by Shannon Popp | Sep 4, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:8 “And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”” Peter gives Sapphira the chance to make right was what wrong. He asks her the same question he asked her husband. At this moment she has the...
by Shannon Popp | Sep 3, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:6-7 “The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him. After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.” Ananias is dead because he lied to God, and wanted men to praise him for something he did not...
by Shannon Popp | Sep 2, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:5 “When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.” Ananias does not die because he did not give all the profits from the sale of his property to the church. Peter made it clear that nobody...
by Shannon Popp | Sep 1, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:4 “While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”” The point is that Ananias was under no control by the...
by Shannon Popp | Aug 31, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:3 “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?” The devil made me do it is a lie from the father of lies. Ananias has to take responsibility for his own...
by Shannon Popp | Aug 30, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 5:2 “and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” There is a clear and dramatic contrast here between two men. At the end of chapter four, we meet Barnabas (Son of...
