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This week, we're going through real life stories of courage and

sacrifice from the tragic shipwreck in sinking of the RMS Titanic on April the 15th of 1912

and how they correlate to verses from God's word. So today we're going to look at the story of

Jack Phillips. So Phillips was a 25-year-old chief wireless operator of the wireless telegraph

system aboard the Titanic. So he was responsible for sending and receiving messages using the

Marconi wireless telegraph system. So this was a critical communication device that was on the ship.

You had to have it. And on the night of April the 14th, 1912, Phillips and his assistant, Harold

Bride were busy with

a backlog of passenger messages that needed to go to Cape Race in Newfoundland.

So both were tasked with working very, very long hours at their post, which for any of you

guys that have worked long hours, as you can imagine, this could lead to you being a little

prickly, right?

I'm certainly not immune to that.

And earlier, the SS

Californian tried to warn the Titanic about the iceberg threat along their path, and Phillips's

official response was, shut up, shut up, I am busy. Okay, so that gives you a little bit of

insight into how stress he was and how he was responding. But then, at 1140 p.m., the Titanic struck an iceberg on her

starboard side. So the collision frightened Phillips and Bride, but both of them simply continued their

work, assuming that it was just, you know, a minor collision. But just after midnight, Phillips and Bride

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