Daily Quiet Times
Mt Zion Student Ministry Quiet Times

WEEK OF FEB. 26TH, 2009

THE HIGH PRICE OF SIN

ACTS 5:1-11
HERE WE SEE THAT ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA HAD SOLD SOME PROPERTY. HE BROUGHT SOME OF THE MONEY TO THE DISCIPLES CLAIMING IT WAS THE FULL AMOUNT WHEN IT WAS NOT. THEY KEPT THE REST FOR THEMSELVES.
WELL IN THE REST OF THE STORY ANANIA FELL TO THE FLOOR AND DIED AND HIS WIFE CAME IN LATER AND INSTANTLY SHE FELL TO THE FLOOR AND DIED ALSO.

WHAT WAS THE REAL PROBLEM?
IT WAS NOT IN THE PROPERTY, IT WAS THEIRS TO SALE OR NOT SALE?
IT WAS NOT EVEN IN THE MONEY, IT WAS THEIR CHOICE TO GIVE OR TO KEEP WHAT THEY NEEDED.

THE REAL PROBLEM WAS THE FACT THAT THEY WHERE DISHONEST WITH GOD “THEY LIED”.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN OLD TESTAMENT STORY, BUT IT’S NOT, IT’S IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

GOD KNOWS OUR HEART, HE KNOWS WHEN WE UNDERSTAND AND HE KNOWS WHEN WE SIN KNOWING THAT HE HAS SPOKEN TO US AND TOLD US NOT TO CONTINUE ON IN THAT DIRECTION.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
WHEN WE STOP LYING TO OURSELF, WE WILL STOP LYING TO GOD.

THIS ALSO TEACHES THAT EVEN THOUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD COME THEY WHERE STILL TEMPTED BY SATAN AND HIS PLOYS TO TRIP US UP.
I KNOW GOD IS IN ME FOR SATAN AT TIMES SEEMS TO BE ALL AROUND ME.

BUT AS KING DAVID SAID:
ACTS 2:25 I SEE THAT THE LORD IS ALWAYS WITH ME. I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN, FOR HE IS RIGHT BESIDE ME.