The Titanic Mindset

9.28.2006

by Trevor Davis

All is well. It's time to get on board the USS Titanic for a good ole time

of life and leisure. Nothing can go wrong. Life is as usual and only

getting better. Party. Party. Party. Eat drink and be merry. And

tomorrow—it’s only getting better...

I have been proclaiming the reality of the righteous judgment of God being

poured out into the earth upon the various nations, people and

individuals. This is the time of judgment. This is what God is both

doing and saying. Can you hear the Spirit of the LORD? I hope so. Your

life depends upon it.

The masses live as herds of sheep grazing on fields that are layed out

before them by undetermined schemers with unknown intentions. The masses

follow so closely to one another they don't look up to see the

surroundings around them. They can't hear the sounds of the alarm because

the party music blares. The sounds of 'all is well' is proclaimed on the

propaganda box known as the TV. Life is experienced as another sitcom

that falsely portrays the sinful life without the ramifications of

judgment and despair. The sad reality is that the jig is about up and

there will be no laughing soon--only desperation, tears and loss.

The true story of the Titanic is a great illustration of the realities of

our day. The people perceived the Titanic as an unsinkable ship of

leisure and pleasure. But, the horror of the story is that the true

danger of an impending clash with an iceberg would sink the ship with

multitudes drowning in the frigid sea. From one moment of fine dining of

delicacies, sounds of music and dancing, unmarried men and women flirting and

delighting in forbidden sensual pleasures---soon came to the

awareness of the brevity of life. No one really knows the hour in which

their life will come to a halt. No one.

The Titanic mentality thinks that God doesn't regard sin. Those who have

this thinking believe they have lived this way for years and nothing

happened. God is either asleep or doesn't care. Perhaps they believe He

doesn't exist at all. But when the iceberg of sudden destruction strikes

the ship of one's life--the first One they think upon is Jesus. Too often

it is too late.

Today as I write this message the United States is enjoying a surging

stock market. The Dow Jones flirts with record highs. Gasoline prices

have plummeted over a dollar a gallon in recent weeks. Political leaders promise

safety by creating policies of torture and war upon the "terrorists and

extremists". Ahhh, life as usual again. All is well... But is it?

What is God saying? What is Christ Jesus coming back soon to do? What

does the scripture declare?

When Christ comes back in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do

not know God or obey the gospel there will be weeping and gnashing of

teeth. Just as the people on the Titanic who were shocked at the sudden

and unexpected sounds and jolts of a megalith iceberg penetrating the

impenetrable ship, so to will the unsuspecting multitudes of the Titanic

mentality be caught unprepared for the soon frightful display of judgment.

How will you react to the sudden calamities of God's righteous judgment?

Will you go down with the ship with a last song and dance or will you cry

out now for God to save you through Jesus His Son? Will you refuse to

repent and serve the LORD now? Or, will you humble yourself and turn from

the Titanic mentality of blissful illusion and call on the LORD? As it is

written, "For whosoever calls upon the LORD shall be delivered".