Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000167A
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>PRIDE OFTEN GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT 01:15 BEFORE A FALL. THIS BOAT SORT OF SYMBOLIZED 01:18 THE ARROGANCE OF THE AGE. THEY HAD PUT SO MUCH TRUST IN 01:22 THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN 01:25 BEYOND THE POINT WHERE EVEN NATURE COULD BRING 01:29 DOWN THE SHIP. >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING 01:34 FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 01:37 THROUGH MEDIA. THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS 01:40 FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 01:43 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING 01:46 FACTS PRESENTS. >>THIS MORNING'S PRESENTATION 01:55 IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL. 01:57 IT IS BASED ON A BIBLE STORY, BUT I'LL BE TAKING A MAJOR 01:59 DETOUR THROUGH HISTORY. THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION IS 02:04 THE UNSINKABLE SHIP , BUT AS WE ALWAYS DO, THESE ARE 02:08 ROOTED IN BIBLE STORIES. AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING 02:13 TO THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22, AND THIS WILL BE 02:18 THE STORY THAT WILL BE THE SPRINGBOARD FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 02:22 LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22, "NOW IT HAPPENED, ON A CERTAIN DAY," 02:28 - ACTUALLY, AT THE END OF A DAY OF TEACHING. IT WAS TOWARD 02:30 EVENING - "THAT HE GOT INTO A BOAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES. AND HE 02:34 SAID TO THEM, 'LET US CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF 02:38 THE LAKE.' AND THEY LAUNCHED OUT. 02:42 BUT AS THEY SAILED HE FELL ASLEEP. 02:45 AND A WINDSTORM CAME DOWN ON THE LAKE, AND THEY WERE FILLING WITH 02:49 WATER, AND WERE IN JEOPARDY. AND THEY CAME TO HIM AND AWOKE 02:53 HIM, SAYING, 'MASTER, MASTER, WE ARE PERISHING!'" 02:58 THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME STORM BECAUSE THESE WERE WELL-SEASONED 03:02 FISHERMEN THAT HAD SPENT THEIR LIVES ON THAT LAKE. 03:05 AND HE AWOKE, LOOKED AROUND, SURVEYED THE ELEMENTS, RUBBED 03:09 HIS EYES, AND HE UTTERED ONE WORD IN HEBREW - IT SAYS, 'PEACE 03:12 BE STILL' IN GREEK, BUT ALL HE REALLY SAID WAS 'SHALOM'. 03:16 AND AS SOON AS HE SAID THAT, THE WIND CEASED ITS RAGING OF 03:23 THE WATER, AND THERE WAS A CALM. WHO IS THIS THAT EVEN THE 03:27 WIND AND THE WAVES OBEY HIM? YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE IS FILLED 03:30 WITH STORIES ABOUT BOATS AND THE SEA. 03:32 MATTER OF FACT, THE BIBLE BEGINS WITH A STORY ABOUT A STORM AND A 03:35 BIG BOAT. YOU'VE HEARD OF NOAH. AND, AS YOU GO THROUGH THE 03:40 GOSPEL STORIES - SEVERAL STORIES WITH JESUS ON THE SEA. 03:44 THE NEW TESTAMENT ENDS - THE GOSPEL OF - OR THE BOOK OF ACTS 03:48 ENDS WITH A GREAT STORM WHERE PAUL ENDS UP BEING SHIPWRECKED. 03:53 AND, OF COURSE, WE'VE GOT THE STORY OF JONAH. 03:56 THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT STORMS. 03:58 YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ABOUT KING JEHOSHOPHAT? 04:02 HE HAD A WHOLE FLEET OF SHIPS THAT WENT DOWN IN A STORM. 04:05 PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING STORIES OF MARITIME DISASTERS IS 04:12 THE TITANIC , BECAUSE THE TITANIC REPRESENTED, REALLY, A 04:16 CHANGE IN A LOT OF THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON IN THE WORLD. 04:23 IT WAS THE CHANGE OF AN AGE. NOW SOME OF YOU MAY OR MAY NOT 04:28 KNOW THAT THERE WAS A BOOK WRITTEN - THERE'S MANY MOVIES 04:31 AND BOOKS ABOUT THE TITANIC , BUT THERE WAS ONE BOOK WRITTEN 04:34 THAT WAS SIMILAR BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT A DIFFERENT SHIP. 04:38 AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MERCHANT SEAMAN BY THE NAME OF MORGAN 04:41 ROBERTSON. ROBERTSON WROTE A BOOK CALLED 04:44 THE WRECK OF THE TITAN . AND HE WROTE HIS BOOK THE WRECK 04:48 OF THE TITAN 14 YEARS BEFORE THE TITANIC WAS BUILT. 04:53 NOW LISTEN TO SOME OF THE VERY INTERESTING THINGS FROM MORGAN 04:56 ROBERTSON'S BOOK CALLED THE WRECK OF THE TITAN AND YOU TELL 05:01 ME IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS IS UNCANNY. FIRST OF ALL, THE NAME 05:04 - THE BOOK IS CALLED THE 'TITAN' - TITANIC AND TITAN COME 05:07 FROM THESE ANCIENT GIANT GREEK GODS - SAME NAME, REALLY. 05:13 HIS BOOK - HIS FICTIONAL STORY WAS WRITTEN ABOUT THE LARGEST 05:17 ENGLISH OCEAN LINER THAT HAD EVER BEEN BUILT THAT WAS 05:21 CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN APRIL, STRUCK AN ICEBERG, AND SANK - 05:29 HAD THE MOST ELITE PEOPLE OF THE AGE ON THE BOAT. 05:34 THE LENGTH OF THE TITAN - IN ROBERTSON'S BOOK - WAS 800 FEET. 05:38 THE TITANIC - 882 FEET. THE WIDTH OF THE TITAN - 05:43 90 FEET - TITANIC - 92. THE TITAN WAS THE FASTEST SHIP 05:49 THAT HAD EVER BEEN BUILT - LIKE THE TITANIC - IT 05:51 COULD GO 25 KNOTS. IN REALITY, THE TITANIC COULD ONLY GO 23. 05:57 THEY SAID THAT THE TITAN WAS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE IT HAD 19 06:00 WATER-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS SEPARATING THE SECTIONS OF THE 06:03 SHIP. THE TITANIC ACTUALLY HAD 16. 06:07 BOTH THE TITAN AND THE TITANIC HAD THREE PROPELLERS. 06:11 THE CAPACITY OF THE TITAN, IN ROBERTSON'S BOOK, WAS 3,000 06:15 PEOPLE - TITANIC 3,250. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE 06:20 ACTUALLY ON BOARD DURING THE DISASTER: 2,000 ON THE TITAN 06:25 - 2,228 ON THE TITANIC . THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 06:30 LIFEBOATS ON THE TITAN. THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 06:33 LIFEBOATS ON THE TITANIC - ONLY 24 ON THE TITAN; 20 ON THE 06:38 TITANIC - ABOUT HALF AS MANY AS THEY NEEDED. 06:43 THEY WERE BOTH SAILING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND SANK, HITTING 06:46 A PYRAMID-SHAPED ICEBERG THAT HAD OVERTURNED 400 MILES FROM 06:53 NEWFOUNDLAND. AND ISN'T IT INCREDIBLE THAT 06:58 THEY WERE BOTH ENCOURAGED TO BREAK SPEED RECORDS. 07:01 BOTH HAPPENED IN APRIL AND THE STORY THE WRECK OF THE TITAN WAS 07:05 WRITTEN 14 YEARS BEFORE THE TITANIC WAS BUILT. 07:10 THE AMAZING THING IS THAT MORGAN ROBERTSON TOOK THE BOOK TO 07:14 SEVERAL PUBLISHERS AND THE EDITORS SAID, 'WE'RE NOT 07:16 INTERESTED.' AND HE KEPT SAYING, 'WHY NOT?' 07:17 THEY SAID, 'WHAT YOU'VE WRITTEN ABOUT IS TOO UNBELIEVABLE. 07:20 IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.' BUT WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 07:27 THE TITANIC REALLY DID HAPPEN. YOU ALMOST WONDER, WAS THIS 07:30 SOME UNWITTING PROPHECY? THE LORD WAS TRYING TO TELL US 07:35 - ABOUT MAN'S - THE FUTILITY OF HIS TRUST IN HIS OWN TECHNOLOGY. 07:40 WELL, WHEN THE TITANIC SANK, IT REMAINED MISSING FOR 75 YEARS. 07:47 THEN, BACK IN 1985, THE SEARCH, I THINK, BEGAN IN 1984. 07:53 DR. ROBERT BALLARD WAS CRISS-CROSSING ACROSS THE 07:56 ATLANTIC IN A GRID, PULLING SOME SONAR EQUIPMENT, TO TRY TO 08:01 LOCATE THE WRECK, AND THEY WERE DRAGGING A CAMERA ACROSS THE 08:05 BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. THEY WANTED TO FIND OUT EXACTLY 08:09 - IF THEY COULD CONFIRM WHAT HAD HAPPENED WITH THE ICEBERG 08:12 BY LOOKING AT THE WRECK. AND THEY FOUND THAT THE BOAT HAD 08:15 BROKEN IN TWO AND THE SECTIONS WERE SEPARATED BY 1900 FEET. 08:19 IT HAD, ACTUALLY, TOTALLY SPLIT IN TWO, WHICH IS INTERESTING 08:23 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE WHEN THE TITANIC WAS BUILT, IN 08:28 BELFAST, IRELAND, IT WAS BUILT IN RECORD TIME AND IT WAS DEEMED 08:33 TO BE UNSINKABLE. 3,000 MEN WERE INVOLVED 08:36 IN BUILDING THE TITANIC . IT WAS ACTUALLY BUILT 08:39 BY WHITE STAR LINES. IT WAS PART OF THREE SHIPS THAT 08:43 WERE BUILT: THE TITANIC , THE BRITANNIC , AND THE OLYMPIC . 08:47 AND WHEN IT FINALLY MADE ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE, THAT APRIL IN 08:51 1912 - A LITTLE MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, NOW - IT WAS 08:55 CALLED THE MILLIONAIRE'S SPECIAL BECAUSE A LOT OF THE LEADING 08:59 MILLIONAIRES AND STOCKBROKERS WERE ON THE SHIP. 09:03 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL BUILT BY 09:06 THE ASTOR FAMILY? JOHN JACOB ASTOR 09:09 WAS ON THE SHIP. YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ABOUT 09:12 THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. THEY MADE A MOVIE ABOUT HER. 09:15 MOLLY BROWN, THE SILVER MINE HEIRESS FROM COLORADO WAS ON THE 09:19 SHIP. ASTOR PERISHED; MOLLY BROWN SURVIVED. 09:23 THEY HAD ALL OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGN AND ELEGANCE 09:30 FOR THE AGE PUT INTO THE TITANIC . 09:33 THIS IS THE GRAND BALLROOM. IT WAS THE CENTRAL PIECE OF THE 09:36 SHIP AND - BEAUTIFUL DINING ROOMS AND THEY HAD SOME OF THE 09:40 BEST WOOD ENGRAVED FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 09:43 IT WAS A PIECE OF ART. IT WAS JUST THE GREATEST 09:46 ARTISANS AND ALL OF THE ELEGANCE OF AN ERA WERE INCORPORATED, YET 09:51 THEY HAD SOME OF THE MOST MODERN TECHNOLOGY. 09:54 THIS BOAT SORT OF SYMBOLIZED THE ARROGANCE OF THE AGE. 09:58 THEY HAD PUT SO MUCH TRUST IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE THAT THEY 10:02 THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN BEYOND THE POINT WHERE EVEN 10:05 NATURE COULD BRING DOWN THE SHIP - AND ESPECIALLY IN SUCH 10:08 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. I'LL SHARE WITH YOU A FEW 10:10 AMAZING FACTS AS WE PROCEED, BUT ONE THAT'S INTERESTING. 10:15 TITANIC WAS THE ONLY SHIP IN RECORDED HISTORY THAT WAS 10:19 ACTUALLY ON FIRE THE ENTIRE TIME IT WAS IN SERVICE. 10:23 JUST BEFORE THEY LAUNCHED A FIRE BROKE OUT IN ONE OF THE ELECTRIC 10:26 ROOMS AND EVERY TIME THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT TO ATTEND TO IT, IT 10:32 FLARED UP AGAIN AND SO THEY JUST CLOSED THE DOOR TO ROB IT OF 10:35 OXYGEN AND THEY NEVER DID GET THE FIRE OUT. 10:38 IT WAS SMALL ENOUGH THEY COULD ISOLATE IT AND STILL OPERATE ALL 10:41 THE ELECTRIC NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE SHIP, BUT IT WAS ON FIRE THE 10:44 WHOLE TIME THAT IT WAS IN SERVICE. 10:47 ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT, AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE PICTURE - I 10:49 THINK IT'S ON THE SCREEN - IS, WHILE IT HAD FOUR SMOKESTACKS, 10:53 THE LAST ONE IN THE REAR WAS A DUMMY. 10:57 THEY WANTED THE SHIP TO LOOK SYMMETRICAL. 10:59 THEY WERE SO CONSUMED WITH MAKING A STATEMENT THAT THEY 11:03 BUILT A - IT DID HAVE A LITTLE AIR VENT IN IT, BUT IT WAS - IT 11:06 HAD NO SMOKE GOING OUT. IT WAS A BIG DUMMY STACK TO 11:08 TRY TO MAKE IT LOOK EVEN. SO IF YOU EVER SEE MOVIES AND 11:12 STORIES WHERE YOU'VE GOT SMOKE COMING OUT OF ALL FOUR STACKS OF 11:14 THE TITANIC , THEY HAVEN'T DONE THEIR RESEARCH. 11:16 (LAUGHTER) THEY ALSO HAD A MODERN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - 11:21 IT WAS A MARCONI WIRELESS AND THAT WAS HOW THE SHIPS WOULD 11:26 TALK BACK THEN. THEY COULDN'T TALK, BUT THEY 11:29 USED A TYPE OF MORSE CODE TO COMMUNICATE. 11:32 WELL, THE MAN WHO WAS AT THE STATION DURING THE FATEFUL HOURS 11:36 ON THE 14TH OF APRIL WAS JACK PHILLIPS AND HE WAS FRANTICALLY 11:44 TAPPING OUT THOSE MESSAGES AND SOME OF THE OPERATORS FROM OTHER 11:46 SHIPS, LIKE A SHIP BY THE NAME OF THE CALIFORNIA SAID, 'WE HAVE 11:51 ENCOUNTERED ICEBERGS. MATTER OF FACT WE HAVE 11:53 STOPPED FOR THE EVENING. THE CAPTAIN TOLD US TO STOP 11:56 BECAUSE WE'VE RUN INTO A FIELD OF ICE. ANOTHER RUSSIAN BOAT 12:00 WIRED THE TITANIC AND THEY WOULD WIRE THEIR LOCATION PERIODICALLY 12:04 AND THEY SAID, 'BASED UPON YOUR LOCATION, YOU ARE MOVING WAY TOO 12:08 FAST FOR THE ICE THAT'S AHEAD OF YOU. 12:11 YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN.' AND SO THEY RECEIVED SEVERAL MESSAGES 12:15 THAT WERE SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, WE KNOW YOU GUYS ARE RIP-SNORTING 12:18 ACROSS THE OCEAN TRYING TO BREAK A RECORD, BUT YOU NEED TO BE 12:20 AWARE THAT THERE'S A FIELD OF ICE.' AND THE RUSSIAN FREIGHTER 12:24 SAID, 'THERE ARE TWO VERY SIGNIFICANT ICEBERGS' - SO IT 12:29 WASN'T JUST THE SMALL BROKEN ICE THAT THEY COULD PLOW THROUGH, 12:32 THERE WERE SOME BIG ICEBERGS THAT COULD SERIOUSLY DAMAGE THE 12:35 SHIP. SO THEY HAD RECEIVED THESE 12:37 WARNINGS. AT ABOUT 11:40 THAT EVENING, THE 12:43 RADIO OPERATOR ON THE CALIFORNIA - THEY COULD SEE A FAINT LIGHT 12:48 OF THE TITANIC OFF IN THE DISTANCE. HE RADIOED AND SAID - 12:54 IT WAS THE SIXTH MESSAGE THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED THAT DAY ABOUT 12:57 ICE AHEAD - HE RADIOED AND SAID, 'YOU GUYS BETTER SLOW DOWN 13:02 BECAUSE THERE'S ICE AHEAD.' AND JACK PHILLIPS RADIOED BACK TO 13:06 CYRIL, WHO WAS THE RADIO OPERATOR - CYRIL EVANS - ON THE 13:09 CALIFORNIA - AND HE SAID, 'PLEASE, SHUT UP! SHUT UP! 13:13 I'M BUSY.' WELL, HE THOUGHT THAT WAS SO RUDE, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 13:18 SUPPOSED TO STAY ON DUTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT, AT 11:40 PM HE TURNED 13:22 OFF HIS WIRELESS AND TOOK OFF HIS HEADPHONES. 13:27 MOMENTS LATER THE TITANIC STRUCK THE ICEBERG AND THEY BEGAN TO 13:31 RADIO FOR HELP AND NOBODY WAS LISTENING. 13:34 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MESSAGE IN THERE. 13:36 GOD OFTEN, THROUGH OUR LIVES, SENDS US WARNINGS, BUT WE'RE 13:40 OFTEN SO PREOCCUPIED WITH DOING OUR OWN THING AND OUR AGENDA, 13:43 WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF GOD AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT 13:47 YOU CAN GRIEVE AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 13:49 LITTLE BY LITTLE THE VOLUME GOES DOWN. 13:51 GOD IS CALLING US AND WE IGNORE HIM. 13:54 THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE TURN AWAY OUR EAR FROM HEARING THE LAW OF 13:56 GOD, EVEN OUR PRAYER BECOMES AN ABOMINATION. 14:00 AND FINALLY, WHEN THEY WERE RADIOING BACK, THERE WAS NO 14:03 RESPONSE. 14:06 >>THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE WE HEAR REFERENCES TO 'THE COMING OF THE 14:08 LORD' OR 'THE DAY OF THE LORD' OR 'THE LAST DAY'. 14:12 YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW IT'S COMING SOMETIME - IT MAY COME 14:14 FOR US INDIVIDUALLY AND WE NEED TO BE READY. 14:17 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ETERNAL DESTINIES ARE DECIDED IN 14:20 THAT MOMENT WHEN THE END COMES. WOULD YOU LIKE TO 14:23 KNOW HOW TO BE READY? WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT CAN 14:26 HELP YOU WITH THAT BASED ON SCRIPTURE. 14:28 IT'S CALLED THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH BY JOE CREWS AND YOU'LL 14:31 FIND IT VERY INSPIRING AND ENCOURAGING AS YOU PREPARE TO 14:35 LIVE A LIFE WHERE YOU'RE READY TO MEET THE LORD AT ANY TIME. 14:38 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE 14:43 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #101. 14:47 AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ 14:50 IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 14:52 WE WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR 14:55 MISSION. 14:57 >>FINALLY, THEY SAW AN ICEBERG DEAD AHEAD. 15:01 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE TITANIC WAS GOING 20 KNOTS - YOU'VE 15:05 HEARD ABOUT STOPPING A TRAIN? THEY HAD TO PUT IT IN FULL 15:08 REVERSE AND IT STILL TOOK HALF A MILE TO STOP IT. 15:12 AND SO, THAT WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH WARNING. 15:15 AND THE PILOT MADE A COUPLE OF GRAVE ERRORS. 15:17 ONE IS, HE PUT IT IN FULL REVERSE AND THEN HE TURNED IT. 15:21 WHAT, ACTUALLY, THAT DID, IS IT SLOWED THE TURN AND SO, AS YOU 15:27 KNOW, THEY CAME UP ALONGSIDE THE ICEBERG AND THEY SCRAPED THE 15:30 ICEBERG IN A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAY AND IT CUT AN OPENING UNDER 15:37 THE SIDE OF THE SHIP 300 FEET LONG. 15:40 AND, AS THE REPORTS BEGAN TO COME BACK TO THE BRIDGE, THE 15:42 PEOPLE ON THE BOAT, THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALLY KNOW WHAT HAD 15:44 HAPPENED. THEY JUST - THE BOAT KEPT MOVING 15:46 FORWARD, BECAUSE IT KIND OF SIDE-SWIPED IT AND CUT 15:48 IT BELOW THE WATER LINE. PEOPLE FELT THIS LARGE SHAKE AND 15:54 THEY THOUGHT MAYBE ONE OF THE ENGINES WAS OUT OF CENTER. 15:58 AND THEY HEARD THIS GRINDING NOISE - SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE 16:01 ON DECK SAW THE ICEBERG. SOME OF THE ICE ACTUALLY SNAPPED 16:04 AND POPPED UP IN THE AIR AND LANDED ON THE DECK AND A FEW OF 16:07 THE YOUNG PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS IS GREAT FUN - THEY WERE GOING 16:09 TO MAKE A MEMORY - HAVE AN ADVENTURE. 16:11 THEY WERE PLAYING SOCCER WITH A PIECE OF ICE ON THE DECK. 16:16 BUT WORD BEGAN TO REACH THE CAPTAIN. 16:18 HE RAN TO THE BRIDGE AND HE CALLED THE SHIP'S DESIGNER. 16:21 THOMAS ANDREWS ALSO HAPPENED TO BE ON THE SHIP THAT DAY AND HE 16:27 HEARD, 'WATER'S COMING IN - SECTION 1, SECTION 2, SECTION 3, 16:31 SECTION 4 - SECTION 5.' AND, WHEN ANDREWS DID SOME 16:37 CALCULATING, HE SAID TO THE CAPTAIN, 'YOU BETTER MAN THE 16:42 LIFE BOATS' - HE SAID - 'THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN.' AND THE 16:45 CAPTAIN SAID, 'WELL, IT CAN'T BE GOING DOWN' - HE SAID - 'WE'VE 16:47 GOT THE WATER TIGHT COMPARTMENTS.' HE SAID, 'THIS 16:49 SHIP WAS DESIGNED TO STAY AFLOAT IF UP TO FOUR OF THEM WERE 16:53 PUNCTURED, BUT NOT FIVE. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS THE BOW WILL 16:57 GO DOWN FAR ENOUGH WHERE WATER WILL THEN START TO POUR OVER THE 17:00 DIFFERENT SECTIONS, GRADUALLY FILLING THE REMAINING ONES 17:04 AND YOU BETTER CALL FOR HELP. YOU BETTER GET THE LIFEBOATS 17:08 OUT.' AND HE KNEW THEY DID NOT 17:11 HAVE ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. NOW, YOU MIGHT FIND IT STRANGE. 17:13 THEY HAD THE LEGAL AMOUNT OF LIFEBOATS, BUT IT WAS ONLY 17:17 ENOUGH FOR HALF THE PASSENGERS. DON'T ASK ME WHY. 17:19 THEY JUST FIGURED THAT IT WAS SORT OF A PRECAUTION SO THAT IF 17:24 A FEW PEOPLE NEEDED TO GET INTO THE LIFEBOATS, THEY'D HAVE 17:26 ANOTHER SHIP COME ALONG. THESE WERE VERY BUSY SHIPPING LANES. 17:29 SOMEONE WOULD COME AND HELP THEM BEFORE IT WENT DOWN. 17:32 IT'S AMAZING THAT IT WAS AN HOUR AFTER THEY HIT THE ICEBERG 17:35 BEFORE THEY FIRED THE FIRST FLARE. 17:38 AT THAT POINT, IT'S AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THE OTHER SHIPS 17:41 WERE HEARING ABOUT ALL THE PARTIES ON THE TITANIC AND THE 17:44 CELEBRATIONS ON THE TITANIC AND THE FEASTING. 17:47 YOU KNOW, IT COST OVER FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A 17:48 FIRST-CLASS TICKET ON THE TITANIC BACK THEN? 17:52 WELL, THAT WAS FOR THE PENTHOUSE ROOM - OVER FOUR THOUSAND 17:55 DOLLARS. BUT YOU HAD, YOU KNOW, THE 17:56 FOUNDER OF MACY'S WAS ON THE TITANIC . 17:59 AND YOU HAD MINE OWNERS AND YOU HAD JOHN JACOB ASTOR 18:04 MILLIONAIRES AND - BILLIONAIRES BY TODAY'S STANDARDS. 18:07 THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 20 MILLIONAIRES IN THE WORLD BACK 18:10 THEN AND 11 OF THEM WERE ON THE TITANIC . 18:13 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? AND SO WHEN THEY FIRED THE 18:16 FLARE, THEY HADN'T BEEN TRAINED AND THEY FIRED THE WRONG COLORED 18:20 FLARE - THEY FIRED THE FLARE FOR CELEBRATION. 18:23 AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE CALIFORNIA THOUGHT, 'OH, THEY'RE 18:27 HAVING A PARTY.' SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'WHAT WAS THAT, A SHOOTING 18:29 STAR?' THERE WAS A FAINT LIGHT OFF IN 18:31 THE DISTANCE WAS ALL THAT THEY COULD SEE, BUT THEY DIDN'T 18:33 REALIZE WHY THEY HAD STOPPED IN THE WATER. 18:37 THEY WERE RADIOING FOR HELP AND NOBODY WAS LISTENING AT THAT 18:41 POINT BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT LISTENED TO THE PREVIOUS 18:43 MESSAGES. THEN ANOTHER PROBLEM THEY HAD 18:45 IS, BECAUSE THEY WAITED SO LONG, SOME OF THE FIRST LIFEBOATS THAT 18:48 WENT OUT, WENT OUT LESS THAN HALF FULL. 18:54 ONE LIFEBOAT - LIFEBOAT #1 - HAD 20 PEOPLE IN IT. 18:56 AND THAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT IT COULD CARRY OVER 40. 19:00 AND THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. 19:02 MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT JUST A NUMBER OF INTERESTING FACTS THAT 19:06 I COULD SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT THE TITANIC . 19:12 THERE WERE 13 COUPLES ON BOARD CELEBRATING THEIR HONEYMOON. 19:17 THE TITANIC HAD FOUR ELEVATORS - THREE IN FIRST CLASS, ONE IN 19:20 SECOND CLASS, NONE IN THE THIRD CLASS. 19:23 AT THE TIME, THE TITANIC WHISTLES WERE MADE, THEY WERE 19:25 THE LARGEST THAT COULD EVER BE HEARD - FROM 11 MILES AWAY. 19:29 THE CALIFORNIA WAS 14 MILES AWAY. 19:33 THE BOAT SANK SLOWLY WHEN IT SANK. 19:36 THEY FIGURE, AS IT DRIFTED TO THE BOTTOM, IT TOOK 15 MINUTES 19:38 FROM THE TIME IT SANK TO REACH TWO MILES BELOW, BECAUSE IT SANK 19:41 AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SO MOST PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO 19:45 SWIM AWAY FROM THE BOAT OR THEY BOBBED TO THE SURFACE. 19:48 BUT, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT COMMUNICATE THE URGENCY OF THE 19:54 SITUATION, THERE WERE ONLY 700 PEOPLE IN THE LIFEBOATS THAT 19:59 COULD HOLD OVER 1,000 PEOPLE - MEANING OVER 400 EMPTY SEATS IN 20:04 THE LIFEBOATS. PEOPLE JUST DID NOT GET IN THE BOATS. 20:07 NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND SOME OF THEIR HESITANCY. 20:11 HERE, THE MUSIC'S PLAYING, THE LIGHTS ARE ON, IT'S WARM, AND 20:17 THE CREW IS SAYING, 'WILL YOU PLEASE GET OFF THIS BIG, WARM, 20:21 FESTIVE VESSEL AND GET INTO THAT DARK, COLD, SMALL VESSEL AND 20:27 PUSH OFF INTO THE OCEAN?' COULD YOU UNDERSTAND 20:29 THEIR RELUCTANCE? THE CROWD IS HERE ON THE BOAT - 20:32 THE MAJORITY IS GOING TO BE HERE ON THE BOAT. 20:34 WE WANT YOU TO BE THE MINORITY AND PUSH OFF. 20:37 AND PEOPLE ARE GOING, 'I'M NOT DOING THAT.' YOU KNOW, TO BE A 20:40 CHRISTIAN, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO BE DIFFERENT. 20:44 YOU CAN'T LET THE CROWD THINK FOR YOU. 20:46 YOU CAN'T DO THAT WHICH IS COMFORTABLE. 20:49 YOU CAN'T SAY, 'WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSE GOING TO DO?' 20:51 BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S USUALLY THE MULTITUDE THAT MAKES 20:55 THE WRONG DECISION. JESUS SAID, 'STRAIGHT IS THE 20:57 WAY AND NARROW IS THE GATE THAT LEADS TO LIFE AND FEW 21:00 THERE BE THAT FIND IT. BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO 21:02 DESTRUCTION.' EVERYBODY WANTS TO STAY WITH THE FESTIVE CROWD IN 21:07 THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION, AS IT TELLS US IN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 21:11 AND SO THE SHIP TIPPED UP IN THE WATER AND PEOPLE WERE JUMPING 21:15 OFF AND THEY WERE FALLING AND THERE WAS SOME ACCURACY TO THE 21:18 FILM THAT WAS MADE - IT BEGAN TO CRUMPLE AND EXPLODE. 21:23 AND IT JUST SEEMED SO UNBELIEVABLE. 21:25 EVERYBODY SAID, 'BUT IT'S UNSINKABLE!' 21:27 WE WERE TOLD IT'S UNSINKABLE. YOU PROMISED IT WAS SAFE. 21:30 WE PAID SO MUCH FOR OUR FARE. WHAT ARE YOU TELLING US?' 21:35 AND I SHARE THIS STORY WITH YOU BECAUSE IT HELPS US ILLUSTRATE 21:38 THAT NOBODY THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAPPEN. 21:42 YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID OF THE SECOND COMING, 'IN SUCH AN HOUR 21:44 AS YOU THINK NOT' - DO WE ALL THINK GOD'S GOING TO TEXT US IN 21:47 ADVANCE WHEN THE END, FOR US, IS GOING TO COME? 21:50 WE DON'T ALL HAVE THAT WARNING. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS, 21:53 'TODAY, IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE DON'T HARDEN YOUR HEART. 21:57 IT'S A DANGEROUS THING TO SLOWLY GRIEVE AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 22:01 THE BOAT THE CARPATHIA WAS THE FIRST SHIP THAT CAME BY THE NEXT 22:06 MORNING TO PICK UP SOME OF THE PASSENGERS AND THIS IS ACTUALLY 22:11 A PHOTOGRAPH OF TWO OF THE LIFEBOATS THAT CAME IN. 22:14 NOTICE HOW FEW PEOPLE ARE IN THOSE BOATS. 22:17 THOSE BOATS WERE DESIGNED TO HOLD UP TO 60 PEOPLE. 22:20 WHEN THE TITANIC SANK, THE GRIEF IN NEW YORK AND IRELAND WAS SO 22:25 GREAT. FIRST THEY SAID, 'EVERYBODY'S 22:26 SAFE - THE BOAT'S UNSINKABLE.' IT'S AMAZING, SOME OF THE FIRST 22:29 REPORTS CAME IN AND SAID, 'NO, NO, IT'S A RUMOR. 22:30 THE BOAT'S FINE.' BUT WHEN WORD FINALLY REACHED THAT THEY LOST 22:36 1,500 PEOPLE - 1,503 - AND IT WAS DEVASTATING, ESPECIALLY IN 22:44 BELFAST - AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY: THEY HAD EXTRA ROOM ON THE 22:47 TITANIC AND THEY INVITED - 16 OF THE WORKERS WERE GIVEN AN AWARD 22:53 TO BE ON THE MAIDEN VOYAGE. ALL OF THEM WERE IN THIRD 22:57 CLASS AND THEY ALL PERISHED. ALL OF THEM WENT TO THE SAME 23:01 PROTESTANT CHURCH IN BELFAST. AND THAT WEEK THAT THEY WERE 23:08 HAVING THE FUNERAL, THEY HAD ALREADY INVITED AN AMERICAN 23:11 EVANGELIST TO PREACH IN THIS CHURCH IN BELFAST. 23:14 AND HE WASN'T SURE WHAT HE WAS GOING TO PREACH ABOUT BECAUSE HE 23:16 HAS TO STAND BEFORE THIS CONGREGATION NOW WHERE THERE'S 23:20 ALL OF THESE WIDOWS AND ALL OF THESE ORPHANS AND DIGNITARIES 23:23 FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD COME TO MOURN WITH THE PEOPLE THERE 23:26 IN BELFAST AND - I THOUGHT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE WHEN I FIRST 23:30 HEARD THAT THE SERMON THAT THE PASTOR CHOSE WAS THE UNSINKABLE 23:33 SHIP . I THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, HE'S GOING TO RUB IT IN.' WHEN I WAS 23:37 READING ABOUT THIS - THAT'S NOT VERY NICE. 23:40 BUT AS I READ ON IN THE STORY I FOUND THAT HE WASN'T TALKING 23:42 ABOUT THAT 11-STORY VESSEL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CROWN 23:49 JEWEL OF THE HISTORY OF SHIPPING THAT WENT DOWN IN TWO MILES OF 23:54 WATER ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE. 23:56 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER BOAT OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 24:00 SEA OF GALILEE THAT WAS SWAMPED WITH WAVES AND THE DESPERATE 24:05 DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'WE'RE SINKING.' AND THEY WOKE UP JESUS 24:09 AND JESUS SAID, 'WHY ARE YOU AFRAID? 24:13 THIS BOAT IS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE I'M IN THE BOAT.' FRIENDS, EVERY 24:20 OTHER SHIP IN THIS WORLD IS GOING TO SINK. 24:22 IF YOU'RE TRUSTING IN ANYTHING BUT JESUS, IT WON'T LAST. 24:27 BUT IF CHRIST IS IN YOUR BOAT, HE CAN DO FOR YOU WHAT JESUS DID 24:31 FOR THE SAILORS THAT DAY AND HE CAN DECLARE 'PEACE BE STILL'. 24:36 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES ON. 24:39 JOHN HARPER - HE WASN'T AFRAID TO DROWN BECAUSE HE REALIZED HE 24:42 HAD ETERNAL LIFE. CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE, THEY JUST 24:44 GO TO SLEEP AND THEY WAKE UP IN THE RESURRECTION. 24:48 SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING. 24:50 A THOUSAND MIGHT FALL AT YOUR SIDE, TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT 24:53 HAND - LIKE VIOLET JESSUP - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID BECAUSE 24:56 GOD SAYS, 'I AM WITH YOU AND I WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU.' THE 25:00 QUESTION IS: IS JESUS IN YOUR BOAT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S ACTUALLY 25:06 TWO STORIES ABOUT JESUS ON THE SEA IN THE BIBLE. 25:11 ONE STORY, THEY'RE OVERWHELMED WITH A STORM AND JESUS IS IN THE 25:15 BOAT AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT AND THEY NEED TO WAKE HIM UP. 25:18 THEIR BOAT WAS UNSINKABLE BECAUSE CHRIST WAS IN THE BOAT. 25:21 AND I HOPE THAT JESUS IS THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP. 25:23 BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER STORY WHERE THE DISCIPLES ARE 25:27 SENT ACROSS THE SEA BY JESUS AND THEY SEE HIM WALKING ON THE 25:32 WATER. THEY'RE IN ANOTHER WINDSTORM AND 25:35 THEY'RE ROWING, BUT THEY CAN'T GET TO THEIR DESTINATION. 25:38 THEY'RE ROWING WITH ALL THEIR STRENGTH. 25:40 AT FIRST THEY'RE SCARED. THEN, AFTER PETER WALKS ON THE 25:43 WATER, THEY COME BACK TO THE BOAT TOGETHER AND IT SAYS 25:46 SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING. WHEN THEY INVITED JESUS INTO THE 25:49 BOAT - JOHN CHAPTER 6 - THE BOAT WAS AT THE DESTINATION 25:53 WHERE THEY WERE GOING. YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHAT'S 25:56 THE MOST IMPORTANT DIRECTION FOR YOUR LIFE. 25:59 THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION YOU CAN MAKE TO FULFILL 26:03 GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE, IS TO RECEIVE YOUR CREATOR AND YOUR 26:07 REDEEMER INTO YOUR HEART. IF YOU WANT YOUR BOAT TO BE 26:10 UNSINKABLE, YOU NEED TO INVITE JESUS INTO YOUR BOAT. YOU KNOW, 26:14 THERE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES COMING IN THE WORLD. I BELIEVE WE'RE 26:18 NOT FAR FROM THE DAY WHEN JESUS IS GOING TO RETURN. 26:21 AND, LIKE THE PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC, THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO 26:24 PREOCCUPY THE WORLD WITH THE GAIETY AND THE FESTIVITIES AND 26:28 THE LOVE OF THE WORLD - THE LOVE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT - THE LOVE 26:33 OF POSSESSIONS - THE PRIDE OF LIFE. 26:36 AND WE'RE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH THOSE THINGS THAT WE FORGET 26:40 ABOUT ETERNITY. THIS WORLD IS VERY SHORT. 26:43 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH LIFE IS IT'S TERMINAL. 26:47 THESE BODIES DO NOT INHERIT ETERNITY, IT'S ONLY THROUGH 26:50 CHRIST THAT WE CAN HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. WOULD YOU LIKE 26:53 TO JOIN ME, AS WE CLOSE, IN PRAYING NOW THAT WE CAN HAVE 26:56 THAT GIFT? FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE. 27:02 I PRAY THAT EACH PERSON WILL MAKE THAT DECISION THIS MORNING, 27:05 TO ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOR, THAT THEIR BOAT 27:08 MAY BE UNSINKABLE AND SURVIVE THE STORM. 27:11 WE PRAY IN HIS NAME, AMEN. (MUSIC) 27:14 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 27:18 WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, 27:21 VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 27:27 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 27:32 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 27:36 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 27:39 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 27:44 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 27:45 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 27:47 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 27:50 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 27:52 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST 27:54 WHEREVER HE GOES. >>AMAZING FACTS. 27:58 MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND 28:03 THE WORLD. >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS 28:04 ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF 28:08 DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S 28:11 ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND 28:14 ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 28:18 LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS. 28:19 THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 28:21 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. 28:23 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING 28:27 MYSELF. >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID 28:30 THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT 28:33 AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER. 28:36 >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD 28:40 MISSING IN MY LIFE. >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY 28:42 SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND 28:47 SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL. 28:50 THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 28:54 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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