Acts 5 :: Are You Kidding Me?

Acts 5 in The Message and TNIV translations

Two things for this morning:

1. What in the world is going on with Ananias and Sapphira? Sounds like a story I would tell my kids to get them to do what I want them to do. You know, like "PooPoo Monster." Once upon a time there was a little boy who refused to give his poop to the PooPoo Monster (toilet) and the monster came and ate him in his sleep. Then the kid poops regularly. I mean David plotted a murder to cover up an affair and he gets serious adulation, but these two yahoos keep back some money from the group and they get dropped on the spot. What is going on?

2. How good is this? "Get your hands off these men! Let them alone. If this program or this work is merely human, it will fall apart, but if it is of God, there is nothing you can do about it - and you better not be found fighting against God!" (38-39)

What do these two things do for you?