ANANIAS AND

SAPPHIRA’S
DECEPTIVE PLAN
Have you ever told a lie?
Background
◦ More people became Christians.
◦ Christians joined together for Bible study and prayer.
◦ Christians shared their belongings with each other.
What do the Christians do with their money
before?
Apostles distribute
Bring money

!
Christians sold their money according to

D
received from sale to

E
fields or houses the needs of the

IR
apostles

U
people

T R E Q
NO
Barnabas sold his Brought money to Apostles distribute
field apostles the money
But when they
got the money
from their
sales…
 THIS IS A LOT OF
MONEY.
Let’s keep part of the
money and bring the rest
and put it at the apostles’
feet.
Yeah. No one will know
the difference. They’ll
think we have given
everything!
THEY KNEW THEY
WERE SINNING
BUT THOUGHT
THEY CAN GET
AWAY WITH IT.
 I am giving all the money
I got from the sale of my
field to God!
BUT GOD LET PETER
KNOW THE TRUTH.
 Ananias, how did Satan
get you to lie to the Holy
Spirit and secretly keep
back part of the price of
the field?
Before you sold it, it was all
yours, and after you sold it,
You could have kept the
money. So what got into you
to pull a trick like this? You
didn’t lie to men but to God!
Ananias,
when he
heard those
words, fell
down dead.
That put the fear of God into everyone who
heard of it.
THREE HOURS
LATER…
 Was the money your
husband brought to us
the entire amount you
received for the land?
 Yes! We gave
everything to God as
an offering.
 Why have you and
your husband agreed
to deceive God?
The men who buried
your husband are at
the door, and you’re
next!
God is a God of TRUTH.
God is a God of DISCIPLINE.
Ananias and Sapphira didn’t sin in keeping
part of the money.
They sinned by trying to deceive God and
other people.
DECEIPT
GOD IS NOT FOOLED.
GOD KNOWS WHAT
WE ARE INSIDE
 PSALM 51:6
SURELY YOU
DESIRE TRUTH
IN THE INNER
PARTS.