Acts 5 Prayer Suffering against the Holy Spirit

In the Presence of the Lord, People’s hearts were changed. Brotherly Love existed, Kindness one to another, heroic courage in face of danger. The Lordship of Christ was the Key.  The Church was as the garden of the Lord in the midst of the world’s wilderness. It was a bright spot admist the dreariness of the world.

  So Why then this story? This Story of Deciet, and deception, this story of pride and arrogance,   Why This Story?

Because of the Weat and the Tares,  Matt 13:24

1.     Diff:  Weat and Tares

a.     It’s seed, It’s beginning

b.     It’s Produce

c.      It’s Usefulness  

The Names of the Two:

1.     Annanias ------Means God is Gracious

2.     Sapphira is a word for Beautiful

But Why this mar among the glorious Let’s stripped it from pages.

But If we do these than Adam and Eve, and Cain & Able, David & Bathsheba, and Samson and Deliliah, Peter, Thomas, Demas, and

These are not inventions, but they are representations of ourselves as we know ourselves, and therefore we can confirm the book. The accident varies, the substance is constant.

The Gospel which we Tell is ultimately the Gospel of the Holy Spirit

Ananias had sinned against the Spirit.

Acts 19:20  “ Herod did and fell”

Their Temptation

Gain Popularity without losing their Property

Hypocrisy becoming something that they weren’t

Wanting something without it costing them

They had stolen what could never again be given Confidence

George MacDonald said “ Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look instead of to be what one is not.”

Keys to Not Fall Into Temptation

Ephesians 4:15-25  “ Members One to Another”

Pray that

1.     I Corinthians 10:6

2.     James 5:7