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Well, today let's go old school. Let's talk about J. Hannah Dean or Dizzy Dean, born January 16, 1910 in Lucas, Arkansas. He died July 17, 1974 at the age of 64 in Reno, Nevada. Batted right, threw right, His debut on September 28th, 1930 was for the St. Louis Cardinals and his last major league appearance was September 28th, 1947 for the St. Louis Browns. He had a 150-83 win-loss record and a 3.02 earned run average, 1,163 strikeouts. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals. He played for the Chicago Cubs. He played for the St. Louis Browns. And he was the ace of the Gas House Gang. What a fun guy to listen to. Listen to him recounting some things concerning how he was worthy of certain amounts of money, how he made a prediction, and other aspects of his game. He was never shy. He used to say, it ain't bragging if you can back it up. He also didn't mind talking about how much he was worth. No, I haven't signed my contract this year yet, and don't expect to unless the Cardinals pay me $50,000. I'm worth $400,000 to the ball club. I'm at least worth 50 to myself. For a few years, Dizzy was the most dominant pitcher in the game. In 1934, Dizzy's brother Paul, they called him Daffy, was part of the Cardinal pitching staff. Actually, they did better than that. Dizzy won 30 games, Paul won 19. In the 1934 World Series, Dizzy was sent in as a pinch runner and got hit in the head with a throw at second base and had to be carried off the field. Dizzy pitched the Cardinals to an 11-0 victory over Detroit to win the 1934 World Series. So this is the man we're talking about. He loved to make predictions. In fact, one time on May 5th, 1937, he bet he could strike out Vince DiMaggio four times in the game. He struck him out his first three at-bats, but when DiMaggio hit a pop-up behind the plate at his fourth, Dean screamed at his catcher, drop it, drop it. The catcher did, and Dean fanned DiMaggio, winning the bet. So he said that, he says, if you had done it, it ain't bragging. And it caused me to think about the person of Jesus Christ, the predictions that are made about him. Listen to this, and this is calculations concerning one man lining up with eight messianic prophecies. So the eight different prophecies, let me read them to you. The Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, Micah 5, 2. A messenger will prepare the way for that Messiah, Malachi 3, 1. The Messiah will enter Jerusalem as a king riding on a donkey, Zechariah 9, 9. The Messiah will be betrayed by a friend and suffer wounds in his hands. Zechariah 13.6 The Messiah will be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Zechariah 11.12 The betrayal money will be used to purchase a potter's field. Zechariah 11.13 The Messiah will remain silent while he is afflicted, Isaiah 53, 7. And lastly, the Messiah will die by having his hands and feet pierced, Psalm 22, 16. So you multiply, and they went through this whole calculations, but you multiply all these probabilities together. It produces a number rounded off of one times 10 to the 28th power. Dividing this number by an estimate of the number of people who have lived since the time of these prophecies, 88 billion, produces a probability of all prophecies being fulfilled accidentally in the life of one person. That probability is 1 in 10 to the 17th or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's one in 100th quadrillion. And Jesus lined up with it all. God made predictions and a catcher didn't have to drop a ball. It literally happened the way God said it would throughout the Old Testament. So let me ask you today, What do you believe? Who are you banking on? Jesus claims to be God. He claimed to be the Messiah. He's either a liar or a lunatic or he's Lord.
Dizzy Dean
Serie Sports Character Studies-MLB
ID del sermone | 22119174660 |
Durata | 05:40 |
Data | |
Categoria | Devozionale |
Testo della Bibbia | Micah 5:2; Salmo 22:16 |
Lingua | inglese |
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