WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH (28 OF 31)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
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Weakness and Strength (28 of 31)
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12. We want to talk tonight about Weakness and Strength.
How many baseball fans in the audience? All right. How many football fans? Just curious. All right. Football is a lot better. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I do know about one of the greatest plays, maybe perhaps the greatest play, in baseball history. It occurred on October 15, 1988. The Oakland A's were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was game one in the World Series. Oakland was on top 4-3. It was in the ninth inning, bottom of the ninth. There were two outs, and there was a man on first. And Tommy LaSorda did something that surprised the whole stadium. He brought in his outfielder, who hadn't played all game, Kirk Gibson. Kirk Gibson was a great player, but he was hurt. He had hurt his hamstring, and his knee was swollen, and he could really not even run, and so he didn't play the whole game. But he came in, the ninth inning, two outs, his team down by one run, man on first base. And if you know the story, Kirk got to a full count, three balls and two strikes, and he swung the bat on that next pitch, and he hit it over the right field fence, and the L.A. Dodgers won in dramatic fashion 5-4.
Now what makes that play so special to baseball fans? And, incidentally, it was called, by many the greatest homerun of all time, and it was voted on. This was in 1988, the greatest play in L.A. sports history was that hit. What made it so special was the fact that it came from weakness. Kirk Gibson shouldn't have been playing because he was hobbled. He was weak. He was a shell of his strong self because of the injuries to his legs, and he couldn't really put his legs into the swing because they weren't able to do that. But he still was able to hit the ball out of the park just with the power of his arms and his shoulders.
Weakness and streng ...
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12. We want to talk tonight about Weakness and Strength.
How many baseball fans in the audience? All right. How many football fans? Just curious. All right. Football is a lot better. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I do know about one of the greatest plays, maybe perhaps the greatest play, in baseball history. It occurred on October 15, 1988. The Oakland A's were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was game one in the World Series. Oakland was on top 4-3. It was in the ninth inning, bottom of the ninth. There were two outs, and there was a man on first. And Tommy LaSorda did something that surprised the whole stadium. He brought in his outfielder, who hadn't played all game, Kirk Gibson. Kirk Gibson was a great player, but he was hurt. He had hurt his hamstring, and his knee was swollen, and he could really not even run, and so he didn't play the whole game. But he came in, the ninth inning, two outs, his team down by one run, man on first base. And if you know the story, Kirk got to a full count, three balls and two strikes, and he swung the bat on that next pitch, and he hit it over the right field fence, and the L.A. Dodgers won in dramatic fashion 5-4.
Now what makes that play so special to baseball fans? And, incidentally, it was called, by many the greatest homerun of all time, and it was voted on. This was in 1988, the greatest play in L.A. sports history was that hit. What made it so special was the fact that it came from weakness. Kirk Gibson shouldn't have been playing because he was hobbled. He was weak. He was a shell of his strong self because of the injuries to his legs, and he couldn't really put his legs into the swing because they weren't able to do that. But he still was able to hit the ball out of the park just with the power of his arms and his shoulders.
Weakness and streng ...
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