The Titanic and the Ark The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by amateurs. By Becky Kew

Noah’s Ark and the Titanic:  The Titanic was designed by Alexander Carlisle  The Ark was designed by God.  Noah and his 3 sons built the Ark in South Iraz where as it took people to build the Titanic in North Ireland.  The Titanic was double the length of the Ark (883ft), and over three times higher than the Ark, the Ark was about 45 feet high.

The numbers…  The Titanic had only 20 lifeboats and the Ark had none.  The Titanic had a 59 year old Captain, Edward Smith and the Ark had a 600 year old Captain, Noah!  Smith had 43 years of naval experience, Noah had none!  The Ark sailed for 370 days, and the Titanic for 4.5 days.

Extremes…  The Ark had 8 people on board and 2 of every animal where as the Titanic had 2228 people aboard and only 3 dogs survived.  The Ark had no Anchor, but the Titanic had 3.  The final resting place of the Ark was in Turkey on Mount Aararat, 17, 000 feet about sea level, and the Titanic is 12,460 below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean.

MOST IMPORTANTLY:  THE PEOPLE ON THE ARK HAD A 100% SURVIVAL RATE, but the rest of the world perished. Only 32% of the passengers on the Titanic survived.  Why the difference? God’s way works, man’s way fails. Noah and His family believed God and showed it by their actions!  The Titanic was “known” as the ship that even “God could not sink” They did not listen to the warnings. We have warnings today as well and God would want us to listen to His Word. In Noah's day, the rest of the world perished, lets find out why:

The Story of Noah Genesis Chapter 6-8

The earth began to fill with many people. They had forgotten about the goodness of God and his word. The Bible says that they became more and more wicked and evil came out of their hearts continually. Genesis 6:5

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

God gave Noah instructions to build a huge ark. Noah did as God commanded, he followed God’s instructions, he believed God. God was going to judge the earth.

 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.  Hebrews 11:7

 Noah was a preacher of righteousness. 2 Peter 2:5

PEOPLE ARE THE SAME WAY TODAY They refuse to believe. The do not really know who the Lord Jesus is. They love their darkness, their sin.

Instead of turning to the light of God, many turn away. Jesus said: I am the light of the world, if any person follows me, will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. John 8:12

Noah took the animals into the ark  Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,  Genesis 7:2

There was one entrance to the boat. If the animals and Noah’s family were going to be saved, they had to enter through the door.

There is another door…  The Lord Jesus said: I am the door, by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John 10v9

The flood came.  And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.  Genesis 7:19

 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.  Genesis 7:21

 They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.  Genesis 7:23

 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  Genesis 8:3-4

 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark,  Gen 8:8-9

 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  Genesis 8:20

The Titanic is like a man-made plan for salvation. The Ark is like God’s plan.  He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Hebrews 9v26  Tit 3:5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy

Many people thought that they were safe because of the Titanic’s power, but really in God’s eyes we have no strength and our class means nothing. Whether we are poor or rich, we still need the Savior and He is no respecter of people. All have sinned. Romans 3:23 and all need salvation, Romans 6:23 Do you have Christ as your lifeboat to eternity?