This message uses the Home Plate in baseball as an illustration to God's Word. The Home Plate in baseball is seventeen inches wide, no smaller, no bigger. If the pitcher can't pitch the ball over the seventeen inch wide plate they don't make the base any bigger so he can; it is always seventeen inches wide. So goes the Word of God. It is what it is, and never changes. Just because we may not agree with it sometimes doesn't mean we can change it to suit our opinions or ideas. God's Word never changes; It changes us!