The Truth about Ananias and Sapphira – Mixture Kills but the Spirit Gives Life No, you aren’t going to drop dead like Ananias and Sapphira if you tell a lie.

It’s not a lesson on being generous like Barnabus in the previous chapter.

It’s impossible for a believer for God to judge them, because every sin was paid for by . Ananias and Sapphira is about mixing the Old Covenant of the Law with the New Covenant of grace.

You can’t mix the covenants. It makes you feeling unworthy and guilty.

When you rely on The Father’s love alone, the life of God floods into your life. 2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life…

7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The Old Covenant faded away, but in the New Covenant we experience more and more of the Kingdom when we believe that Jesus is our identity. The story of Ananias and Sapphira is in .

Ananias means “grace of God”, but Sapphira? The message of God is often hidden in the names.

According to the Mishnah (Jewish oral writings that were eventually written down), the Ten Commandments were written on tablets of Sapphire. Exodus 24:9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity…

12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.” :8 Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days without sight…

17 And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the .” 18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once Mixing the Law with Grace leads to “death.”

When you truly see God’s grace alone, you can receive all the blessings, perfection, and life of Jesus.