Similarly, there are those in 1 Corinthians 11 whom Paul says have died because they took the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner. Blatant sin against God is a serious offense. It does not mean that we lose our
Yeah. I think you’re right. Ananias and Sapphira, and they lie about this and they’re struck dead. And so the message is, if you’re about to give less than a hundred percent, it’s not going to go well. It’s a terrifying message. Then you get up to the front of St. Pete...
4. Labour to experience poverty of spirit.—The way to be rich in grace, is to be poor in spirit; which poverty of spirit does not consist in having little grace, but in a sense that, whatever we have, little or much, it is not of or from ourselves, but from the fulness of...
The experience of the Spirit led to koinonia, the sharing of one’s whole existence in Christ in testimony, prayer and table fellowship. Dishonesty, as seen in the story of Ananias and Sapphira, was such a breach of fellowship in the Spirit that it was judged by death. Excess in economic...
Acts 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart ...
All I seem to recall of it are Eragon turning into an elf, Sapphira getting drunk, and a philosophical discussion about ants. Or those all might be from the other books. They’re all blurring together, from skim-reading them all those years ago....