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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1981
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The wild and wacky Southwest Conference
[race is in full swing, and it’s nothing like fore-
|casters predicted.
Who would have ever thought that TCU
Iwould end Arkansas 22-year reign over the
IFrogs with a fourth-quarter comeback? Who
Iwould consider that Arkansas, having been
jbeaten by TCU and barely escaping from Lub-
Ibock with a win, would humiliate the number
lone team in America on national television
lafter the Horns convincing win over Oklaho-
|ma the week before?
However, those are only a few surprises of
Ithis wild year. Arkansas, Texas A&M and Rice
I (of all teams) are tied for second in the confer-
lence with 2-1 records. Baylor is next with 2-2,
Ifollowed by Texas at 1-1. TCU and Houston
[(Houston!?) have 1-2 records.
Of course you can’t leave out SMU, which is
|6-0 (3-0 in conference), blowing smoke and
[going nowhere after the season is over.
Anything can happen in the race this year
[and the championship may be decided in the
[last weekend of the season.
This isn t the race it s supposed to be.
[Where are the perennial powerhouses that
[dominated the conference for so long? It looks
[as if they ve either disappeared or gone into
[biding for now.
The 95-scholarship limit (only 30 per year)
[has taken its toll on the former powerhouses.
| In the past, those teams never had anything to
[worry about. Now, it’s a completely different
Ritchie
Priddy
Istorv.
It’s obvious that only the better athletes are
being recruited for major college football, and
only the best of those are awarded scholar
ships.
Also evident is the lack of one-sided scores.
You used to hear of 59-0 wins by Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Penn State, Michigan and USC, but
those one-sided victories don’t occur too often
anymore.
It seems that the caliber of competition is so
great and equal that you won’t find any team
that totally dominates another. There are a few
left, but for the most part, those days are over.
Just look at the “upsets” of this season.
There have been so many number one
teams this year that everybody is getting sick of
counting them. The reasons for the “top”
teams falling all point to the scholarship limita
tion.
One thing’s for sure: the excitement is nev
er-ending in college football, and it’s not likely
to end anytime soon, especially considering
that on any given day anybody can beat any
body.
One point that bothers me (along with a few
others) is the officiating. With the high degree
of competition among the teams, it seems that
officiating would have to be at a higher level.
I m not condemning the officials of the
Baylor — Texas A&M game, because that
would serve no purpose.
The point is that three weeks ago when
Houston played Baylor in the Astrodome, the
Cougars were penalized for over 200 yards,
something that didn’t sit well with Bill Yeo
man. The next week against the Aggies, UH
wasn’t penalized at all.
Aggie coach Tom Wilson said after the
Houston game that he was amazed at the lack
of errors, especially when the Cougars are
known for their numerous penalties.
Last week against SMU, Baylor committed
many mistakes and Grant Teaff raised hell ab
out the officiating. This week against Texas
A&M, Baylor played, officially, error-free ball.
Sure, those kinds of turnarounds are possi
ble and have happened many times. One
didn’t occur Saturday.
It amazes me that Baylor got away with so
many blatant fouls, many of which are cap
tured on film. The only thing I can think of is if
a coach yells about bad officiating one week,
he s let off” the next week.
If that s the case, and I certainly hope it’s
not, then the tempo and even the outcome of
the game could be changed at a handkerchief s
notice.
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one can catch it.
“He must go to hed hoping and
praying he can kill us with his
, \ glove,” Dodger Manager Tom
/■/ Lasorda said Tuesday night after
-*■ "•» watching New York third baseman
Craig Nettles back The Bull’s
I lhree-run homer with two out
standing fielding plays to lead the
( Yankees to a 5-3 victory and a 1-0
lead in the Series.
“I get sick to my stomach seeing
fl him make those plays all the
L-* time,” added Lasorda, who sends
right-hander Burt Hooton against
do (* former Dodger Tommy John
th andi tonight in Game Two before the
Series moves to Los Angeles,
years, i Nettles needed exactly one
ofori play to remind the Dodgers what
Team a he can do. Leadoff hatter Dave
1 theta Copes sent a smash down the line
that Nettles backhanded and
tamed into an out at first.
By the time the game ended,
onreta Nettles, second baseman Willie
thettl Randolph and left fielder Dave
Winfield had combined on
enough gems to stock a jewelry
store.
“He did a great job,” Yankee
Manager Bob Lemon said of Net
tles. “You’d think they would
earn not to hit the ball to him. "
Lemon can afford to sound a bit
entraml sniu g' His team controlled the
game virtually all the way after
Watson’s first-inning homer off
loser Jerry Reuss gave the Yank
ees a 3-0 lead.
Ron Guidry allowed one run, a
;Steve Yeager homer, over the first
■(seven innings to get the victory.
■ And when a rusty bullpen corps
I sagged momentarily, Nettles was
wKk, there.
I With the Yankees leading 5-1 in
the eighth, reliever Ron Davis
walked Derrel Thomas and
Lopes, bringing in Rich Gossage.
But pinch hitter Jay Johnstone
singled in a run and Dusty Baker
made it 5-3 with a sacrifice fly.
That’s when Steve Garvey sent
aliner toward third. It looked like
a sure double, and may have kick
ed around long enough to allow
Johnstone to score. Instead, John
stone had to scramble back to first
when Nettles made the catch.
■ The Dodgers are only human,
■ and Nettles’ heroics must have re-
■ minded them of the way it was in
1978. That year, with the Yankees
■ trailing 2-0 in the Series, Nettles
Backstopped a shaky Guidry out
ing with sensational glovework
and helped turn the Classic in
New York’s favor.
“The word ‘cheat’ is a descrip
tion we use for the way he (N et-
tles) plays,” said Dodger third
baseman Ron Cey, who was
thrown out, Winfield to Ran-
trying to stretch a single
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into a double in the seventh.
“With his experience watching
the hitters, he knows what
pitches are going to be thrown
and he moves accordingly.”
If the Yankee gloves controlled
the tempo, the bats set it. With
one out in the first, Jerry Mum-
phrey singled to right. Lou Piniel-
la, playing right field in place of
the injured Reggie Jackson, dou
bled to right. Then Watson, in his
first Series at-bat, sent a 1-2 deliv
ery over the right field fence.
Lasorda said he never consi
dered filling the empty base with
Watson, setting up the lefthanded
Reuss against left-hander Nettles.
“It was the first inning and I
wasn’t about to put three men on
base for Nettles,” the manager
said. “He’s capable of hitting it out
We faltered for a second,”
admitted Winfield. “But it doesn’t
really matter because we won the
game. They can come back. They
are no pushover. But if we can win
two here before we go to the West
Coast we should be in good
shape. ”
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The Yankees made it 4-0 in the
third when Piniella singled in
Mumphrey from second. They
upped it to 5-0 in the fourth on
four straight walks by Bobby Cas
tillo. At that point, the Dodgers
began looking a little better. Re
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three scoreless innings and Los
Angeles showed the same spunk it
used to come back in its two play
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THE ALL-INCLUSIVE DEATH OF CHRIST
The Gospel of John is, to many Christians, a favorite book of the Bible.
New-bom babes in Christ and mature Christians alike love its simple, yet
profound, message. No other Gospel declares boldly: “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... In
Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1,4).
With exceptionally clear word-pictures and figures, this unique Gospel
unveils Christ as the very divine life Who is more than able to take care of
all our needs. To a thirsty sinner He said, “... whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water
that I shall give him shall become in him a spring of water welling up into
eternal life” (John 4:14). To the hungry multitudes He said, “I am the
bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger. . . ” (John
6:35). To the religious yet unsatisfied ones He “stood and cried out,
saying. If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37). To
those walking in spiritual darkness He declared, “I am the light of the
world; he who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life” (John 8:12). To His friends grieving at the death of
their brother Lazarus He said, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John
11:25). To Thomas, troubled and perplexed concerning His going to the
Father and the way to the Father, He said, “I am the way, and the reality,
and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
Whether our need is the living bread, the living water, life, light or any
other thing. He as the divine life can supply that need.
In addition to these many figures portraying Christ as our life are also
figures signifying at least three different aspects of His death. The first
figure of His death is in John 1:29 where John the Baptist proclaimed,
“Behold, the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world!” The
second is in John 3:14 where the Lord Jesus said, “And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.”
The third is in John 12:24 where Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if
it dies, it bears much fruit.” Christ was the Lamb of God taking away our
sins by shedding His blood; He was the brass serpent that destroyed the old
serpent and the serpentine nature within us; and He was a grain of wheat
that fell into the ground and died to produce many grains.
As the Lamb of God
When Christ was nailed to the cross He was the Lamb of God bearing
our sins and shedding His blood for our redemption. He was “the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8). He offered Himself
once as a sacrifice for our sins and sat down at the right hand of God (Heb.
10:12). His sitting down indicated the work of redemption was fully
accomplished. By the shedding of His blood He obtained the forgiveness
of sins for us (Matt. 26:28) and accomplished eternal redemption for us
(Heb. 9:12). Now we have nothing to do but take it and enjoy it by living
faith. This is the first aspect of His death and every genuine Christian is
familiar with it.
In the Form of a Serpent
Not many Christians, however, are familiar with the second aspect of
the Lord’s death — that on the cross the Lord Jesus was crucified in the
form of a serpent in order to destroy the old serpent, Satan, and the
serpentine nature within our flesh.
In John 12:31 the Lord declared, “Now is the judgment of this world;
now shall the ruler of this world be cast out. ” By His death on the cross the
Lord Jesus judged the world and cast out Satan. Satan has systematized all
the things on earth, especially those things related to the basic needs of
mankind, into his kingdom of darkness to occupy and frustrate people from
the purpose of God and to distract them from the enjoyment of God. That
evil system, the kingdom of darkness, was judged when Satan was
destroyed on the cross.
The Lord Jesus as the Son of Man was lifted up on the cross in the form
of the serpent (John 3:14), that is, “in the likeness of the flesh of sin”
(Rom. 8:3). Satan, the ruler of this world, as “the old serpent” (Rev. 12:9;
20:2), had by the fall of man injected himself into man’s flesh (Rom. 7:17,
18, 20). Through His death on the cross “in the likeness of the flesh of
sin,” the Lord destroyed Satan who is in man’s flesh (Heb. 2:14). By
judging Satan (John 16:11), the world which was under Satan’s control
was also judged. When the Lord Jesus was lifted up in the form of a
serpent. He not only removed our sins and dealt with our serpentine nature,
but also destroyed Satan with his world system (Gal. 6:14). From God’s
perspective, Satan, the world, and our corrupted nature are past history!
They were all terminated on the cross nineteen and one-half centuries ago.
As a Grain of Wheat
The third aspect, the life-releasing aspect, is even less realized by
Christians. In John 12:23 the Lord said, “The hour has come for the Son of
Man to be glorified.” How was the Lord glorified? He was glorified
through death and resurrection because the divine element within Him was
thus released and manifested.
The Father’s divine element, the eternal life, was within the incarnated
Son, Jesus. At that time the divine life was not available for us to
experience. Rather it was confined and limited within the flesh of Jesus,
even as the life element of a grain of wheat is confined within its shell.
The seed must die and its shell must be broken in order for the life inside to
be released and manifested. Unsurpassed glory and beauty are within that
seed, but they cannot be manifested without the death of the seed. Once the
seed falls into the ground and dies, the life element will start to grow and
will eventually manifest the full beauty of the plant. That is the glorifica
tion of the life within the seed. When the Lord Jesus was crucified, the
shell of His humanity was broken and the divine life within Him was
released and manifested in resurrection.
The Goal — To Produce the Church
The release of the divine life was the actual goal of Christ’s death.
Though redemption is absolutely necessary, it was not the goal of His
death. Even the destruction of the devil was not the goal of His death. The
goal of His death was to release the divine life which can be imparted into
us by regeneration making us the living members of His Body, the church.
Most Christians, however, usually apply the death of Christ only to their
needs of forgiveness and victory. The Bible reveals that Christ also has a
need — to have a Body, the church. The Lord not only loved us and gave
Himself for our sins; He gave Himself also for the church that He might
have a bride (Eph. 5:25-27). God’s desire and eternal purpose is not merely
to save us and take us to heaven, but to have the church on the earth
through which he may now make known to the principalities and powers
his manifold wisdom (Eph. 3:10-11).
The divine life has been imparted into us by regeneration and we are
now the many grains that have been produced out of that one grain. These
many grains are for making that one loaf, which is the Body of Christ, the
church (I Cor. 10:17). Formerly, we were sinners with the serpentine
nature, having nothing to do with the divine life. But by the Lord’s all-
inclusive death our sins were removed, our serpentine nature was dealt
with and the divine life was released for us to receive by regeneration. Now
we are living grains who, being blended together, become one loaf, the
church. Praise Him!
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