DAVID: A TITANIC MISTAKE

The plight of the Titanic may be
The most famous shipwreck in all history
The sin of David with Bathsheba
May be the most famous moral shipwreck
In all of history

And they have something extremely
Significant in common
On April 10, 1912 the ship Titanic embarked
On her median cruise from Southampton to New York
A titanic mistake

The ship was so carefully structured and engineered
That it was billed as the ship that God couldn’t sink
She was four city blocks long and carried the most
Up-to-date safety devices she featured a French sidewalk
Café and luxurious suites but she carried only
Twenty lifeboats for the 2200 passengers on board

But the Titanic shipwrecked days
Before she ever hits the iceberg
How could the greatest ocean linear
Ever built shipwreck hours before she hit the iceberg
The Titanic sealed her own fate because she failed
To heed the repeated warnings of imminent danger

In actually the Titanic shipwrecked before
It ever hit that iceberg and so did David
David shipwrecked, morally years before
He ever saw Bathsheba stepping into the bathwater
David a Titanic mistake

David set the course for his own shipwreck
The moment he married a second wife
Then he married a third by that time he was on a roll
And he married a fourth followed by a fifth
By the time he was thirty he had six wives

David was a polygamist
God’s plan for David was that
He be a one-woman kind of man
But David wanted to be a many-wives kind of man
And by doing so he engineered his own personal shipwreck
Just as titanic failed to heed the six warnings
So David failed to head at least six warnings
Every time he considered taking additional wife
I firmly believe the Holy Spirit would send a telegram
To his conscience and adjust as the Titanic ignored the warning
So did David… David a Titanic mistake

Do you know the greatest tragedy of both shipwrecks?
Both of them could have been easily avoided
But they weren’t and the world would continue
To speak of both for centuries to come
David a Titanic mistake