From 8de8f422107907ef879ba0bddf3fdc6c01c508c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: svishnu06 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 15:41:09 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] updated isl obs json files #249 --- obs/isl/isl_obs.json | 709 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- obs/isl/manifest.json | 87 +++--- 2 files changed, 714 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) diff --git a/obs/isl/isl_obs.json b/obs/isl/isl_obs.json index 7c2574d..bac8669 100644 --- a/obs/isl/isl_obs.json +++ b/obs/isl/isl_obs.json @@ -5,47 +5,47 @@ "url": "https://youtu.be/byzHXLS4usU", "description": [ { - "time": "0:10", + "time": "00:10", "text": "This is how God made everything in the beginning. He created the universe and everything in it in six days. After God created the earth it was dark and empty, because he had not yet formed anything in it. ButGod’s Spirit was there over the water." }, { - "time": "1:32", + "time": "01:32", "text": "Then God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. God saw that the light was good and called it “day.” He separated it from the darkness, which he called “night.” God created the light on the first day of creation." }, { - "time": "2:18", + "time": "02:18", "text": "On the second day of creation, God said: “Let there be an expanse above the waters.” And there was an expanse. God called this expanse“sky.”" }, { - "time": "3:02", + "time": "03:02", "text": "On the third day, God said: “Let the water come together in one place and the dry land appear.” He called the dry land “earth,” and he called the water “seas.” God saw that what he had created was good." }, { - "time": "3:59", + "time": "03:59", "text": "Then God said, “Let the earth produce all kinds of trees and plants.”And that is what happened. God saw that what he had created was good." }, { - "time": "4:54", + "time": "04:54", "text": "On the fourth day of creation, God said: “Let there be lights in the sky.” And the sun, the moon, and the stars appeared. God made them to give light to the earth and to mark day and night, seasons and years. God saw that what he had created was good." }, { - "time": "6:01", + "time": "06:01", "text": "On the fifth day, God said: “Let living things fill the waters, and birds fly in the sky.” This is how he made everything that swims in the water and all the birds. God saw that it was good, and he blessed them." }, { - "time": "7:05", + "time": "07:05", "text": "On the sixth day of creation, God said, “Let there be all kinds of land animals!” And it happened just like God said. Some were farm animals, some crawled on the ground, and some were wild. And God saw that it was good." }, { - "time": "8:00", + "time": "08:00", "text": "Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image to be like us.They will rule over the earth and all the animals.”" }, { - "time": "8:20", + "time": "08:20", "text": "So God took some soil, formed it into a man, and breathed life into him.This man’s name was Adam. God planted a large garden where Adam could live, and put him there to care for it." }, { - "time": "9:17", + "time": "09:17", "text": "In the middle of the garden, God planted two special trees—the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told Adam that he could eat from any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If he ate from this tree, he would die." }, { @@ -76,47 +76,47 @@ "url": "https://youtu.be/_U3oT0FmHfk", "description": [ { - "time": "0:10", + "time": "00:10", "text": "Adam and his wife were very happy living in the beautiful garden God had made for them. Neither of them wore clothes, but this did not cause them to feel any shame, because there was no sin in the world. They often walked in the garden and talked with God." }, { - "time": "0:58", + "time": "00:58", "text": "But there was a snake in the garden. He was very crafty. He asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”" }, { - "time": "1:27", + "time": "01:27", "text": "The woman answered, “God told us we could eat the fruit of any tree except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told us, ‘If you eat that fruit or even touch it, you will die.’”" }, { - "time": "1:54", + "time": "01:54", "text": "The snake responded to the woman, “That is not true! You will not die. God just knows that as soon as you eat it, you will be like God and will understand good and evil like he does.”" }, { - "time": "2:21", + "time": "02:21", "text": "The woman saw that the fruit was beautiful and looked delicious. She also wanted to be wise, so she picked some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they realized they were naked. They tried to cover their bodies by sewing leaves together to make clothes." }, { - "time": "3:22", + "time": "03:22", "text": "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of God walking through the garden. They both hid from God. Then God called to the man, “Where are you?” Adam replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid.”" }, { - "time": "3:54", + "time": "03:54", "text": "Then God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat the fruit I told you not to eat?” The man answered, “You gave me this woman, and she gave me the fruit.” Then God asked the woman, “What have you done?” The woman replied, “The snake tricked me.”" }, { - "time": "4:24", + "time": "04:24", "text": "God said to the snake, “You are cursed! You will slide on your belly and eat soil. You and the woman will hate each other, and your children and her children will hate each other, too. The woman’s descendant will crush your head, and you will wound his heel.”" }, { - "time": "5:18", + "time": "05:18", "text": "God then said to the woman, “I will make childbirth very painful for you. You will desire your husband, and he will rule over you.”" }, { - "time": "5:46", + "time": "05:46", "text": "God said to the man, “You listened to your wife and disobeyed me. Now the ground is cursed, and you will need to work hard to grow food. Then you will die, and your body will return to soil.” The man named his wife Eve, which means “life-giver,” because she would become the mother of all people. And God clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins." }, { - "time": "7:07", + "time": "07:07", "text": "Then God said, “Now that the human beings have become like us by knowing good and evil, they must not be allowed to eat the fruit of the tree of life and live forever.” So God sent Adam and Eve away from the garden. God placed powerful angels at the entrance to the garden to keep anyone from eating the fruit of the tree of life." } ] @@ -127,51 +127,51 @@ "url": "https://youtu.be/womfaTTgXK4", "description": [ { - "time": "0:15", + "time": "00:15", "text": "After a long time, many people were living in the world. They had become very wicked and violent. It became so bad that God decided to destroy the whole world with a huge flood." }, { - "time": "1:08", + "time": "01:08", "text": "But God was pleased with Noah. He was a righteous man, living among wicked people. God told Noah that he was going to make a big flood. Therefore, he told Noah to build a huge boat." }, { - "time": "1:57", + "time": "01:57", "text": "God told Noah to make the boat about 140 meters long, 23 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high. Noah was to build it with wood and to make three levels, many rooms, a roof, and a window. The boat would keep Noah, his family, and every kind of land animal safe during the flood." }, { - "time": "3:09", + "time": "03:09", "text": "Noah obeyed God. He and his three sons built the boat just the way God had told them. It took many years to build the boat, because it was so big. Noah warned the people about the flood that was coming and told them to turn to God, but they did not believe him." }, { - "time": "4:08", + "time": "04:08", "text": "God also commanded Noah and his family to gather enough food for themselves and the animals. When everything was ready, God told Noah it was time for him, his wife, his three sons, and their wives to get into the boat—eight people in all." }, { - "time": "4:41", + "time": "04:41", "text": "God sent a male and a female of every animal and bird to Noah so they could go into the boat and be kept safe during the flood. God sent seven males and seven females of every type of animal that could be used for sacrifices. When they were all in the boat, God himself closed the door." }, { - "time": "6:02", + "time": "06:02", "text": "Then it began to rain, and rain, and rain. It rained for forty days and forty nights without stopping! Water also came gushing up out of the earth. Everything in the whole world was covered with water, even the highest mountains." }, { - "time": "6:55", + "time": "06:55", "text": "Everything that lived on the dry land died, except the people and animals that were in the boat. The boat floated on the water and kept everything inside the boat safe from drowning." }, { - "time": "7:19", + "time": "07:19", "text": "After the rains stopped, the boat floated on the water for five months, and during this time the water started going down. Then one day the boat rested on the top of a mountain, but the world was still covered with water. After three more months, the tops of the mountains were visible." }, { - "time": "7:59", + "time": "07:59", "text": "After forty more days, Noah sent out a bird called a raven to see if the water had dried up. The raven flew back and forth looking for dry land, but it could not find any." }, { - "time": "8:34", + "time": "08:34", "text": "Later, Noah sent out a bird called a dove. But it also could not find any dry land, so it came back to Noah. A week later he sent the dove out again,and it came back with an olive branch in its beak! The water was going down, and the plants were growing again!" }, { - "time": "9:34", + "time": "09:34", "text": "Noah waited another week and sent out the dove a third time. This time, it found a place to rest and did not come back. The water was drying up!" }, { @@ -198,39 +198,39 @@ "url": "https://youtu.be/aUVNY6YBsoQ", "description": [ { - "time": "0:10", + "time": "00:10", "text": "Many years after the flood, there were again many people in the world, and they still sinned against God and each other. Because they all spoke the same language, they gathered together and built a city instead of spreading out over the earth as God had commanded." }, { - "time": "0:52", + "time": "00:52", "text": "They were very proud, and they did not want to obey God’s commands about how they should live. They even began building a tall tower that would reach heaven. God saw that, if they all kept working together to do evil, they could do many more sinful things." }, { - "time": "1:37", + "time": "01:37", "text": "So God changed their language into many different languages and spread the people out all over the world. The city they had begun to build was called Babel, which means “confused.”" }, { - "time": "2:34", + "time": "02:34", "text": "Hundreds of years later, God spoke to a man named Abram. God told him, “Leave your country and family and go to the land I will show you. I will bless you and make you a great nation. I will make your name great. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All families on earth will be blessed because of you.”" }, { - "time": "3:46", + "time": "03:46", "text": "So Abram obeyed God. He took his wife, Sarai, together with all of his servants and everything he owned and went to the land God showed him, the land of Canaan." }, { - "time": "4:21", + "time": "04:21", "text": "When Abram arrived in Canaan, God said, “Look all around you. I will give to you all this land, and your descendants will always possess it.” Then Abram settled in the land." }, { - "time": "4:58", + "time": "04:58", "text": "There was a man named Melchizedek who was a priest of God Most High. One day, after Abram had been in a battle, he and Abram met. Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, “May God Most High who owns heaven and earth bless Abram.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had won in the battle." }, { - "time": "5:48", + "time": "05:48", "text": "Many years went by, but Abram and Sarai still did not have a son. God spoke to Abram and promised again that he would have a son and as many descendants as the stars in the sky. Abram believed God’s promise. God declared that Abram was righteous because he believed in God’s promise." }, { - "time": "6:42", + "time": "06:42", "text": "Then God made a covenant with Abram. Normally, a covenant is an agreement between two parties to do things for each other. But in this case, God made a promise to Abram while Abram was in a deep sleep, but he could still hear God. God said, “I will give you a son from your own body. I give the land of Canaan to your descendants.” But Abram still did not have a son." } ] @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ }, { "storyNo": 8, - "title": "God Saves Joseph and His Family", + "title": "God Saves Joseph", "url": "https://youtu.be/HfxEUwnBCvU", "description": [ { @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ }, { "storyNo": 32, - "title": "Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man & a Sick Woman", + "title": "Jesus Heals a Demon Possessed Man & a Sick Woman", "url": "https://youtu.be/EtnUWeIhfDs", "description": [ { @@ -1680,5 +1680,624 @@ "text": "A Bible story from: John 11:1-46" } ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 38, + "title": "Jesus Is Betrayed", + "url": "https://youtu.be/2ZNIVzo1t5o", + "description": [ + { + "text": "Every year, the Jews celebrated the Passover. This was a celebration of how God had saved their ancestors from slavery in Egypt many centuries earlier. About three years after Jesus first began preaching and teaching publicly, Jesus told his disciples that he wanted to celebrate this Passover with them in Jerusalem, and that he would be killed there." + }, + { + "text": "One of Jesus’ disciples was a man named Judas. Judas was in charge of the apostles’ moneybag, but he often stole money out of the bag. After Jesus and the disciples arrived in Jerusalem, Judas went to the Jewish leaders. He offered to betray Jesus by identifying him to the authorities in exchange for money. He knew that the Jewish leaders did not accept that Jesus was the Messiah. He knew that they wanted to kill him." + }, + { + "text": "The Jewish leaders, led by the high priest, paid Judas 30 silver coins to betray Jesus by handing him over to them. This happened just as the prophets said it would. Judas agreed, took the money, and went away. He began looking for an opportunity to help them arrest Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "In Jerusalem, Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples. During the Passover meal, Jesus took some bread and broke it. He said, “Take and eat this. This is my body, which I will give for you. Do this to remember me.” In this way, Jesus said that he would die for them, that he would sacrifice his body for them." + }, + { + "text": "Then Jesus picked up a cup of wine and said, “Drink this. It is my blood of the New Covenant that I will pour out so that God will forgive your sins. Do what I am doing now, to remember me every time you drink it.”" + }, + { + "text": "Then Jesus said to the disciples, “One of you will betray me.” The disciples were shocked, and asked who would do such a thing. Jesus said, “The person to whom I give this piece of bread is the betrayer.” Then he gave the bread to Judas." + }, + { + "text": "After Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Judas left and went to help the Jewish leaders arrest Jesus. It was nighttime." + }, + { + "text": "After the meal, Jesus and his disciples walked to the Mount of Olives. Jesus said, “You will all abandon me tonight. It is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd and all the sheep will be scattered.’”" + }, + { + "text": "Peter replied, “Even if all the others abandon you, I will not!” Then Jesus said to Peter, “Satan wants to have all of you, but I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith will not fail. Even so, tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me.”" + }, + { + "text": "Peter then said to Jesus, “Even if I must die, I will never deny you!” All the other disciples said the same thing." + }, + { + "text": "Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. Jesus told his disciples to pray that they would not enter into temptation. Then Jesus went to pray by himself." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus prayed three times, “My Father, if it is possible, please let me not have to drink this cup of suffering. But if there is no other way for people’s sins to be forgiven, then let your will be done.” Jesus was very troubled and his sweat was like drops of blood. God sent an angel to strengthen him." + }, + { + "text": "After each time of prayer, Jesus came back to his disciples, but they were asleep. When he returned the third time, Jesus said, “Wake up! My betrayer is here.”" + }, + { + "text": "Judas came with the Jewish leaders, soldiers, and a large crowd. They were carrying swords and clubs. Judas came to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Teacher,” and kissed him. He did this to show the Jewish leaders the man to arrest. Then Jesus said, “Judas, are you betraying me with a kiss?”" + }, + { + "text": "As the soldiers were seizing Jesus, Peter pulled out his sword and cut off the ear of a servant of the high priest. But Jesus said, “Put the sword away! I could ask the Father for an army of angels to defend me, but I must obey my Father.” Jesus healed the man’s ear. Then all the disciples ran away." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 26:14-56; Mark 14:10-50; Luke 22:1-53; John 18:1-11" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 39, + "title": "Jesus Is Put on Trial", + "url": "https://youtu.be/iCt3V82nfS0", + "description": [ + { + "text": "It was now the middle of the night. The soldiers led Jesus to the house of the high priest because he wanted to question Jesus. Peter was following far behind them. When the soldiers took Jesus into the house, Peter stayed outside and warmed himself by a fire." + }, + { + "text": "Inside the house, the Jewish leaders put Jesus on trial. They brought many false witnesses who lied about him. However, their statements did not agree with each other, so the Jewish leaders could not prove he was guilty of anything. Jesus did not say anything." + }, + { + "text": "Finally, the high priest looked directly at Jesus and said, “Tell us, are you the Messiah, the Son of the living God?”" + }, + { + "text": "Jesus said, “I am, and you will see me seated with God and coming from heaven.” The high priest tore his clothes because he was angry at what Jesus said. He shouted to the other leaders, “We do not need any more witnesses to tell us what this man has done! You yourselves have heard him say that he is the Son of God. What is your decision about him?”" + }, + { + "text": "The Jewish leaders all answered the high priest, “He deserves to die!” Then they blindfolded Jesus, spit on him, hit him, and mocked him." + }, + { + "text": "As for Peter, he was waiting outside the house. A servant girl saw him. She said to him, “You also were with Jesus!” Peter denied it. Later, another girl said the same thing, and Peter denied it again. Finally, some people said, “We know that you were with Jesus because you both are from Galilee.”" + }, + { + "text": "Then Peter said, “May God curse me if I know this man!” Immediately after Peter swore like this, a rooster crowed. Jesus turned around and looked at Peter." + }, + { + "text": "Peter went away and cried bitterly. At the same time, Judas, the one who had betrayed Jesus, saw that the Jewish leaders had condemned Jesus to die. Judas became full of sorrow and went away and killed himself." + }, + { + "text": "Now Pilate was the governor of Judea. He worked for Rome. The Jewish leaders brought Jesus to him. They wanted Pilate to condemn Jesus and kill him. Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”" + }, + { + "text": "Jesus answered, “You have said the truth. But my kingdom is not here on earth. If it were, my servants would fight for me. I have come to earth to tell the truth about God. Everyone who loves the truth listens to me.” Pilate asked, “What is truth?”" + }, + { + "text": "After speaking with Jesus, Pilate went out to the crowd and said, “I cannot find any reason that this man deserves to die.” But the Jewish leaders and the crowd shouted, “Crucify him!” Pilate replied, “He is not guilty of doing anything wrong.” But they shouted even louder. Then Pilate said a third time, “He is not guilty!”" + }, + { + "text": "Pilate became afraid that the crowd would begin to riot, so he agreed to have his soldiers crucify Jesus. The Roman soldiers whipped Jesus and put a royal robe and a crown made of thorns on him. Then they mocked him by saying, “Look, the King of the Jews!”" + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 26:57-27:26; Mark 14:53-15:15; Luke 22:54-23:25; John 18:12-19:16" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 40, + "title": "Jesus Is Crucified", + "url": "https://youtu.be/PEcGMkV83GE", + "description": [ + { + "text": "After the soldiers mocked Jesus, they led him away to crucify him. They made him carry the cross on which he would die." + }, + { + "text": "The soldiers brought Jesus to a place called ‘the Skull’ and nailed his hands and feet to the cross. But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” They also put a sign on the cross above his head. It said, “King of the Jews.” This is what Pilate had told them to write." + }, + { + "text": "Then the soldiers gambled for Jesus’ clothing. When they did this, they fulfilled a prophecy that said, “They divided my garments among them, and gambled for my clothing.”" + }, + { + "text": "There were also two robbers whom the soldiers crucified at the same time, putting them on either side of Jesus. One of the robbers mocked Jesus, but the other said to him, “Do you not fear that God will punish you? We are guilty of doing many bad things, but this man is innocent.” Then he said to Jesus, “Please remember me when you become king in your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.”" + }, + { + "text": "The Jewish leaders and the other people in the crowd mocked Jesus. They said to him, “If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross and save yourself! Then we will believe you.”" + }, + { + "text": "Then the sky over the whole region became completely dark, even though it was the middle of the day. It became dark at noon and stayed dark for three hours." + }, + { + "text": "Then Jesus cried out, “It is finished! Father, I am giving my spirit into your hands.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. When he died, there was an earthquake. In the Temple, the large curtain that separated the people from the presence of God was torn in two from the top to the bottom." + }, + { + "text": "Through his death, Jesus opened the way for people to come to God. When a soldier guarding Jesus saw everything that had happened, he said, “Certainly, this man was innocent. He was the Son of God.”" + }, + { + "text": "Then two Jewish leaders named Joseph and Nicodemus came and asked Pilate for Jesus’ body. They believed that Jesus was the Messiah. They wrapped his body in cloth, took it to a tomb cut out of rock and placed it inside. Then they rolled a large stone in front of the tomb to block the opening." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 27:27-61; Mark 15:16-47; Luke 23:26-56; John 19:17-42" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 41, + "title": "God Raises Jesus from the Dead", + "url": "https://youtu.be/X-RFySPryeQ", + "description": [ + { + "text": "After the soldiers crucified Jesus, the Jewish leaders said to Pilate, “That liar, Jesus, said he would rise from the dead after three days. Someone must guard the tomb to make sure that his disciples do not steal the body. If they do, they will say he has risen from the dead.”" + }, + { + "text": "Pilate said, “Take some soldiers and guard the tomb as well as you can.” So they placed a seal on the stone at the entrance of the tomb. They also put soldiers there to make sure no one could steal the body." + }, + { + "text": "The day after Jesus died was a Sabbath day. No one could work on the Sabbath day, so no friends of Jesus went to his tomb. But on the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning, several women got ready to go to Jesus’ tomb. They wanted to put more spices on his body." + }, + { + "text": "Before the women arrived, there was a great earthquake at the tomb. An angel came from heaven. He rolled away the stone that was covering the entrance to the tomb and sat on it. This angel was shining as brightly as lightning. The soldiers at the tomb saw him. They were so terrified that they fell to the ground like dead men." + }, + { + "text": "When the women arrived at the tomb, the angel told them, “Do not be afraid. Jesus is not here. He has risen from the dead, just like he said he would! Look in the tomb and see.” The women looked into the tomb and saw where Jesus’ body had been laid. His body was not there!" + }, + { + "text": "Then the angel told the women, “Go and tell the disciples, ‘Jesus has risen from the dead and he will go to Galilee ahead of you.’”" + }, + { + "text": "The women were amazed and very joyful. They ran to tell the disciples the good news." + }, + { + "text": "As the women were on their way to tell the disciples the good news, Jesus appeared to them. They bowed down at his feet. Then Jesus said, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my disciples to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”" + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 27:62-28:15; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 42, + "title": "Jesus Returns to Heaven", + "url": "https://youtu.be/c6SkxaSfDlE", + "description": [ + { + "text": "On the day that God raised Jesus from the dead, two of his disciples were going to a nearby town. As they walked, they talked about what had happened to Jesus. They had hoped that he was the Messiah, but then he was killed. Now the women said he was alive again. They did not know what to believe." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus approached them and started walking with them, but they did not recognize him. He asked what they were talking about. They told him about all the things that had happened to Jesus during the previous few days. They thought they were talking to a foreigner who did not know what had happened in Jerusalem." + }, + { + "text": "Then Jesus explained to them what God’s word said about the Messiah. Long ago, prophets had said that evil men would make the Messiah suffer and die. But the prophets also said he would rise again on the third day." + }, + { + "text": "When they arrived at the town where the two men wanted to stay, it was almost evening. They invited Jesus to stay with them, so he went into a house with them. They sat down to eat their evening meal. Jesus picked up a loaf of bread, thanked God for it, and then broke it. Suddenly, they recognized that he was Jesus. But at that moment, he disappeared from their sight." + }, + { + "text": "The two men said to each other, “That was Jesus! That is why we were so excited when he explained God’s word to us!” Immediately they left and went back to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they told the disciples, “Jesus is alive! We have seen him!”" + }, + { + "text": "As the disciples were talking, Jesus suddenly appeared in the room with them. He said, “Peace to you!” The disciples thought he was a ghost, but Jesus said, “Why are you afraid? Why do you not think it is really I, Jesus? Look at my hands and feet. Ghosts do not have bodies like I do.” To show that he was not a ghost, he asked for something to eat. They gave him a piece of fish, and he ate it." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus said, “Everything about me that God’s word says will happen, I have told you that it must happen.” Then Jesus made them understand God’s word better. He said, “Long ago, prophets wrote that I, the Messiah, would suffer, die, and then rise from the dead on the third day.”" + }, + { + "text": "“The prophets also wrote that my disciples will proclaim God’s message. They will tell everyone to repent. If they repent, God will forgive their sins. My disciples will proclaim this message starting in Jerusalem. Then they will go to all people groups everywhere. You are witnesses of everything I have said and done, and of everything that happened to me.”" + }, + { + "text": "During the next 40 days, Jesus appeared to his disciples many times. Once, he even appeared to more than 500 people at the same time! In many ways, he proved to his disciples that he was alive, and he taught them about the kingdom of God." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus said to his disciples, “God has given me the right to rule over everyone in heaven and on earth. So I am telling you now: go and make disciples in all people groups. In order to do this, you must baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. You must also teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. Remember, I will always be with you.”" + }, + { + "text": "Forty days after Jesus rose from the dead, he told his disciples, “Stay in Jerusalem until my Father gives you power. He will do this by sending the Holy Spirit upon you.” Then Jesus went up to heaven, and a cloud hid him from their sight. Jesus sat down in heaven at the right hand of God to rule over all things." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 28:16-20; Mark 16:12-20; Luke 24:13-53; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:1-11" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 43, + "title": "The Church Begins", + "url": "https://youtu.be/p5OiVchVhAs", + "description": [ + { + "text": "After Jesus returned to heaven, the disciples stayed in Jerusalem as Jesus had commanded them to do. The believers there constantly gathered together to pray." + }, + { + "text": "Every year, 50 days after the Passover, the Jews celebrated an important day called Pentecost. Pentecost was a time when the Jews celebrated the wheat harvest. Jews came from all over the world to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost together. This year the time for Pentecost came about a week after Jesus had gone back to heaven." + }, + { + "text": "While the believers were all together, suddenly the house where they had gathered was filled with a sound like a strong wind. Then something that looked like flames of fire appeared over the heads of all the believers. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they praised God in other languages. They did not know these languages, but these were languages that the Holy Spirit enabled them to speak." + }, + { + "text": "When the people in Jerusalem heard this noise, they came together in a crowd to see what was happening. They heard the believers proclaiming the great things God had done. They were astonished because they could understand even though they were from many different countries and spoke many different languages. The disciples were from Israel and spoke Aramaic, Hebrew, or Greek, but the people were each hearing what God had done in their own native language." + }, + { + "text": "Some of these people said that the disciples were drunk. But Peter stood up and said to them, “Listen to me! These people are not drunk! Instead, what you see is what the prophet Joel said would happen: God said, ‘In the last days, I will pour out my Spirit.’”" + }, + { + "text": "“Men of Israel, Jesus was a man who did many wonderful things to show who he was. He did many amazing things by God’s power. You know this because you saw these things. But you crucified him!”" + }, + { + "text": "“Jesus died, but God raised him from the dead. This made come true what a prophet wrote: ‘You will not let your Holy One rot in the grave.’ We are witnesses that God raised Jesus to life again.”" + }, + { + "text": "“God the Father has now honored Jesus by making him sit at his right hand. And Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit to us just as he promised he would do. The Holy Spirit is causing the things that you are now seeing and hearing.”" + }, + { + "text": "“You crucified this man, Jesus. But know for certain that God has caused Jesus to become both the Lord of everything and the Messiah!”" + }, + { + "text": "The people listening to Peter were deeply moved by the things that he said. So they asked Peter and the disciples, “Brothers, what should we do?”" + }, + { + "text": "Peter answered them, “All of you need God to forgive your sins. So repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ. Then God will also give you the Holy Spirit as a gift.”" + }, + { + "text": "About 3,000 people believed what Peter said and became disciples of Jesus. They were baptized and became part of the church at Jerusalem." + }, + { + "text": "The believers continually listened as the apostles taught them. They often met together and ate together, and they often prayed with each other. They praised God together and they shared everything they had with each other. Everyone in the city thought well of them. Every day, more people became believers." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Acts 1:12-14; 2" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 44, + "title": "Peter and John Heal a Beggar", + "url": "https://youtu.be/GGfC_gJjQZI", + "description": [ + { + "text": "One day Peter and John went to the Temple. A crippled man was sitting at the gate, begging for money." + }, + { + "text": "Peter looked at the lame man and said, “I do not have any money to give you. But I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus, get up and walk!”" + }, + { + "text": "Immediately, God healed the lame man. He began to walk and jump around, and to praise God. The people in the courtyard of the Temple were amazed." + }, + { + "text": "A crowd of people quickly came to see the man who was healed. Peter said to them, “This man is well, but do not be amazed at this. We did not heal him with our own power or because we honor God. Rather, it is Jesus who healed this man with his power, because we believe in Jesus.”" + }, + { + "text": "“You are the ones who told the Roman governor to kill Jesus. You killed the one who gives life to everybody. But God raised him from the dead. You did not understand what you were doing, but when you did those things, what the prophets said came true. They said that the Messiah would suffer and die. God made it happen in this way. So now, repent and turn to God, so that he will wash away your sins.”" + }, + { + "text": "When the leaders of the Temple heard Peter and John, they were very upset. So they arrested them and put them into prison. But many people believed what Peter said. The number of men who believed in Jesus grew to about 5,000." + }, + { + "text": "The next day the Jewish leaders brought Peter and John to the high priest and the other religious leaders. They also brought the man who had been crippled. They asked Peter and John, “By what power did you heal this crippled man?”" + }, + { + "text": "Peter answered them, “This man standing before you has been healed by the power of Jesus the Messiah. You crucified Jesus, but God raised him to life again! You rejected him, but there is no other way to be saved except through the power of Jesus!”" + }, + { + "text": "The leaders were shocked that Peter and John spoke so boldly. They saw that these men were ordinary men who were uneducated. But then they remembered that these men had been with Jesus. So they said to them, “We will punish you very much if you give any more messages to the people about this man Jesus.” After saying many things like this, they let Peter and John go." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Acts 3-4:22" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 45, + "title": "Stephen and Philip", + "url": "https://youtu.be/4arp-Eme-Hg", + "description": [ + { + "text": "One of the leaders among the first followers of Jesus was a man named Stephen. Everyone respected him. The Holy Spirit gave him much power and wisdom. Stephen did many miracles. Many people believed him when he taught them to trust in Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "One day when Stephen was teaching about Jesus, some Jews who did not believe in Jesus came and began to argue with him. They became very angry, so they went to the religious leaders and told lies about him. They said, “We heard Stephen speak evil things about Moses and God!” So the religious leaders arrested Stephen and brought him to the high priest and the other leaders of the Jews. More false witnesses came and lied to them about Stephen." + }, + { + "text": "The high priest asked Stephen, “Are these men telling the truth about you?” Stephen began to say many things in order to answer the high priest. He said that God had done many wonderful things for the people of Israel from the time when Abraham lived to the time of Jesus. But the people had always disobeyed God. Stephen said, “You people are stubborn and rebellious against God. You always reject the Holy Spirit, just as our ancestors always rejected God and always killed his prophets. But you did something worse than they did! You killed the Messiah!”" + }, + { + "text": "When the religious leaders heard this, they were so angry that they covered their ears and yelled loudly. They dragged Stephen out of the city and threw stones at him in order to kill him." + }, + { + "text": "As Stephen was dying, he cried out, “Jesus, receive my spirit.” He fell to his knees and cried out again, “Master, do not hold this sin against them.” Then he died." + }, + { + "text": "That day many people in Jerusalem started persecuting the followers of Jesus, so the believers fled to other places. But in spite of opposition, they preached about Jesus everywhere they went." + }, + { + "text": "There was a believer in Jesus named Philip. He fled from Jerusalem, as did most other believers. He went to the region of Samaria where he preached to people about Jesus. Many people believed him and were saved. One day, an angel came from God to Philip and told him to go into the wilderness, and to walk down a certain road. Philip went there. As he was walking on the road, he saw a man riding in his chariot. This man was an important official from the land of Ethiopia. The Holy Spirit told Philip to go and talk with this man." + }, + { + "text": "So Philip went to the chariot. He heard the Ethiopian reading God’s word. He was reading what the prophet Isaiah had written. The man read, “They led him like a lamb to be killed, and as a lamb is silent, he did not say a word. They treated him unfairly and did not respect him. They took his life away from him.”" + }, + { + "text": "Philip asked the Ethiopian, “Do you understand what you are reading?” The Ethiopian replied, “No. I cannot understand it unless someone explains it to me. Please come and sit next to me. Was Isaiah writing about himself or someone else?”" + }, + { + "text": "Philip got into the chariot and sat down. Then he told the Ethiopian man that Isaiah had written about Jesus. Philip also spoke about many other parts of God’s word. In this way, he told the man the good news about Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "As Philip and the Ethiopian traveled, they came to some water. The Ethiopian said, “Look! There is some water! May I be baptized?” And he told the driver to stop the chariot." + }, + { + "text": "So they went down into the water, and Philip baptized the Ethiopian. After they came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit suddenly carried Philip away to another place. There Philip continued to tell people about Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "The Ethiopian continued traveling toward his home. He was happy that he now knew Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Acts 6-8" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 46, + "title": "Saul Becomes a Follower of Jesus", + "url": "https://youtu.be/PTwbVYSslLg", + "description": [ + { + "text": "There was a man named Saul who did not believe in Jesus. When he was a young man, he guarded the robes of the men who killed Stephen. Later he persecuted the believers. He went from house to house in Jerusalem to arrest both men and women and to put them in prison. Then the high priest gave Saul permission to go to the city of Damascus. He told Saul to arrest followers of Jesus there and to bring them back to Jerusalem." + }, + { + "text": "So Saul began to travel to Damascus. Just before he reached the city, a bright light in the sky shone all around him, and he fell to the ground. Saul heard someone say, “Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?” Saul asked, “Who are you, Master?” Jesus replied to him, “I am Jesus. You are persecuting me!”" + }, + { + "text": "When Saul got up, he could not see. His friends had to lead him into Damascus. Saul did not eat or drink anything for three days." + }, + { + "text": "There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. God said to him, “Go to the house where Saul is staying. Place your hands on him so that he can see again.” But Ananias said, “Master, I have heard how this man has persecuted the believers.” God answered him, “Go! I have chosen him to declare my name to the Jews and to people from other people groups. He will suffer many things for my name.”" + }, + { + "text": "So Ananias went to Saul, placed his hands on him, and said, “Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here, sent me to you so that you can see again, and so the Holy Spirit will fill you.” Immediately Saul was able to see again, and Ananias baptized him. Then Saul ate some food and became strong again." + }, + { + "text": "Right away Saul began preaching to the Jews in Damascus. He said, “Jesus is the Son of God!” The Jews were amazed because Saul had tried to kill believers, and now he believed in Jesus! Saul argued with the Jews. He showed that Jesus was the Messiah." + }, + { + "text": "After many days, the Jews made a plan to kill Saul. They sent people to watch for him at the city gates in order to kill him. But Saul heard about the plan, and his friends helped him escape. One night they lowered him over the city wall in a basket. After Saul escaped from Damascus, he continued to preach about Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "Saul went to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles, but they were afraid of him. Then a believer named Barnabas took Saul to the apostles. He told them how Saul had preached boldly in Damascus. After that the apostles accepted Saul." + }, + { + "text": "Some believers who fled from the persecution in Jerusalem went far away to the city of Antioch and preached about Jesus. Most of the people in Antioch were not Jews, but for the first time, people who were not Jews became believers. Barnabas and Saul went there to teach these new believers more about Jesus and to strengthen the church. It was at Antioch that believers in Jesus were first called ‘Christians.’" + }, + { + "text": "One day, the followers of Jesus at Antioch were fasting and praying. The Holy Spirit said to them, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul to do the work I have called them to do.” So the church in Antioch prayed for Barnabas and Saul and placed their hands on them. Then they sent them out to preach the good news about Jesus in many other places. Barnabas and Saul taught people in different people groups, and many people believed in Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-31; 11:19-26; 13-14" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 47, + "title": "Paul and Silas in Philippi", + "url": "https://youtu.be/5Xacx3Y_A6Y", + "description": [ + { + "text": "As Saul traveled throughout the Roman Empire, he began to use his Roman name, ‘Paul.’ One day, Paul and his friend Silas went to the town of Philippi to proclaim the good news about Jesus. They went to a place by the river outside the city where people gathered to pray. There they met a woman named Lydia who was a merchant. She loved and worshiped God." + }, + { + "text": "God enabled Lydia to believe the message about Jesus. Paul and Silas baptized her and her family. She invited Paul and Silas to stay at her house, so they stayed there." + }, + { + "text": "Paul and Silas often met with people at the place where Jews prayed. Every day as they walked there, a slave girl possessed by a demon followed them. By means of this demon, she predicted the future for people, so she made a lot of money for her masters as a fortuneteller." + }, + { + "text": "The slave girl kept yelling as they walked, “These men are servants of the Most High God. They are telling you the way to be saved!” She did this so often that Paul became annoyed." + }, + { + "text": "Finally, one day when the slave girl started yelling, Paul turned to her and said to the demon that was in her, “In the name of Jesus, come out of her.” Right away the demon left her." + }, + { + "text": "The men who owned the slave girl became very angry! They realized that, without the demon, the slave girl could not tell people the future. This meant that people would no longer pay her owners to have her tell their future." + }, + { + "text": "So the owners of the slave girl took Paul and Silas to the Roman authorities, who beat Paul and Silas, and then threw them into jail." + }, + { + "text": "They put Paul and Silas in the part of the prison where there were the most guards. They even attached their feet to large pieces of wood. But in the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were singing songs of praise to God." + }, + { + "text": "Suddenly, there was a violent earthquake! All the prison doors opened wide, and the chains of all the prisoners fell off." + }, + { + "text": "Then the jailer woke up. He saw that the prison doors were open. He thought that all the prisoners had escaped. He was afraid the Roman authorities would kill him for allowing them to go, so he got ready to kill himself! But Paul saw him and shouted, “Stop! Do not hurt yourself. We are all here.”" + }, + { + "text": "The jailer trembled as he came to Paul and Silas and asked, “What must I do to be saved?” Paul answered, “Believe in Jesus, the Master, and you and your family will be saved.” Then the jailer took Paul and Silas into his home and washed their wounds. Paul preached the good news about Jesus to everyone in his house." + }, + { + "text": "The jailer and his whole family believed in Jesus, so Paul and Silas baptized them. Then the jailer gave Paul and Silas a meal, and they rejoiced together." + }, + { + "text": "The next day the leaders of the city released Paul and Silas from prison and asked them to leave Philippi. Paul and Silas visited Lydia and some other friends and then left the city. The good news about Jesus kept spreading, and the Church kept growing." + }, + { + "text": "Paul and other leaders of the believers traveled to many cities. They preached and taught people the good news about Jesus. They also wrote many letters to encourage and teach the believers in the churches. Some of these letters became books of the Bible." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Acts 16:11-40" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 48, + "title": "Jesus Is the Promised Messiah", + "url": "https://youtu.be/aQzAWUzHlE4", + "description": [ + { + "text": "When God created the world, everything was perfect. There was no sin. Adam and Eve loved each other, and they loved God. There was no sickness or death. This was the way God wanted the world to be." + }, + { + "text": "Satan spoke to Eve in the garden through the snake because he wanted to deceive her. Then she and Adam sinned against God. Because they sinned, everyone on earth dies." + }, + { + "text": "Because Adam and Eve sinned, something even worse happened. They became enemies of God. As a result, every person since then has sinned. Every person is an enemy of God from birth. There was no peace between people and God. But God wanted to make peace." + }, + { + "text": "God promised that one of Eve’s descendants would crush Satan’s head, and Satan would bite his heel. In other words, Satan would kill the Messiah, but God would raise him to life again. The Messiah would take away Satan’s power forever. Many years later, God showed that the Messiah is Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "God told Noah to build a boat to save his family from the flood he was going to send. This is how God saved the people who believed in him. In the same way, everyone deserves death from God because they have sinned. But God sent Jesus to save everyone who believes in him." + }, + { + "text": "For hundreds of years, priests kept on offering sacrifices to God. This showed people that they committed sin and that they deserved God’s punishment. But those sacrifices could not forgive their sins. Jesus did what the priests could not do. He gave himself to be the only sacrifice that could take away everyone’s sin. He accepted onto himself the punishment that we should have received for our sins. For this reason, Jesus is the Great High Priest." + }, + { + "text": "God had told Abraham, “I will bless all the people groups on the earth through you.” Jesus was a descendant of this Abraham. God blesses all the people groups through Abraham, because God saves from sin everyone who believes in Jesus. When these people believe in Jesus, God considers them to be descendants of Abraham." + }, + { + "text": "God told Abraham to sacrifice his own son, Isaac, to him. But then God gave a ram for the sacrifice instead of Isaac. We all deserve to die for our sins! But God gave Jesus to be a sacrifice to die in our place. That is why we call Jesus the Lamb of God." + }, + { + "text": "When God sent the last plague on Egypt, he told each Israelite family to kill a lamb. The lamb must not have any flaws. Then they had to spread its blood on the tops and sides of their door frames. When God saw the blood, he passed over their houses and did not kill their firstborn sons. When this happened, God called this the Passover." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus is like a Passover Lamb. He never sinned, so there was nothing wrong with him. He was killed at the time of the Passover festival. When anyone believes in Jesus, the blood of Jesus pays for that person’s sin. It is as if God passed over that person, because he does not punish him." + }, + { + "text": "God made a covenant with the Israelites because they were the people he had chosen to belong to himself. But God has now made a New Covenant that is for everyone. If anyone in any people group accepts this New Covenant, he joins God’s people. He does this because he believes in Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "Moses was a prophet who proclaimed the word of God with great power. But Jesus is the greatest prophet of all. He is God, so all the things he did and said were the actions and words of God. That is why the Scriptures call Jesus the Word of God." + }, + { + "text": "God promised King David that one of his descendants would rule as king over God’s people forever. Jesus is the Son of God and the Messiah, so he is the descendant of David who can rule forever." + }, + { + "text": "David was a king of Israel, but Jesus is the king of the entire universe! He will come again and rule his kingdom with justice and peace forever." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Genesis 1-3, 6, 14, 22; Exodus 12, 20; 2 Samuel 7; Hebrews 3:1-6, 4:14-5:10, 7:1-8:13, 9:11-10:18; Revelation 21" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 49, + "title": "God’s New Covenant", + "url": "https://youtu.be/GL27Nb8WY-I", + "description": [ + { + "text": "An angel told Mary, a young woman, that she would give birth to God’s Son. She was still a virgin, but the Holy Spirit came to her and made her become pregnant. She gave birth to a son and named him Jesus. Therefore, Jesus is both God and human." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus did many miracles that show that he is God. He walked on water and stopped storms. He healed many sick people and drove demons out of many others. He raised dead people to life, and he turned five loaves of bread and two small fish into enough food to feed over 5,000 people." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus was also a great teacher. Everything he taught, he taught correctly. People should do what he told them to do because he is the Son of God. For example, he taught that you need to love other people the same way you love yourself." + }, + { + "text": "He also taught that you need to love God more than you love anything else, including your possessions." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus said that it is better to be in God’s kingdom than to have anything else in the world. God must save you from your sins in order for you to enter his kingdom." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus said that some people will accept him. God will save these people. However, other people will not accept him. He also said that some people are like good soil. Because they accept the good news about Jesus, God saves them. However, other people are like the hard soil on a path. God’s Word is like seed that falls on the path, but nothing grows there. These people reject the message about Jesus. They refuse to enter into his kingdom." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus taught that God loves sinners very much. He wants to forgive them and to make them his children." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus also told us that God hates sin. Because Adam and Eve sinned, all of their descendants also sin. Every person in the world sins and is far from God. Everyone is an enemy of God." + }, + { + "text": "But God loved everyone in the world in this way: he gave his only Son so that God will not punish those who believe in Jesus. Instead, believers will live with him forever." + }, + { + "text": "You deserve to die because you have sinned. It would be right for God to punish you, but Jesus took the punishment for sin in our place. God punished Jesus by killing him on a cross." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus never sinned. He accepted the punishment for sin, including the worst possible death. In this way, he was the perfect sacrifice to take away your sins and the sins of every person in the world. Jesus sacrificed himself to God, so God will forgive any sin, even terrible sins, of the people who believe in Jesus." + }, + { + "text": "Even if you do many very good things, this will not make God save you. There is nothing you can do on your own to become friends with him. Instead, you should believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that he died on the cross instead of you, and that God raised him to life again. If you believe this, God will forgive you for having sinned." + }, + { + "text": "God will save everyone who believes in Jesus and accepts him as their Master. But he will not save those who do not believe in him. It does not matter if you are rich or poor, man or woman, old or young, or where you live. God loves you and wants you to believe in Jesus so he can be a friend to you." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus is calling you to believe in him and to be baptized. Do you believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the only Son of God? Do you believe that you are a sinner and that you deserve God’s punishment for your sin? Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross to take away your sins?" + }, + { + "text": "If you believe in Jesus and confess what he has done for you, you are a follower of Jesus! Satan no longer rules you in his kingdom of darkness. God is now ruling over you in his kingdom of light. God has enabled you to no longer sin as you used to do. He has given you a new, right way of living." + }, + { + "text": "If you are a follower of Jesus, God has forgiven your sins because of what Jesus did. Now, God considers you to be a close friend instead of an enemy." + }, + { + "text": "If you are a friend of God and a servant of Jesus the Master, you will want to obey what Jesus teaches you. Even though you are a follower of Jesus, Satan will still tempt you to sin. But God always does what he says he will do. He says that if you confess your sins, he will forgive you. He will give you strength to fight against sin." + }, + { + "text": "God tells you to pray and to study his word. He also tells you to worship him together with other followers of Jesus. You must also tell other people what he has done for you. If you do all these things, you will become a strong friend of his." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Genesis 3; Matthew 13-14; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 2; 10:25-37; 15; John 3:16; Romans 3:21-26, 5:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Colossians 1:13-14; 1 John 1:5-10" + } + ] + }, + { + "storyNo": 50, + "title": "Jesus Returns", + "url": "https://youtu.be/iq4QQrgCCM0", + "description": [ + { + "text": "For almost 2,000 years, more and more people around the world have been hearing the good news about Jesus the Messiah. The Church has been growing. Jesus promised he would return at the end of the world. Though he has not yet come back, he will keep his promise." + }, + { + "text": "As we wait for Jesus to return, God wants us to live in a way that is holy and that honors him. He also wants us to tell others about his kingdom. When Jesus was living on earth, he said, “My disciples will preach the good news about the kingdom of God to people everywhere in the world, and then the end will come.”" + }, + { + "text": "Many people groups still have not heard about Jesus. Before he returned to heaven, Jesus told his followers to proclaim the good news to people who have never heard it. He said, “Go and make disciples in all people groups!” and “The fields are ripe for harvest!”" + }, + { + "text": "Jesus also said, “A man’s servant is not greater than his master. The important people in this world have hated me, and they will also torture you and kill you because of me. In this world you will suffer, but be strong, because I have defeated Satan, the one who rules this world. If you remain faithful to me to the end, then God will save you!”" + }, + { + "text": "Jesus told his disciples a story to explain what will happen to people when the world ends. He said, “A man planted good seed in his field. While he was sleeping, his enemy came and planted weed seeds among the wheat seeds, and then he went away.”" + }, + { + "text": "“When the plants sprouted, the servants of the man said, ‘Master, you planted good seed in that field. So why are there weeds in it?’ The man answered, ‘Only my enemies would want to plant them. It is one of my enemies who did this.’”" + }, + { + "text": "“The servants responded to their master, ‘Should we pull out the weeds?’ The master said, ‘No. If you do that, you will pull out some of the wheat as well. Wait until the harvest. Then gather the weeds into piles so you can burn them. But bring the wheat into my barn.’”" + }, + { + "text": "The disciples did not understand the meaning of the story, so they asked Jesus to explain it to them. Jesus said, “The man who planted the good seed represents the Messiah. The field represents the world. The good seed represents the people of God’s kingdom.”" + }, + { + "text": "“The weeds represent the people who belong to the devil, the evil one. The man’s enemy, the one who planted the weeds, represents the devil. The harvest represents the end of the world, and the harvesters represent God’s angels.”" + }, + { + "text": "“When the world ends, the angels will gather together all the people who belong to the devil. The angels will throw them into a very hot fire. There those people will cry and grind their teeth in terrible suffering. But the people who are righteous, who have followed Jesus, will shine like the sun in the kingdom of God their Father.”" + }, + { + "text": "Jesus also said that he would return to earth just before the world ends. He will come back the same way that he left. That is, he will have a real body, and he will come on the clouds in the sky. When Jesus returns, every follower of Jesus who has died will rise from the dead and meet him in the sky." + }, + { + "text": "Then the followers of Jesus who are still alive will rise up into the sky and join with the other followers of Jesus who rose from the dead. They will all be with Jesus there. After that, Jesus will live with his people. They will have complete peace forever as they live together." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus promised to give a crown to everyone who believes in him. They will rule with God over everything forever. They will have perfect peace." + }, + { + "text": "But God will judge everyone who does not believe in Jesus. He will throw them into hell. There they will weep and grind their teeth, and they will suffer forever. A fire that never goes out will continually burn them, and worms will never stop eating them." + }, + { + "text": "When Jesus returns, he will completely destroy Satan and his kingdom. He will throw Satan into hell. Satan will burn there forever, along with everyone who chose to follow him rather than to obey God." + }, + { + "text": "Because Adam and Eve disobeyed God and brought sin into this world, God cursed it and decided to destroy it. But some day God will create a new heaven and a new earth that will be perfect." + }, + { + "text": "Jesus and his people will live on the new earth, and he will reign forever over everything. He will wipe away every tear from people’s eyes. No one will suffer or be sad any longer. They will not cry. They will not be sick or die. And there will be nothing evil there. Jesus will rule his kingdom justly and with peace. He will be with his people forever." + }, + { + "text": "A Bible story from: Matthew 13:24-42; 22:13; 24:14; 28:18; John 4:35; 15:20; 16:33; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11; James 1:12; Revelation 2:10; 20:10; 21-22" + } + ] } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/obs/isl/manifest.json b/obs/isl/manifest.json index 373e469..0e8421f 100644 --- a/obs/isl/manifest.json +++ b/obs/isl/manifest.json @@ -1,39 +1,52 @@ [ - "The Creation", - "Sin Enters the World", - "The Flood", - "God’s Covenant with Abraham", - "The Son of Promise", - "God Provides for Isaac", - "God Blesses Jacob", - "God Saves Joseph and His Family", - "God Calls Moses", - "The Ten Plagues", - "The Passover", - "The Exodus", - "God’s Covenant with Israel", - "Wandering in the Wilderness", - "The Promised Land", - "The Deliverers", - "God’s Covenant with David", - "The Divided Kingdom", - "The Prophets", - "The Exile and Return", - "God Promises the Messiah", - "The Birth of John", - "The Birth of Jesus", - "John Baptizes Jesus", - "Satan Tempts Jesus", - "Jesus Starts His Ministry", - "The Story of the Good Samaritan", - "The Rich Young Ruler", - "The Story of the Unmerciful Servant", - "Jesus Feeds Thousands of People", - "Jesus Walks on Water", - "Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man & a Sick Woman", - "The Story of the Farmer", - "Jesus Teaches Other Stories", - "The Story of the Compassionate Father", - "The Transfiguration", - "Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead" + "The Creation", + "Sin Enters the World", + "The Flood", + "God’s Covenant with Abraham", + "The Son of Promise", + "God Provides for Isaac", + "God Blesses Jacob", + "God Saves Joseph", + "God Calls Moses", + "The Ten Plagues", + "The Passover", + "The Exodus", + "God’s Covenant with Israel", + "Wandering in the Wilderness", + "The Promised Land", + "The Deliverers", + "God’s Covenant with David", + "The Divided Kingdom", + "The Prophets", + "The Exile and Return", + "God Promises the Messiah", + "The Birth of John", + "The Birth of Jesus", + "John Baptizes Jesus", + "Satan Tempts Jesus", + "Jesus Starts His Ministry", + "The Story of the Good Samaritan", + "The Rich Young Ruler", + "The Story of the Unmerciful Servant", + "Jesus Feeds Thousands of People", + "Jesus walks on Water", + "Jesus Heals a Demon Possessed Man & a Sick Woman", + "The Story of the Farmer", + "Jesus Teaches Other Stories", + "The Story of the Compassionate Father", + "The Transfiguration", + "Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead", + "Jesus Is Betrayed", + "Jesus Is Put on Trial", + "Jesus Is Crucified", + "God Raises Jesus from the Dead", + "Jesus Returns to Heaven", + "The Church Begins", + "Peter and John Heal a Beggar", + "Stephen and Philip", + "Saul Becomes a Follower of Jesus", + "Paul and Silas in Philippi", + "Jesus Is the Promised Messiah", + "God’s New Covenant", + "Jesus Returns" ] \ No newline at end of file