOSE BOATS. 00:22:14.50\00:22:17.40 THOSE BOATS WERE DESIGNED TO HOLD UP TO 60 PEOPLE. 00:22:17.43\00:22:20.27 WHEN THE TITANIC SANK, THE GRIEF IN NEW YORK AND IRELAND WAS SO 00:22:20.30\00:22:25.54 GREAT. FIRST THEY SAID, 'EVERYBODY'S 00:22:25.57\00:22:26.81 SAFE - THE BOAT'S UNSINKABLE.' IT'S AMAZING, SOME OF THE FIRST 00:22:26.84\00:22:29.01 REPORTS CAME IN AND SAID, 'NO, NO, IT'S A RUMOR. 00:22:29.04\00:22:30.95 THE BOAT'S FINE.' BUT WHEN WORD FINALLY REACHED THAT THEY LOST 00:22:30.98\00:22:36.58 1,500 PEOPLE - 1,503 - AND IT WAS DEVASTATING, ESPECIALLY IN 00:22:36.62\00:22:44.46 BELFAST - AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY: THEY HAD EXTRA ROOM ON THE 00:22:44.49\00:22:47.83 TITANIC AND THEY INVITED - 16 OF THE WORKERS WERE GIVEN AN AWARD 00:22:47.86\00:22:53.44 TO BE ON THE MAIDEN VOYAGE. ALL OF THEM WERE IN THIRD 00:22:53.47\00:22:57.81 CLASS AND THEY ALL PERISHED. ALL OF THEM WENT TO THE SAME 00:22:57.84\00:23:01.61 PROTESTANT CHURCH IN BELFAST. AND THAT WEEK THAT THEY WERE 00:23:01.64\00:23:08.18 HAVING THE FUNERAL, THEY HAD ALREADY INVITED AN AMERICAN 00:23:08.22\00:23:11.05 EVANGELIST TO PREACH IN THIS CHURCH IN BELFAST. 00:23:11.09\00:23:14.32 AND HE WASN'T SURE WHAT HE WAS GOING TO PREACH ABOUT BECAUSE HE 00:23:14.36\00:23:16.76 HAS TO STAND BEFORE THIS CONGREGATION NOW WHERE THERE'S 00:23:16.79\00:23:20.26 ALL OF THESE WIDOWS AND ALL OF THESE ORPHANS AND DIGNITARIES 00:23:20.30\00:23:23.53 FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD COME TO MOURN WITH THE PEOPLE THERE 00:23:23.57\00:23:26.33 IN BELFAST AND - I THOUGHT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE WHEN I FIRST 00:23:26.37\00:23:30.07 HEARD THAT THE SERMON THAT THE PASTOR CHOSE WAS THE UNSINKABLE 00:23:30.11\00:23:33.81 SHIP . I THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, HE'S GOING TO RUB IT IN.' WHEN I WAS 00:23:33.84\00:23:37.15 READING ABOUT THIS - THAT'S NOT VERY NICE. 00:23:37.18\00:23:39.98 BUT AS I READ ON IN THE STORY I FOUND THAT HE WASN'T TALKING 00:23:40.02\00:23:42.75 ABOUT THAT 11-STORY VESSEL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CROWN 00:23:42.78\00:23:48.99 JEWEL OF THE HISTORY OF SHIPPING THAT WENT DOWN IN TWO MILES OF 00:23:49.02\00:23:54.10 WATER ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE. 00:23:54.10\00:23:56.77 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER BOAT OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 00:23:56.80\00:24:00.04 SEA OF GALILEE THAT WAS SWAMPED WITH WAVES AND THE DESPERATE 00:24:00.07\00:24:05.74 DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'WE'RE SINKING.' AND THEY WOKE UP JESUS 00:24:05.77\00:24:09.61 AND JESUS SAID, 'WHY ARE YOU AFRAID? 00:24:09.64\00:24:13.42 THIS BOAT IS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE I'M IN THE BOAT.' FRIENDS, EVERY 00:24:13.45\00:24:19.99 OTHER SHIP IN THIS WORLD IS GOING TO SINK. 00:24:20.02\00:24:22.76 IF YOU'RE TRUSTING IN ANYTHING BUT JESUS, IT WON'T LAST. 00:24:22.79\00:24:27.13 BUT IF CHRIST IS IN YOUR BOAT, HE CAN DO FOR YOU WHAT JESUS DID 00:24:27.13\00:24:31.40 FOR THE SAILORS THAT DAY AND HE CAN DECLARE 'PEACE BE STILL'. 00:24:31.43\00:24:36.30 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES ON. 00:24:36.34\00:24:39.21 JOHN HARPER - HE WASN'T AFRAID TO DROWN BECAUSE HE REALIZED HE 00:24:39.24\00:24:42.28 HAD ETERNAL LIFE. CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE, THEY JUST 00:24:42.31\00:24:44.75 GO TO SLEEP AND THEY WAKE UP IN THE RESURRECTION. 00:24:44.78\00:24:48.05 SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING. 00:24:48.08\00:24:50.55 A THOUSAND MIGHT FALL AT YOUR SIDE, TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT 00:24:50.59\00:24:53.02 HAND - LIKE VIOLET JESSUP - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID BECAUSE 00:24:53.05\00:24:56.73 GOD SAYS, 'I AM WITH YOU AND I WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU.' THE 00:24:56.76\00:25:00.66 QUESTION IS: IS JESUS IN YOUR BOAT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S ACTUALLY 00:25:00.70\00:25:06.10 TWO STORIES ABOUT JESUS ON THE SEA IN THE BIBLE. 00:25:06.13\00:25:11.44 ONE STORY, THEY'RE OVERWHELMED WITH A STORM AND JESUS IS IN THE 00:25:11.47\00:25:15.08 BOAT AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT AND THEY NEED TO WAKE HIM UP. 00:25:15.11\00:25:17.98 THEIR BOAT WAS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE CHRIST WAS IN THE BOAT. 00:25:18.01\00:25:21.08 AND I HOPE THAT JESUS IS THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP. 00:25:21.12\00:25:23.82 BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER STORY WHERE THE DISCIPLES ARE 00:25:23.85\00:25:27.29 SENT ACROSS THE SEA BY JESUS AND THEY SEE HIM WALKING ON THE 00:25:27.32\00:25:32.79 WATER. THEY'RE IN ANOTHER WINDSTORM AND 00:25:32.83\00:25:35.50 THEY'RE ROWING, BUT THEY CAN'T GET TO THEIR DESTINATION. 00:25:35.53\00:25:38.27 THEY'RE ROWING WITH ALL THEIR STRENGTH. 00:25:38.30\00:25:40.37 AT FIRST THEY'RE SCARED. THEN, AFTER PETER WALKS ON THE 00:25:40.40\00:25:43.27 WATER, THEY COME BACK TO THE BOAT TOGETHER AND IT SAYS 00:25:43.30\00:25:46.68 SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING. WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS INTO THE 00:25:46.71\00:25:49.38 BOAT - JOHN CHAPTER 6 - THE BOAT WAS AT THE DESTINATION 00:25:49.41\00:25:53.68 WHERE THEY WERE GOING. YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHAT'S 00:25:53.72\00:25:56.92 THE MOST IMPORTANT DIRECTION FOR YOUR LIFE. 00:25:56.95\00:25:59.22 THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION YOU CAN MAKE TO FULFILL 00:25:59.25\00:26:03.39 GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE, IS TO RECEIVE YOUR CREATOR AND YOUR 00:26:03.43\00:26:07.20 REDEEMER INTO YOUR HEART. IF YOU WANT YOUR BOAT TO BE 00:26:07.23\00:26:10.37 UNSINKABLE, YOU NEED TO INVITE JESUS INTO YOUR BOAT. YOU KNOW, 00:26:10.40\00:26:14.50 THERE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES COMING IN THE WORLD. I BELIEVE WE'RE 00:26:14.54\00:26:18.07 NOT FAR FROM THE DAY WHEN JESUS IS GOING TO RETURN. 00:26:18.11\00:26:21.21 AND, LIKE THE PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC, THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO 00:26:21.24\00:26:24.41 PREOCCUPY THE WORLD WITH THE GAIETY AND THE FESTIVITIES AND 00:26:24.45\00:26:28.68 THE LOVE OF THE WORLD - THE LOVE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT - THE LOVE 00:26:28.72\00:26:33.62 OF POSSESSIONS - THE PRIDE OF LIFE. 00:26:33.66\00:26:36.76 AND WE'RE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH THOSE THINGS THAT WE FORGET 00:26:36.79\00:26:40.36 ABOUT ETERNITY. THIS WORLD IS VERY SHORT. 00:26:40.40\00:26:43.63 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH LIFE IS IT'S TERMINAL. 00:26:43.67\00:26:47.50 THESE BODIES DO NOT INHERIT ETERNITY, IT'S ONLY THROUGH 00:26:47.54\00:26:50.87 CHRIST THAT WE CAN HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. WOULD YOU LIKE 00:26:50.91\00:26:53.81 TO JOIN ME, AS WE CLOSE, IN PRAYING NOW THAT WE CAN HAVE 00:26:53.84\00:26:56.85 THAT GIFT? FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE. 00:26:56.88\00:27:02.12 I PRAY THAT EACH PERSON WILL MAKE THAT DECISION THIS MORNING, 00:27:02.15\00:27:05.05 TO ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOR, THAT THEIR BOAT 00:27:05.09\00:27:08.19 MAY BE UNSINKABLE AND SURVIVE THE STORM. 00:27:08.22\00:27:11.09 WE PRAY IN HIS NAME, AMEN. (MUSIC) 00:27:11.13\00:27:14.60 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 00:27:14.63\00:27:17.97 WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, 00:27:18.00\00:27:21.60 VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 00:27:21.64\00:27:27.04 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 00:27:27.08\00:27:32.01 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 00:27:32.05\00:27:36.35 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 00:27:36.38\00:27:39.85 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 00:27:39.89\00:27:44.36 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 00:27:44.39\00:27:45.83 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 00:27:45.86\00:27:47.83 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 00:27:47.86\00:27:50.43 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 00:27:50.47\00:27:52.77 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST 00:27:52.80\00:27:54.50 WHEREVER HE GOES. >>AMAZING FACTS. 00:27:54.54\00:27:58.54 MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND 00:27:58.57\00:28:02.98 THE WORLD. >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS 00:28:03.01\00:28:04.95 ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF 00:28:04.98\00:28:08.45 DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S 00:28:08.48\00:28:11.75 ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND 00:28:11.79\00:28:14.59 ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 00:28:14.62\00:28:17.99 LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS. 00:28:18.03\00:28:19.89 THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 00:28:19.93\00:28:21.23 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. 00:28:21.26\00:28:23.00 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING 00:28:23.03\00:28:27.10 MYSELF. >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID 00:28:27.14\00:28:30.01 THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT 00:28:30.04\00:28:33.34 AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER. 00:28:33.38\00:28:36.14 >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD 00:28:36.18\00:28:40.22 MISSING IN MY LIFE. >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY 00:28:40.25\00:28:42.45 SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND 00:28:42.48\00:28:47.42 SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL. 00:28:47.46\00:28:50.73 THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 00:28:50.76\00:28:54.73 (MUSIC) 00:28:54.76\00:29:25.73 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:29:25.76\00:29:28.23 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:29:28.26\00:29:43.28