God's standard is high: A Lying Couple P/6

 

                              A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                    PART V -VI

"I, Peter, had two believers come to see me today.... They are a couple.... Their names are Ananias and Sapphira.... Sadly they both lied to me... And God had to judge them for their lies to the Holy Spirit... They both have died.... Their sin must become known to the whole Church.... For all believers need to understand how important it is to live lives that are pleasing to God in every way..... Otherwise the Church cannot be a light in this dark world.... I and the other Apostles must, therefore, continue to live in obedience to God and His Word through our lives and our teachings.....This life of obedience must be continued beyond our lives....And this story of Ananias and Sapphira must continue to be shared as a teaching tool to help believers know that God cares how we live as believers.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that the Church at large learned what happened to Ananias and Sapphira....

      

                       ATTACHMENT  A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                     PART V - VI

Ananias and Saphira did not have to sell their property. Moreover, they did not have to give everything they had sold the property for. The land as well as the money they had received for the land was theirs and they could do with it as they wished. But they had lied, trying to look better in the eyes of the other believers than they were. As Peter had said, they had lied not just to the Apostles, but they had lied to the Holy Spirit of God. God is a holy God and He considers lying an evil act for which these two people had a pay a high prize; their very lives. What happened to them became, of course, known to many other believers as you can read in Acts 5:11

Great fear seized the whole church and all those who heard about these events.

God's standard was high then and it has not changed for God is a holy God. This means that even today God expects us, as believers, to live by His standart and not by the standard of the world around us.