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Speaker 2All right , welcome to another week of the Daily Blade . I am pumped to have you guys here . So I , like many of you , love history . So it's literally an endless supply of information and stories and in particular I get caught up in a lot of like specific time periods and people groups . So the rise and fall of the Roman Empire I love that the westward expansion and exploration of the United States , and then there's all the conflicts with the American Indian tribes . And , as a Choctaw Indian myself , I like hearing about how my ancestors used to live . I'm also a Celtic mutt , so anything to do with the Irish or the Scottish I'm here for , and I love the history of the greatest game yes , the greatest game ever invented , and that is baseball . So I love hearing me some stories about the greats like Stan Musial and Ted Williams and Babe Ruth , and then anything to do with my favorite players from the 90s and 2000s like King Griffey Jr , yadier Molina , randy Johnson , so on and so forth . But I'm also drawn to the dark tragedies of history and namely , since I was a kid , I had a tremendous interest in the shipwreck and subsequent sinking of the RMS Titanic . So , as most of you at least tangentially know about at this point .
Speaker 2The Titanic set out for her maiden voyage on April the 10th of 1912 . It was billed as an unsinkable ship and it was the largest and most luxurious ship that had ever been built up to that point in human history . But on April the 14th 1912 , the Titanic struck an iceberg on the starboard side and this was a catastrophic wreck that led to the sinking of the ship in the early hours of April the 15th . Roughly 1,500 people died in this tragedy , with only just about 700 survivors . So there's been a lot of ink spilled and documentaries made about how and why this you know leviathan of a ship actually sank .
Speaker 2But this week we're going to focus on real-life stories of courage and sacrifice from the tragic shipwreck and sinking of the Titanic , many of which I bet most of you are unfamiliar with , and we're going to talk about how they relate to similar stories from the Word of God . And I'm just going to tell you from the beginning here all these stories that you're going to hear this week are great and incredible for one reason or another , but Friday's episode may change everything about how you view evangelism . So do not miss any episode this week , and especially not Friday . So if you've seen depictions of the Titanic , you know post-iceberg strike , whether in film or in art , there's one thing that these images have in common that might just go right over your head , cause it did for me the lights of the Titanic are still on , even as she's sinking . And the story behind this is incredible , because when the Titanic set sail , it did so with a few dozen engineers , electricians and boiler makers , and they were led by the chief engineer , joseph Bell , and the team was charged with running the massive steam engines , the pumps and the generators that powered the entire ship .
Speaker 2Now , when the Titanic struck the iceberg just before midnight on April the 14th 1912 , the lower section of the ship , where the boilers and the engines were that , began flooding immediately . So at this point , joseph Bell and the rest of the crew had a decision to make that would really directly impact the lives of over 2,000 people on board Abandon their posts or stay at their posts . Now you might be thinking well , it's every man for himself right now , at this point , right , and that they would , you know , eventually just try to save themselves , or maybe immediately . But that's not what these men did . They stayed at their posts , knowing that it would almost assuredly lead to them all losing their lives . So why in the world would they do that ? To give the people of the ship the best chance possible to survive . So the engineers knowing that they were going to die , they did everything in their power to keep the electric generators running . And what this did ? It actually accomplished three things . Number one the lights remained on , which allowed the passengers and the crew to see in the pitch black of night . Secondly , the water pumps kept going , so this delayed the sinking of the ship . And thirdly , the wireless radios remained usable , so this allowed for the distress signals to be dispatched . More on that later this week .
Speaker 2And what was the result of all this ? It gave the crew the critical time required to save as many people as possible . So these men stayed below so that there could be hope above . And this reminded me of the words of Jesus that we see in John 10 , starting in verse 7 . So Jesus again said to them , starting in verse 7 . I came that they may have life and have it abundantly . I am the good shepherd . The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep . Just like the good shepherd , these men stayed behind , and not , for , you know , vain glory or some illusions of grandeur , but to serve others , to sacrifice . They willingly laid down their lives so that others may live . May we have the courage to make the same decision if presented with that opportunity .
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