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A Night to
Remember…or
Forget?
Not a TitanicSermon
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I heard about someone
planning to preach on the
Titanic today. This is the
100th anniversary of the
sinking, April 15, 1912.
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My first reaction was to
blanche in disgust at the
thought of falling into
such a faddish pop-
culture topical temptation
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For one thing, I’m enough
of an old fogey that the
1997 movie has not left
my memory as fad pop
culture 15 years later.
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…and I have not even seen
that movie except for clips
and commercials. I refuse
to watch it.
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For another thing, I
believe it is important to
let scripture and events in
the congregation decide
what to preach about.
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Then I read a couple of
articles on the Titanic that
made me think of God’s
promise for our salvation,
and I’ll preach on that.
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The Titanic, the ship, it’s
sinking, and the place it
has taken in our society
needs a little explanation
to use it as an illustration.
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Some people have said
that the 20th Century
began with the sinking of
the Titanic, that it ended
an era and began another.
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For the first time all
segments of society
seemed to be together
with a disaster striking all
almost equally.
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Astor, Strauss, and
Guggenheim were names
of the dead, along with
hundreds of unknown
immigrants.
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The legend of Titanic
being cursed because of
the arrogant claim that it
was unsinkable was false,
but not completely off.
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There was a lot of pride,
arrogance, and
superficiality involved in
the design and use of the
ship, and…
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Proverbs 11: 2
When pride comes, then comes
disgrace, but with humility
comes wisdom.
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Proverbs 16: 18
Pride goes before destruction, a
haughty spirit before a fall.
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Isaiah 2: 11
The eyes of the arrogant man
will be humbled and the pride
of men brought low; the Lord
alone will be exalted in that
day.
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…and just in case you
didn’t catch that last one,
7 verses later…
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Isaiah 2: 18
The arrogance of man will be
brought low and the pride of
men humbled; the Lord alone
will be exalted in that day
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The reason the ship struck
an iceberg was prideful
disregard of warnings in
order to break a speed
record.
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The reason the ship sank
was prideful disregard of
physics in an effort to
please the rich and give
them more luxury.
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The builders bragged
about the compartments
that divided the ship in
case of a hull breach – the
origin of “unsinkability.”
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They didn’t build those
compartments all the way
to the top of the ship,
though, so when one filled
it made the others fill too.
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They didn’t equip the ship
with enough lifeboats, just
more than the law required,
Pridefully, they pretended
they would not need them.
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It was a trade magazine
that called the ship
“unsinkable,” but talk was
that the lifeboats would be
for rescuing other ships.
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The stories about the
arrogance surrounding
the Titanic could take us
hours to cover, but there’s
no need for more.
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Someone preached the
next Sunday that “The
Titanic…will stand for a
monument and warning
to human presumption.”
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That’s the line that set me
off to decide to preach on
this today, because I read
recently that the wreck is
actually disappearing.
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Rust, bacteria, and sea life
are destroying the wreck.
Scientists say that in a few
decades, nothing will be
left of it at all.
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There was a neat article
about the Titanic I read.
It told of a priest who
went down with the ship.
Survivors spoke of him.
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They heard him refuse an
invitation to a lifeboat
three times to hear the
confessions of people who
knew they would die.
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So let me ask you: what is
the permanent
monument? Is it the
wreck at the bottom of the
Atlantic? or men like him?
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Much is made of the men
who ensured women
survived, and of the wives
who stayed with their
husbands.
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Much more is made of the
societal impact, like that
we see multiple movies
being made decades later.
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For nearly 40 years the
definitive movie was
entitled A Night To
Remember, and society
wants to remember it.
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Within our frame of
reference people want to
make fame in the future
be the greatest thing a
person can achieve.
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Lots of people remember
those rich people whose
claim to fame is that Mrs.
So-and-So stayed with
Mr. So-and-So to die.
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The idea was that they
were rich, and the thought
was that they should be
immune to tragedy like
that, but they weren’t.
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That priest who went
down with the ship was
remembered, but not by
name, except for his
family who knew him.
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His great-nephew wrote
about him, not to keep his
fame alive, but to enrich
our lives with the story of
his life and his choice.
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He wasn’t like the older
famous rich people who to
some degree said that they
had lived their lives and
didn’t want to separate.
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He was on the Titanic to
officiate his brother’s
wedding. Like the
immigrants in steerage he
had something to live for.
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Instead of heeding the
advice of the crew to get in
the lifeboat, though, he
stayed on board to help
the people who were left.
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The last people off the
ship recalled hearing him
leading others in reciting
The Lord’s Prayer.
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During the voyage he
preached to people using
the setting of the huge
ship as part of his sermon
illustration.
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Survivors say he told
people to “prepare a
spiritual lifeboat for times
of trouble.”
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Since there were not
enough spots in the life
boats on the ship for
everyone, think about the
meaning in his words.
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Talk about a time of
trouble, and a needed
lifeboat!
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You never know how soon
good advice the Holy
Spirit lays on your heart
will come in handy, do
you?
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He died helping other
people to find peace with
God as the horror of the
approaching inevitability
came upon them.
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There is some certainty
that this man knew the
Lord and lives today in
His presence, among the
others he led to Him.
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Long after the last bits of
the Titanic have decayed
and vanished, there will
still be people telling the
story.
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Those stories will last a
long time, but they too
will fade away as other
events overtake them in
legend.
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The monument to human
pride, the warning against
the folly people engage in,
the memory of tragedy
and sorrow will disappear.
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That priest is in Heaven,
and there may be people
there who wouldn’t be
there if he had gotten into
that lifeboat.
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That isn’t a memorial, but
it’s permanent, a different
way of looking at things
than the earthly one, I
think – God’s perspective.
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The Titanic is a shame on
its crew and builders, but
also on the society that
looked on it with pride,
but God says this:
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Isaiah 43: 25
I, even I, am he who blots out
your transgressions, for my
own sake, and remembers your
sins no more.
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Jeremiah 31: 34
“…I will forgive their
wickedness and will remember
their sins no more.”
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Psalm 103: 11-12
…as high as the heavens are
above the earth, so great is his
love for those who fear him; …
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Psalm 103: 11-12
…as far as the east is from the
west, so far has he removed our
transgressions from us.
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Romans 8: 1
Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
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Think about the incredible
weight of the Titanic,
plunging through the
water, taking a thousand
people to the bottom.
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There were people who
were responsible for that
terrible calamity. Think
about the weight of that
on their consciences.
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Which is heavier, the
84,000 tons of steel,
water, and flesh heading
down through the water…
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…or the guilt and shame
born by the people whose
mistakes of pride and
carelessness made it
happen?
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Whatever weight you are
carrying as a burden, I’m
sure, is less than that, but
that doesn’t make it
bearable, does it?
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…but just as all of the
Titanic and its passengers
and cargo will be gone
soon, so will the shame
and guilt of those people,
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…and it is just as easy for
your burdens to go away
as well. Your sins have
been atoned for, and the
effects will fade away.
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The only question is
whether you will get in the
lifeboat Father Thomas
Roussel Byles spoke about
and rode in himself once.
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