Ananias and Sapphira

Sunday we studied Acts 5:1-11. It’s the story of Ananias and Sapphira. I find this passage very intriguing. Luke concludes this account with a stunning statement, “ And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things” (Acts 5:11). Although the church was still very young it had endured much. The disciples had wrestled with an emotional hurricane over the previous two moths. They had experienced the gut wrenching low of witnessing the arrest, torture, and death of

Short Essay #2 Why does the author of Acts include the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5? What is the “message” that we are to take away from this strange event? Luke includes the story of Ananias and Sapphira for a couple main reasons. One, to show that judgment came on those who were unfaithful, and two, to promote an ideal that a Christ following community should follow. Ananias and Sapphira’s story seems almost random and out of place in the midst of all the communal sharing, giving and

The Presence of Freedom in the Book of Acts Freedom is a reoccurring theme in many works of literature, including The Bible. Human freedom is typically categorized one of two ways, positive and negative freedom. Positive freedom is the removal of something negative in one’s life, while negative freedom restricts and individual from a specific want or need, yet typically is believed to benefit them. Throughout the book of Acts, negative freedom is constantly present for man. Controlled by one supreme

hypocrisy which so characterizes the first portion of Acts five. Here there is a husband and wife, Ananias and Sapphira, after many believers had shared their possessions, Ananias and Sapphira, being very knowledgeable figured that they would keep part of the money they had to themselves. But then they gave the rest and, “put it at the apostles' feet.” What is amazing then is the Peter

God’s help. As for the new characters introduced, Ananias and Sapphira, and Judas, their tales are different than the ones located on the front, since these new people have committed a wrongful act and the wrath of the Lord is upon them. The story of Ananias and Sapphira, which takes up a large portion on the back panel, is the tale of deceit. The two sell a piece of their land and lied to Peter about how much it was sold for. Peter confronted Ananias, which soon fell to his death. Peter had the prophesied

the Holy Spirit, for he is God’s spirit, and God himself. The Holy Spirit is portrayed throughout the book of Acts and plays a major role in the development of the early church. Some of these roles are portrayed in the account of Pentecost, Ananias & Sapphira, and Philip and the Ethiopian. In the account of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, The Disciples waited for the Holy Spirit to descend just as Jesus promised he would. All of a sudden a sound like a violent wind filled the house they were in, and

the most unrecognizable person in the world. You can bet that when he’s around there a whole lot more going on than what we’ve been let to believe. Who caused the Chaldeans to steal from Job and kill his servants (Job 1:12-17)? Who motivated Ananias and Sapphira to lie to the Apostles (Acts 5:3)? Who motivates people to maneuver their vehicle when they have no lane to suddenly cut you off in traffic? Has it ever crossed your mind that not every thought that crosses our mind comes from us? It’s Satan

In New Testament times, an assortment of coins originating from Rome, Antioch, and Jerusalem circulated in Palestine, including the Roman denarius. In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, at the end of the day, the landowner paid each worker one denarius regardless of the number of hours each laborer had toiled in the fields. The land owner had hired the workers at 9:00 A.M., however, he paid them the same amount of money as the workers he had hired at noon and 3:00 P.M. This arrangement

the body of Christ, is selling their possessions freely and spontaneously without coercion. Failure to do so does not lead to governmental confiscating of property. An example often used to counteract this example is Peter condemnation of Ananias and Sapphira for holding some of the money from a private sale. However, again context reveals Peter is condemning these individuals for lying unto God about keeping part of the proceeds, not actually keeping the

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