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We Love Stories - when you go home your probably going to be watching tv, go to the movies this summer … maybe you like mysteries.
Heard about a resort where 2 people died.
What if you heard about a church where two people died.
The investigation will reveal that sin killed them.
You might be suspicious but I’ll share the story and you’ll see that no one hurt them.
They just died.
The point of the story is not how to avoid death but a point that took me a long time to figure out.
Like all mysteries things are not always as they seem and greater truths will be realized.
The story will reveal a truth that will surprise you, for how can we learn about the love of God from people dying in church?
The story begins really happy
The story begin really happy
Acts
Introducing the Encourager - but the name is bad hebrew.
But wait his name doesn’t exactly mean encourager.
Introducing the Encourager
Bar means son but nabas doesn’t mean encouragement.
It was a name given to him by the apostles.
Maybe it did as “for shizel” used to mean something to us and “Gucci” is a brand it doesn’t actually mean that something is really great.
Also that I should stop looking up slang on the internet
Was a foreigner but from the elite (Levite), just getting him would be encouraging
Was a foreigner but from the elite (Levite), just getting him would be encouraging
Levites aren’t supposed to own land.
He was wealthy, even though he shouldn’t have been, and gave up the money.
In fact in the Old Testament the Levites were supposed to be supported by the tithe and now here, Barnabas is supporting the whole church with the tithe.
Is it a realization of his ancient roll of depending totally upon God?
Or is it just his way, to be generous and encouraging to others.
He was wealthy, even though he shouldn’t have been, and gave up the money.
We won’t answer that to much later, weeks from now because now the story changes.
The telling of opposites was a common ancient form of story telling.
It helps with memory.
Now lets get to the negative
The opposites (a common ancient form)
The opposites (a common ancient form)
2 new people with surprising names Ananias - God is gracious, Sapphira - beautiful
Hatched a messed up plot and it was two not just one.
Property rested with the husband unless a widow and not re-married.
Yet decision was made together
Only bought part - remains unsaid
Why do it?
The money brought would have had to be coins
Listen to the sound
The power of praise of others
impact of all those coins was like a big check
Sins ring louder than any coins clinking in an offering plate.
Acts
Nobody told Peter.
God told Peter.
Nobody told Peter.
God told Peter.
the movement was gaining popularity
Satan enters as one of them.
Attacks from the outside and now the inside
They wanted people to like them for what they thought people would like instead of what they really did.
They wanted people to like them for what they thought people would admire instead of what they really did.
I hate exaggerated stories
the movement was gaining popularity
Satan enters as one of them.
Saw a sign on my kids new school “do not bring balloons inside the building as they are a fire hazard.”
Why would you lie about that?
Attacks from the outside and now the inside
Why would a person exaggerate an offering?
What is the problem with lying to the congregation?
The church is gaining popularity but all it has going for it is what the people do.
Peter didn’t kill him.
No body touched him or cursed him.
He just died.
literally.
God protects himself
This wasn’t trying to hide his body.
This was honor (describe burial)
Immediate death.
God can and will protect himself
God protects himself
The church didn’t pray against the punishment
God disciplines those he loves
What is the difference from living rightly and sinning, the hypocrisy that is in the church and this sin of hypocrisy?
What is the difference from living rightly and sinning, the hypocrisy that is in the church and this grave sin of hypocrisy?
Ananias was honored by the church when it buried him, not honored as something special but at least not left to rot.
The teams is fast and almost done when stuff kept happening back at the church.
God disciplines those he loves (their is a discipline worse than death Jesus said)
Freeing that occurs for women in Christ
They honored the man in his death
Freeing that occurs for women in Christ
Something incredibly rare in the ancient world happens, a woman is judged on her own as her own person.
WRONG ANSWER
She was responsible for her own sin and given her own chance.
She was responsible for her own sin and given her own chance
She was responsible for her own sin and given her own chance
She was responsible for her own sin and given her own chance
Many have said would the guys have just come back in from all that hard fast work and go dang!
Can I get a drink of water first?
She dies too
She is also honored, by the same guys, to avoid being unclean among more people
She is also honored, by the same guys, to avoid being unclean among more people
If God calls on you to be honest to the point of death, would you stay a follower or would you go? Why?
Oh hell no, I can’t hang with that.
That’s too much.
I don’t want anyone knowing any of my business.
Wait, why not?
Jesus died for all of our sins.
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