{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Hope Church | becomehope","title":"Why Did Jesus Have to Die and Rise Again?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2897,"description":"He is risen! This is the biggest holiday we celebrate, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.\nWe believe in a God who is intrinsically active in His creation. He made the earth, looked at it, and said \"It's GOOD.\" He made man and woman in His image as His ambassadors, to enjoy life, work, food, relationship. One rule: Don't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.\nThen Satan slithered in with three lies (the same ones he uses today): \n(1) God isn't trustworthy, \n(2) There's hidden knowledge you need, \n(3) It will make you like God.\nEve ate. Adam ate. Their eyes opened. They saw their nakedness, their shame, their sin. Their relationship with God was SEVERED. This sin was sewn into our DNA, every child after would suffer the same.\nGod cursed Satan, Adam, and Eve. But He promised: \"One day her son will crush your head. You'll strike his heel, but he'll crush your head.\"\nSIN DESTROYED EVERYTHING:\nGod reset with Noah and the flood. But Noah was a sinner too. Tower of Babel, humanity tried to make a great name for themselves. God scattered them according to the sons of God (that's where pagan nations and their gods came from).\nHeaven marred by sin. Earth marred by sin. Sin ruins everything it touches.\nGod chose Abraham (who couldn't even have kids!) and said, \"Through YOUR bloodline, I'm going to save the world. The seed of the woman will come through you.\"\nThe whole Old Testament is waiting for that Messianic figure, the Savior who will save us from sin and death. We thought it might be David. Nope. Every guy we thought might be THE guy fell apart.\nTHEN CAME JESUS:\nBorn of a virgin. Holy Spirit. God Himself (triune God). Lived the perfect life we can't live. And we KILLED Him for it.\nWhy? Because He preached things like \"Love your enemy\" and \"If you follow me, you'll die to yourself.\" People wanted a warlord to save them from Rome. So they killed Him.\nBut Jesus PREDICTED it. He said it would be like Jonah, in the belly of the great sea beast for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QeSOhOM9pdl7ie6YwFiWKrFHSz-rrRbE1NzVv7jCKNA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIwMDk2LzE2MTc4/MDY0ODctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}