{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Eo 377 \u2013\u00a0Acts 2:22-28","description":"In Acts 2:22-28, Luke records part of Peter\u2019s address to the crowd of Jews who had gathered as a result of the Holy Spirit\u2019s coming and the apostles\u2019 miraculous display of the Spirit\u2019s power as they spoke in foreign languages. Peter took the opportunity to speak to the very people who had been complicit in the death of Jesus. It had been the Jewish citizens of Jerusalem who had rejected Pilate\u2019s offer to release Jesus, screaming instead, \u201cCrucify Him!\u201d They had demanded that Pilate release to them a known and notorious criminal, Barabbas, rather than seeing Jesus set free. But Peter wants them to know that all of this had been the will of God. He states that Jesus was \u201cdelivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.\u201d In other words, it had been God\u2019s decision that His Son die, not theirs. That doesn\u2019t mean they were guiltless or unworthy of God\u2019s judgment for the role they played. It simply means that Jesus wasn\u2019t put to death, but as He Himself stated, He \u201cwillingly gave His life as a ransom for many.\u201d The death of Jesus was not a setback or an unexpected glitch in God\u2019s eternal plan, but the main point and the essential outcome that God had preordained. This was the way it had always been meant to be. Jesus had to be put to death for eternal life to become possible and forgiveness of sins to become available. ","author_name":"Devotionary Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/devotionary.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"