<TITLE>06. Par 41-49</TITLE>L-41 So they was crossing the ocean in this ship, on its voyage, and feeling so secure that there was nothing could harm them, they throwed a big drunken party. And all of the women and the men aboard, or, maybe many of them, I might say, become drunk; even, they say even the pilot and the captain, and all of them. And the bands begin to whoop up the--the jazz music, which was the great fad of that day, as we have rock-and-roll today. Because they were safe, they were in a ship that man had given the world a sign of their intelligence, that this ship could take any wave or any sea.
But while they were in this drunken stew, it headed towards the fog. And one of the captains said, that, "We must check the engines." But the main authority said, "Give her, 'Straight ahead!' We've got to be at the port for a certain cause." While she was plunging in the fog, like it was the master of the situation, all of a sudden, she struck an ice gorge, and down beneath the water she went.
And we are told by the poet who wrote the song, "God, with His mighty hand, shows this world it cannot stand."
Their great achievement went to the bottom of the sea with hundreds times hundreds of drunken people aboard. It just won't work.

L-45 It was the late Adolf Hitler who give to the German people a sign that he was a genius, he knowed all about military life. And without discrediting him, he did know much about it. But he assured the German people by building what we call the Maginot Line, or the Siegfried Line, that he poured billions of tons of concrete and steel together, showed his confidence in it, that he moved his headquarters up to the front line, where restaurants and business places operated beneath the ground, where they had billions of tons of steel and cement. No matter how it ever went, Germany was fortified. It was a sign of safety. But the modern blockbuster blowed it into eternity, and Hitler with it.

L-46 It was Nimrod one day, who said that he'd build a tower that would bring his people, he could show what he could achieve by his intelligence. And he was to build a tower that would go beyond the clouds, that if the wrath of God ever come, he could outsmart Him. With his scientific research, he could place the rocks and the stones in such a way that he could take the people to safety by his intelligence. But it was brought to naught by a confusion of tongues, and they couldn't even finish the tower.

L-47 It was Nebuchadnezzar who built the walls of Babylon, and then bragged about it. So great, that, six head of horses and chariots could race around the walls. Its gates was so big, until men sweated their life out of them, pounding the brass into gates that weighed hundreds of tons in the great city, they taken companies of men to swing them open. No one could touch Nebuchadnezzar. But one night in a drunken stew, thinking that they were safe behind their scientific walls, with the weapons of their days, there come a handwriting on the wall. And it was ended.
Oh, how man has tried to carry man to safety, to push himself on to safety by his own signs of achievement. It seems like, because that men seek for a sign, there must be some reason for it, something within a man that would call for a reason or a sign from somewhere, that he could be safe.

L-49 Then God spoke up, said, "I'll give them an everlasting sign. I'll give the church an everlasting sign." It wasn't to be a great wall or a tower. He said, "A virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and call His Name Immanuel." That will be God's eternal sign." How simple, how little.
Do you understand that it's the little things that you pass over and omit, that mean so much to God? Can the church conceive that this morning? In our achievement as organizations, and his great buildings and masterpieces, we're omitting the little things that mean so much to God and so much to our eternal destination. We omit those things.


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