‘For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus’
1 TIMOTHY 2:5
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Many great ships were built at the Armstrong and Whitworth’s shipyard at Low Walker
but perhaps the most unusual was the vessel known as the ‘Baikal’. It was ordered
by the Russian government, and it was to be a large ice-
Great though this journey be, it is eclipsed many times over by the journey the Son of God made, when He left the glory of Heaven to be born at Bethlehem and die for sinners on the cross at Jerusalem. This journey cannot be measured in miles. It’s measured in heartbeats of Divine love! The Bible says, ‘The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world’ and ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’.
In the late 1920s it was proposed to build a road bridge across the mouth of the river from South Shields to North Shields, and Borough engineer, J. Paton Watson calculated that it would cost £2 million. The main obstacle standing in the way of this ambitious construction was that ships passing beneath the bridge would need a clearance of at least 57 metres. This would require approach roads of 1.2 miles!
The Bible tells us that there is a massive obstacle standing in the way of people
getting to heaven. It is the great issue of SIN. “And there shall in no wise enter
into it any thing that defiles” -
Jesus said, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly”
JOHN 10:10
