Acts 4:32-5:11

Start with a break down of what was happening among the people and how this did not go on forever.

Giving to Honor God and bless others vs Giving to be seen.

What are some similar stories in the OT?

How does this or does it tie to to Achan and his sin?

Is it how Achan in Joshua 7:21 saw, desired, and took and condemned the whole people.

Joshua 7:21 CSB

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing a pound and a quarter, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.”

Ananias and Sapphira saw what was happening, desired the same praise Joseph or Barnabas got, and took the money for themselves.

In the Septuagint the word for what Achan did is the same word in Acts 5:2 for what Ananias did nosphizomai.

The problem is not that Ananias and Sapphira kept some of the money but that they lied. They wanted honor undo to them. They wanted to buy honor on credit and that does not work.