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Outside Intervention
Normally
the flight from Nassau to Miami took Walter Wyatt,
Jr., only 65 minutes.
But on December 5, 1986, he attempted this flight
after thieves had looted the navigational equipment in
his Beechcraft airplane. With only a compass and a
hand-held radio, Walter flew into skies blackened by
storm clouds.
When
his compass began to gyrate, Walter concluded he was
headed in the wrong direction. He flew his plane below
the clouds, hoping to spot something, but soon he knew
he was lost. He put out a mayday call, which sent a
Coast Guard Falcon search plane headed toward his
location to lead him to an emergency landing strip
only six miles away. Suddenly Wyatt's right engine
coughed its last and died. The fuel tank had run dry.
Around 8 p.m. Wyatt could do little more than glide
the plane into the water.
Wyatt
survived the crash, but his plane disappeared quickly
beneath the waves, leaving him bobbing on the water in
a leaky life vest. With blood on his forehead, Wyatt
floated on his back. Suddenly he felt a hard bump
against his body. A shark had found him! Wyatt
kicked the intruder and wondered if he would survive
the night. He managed to stay afloat for the next ten
hours. In the morning, Wyatt saw no airplanes, but in
the water a dorsal fin was headed for him. Twisting,
he felt the hide of a shark brush against him. In a
moment, two more bull sharks sliced through the water
toward him. Again he kicked the sharks, and they
veered away, but he was nearing exhaustion.
Then
he heard the sound of a distant aircraft. When it was
within a half mile, he waved his orange vest. The
pilot radioed the Cape York, which was twelve minutes
away: "Get moving, cutter! There's a shark
targeting this guy!" As the Cape York
pulled alongside Wyatt, a Jacob's ladder was dropped
over the side. Wyatt climbed wearily out of the water
and onto the ship, where he fell to his knees and
kissed the deck. He'd been saved. Nothing less than
outside intervention could have rescued him from sure
death.*
How
much WE are like Walter Wyatt.
Due
to OUR sin, we are lost, facing certain death (James
1:13-15; Romans 6:23).
Despite our best efforts, there is nothing we
can do to save ourselves.
Only "Outside Intervention"
can save US!
That
"Outside Intervention"
came in the Person of -JESUS CHRIST.
"For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
(John 3:16). Jesus
DIED for us so that we might LIVE (1 Thessalonians
5:10). He
will rescue THOSE who: accept His salvation
through faith
(Acts 16:31), repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confession
of Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), and baptism
(immersion) into Christ for the forgiveness of
sins (Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:27).
Those who: continue to FOLLOW Jesus, He
will continue to SAVE and PROTECT them from the ”shark”
(Satan) that seeks to DESTROY (1 Peter 5:8).
Only
"Outside Intervention"
will save YOU from
certain DEATH. Accept
God’s offer while you still have the opportunity. .
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God bless you!
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Peter Michelmore
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