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Dancing on Titanic Dancing on Titanic After Darkness, Light - Part 7 1 John 2:15-17 Today happens to be the 101st anniversary of the Five of those watertight compartments began filling sailing of ship known as the “floating city”. It set up with water. sail on its maiden voyage from England to New Eva Hart was 7 years old at the time and would York City on April 14th – today – 101 years ago. actually remain involved throughout the rest of her It has since captured the imagination of every life in recounting and remembering that voyage. generation since – it was the most luxurious vessel In one interview, she said that she and her mother ever conceived of and built by the ingenuity and were among the fortunate ones to board 1 of only 20 opulence of mankind. lifeboats. She talked about courageous men and The Titanic was designed to be the last word in teenage boys helping women and children board comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, safely. She also remembers some men dressing like swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and women to try and fool the others. opulent cherry trimmed guest rooms. She and her mother safely boarded Lifeboat She was crafted with advanced safety features number 14. Her father’s last words to her were, such as a double hull with 16 water tight “Hold Mommy’s hand and be a good girl.” She compartments including remotely activated would never see him again. watertight doors – a powerful telegraph system for When she was interviewed several years ago, she operations and the latest in Maritime technology. still could vividly recall watching the ship sink. She So confident that she was unsinkable, the ship remembered the flags, the colors, the sounds, the carried only enough lifeboats for 1/3rd of her distress rockets fired into the air that went unheeded passengers and crew. by a nearby ship. It was on this Sunday, April 14th, 101 years ago, Eva said that she could still remember listening when the Titanic approached the North Atlantic ice as the ships band on deck played the hymn, “Nearer fields. My God to Thee . still all my song shall be . At 11:00 p.m. the crew spotted icebergs the size Nearer, my God to Thee, nearer to Thee”. of mountains . frantic orders were given to reverse She remembers from her lifeboat watching the the engines and steer the massive ship to port to ship tilt upright, and break in half and sink amidst avoid a collision with one of them which was dead explosions and rumblings . and then, she said, the ahead. deadly silence that followed as if the whole world While they avoided a head-on collision, they was standing still.”i brushed the iceberg, and at 11:40 pm, the ice 1,522 people would die that night as the beneath the surface of the North Atlantic treated the unsinkable Titanic sank. ship’s steel hull like a knife cutting through warm After the disaster, several people were butter. overwhelmed with emotion, realizing they had come Jagged ice sliced small openings no more than a so close. J.P. Morgan had booked first class passage quarter of an inch wide, more than 100 feet long. – his accommodations had been built to his 1 specifications, down to the private balcony – but at Notice verse 15. Do not love the world nor the the last minute changed his mind. Milton Hershey things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the of Hershey chocolate, had booked passage in order love of the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is to be a part of history, but the night before his wife in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the became gravely ill and he chose to remain at home eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the instead. Father, but is from the world. 17. The world is But can you imagine anyone, for any luxury or passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who claim to fame, be willing to buy a ticket on the does the will of God lives forever. Titanic – or take one offered as a gift . if they You might notice that this paragraph began with knew what was going to happen? a prohibition – do not love the world – and ended A first class ticket in today’s economy was with a promise – the one who does the will of God $75,000 dollars. You were somebody if you were a lives forever. first class passenger on this historic voyage. And in between the prohibition and the promise But if you knew the boat was going to sink, you is John’s inspired motivational technique, at least for wouldn’t have paid 75 cents for a ticket . in fact, the moment, as to why you need to heed the you couldn’t have been paid to get on board. prohibition and set sail for the promise. There are times when the Apostles deliver a And his motivational technique is basically three message to the believer that provides a motive or warnings. incentive for loving God and living for God Motives might include living a life of A Three-Fold Warning obedience out of a heart of gratitude for having been saved by grace alone – The first one is this: (Ephesians 2:10) Incentives might include the coming 1. Warning #1: Loving the world reveals reward of the believer as they stand your true disposition before Christ – (2 Timothy 4:8) Another incentive to follow Christ is the Verse 15. (Here it is) Do not love the world nor fact that He is going to come at any the things in the world for if anyone loves the moment for the believer (I Thessalonians world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1:10) And maybe you’re immediately filled with dread Still another incentive for godly living is – oh no, you think. I think I might love the world, that our lives might suddenly end (James so I must not be a Christian. 4:13-15) and so, like Jonathan Edwards I mean, I really like shopping at the mall – and you resolve to not do anything that you that’s in the world; and I enjoyed my vacation in the would be ashamed of doing were it your mountains and at the beach and that’s in the world last act on earth. too and I attended the world’s greatest university – These are all good and godly incentives. the University of North Carolina – or maybe that But sometimes, the Spirit of God through the was NC State, I can’t remember, but they were Word of God motivates us to invest our lives in the actually pretty worldly after all, but I kept my glory of God simply because of the fact that any diploma; oh and my family and I had a really other investment is going to be wasted. wonderful vacation at Disney World, I mean, Disney To set sail in life on any boat other than the World has the word, “world” right there . vessel of God glory and will is to set sail on a ship While you at it, you love playing golf because of that is never going to make it. the nature trails you end up hiking as you look for And that’s basically the incentive the Apostle your ball; and you love hiking in the mountains too John uses now in his letter to believers in the first and you love being out in nature – in fact, yesterday century. was such a beautiful day that I just couldn’t stay in Turn to the First Epistle of John and chapter 2 – my study to finish this sermon, so I took my laptop just a few pages before you get to the Book of out on the deck to write – the birds were singing; the Revelation at the end of the Bible. red-throated hummingbirds were back this week. 2 I’m out there loving the world – writing a sermon So to love a world system governed by godless on not loving the world. values and to claim to love God at the same time is a So I guess we love and enjoy things that are in contradictory disposition. the world and that must mean we don’t love God?? It would be like a policeman saying that he really Well hang on. Don’t burn your bird feeders yet – loves his job and what it stands for but at the same or your golf clubs – you might burn them for other time say that he loves the Mafia and he’s committed reasons, but not this one. to all the drug dealers out there succeeding. What’s John really talking about? Someone’s confused. He can’t love both. The Apostle John refers to the world throughout What true believer would say, “I love God, but I also his letters. And he can be referring to 1 or 3 think the God-denying, Satan controlled world is different dimensions. fine just like it is and I love that too!” The Greek word translated world is kosmos. It That would actually reveal the true disposition of can refer to something that is well ordered. So, first their heart. of all, it can refer to the world of God’s divinely ordered creation. 2. The second warning John the Apostle In fact, cosmos – with this in mind – gives us our delivers is that loving the world promises word cosmetics – well ordered – literally, well- tantalizing delusions ornamented.ii Secondly, the word cosmos can be used to refer And this is where John goes much deeper in to the world of humanity.
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