HONESTY 2 - You can't fool God.

Honesty 2 - English files 

Ehrlichkeit 2 - German files

By the way, the picture at the left shows the finished craft project belonging to this lesson. Instructions are included.

Devotional Thoughts about Acts 5:1-11

The account of Ananias and Saphira is quite unnerving. We’d constantly be having funerals if God judged each sin immediately. This story shows clearly that sin is still a problem in daily life for Christians—even for those active in church.

The couple hadn’t even done anything spectacularly awful by our standards. Who cared any­way how much money they’d gotten for their land or how much of it they gave to the church? It was nothing illegal. God’s issue with them was the discre­pancy between their actions and their own account of them. Peter said they’d lied to the Holy Ghost. It’s a sobering thought that God is the one wronged by our lies.

Lying is so common that most of us probably consider it to be the most innocuous of sins, but that’s not supported by the Bible; lying ranks in many of its lists of sins (for instance 1 Corinthians 6:10, 2 Timothy 3:3, Revelation 21:8). Jesus called the devil the father of lies (John 8:44). Lies often complicate other sins and spawn further lying in our attempts to cover them up.

Although we say we believe God is omniscient, we go to elaborate pains to hide our lies from others in daily life. We seem to forget that He’s the invisible, well-informed witness. (See Hebrews 4:13.) This story is a wake-up call to take God and sin seriously. Lord, help me keep coming to You again and again, asking for mercy and forgiveness.

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