Why Is The Ship Sinking?

In 1628 the Swedish warship Vasa was set to take its maiden voyage. The ship was built, and upon completion was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world. However the maiden voyage didn’t go that well. Less than a mile offshore the ship encountered what was described as a slight breeze that capsized and sank it. How could such a powerful war ship go to the depths so easily? Well, archaeologists have found four rulers used by the workers; two turned out to be based on Swedish feet with 12 inches, the other two used Amsterdam feet, with 11 inches. This caused the center of gravity to be off and therefore it took very little force to tip the ship. How could that happen? One group worked on one side of the ship with their ruler and the other on the opposite side with their ruler. Although the ship looked mighty and powerful, its symmetry sank it.

I heard a profound statement the other day which made me sit and ponder the inference of such a thought. “We in America are already involved in a great civil revolution, except it hasn’t been recognized by its citizens as such because it isn’t the revolution they’ve been expecting.” The revolution that is changing our government and voiding our Constitution is taking place right under our noses - in Congress, in the courts of our land, and in our schools and churches. There is so much sand flying through the air in and around the sandbox we call Washington, D.C. almost everyone involved with conducting business in this country has been blinded by the shovels-full of accuser-sand childishly being thrown about to produce chaos everywhere possible. The American citizen-ery is sitting around watching the idiot-box, drinking beer and oiling their guns while the country is being conquered by godless, greedy, double-minded, two-faced fools. Now, if a battle in the streets is what you really want, kick back and wait – it’s coming, but I suggest we start using our intelligent mouths before shouting with gun powder. People think we can have unity with different doctrine, different rules, and different measures. At present, too many different standards are being applied to our Godly way of living and if forced to sail a ship based on this way of thinking, we’re all going down together no matter what your convictions are. The finished ship (The United States of America) may look impressive, but it could sink the minute it’s pressed with these unknown difficulties.

[2 Timothy 4: 3-4] I think the same thing is happening in our religious world today. It looks impressive but that boat won’t float. Paul warned Timothy: “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” This country, and for that matter, the world and the church, is building up for itself destruction stemming from God’s wrath for the evil being practiced to destroy His name (Romans 1:18-32). When black and white Biblical principles and church doctrine are glazed over with sugar coated worldly thinking in direct defiance of God’s Word, His wrath is building, and the release thereof will not be pretty. “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought” (1 Corinthians 1:10). God’s Word cannot be compromised by accepting worldly standards that directly oppose it. For the sake of God and Country, put your gun down and pick up your Bible.