Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 19 Mar, 2021 02:19 PM

I love baseball. It’s the only sport that doesn’t have a clock. It has so much strategy involved. There’s nothing in all of sports like a ‘baseball rally.’ As Yogi Bera said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”



I was thinking of baseball and realized that it has a lot in common with Christianity. So, just allow me to share a few parallels between Christianity and the game I love.



1. They both have rules and boundaries.



Every game has these. Even if you play in your backyard, you have rules you have to go by. We used to play with not enough players and have to call a certain section of the field ‘out of play.’ If you hit there, you were out. Christianity has its rules and boundaries as well. You can’t just do what you want and not have consequences.



2. They both are a team sport.



Even if you have a Justin Verlander, he can’t do it all himself. He needs a catcher. Even if he pitches a perfect game, it’s not a win unless someone on his team gets a run. You need each other. Christianity is the same way. We all need each other’s participation. We may have individuals who step up and become a mvp of a game or series or even a year, but they could never do it without others.



3. They both are about coming home.



When you get up to bat, your ultimate goal is to come home. Go around the bases and touch home plate. Whoever gets the most players to come home wins. Christianity is about going home – Heaven. No matter how many bases we go through in life, we will one day touch home. And we will be winners. Unlike baseball, everyone of us will go home if we have trusted Christ as our Savior.



4. They both are a long, slow game with lots of second chances.



You may have struck out the first time, but hit a home run the next time you’re up to bat. Baseball is a game of second chances. So is our faith. Peter is a great example of a guy who struck out before the cross, then hit a grand slam on the Day of Pentecost. He was in a slump, but after the resurrection he got on a ‘hitting streak.’ Even if you’ve blown it before, hang in there.



5. They both have failure.



Even the best hitters fail two-thirds of the time. If you failed two times out of three in your job, you’d get fired. In baseball, a .333 batting average will land you in the Hall of Fame. No matter how poorly we play, God forgives our errors and puts us back in tomorrow’s lineup. No wonder we like baseball.

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 19 Mar, 2021 03:17 PM

God forgives our errors. Let's Trust Jesus, as our personal Savior.

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 19 Mar, 2021 03:19 PM

Some " so called" Christians aren't team players!



They are way out in Left field on their own .

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 20 Mar, 2021 11:56 AM

Hebrews 11 shows the level went up or down, speaking of baseball, all who previously played in Gods lineup failed to receive the promise of the big league...



Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.



Hebrews 11:40 shows how the level is perfection, which all in the old covenant did not receive or achieve, so one perfect dwells within us, as we turn the page to Hebrews 12:1...



Now the next step described is to lay aside all the sins that used to get man his death and imperfection. Now we run the race that is set before us, or in the baseball game, run this new game, like it has never been played this way ever before..



Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.



Now when they think we run to obtain a corruptible crown, they are mistaken who do not trust the word of the Lord, because this game is for the incorruptible crown, requiring a body that never was on any baseball player before( or anyone) as it requires a new body and the old one destroyed of sin brought into subjection..



1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.



Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 20 Mar, 2021 12:07 PM

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 20 Mar, 2021 12:07 PM

Stop the presses I agree with Adam on this one

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 20 Mar, 2021 02:31 PM

I Adam on the brink of casting aside his sinless perfectionism???

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 21 Mar, 2021 12:33 AM

Adam! Is this hilarious or what? You end your post with verse -



Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, >>>that henceforth we should not serve sin.<<<



Then rsvp 'stops his press' in his original thought (because he had no Scripture to teach BEFORE his continual sinning perfectionism ) and agrees with you about RIGHTOUSNESS BY FAITH in NOT serving sin (henceforth we should not serve

sin - BY THE POWER OF YHWH! ) when we are truly BORN AGAIN! AMEN!



Then for some reason David comes to the conclusion that you are SOMEHOW on the 'brink of casting aside' the truth of 'sinless perfectionism' BY POWER FROM HEAVEN ABOVE TO DO SO that the Bible SOOOOOOO clearly teaches??? This is Hilarious TRUTH Adam that the scales MAY have fallen from their eyes to some degree but did they actually understand their very own posts to agree with you??? The verses you posted finally made sense to them but they did not actually understand WHAT it was they were agreeing with you about!



I think you may be getting TRUTH to them little by little! Keep up the FAITHFUL work!

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 21 Mar, 2021 01:01 AM

But did you notice Teddy, I kept quiet and said nothing. God is in charge of everything, is that not why He says who are we to judge another mans servant:



Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.



All we are doing is sharing together, what more do I know than that, I know nothing, that's why we are also told we know nothing at all when we think we know anything, so we keep quiet, low, and fear God, because understanding is one thing, kindness is another, it is something I am working on myself to be kinder because I know I need to be a lot more.



1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 21 Mar, 2021 08:59 AM

I asked if Adam is renouncing his sinless perfectionism.

Seems neither Adam our Marvelous Muddler nor Flat Earth Teddy, who says the Chinese are walking upside down if you believe the world is round, can give an answer. Instead we get more of the same o’scripture twisting. Paul says we are to stop serving sin. Paul’s passage says nothing about the historic heretical teaching of sinless perfectionism

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Jesus always bats .1000 and even though we may bat .333 fail to hit two thirds of the time we are still eligible for Hebrews 11 faith hall of fame

Posted : 21 Mar, 2021 10:13 AM

If you stop serving sin, how do you also stop serving righteousness at the same time.



Can serve one master only, as for sure, the devils servants never serve righteousness at all

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