Have you seen the movie clip from Titanic where the watchman is searching the sea full of dead bodies for some sign of life? He yelled, is they're anyone out there. We have waited too late. They're all dead. But then he hears a whistle…

Now let me tell you what some dust did some time back. . . . . . . . . . .The man's name is Paul Partridge. He lives in suburban Chicago. In a land mine in Vietnam in 1966, he lost both legs. He lived across the street from a woman who screamed one day at the top of her voice: "My baby! My baby!" Sensing there was something seriously wrong, this veteran and his wife left their house -- he in his wheelchair, his wife running. After 60 bumpy yards, the wheelchair stopped. He dragged himself out of that wheelchair. . . and pulled himself 60 feet up steps to the deck around the swimming pool. There was a little girl. Her mother had pulled her from the pool where she had found her apparently dead. Her little heart stopped. Partridge gave the child CPR and talked aloud to her. "Little girl, you're going to live. You're going to make it. I know you're going to make it." Suddenly the child started breathing, and he screamed for medics to be called. That's the nobility the Lord has planted in all this dust. That's why he has made us just a little lower than the angels, with the potential to risk our lives for other people - as this hero did for his country, and who with great anguish and agony dragged himself 60 feet up steps to save that little girl.

These are the representative characters in the story…

The sinking ship: represents everyone who is drowning in the sea of life.

The life boat is Christ. The ark of safety. Come in before it is too late.

1. The Boaters: These are the folks that are in the life boats. These are the saved people. Spend their time making sure that the boat looking good and neglect the main thing. They are like the firefighters who enter a burning house to straighten up the crooked pictures on the walls.
2. The Floaters: These are the people who need to be saved from the certain death of sin. They are drowning. These are your friends, family, and neighbors who are going down. Can you see them? Can you see yourself without Christ who is the life boat.
3. The Rowers: Are those who are willing to take a risk to save the lost and dying people in the world. These are the saved and safe people who take a risk to reach out to those in the waters of life to pick up their dying friends. They have heard Jesus' command to go out to seek and to save the lost. The JW's aren't the only ones who should be going out to bring them in.